Just formatted my drive.
I was dual booting Vista and Ubuntu 9.10. I finally pulled all my pics, music, and shit over from Windows, and marked that partition to be overwritten. Then, somehow in the process I marked my WHOLE drive unallocated. WTF? Goddamn it!
So now, after reinstallation, I'm running Photorec, to try to recover my pics and music. Hopefully it won't be a total loss. FUCK SHIT NIGGER WHORE
Do the following, The command should read something like dcfldd if=/dev/sdc of=filename.dd Where filename is whatever you name it. DD tells any forensic software that it is a raw image. No need to specify the hdd on the output from my experience. Just putt Pull it, hook it up externally and rescue what you can.
This will data dump the hole hd, make sure your using a larger hd to dump into.