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i accedently turnewd windows partion and all my unbacked up files in to a linix swap file i am willing to pay to get windows and all my files back!!!!!!!!!!! ot to atleast get into windows so i can back up all my files
What exactly did you do to create the swap on your windows partition? Did you run mkswap? Did you change the partition type to swap in fdisk or did you mount the partition as a swap partition?
and see if your data is still there. If it will not allow you to mount as msdos then it may be the case that the partition is either labled as a swap or mkswap has been run on the partition.
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