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I would like to recover the hard drive on my laptop which had windows 7 but was formatted.
Assuming I have an Ubuntu live usb stick, how can I unformat the laptop's drive?

Notice I rather not open the laptop and extract the hard drive.

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There really isn't a way to "unformat" a hard disk. The data on it, depending on how it was formatted, could be lost forever. There may be a way to recover the data (but likely not the boot sectors, if it's already been overwritten) if you consult a data recovery specialist.

Typically though, once a disk is formatted, there's no going back. Be very cautious about when you want to next format your disk, and if you believe that the problem you're encountering now is only solvable by formatting, make that your last resort.

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You can not undo it completely.But you can recover some files from the hard drive by using the recovery software.

Here are informations to recover https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

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