I had Windows 7 installed on a 500GB hard drive. I wanted to install Ubuntu on a16GB pendrive and use it as a hard drive. I made an Ubuntu bootable pendrive on a 4GB pendrive.
Then I booted my system from the Ubuntu 4GB pendrive. I inserted a 16GB pendrive to install Ubuntu on it. I choose the "Something else" option while installing Ubuntu. During the partition allocation and that process I deleted my 500GB hard drive (i.e. /sda) instead of selecting my 16GB pendrive. I came to know about this mistake when I tried to restart my system. It showed this message: Insert bootable disk.
Once again I booted my laptop with the 4GB Ubuntu bootable pendrive. In Disk Utility I saw that my 500GB hard drive has free space.
I have very important data on it. Please help me. It's very urgent.
Since your HDD has 500gb and a UBUNTU install just needs a few gigabytes you have good chances that your Data just isn't adressed anymore but may still be existant.
The Comment suggesting you to use TESTDISK is very promising though.
Here you got some more usefull information and tools :
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15761/recover-data-like-a-forensics-expert-using-an-ubuntu-live-cd/
Don't Panic (-:
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