How to recover deleted folders or files (by shift+delete) from an NTFS partition

Solution 1:

There are two command line tools available for Ubuntu to recover deleted files on an NTFS partition:

  • ntfsundelete: see details in this answer and in another answer here.

    Install via the software center

  • testdisk: see a detailed guide from CG-Security

    Install via the software center


Just to mention this in case you are uncomfortable with the command line. There is a graphical tool NTFS undelete available for Windows only.