I have an external hard drive, with a few partitions on it.
Because I have a bootable version of Ubuntu 12.04 on it, I have all of the standard Linux partitions on it, as well as one called Data (which contains other data that I want preserved). Today, I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10, which seemed to have messed up my installation. Whenever I tried to boot Ubuntu, I got a black screen with a simple insertion cursor on the top left corner. After some searches, I found that this was an error with the GUI-portion of Ubuntu.
Using the terminal, I reinstalled ubuntu-desktop
and unity
, but I still am unable to access the desktop. I had planned to install 13.10 after 12.10 finished upgrading, so I decided to just get rid of my previous installation, and replace it with 13.10.
I have a LiveUSB with (bootable) Ubuntu 13.10 on it, so I want to install that onto my hard drive. However, I don't want to lose my Data partition.
Is this possible, and if so, how? I'm going to boot 13.10 off of my hard drive (once I install it on there), but I also have Windows 8.1 installed on my laptop.
Edit: On the installer, one of the options is "Upgrade Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.10". will that preserve my data and my Windows installation?