File disappeared from NTFS after Ubuntu installation

I wanted to upgrade a very old version of Ubuntu to a recent one, so I made the following steps:

1. I created a large (over 30GB) tar.gz archive containing all data from my home directory


2. Moved it to NTFS partition


3. Launched Ubuntu 12.04 from CD


4. Resized the NTFS partition during installation


5. Completed the installation

Then I launched my brand new Ubuntu and wanted to copy the archive so:

1. I mounted the partition on which the archive was located


2. I have run ls -l in the place of file size, modification date etc., a ? appeared instead of any values


3. I launched Windows XP which is installed on the same machine and it did not show that file on the partition at all


4. Linux also does not show the file anymore

I tried running chkdsk under Windows which did not fix the problem. I also tried ntfsundelete in Linux which shows that this file cannot be recovered.

I would appreciate any help very much! I have lost a lot of data. What could have happened? Is there any chance of recovering this file?