data corrupt after installing kali linux
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Ijack
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There is various software that claims to recover accidentally partitioned and formatted disks (Google for them), but having written a new operating system to it I would put your chances of recovering lost data at less than 10%.
Kali Linux is very specialized software that is designed for people who know exactly what they are doing. It really is best left alone by dabblers who fancy doing a little hacking. Are you really a network administrator who wants to do some penetration testing yet gets into such a mess on their main computer? I doubt it.
You would be better off using a version such as Fedora, Mint, or Ubuntu which are designed for beginners and are well supported, and forget about the idea of hacking.
Kali Linux is very specialized software that is designed for people who know exactly what they are doing. It really is best left alone by dabblers who fancy doing a little hacking. Are you really a network administrator who wants to do some penetration testing yet gets into such a mess on their main computer? I doubt it.
You would be better off using a version such as Fedora, Mint, or Ubuntu which are designed for beginners and are well supported, and forget about the idea of hacking.
stillblue
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What Ijack says but if you want to try to recover do not open the hard drive except with a live dvd or flash. Nothing is erased in the classic sense of the word, but you wrote over some of files during the install of Kali effectively writing them over. Anything you write to the hard drive will copy over more files so don't open the system via the hard drive.
Get a copy of Ubuntu or mint and burn it to a dvd.
Install testdisk
In a command line (the terminal under accessories)
sudo testdisk
keep accepting the default until your old partition is listed (NTFS) and then hit P to list files. Copy to an external memory. Do not try to copy back to the original until you've recovered what you want or you'll overwrite even more of your disk.
Good luck, except on the hacking part.
Get a copy of Ubuntu or mint and burn it to a dvd.
Install testdisk
In a command line (the terminal under accessories)
sudo testdisk
keep accepting the default until your old partition is listed (NTFS) and then hit P to list files. Copy to an external memory. Do not try to copy back to the original until you've recovered what you want or you'll overwrite even more of your disk.
Good luck, except on the hacking part.
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