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This has probably been asked many times and I apologise. I cannot seem to get my way around searching for questions I want.

I installed the latest Ubuntu desktop on my older whitebook Mac. I admit it wasn't straightforward (not as per the instructions on the Ubuntu website) but I made sure to not select "erase disk and install Ubuntu".

Now when I start up and push Alt, all I get is the choice for windows (I guess is Ubuntu) and no Mac OS X.

In Disk Utility, I can see the still allocated hard drive space that I assume should be the Mac OS X.

I dont care so much for the Max OS X, more so the songs I had on there. Are these gone now? If not, how can I access them?

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If you need to recover data you believe may be lost, it's imperative that you immediately shut down the newly installed system and not use it. You can run from a live CD provided that swap is disabled. See the guidelines here. Once you've booted into an Ubuntu live CD system, please run sudo fdisk -l in a Terminal window (Ctrl+Alt+T) and edit your question to provide the full output (format it with the <$> tool so it appears correctly). That should show what partitions there are, and facilitate knowing if data recovery is needed. – Eliah Kagan Jul 20 '12 at 22:47
Based on what you've said, your Mac OS X partition is still actually on the hard drive. Have you tried mounting it in Linux? – ephsmith Jul 21 '12 at 3:12

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