I installed ubuntu by overwriting windows 7. I didnt knew it would delete all my hard disk partitions and data. Now there is only single drive which has ubuntu installed in it. how to recover my lost drives and data? Please help me.
I have a Toshiba satellite A-200 laptop with a Vista OS on it with 4 NTFS partitions  (C:) Vista  (D:) Entertainment  (E:) Work  (F:) Sources   and I wanted to start using Ubuntu instead. So I tried it first from the live CD and everything was OK and all the partitions were shown and working and so I decided to install Ubuntu to replace Vista on the (C:) drive. After I did that I can no longer find my folders and files on the (D:), (E:), (F:) partitions and the only file system that is shown is one 198 GB although my HDD is 320 GB.  I can't access the lost data on the remaining 120 GB which I hope is still there and not totally lost  I am now working from the live CD but I am unable to install testdisk. Can I recover the Vista partitions by the product recovery CD to get my laptop back to the factory settings? Can I recover the NTFS partitions using a recovery program for Windows or will that make the problem worse?   I need these data badly as I don't have a backup for them.
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This is not the case in spacetime, as here gravity does affect time and the only way to have synchronized clocks in an inertial frame in spacetime is: 1. have no gravitational field, or 2. use a local, freely falling frame.  Am I on the right track here? What are the rules for China's visa-free transit programs? Simple animation using C#/Windows Forms I need to knock out a quick animation in C#/Windows Forms for a Halloween display.  Just some 2D shapes moving about on a solid background.  Since this is just a quick one-off project I really don't want to install and learn an entire new set of tools for this.  (DirectX dev kits, Silverlight, Flash, etc..)  I also have to install this on multiple computers so anything beyond the basic .Net framework (2.0) would be a pain in the arse.  For tools I've got VS2k8, 25 years of development experience, a wheelbarrow, holocaust cloak, and about 2 days to knock this out.  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I never got that to work; lots of mysterious errors (stack overflows, or ArgumentNullExceptions).  I wound up using a panel sized to fill the form and that worked fine. Using the OnPaint method is slow anyway.  Somewhere online I read that building the PaintEventArgs was slow, and they weren't kidding.  Lots of flickering went away when I abandoned this.  Skip the OnPaint/Invalidate() and just paint it yourself.  Setting all of the "double buffering" options on the form still left some flicker that had to be fixed.  (And I found conflicting docs that said "set them on the control" and "set them on the form".  Well controls don't have a .SetStyle() method.)  I haven't tested without them, so they might be doing something (this is the form):      this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, true);     this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.OptimizedDoubleBuffer, true);     this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true);    So the workhorse of the code wound up looking like (pf is the panel control):      void PaintPlayField()     {         Bitmap bufl = new Bitmap(pf.Width, pf.Height);         using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bufl))         {             g.FillRectangle(Brushes.Black, new Rectangle(0, 0, pf.Width, pf.Height));             DrawItems(g);             DrawMoreItems(g);             pf.CreateGraphics().DrawImageUnscaled(bufl, 0, 0);         }     }   And I just called PaintPlayField from the inside of my Timer loop.  No flicker at all. author not appearing in \maketitle in amsart I am new to the amsart document class. For some reasons \author (etc..) is not showing after I use \maketitle. 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This is quite a privacy and security flaw and I'm not sure why it has defaulted this way on my system.  Under Users and Groups (items checked =) (both are administrator accounts)  User 1 = adm, cdrom, dip, lpadmin, plugdev, sudo  User 2 = User 2, sudo  Also of note is why User 2 has User 2 clicked but User 1 does not have User 1 clicked.  Both accounts appear to behave exactly the same.  Thank you for any tips in this matter. Which is the correct question ("Who has" vs "Who have")? The situation is that:  We've already read three English novels.  Which is the correct question for that situation?   Who has already read three English novels?  Who have already read three English novels?    Or could both be correct? Please also provide the grammatical reasons for your answers. Obtaining zero-length string from strtok() Making voltmeter accepting bipolar input voltage, using a microcontroller I want to build a very simple voltmeter using ATMEGA328 ADC. I can successfully measure up to 20v (using a voltage divider), but the problem is, I don't understand how to measure the voltage properly, if negative and positive terminals are switched.   Only way I could think of is adding another ADC input which is responsible for measuring the 'inverted voltage'. The join both ADC inputs, but add diodes in between, so one channel works with (+-) and the other channel works with (-+) and then 'merge' the input from both channels using code. Then I should be able to measure things like sin wave for example (where polarities switch).   Is the concept correct or is there a better way to do this? Thanks!