Recover deleted files from deleted partition

I never thought recovering files would be so easy. I had deleted my personal files on old Laptop to return it.
I also repartitioned the disk using the Ubuntu install CD.

But I later realized later that I had deleted something that I had not backed up(so naive).

There are two Linux tools that I found useful.
1) testdisk
2) photorec

There is a project called SystemRescueCd which includes useful tools to recover data.

I used "test disk" tool to recover the deleted partition I was not able to restore the partition as such. But was able to browse files using the tool itself.

There is another tool called  "photorec" which I used to recover deleted files of that partition.

you can use the SystemRescueCd bootable cd or boot using ubuntu live cd and install the tools you want and use them as I did.

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