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Wrong drive formatted, during ubuntu reinstall [duplicate]

I had a dual-boot system with ubuntu and Win 8. Using the default reinstall option. But ubuntu installer has formatted my entire hdd and my Win 8 is also gone along with the storage disk. What I want ...
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Recover data after installing Ubuntu? [duplicate]

I decided to install Ubuntu and I choice to erase everything, I had already installed Windows 8 but broken and I wanted to erase it, but I thought that it would erase only the partition C where was ...
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Installing Ubuntu over Windows 7, recovery partition

I'm currently attempting to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my Acer Aspire 4830T-6678 laptop. The laptop came pre-loaded with Windows 7 Home Premium, and it contains a recovery partition that I don't ...
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can't access windows partition after recovery using testdisk

help me plz . after installing ubuntu i lost my all windows vista partitions .now i recovered all partitions using testdisk and i can access all data in partition D,E but can't access data in ...
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I deleted my main partition, how do I recover it?

I accidentally deleted my main partition, however i haven't restarted yet so I still have access to all my files. Is there any way to prevent it being deleted on restart?
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Lost Tons of data during Ubuntu 13.04 installation. Please help urgently! [duplicate]

I have a drive of 250 gb which i had partitioned into two. 180 gb had a lot of music. It was my lifetime's collection of music. the other 50 gb had windows installed in it and also had Ubuntu 12.10 on ...
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How do I install Windows on a computer with Grub?

I previously installed Ubuntu and I wanted to install windows vista via the repair disc included with the laptop. Booted up the computer with the disc in, nothing. I already set the boot order, so ...
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Recover failed RAID1 software Partition / missing partition table or superblock

i already read & tried different approaches for 2 days now but nothing seems to work. I have 2 HDDs, on each one is an partition with 200GB which i had in RAID1. Then i installed XBMC and tried to ...
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How do I recover files from an Ubuntu partition for which I am not the “owner”?

Good day, I've recently experienced an odd problem where for reasons that escape me my graphics configuration has been corrupted. I've tried going through the menu option that I am offered ...
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I want to get rid of Ubuntu and boot my Windows 8 partition

I've installed Ubuntu many times but since I purchased a new laptop (Lenovo Y580) I wanted to try Ubuntu 12.10 amd64 on it. So, without knowing what was UEFI nor GPT I installed it and everything was ...
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unformat formatted hdd [closed]

I am very new to linux. As I wanted to install Ubuntu 7.10 in my laptop, (Which already contains Windows 7) while installing I'd chosen 'Use entire HDD option'. So Ubuntu had formatted my entire HDD. ...
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Does selecting “Remove Windows” option during install remove all my Windows partitions?

I had Windows 7 installed on my laptop, I installed Ubuntu and chosen the option to delete everything. But when I clicked that, it deleted my windows 7 partitions. C: Windows E: Documents F: ...
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how can i mount partitons in recovery mode

I am unable to login to my account and I want to back up my data from Documents folder so I need to know how to mount other partitions from recovery mode. How can I do this? mv ...
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How can I recover my data after replacing Windows with Ubuntu? [duplicate]

I have migrated from Windows 7 to Ubuntu just yesterday. Windows 7 was in my C: drive. I did not realise that if I wipe Windows 7 and install Ubuntu, Ubuntu would be installed in the C: drive only. So ...
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Ubuntu on ThinkPad. Erase recovery partition and burn a recovery cd instead

I want to turn my dual-boot ThinkPad T400 winXP + ubuntu 12.10 into single Ubuntu machine, i.e. delete Windows and recovery partitions, and use all the disk space for Ubuntu. Before doing so, I ...
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Windows Vista Partition Deleted During Dual Boot Ubuntu Install

I recently added 12.04 to a computer. During the partitioning only two partitions were listed, recovery, and the new ubuntu partition. I shunk the Ubuntu partition and left the extra space an free ...
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Can I Recover The Files in the Directory /usr from a btrfs Snapshot?

Some time ago, I moved the folder /usr to its own partition. Before this it had lived in the / partition which has a **btrfs filesystem. Accidentally, I formatted my /usr partition from my Windows ...
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How to recover data from a drive that was erased during the Ubuntu installation?

Yesterday I had two NTFS partitions on my drive. One on which Windows 7 was installed (C Drive) and the other contained my data (D Drive). During Ubuntu installation I choose to install Ubuntu and ...
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Recovering deleted ext4 Ubuntu partitions using TestDisk (None partition media table type)

Recovering deleted ext4 Ubuntu partitions using TestDisk Question How do I write (recover) found partitions from [None] None partition media table type (unallocated space?) in TestDisk? Problem ...
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Recovering a deleted partition

I had a dual boot PC running Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7. About a month back, I deleted the Ubuntu partition via the disk management utility (I do not remember whether or not I formatted the partition ...
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Deleted files after installing Ubuntu

I installed Ubuntu on my laptop over the windows, I had 2 partitions on one hard disk. It seems like old partition is gone with all my files (photos, music, etc.). How can I recover old files. Files ...
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Create Ubuntu recovery partition [duplicate]

I have an HP laptop that came with Windows 7 installed with a recovery partition which was accessible through the boot menu in the same way you could access the bios. I wanted to be able to create an ...
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SSD and HDD have window 7 recovery partition. Can I delete one to make room for ubuntu?

I'm trying to install ubuntu right now, and I've run into a problem. I have Windows 7 installed on my SSD, and I want to install ubuntu on my HDD, but I already have three partitions on my HDD. The ...
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Is it possible to emulate a (windows) raid controller to recover a raid1 mirror?

So, Im gonna make a point to ask this question a couple of ways for the sake of wording, and how it might trigger a memory that someone might have experience. Heres what I have: 1. Two hard drives ...
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recovery partition question

I have an Acer Aspire 4739 and want to install Ubuntu but I was wondering what happens to the recovery partition if I ever wanted to go back to windows? I don't have a boot disk that laptop only have ...
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PTD software alternative

What is the alternative for PTD on ubuntu? The partition table doctor (PTD) does not have a linux version And what are the compatible partitions that it can handle: NTFS,ext2,3,4,btrfs
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How to restore a partition that has been accidentally converted to a swap area

I was trying to install ubuntu manually from my external hard drive(which has ubuntu installed in it) to my internal hard drive.I created the swap area using mkswap command in a wrong partition(my ...
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Deleted my Ubuntu partition

I normally dual-boot with 12.04 and Win XP pro sp3 on a Thinkpad R60. I needed to reinstall windows because of problems piling up, so I ran the computer's built-in hard-disk recovery software. I ...
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Recover EXT4 Partition from Interrupted Resize

world! [that's funny, it automatically takes out leading "hello"s] I'm installing Ubuntu on a friend's laptop, and I encountered a problem while resizing the Ubuntu partition. I was expanding it to ...
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Help with Swap Partition

(Translated from spanish) I accidentally marked a 136GB partition which has some files in it as swap space during installation. Can I access these files? Can I change the partition type without ...
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ddrrescue error: ddrescue: Can't open output file: Not a directory

this is the output of sudo fdisk -l: ubuntu@PrecisePangolin:~$ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 164.7 GB, 164696555520 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders, total 321672960 sectors Units = ...
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Dual Boot Ubuntu 12.04 on a Thinkpad T420 but keep recovery partition

I have a Thinkpad T420 which runs on Windows 7 Pro and I would like to install Ubuntu 12.04 on it via Dual Boot. But the thing is, I'd like to keep the Thinkvantage Recovery Partition. I've been ...
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Partition recovery: How can I insert existing partitions into an extended partition?

In trying to solve a problem with Windows, a tool I was using deleted some of my partitions. I used TestDisk to recover my partitions. While it managed to recover all my data partitions, it couldn't ...
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How to view/mount other partitions on your hard drive

Recently I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 on a USB flash drive and decided to install it on an old external HDD which I have taken out of the casing and succesfully mounted in my desktop computer. ...
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How to recover 1 specific partition using live cd (usb)?

So I have somehow managed to delete my Ubuntu partition. I think it may have been windows system restore that deleted it. Below is a screenshot of Gparted run via a live usb copy of Ubuntu. That big ...
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How can I remove the recovery partition on an HP laptop into a CD that I can incert into the CD Drive and use it to recover Windows 7? [closed]

I want to remove the recovery partition on my HP laptop and move it onto a CD or disk. And when I put the disk into the CD drive, I can recover windows as if i've never removed the partition at all. ...
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Installed Ubuntu and accidently gave all the hard disk space to Ubuntu

Saying this, when i booted and installed Ubuntu, my hard disk was whole formatted. I had plenty of pictures, videos and music on my Local Disk [D] drive and i don't want to loose it!!! Now i have ...
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accidentally initiated format of ext3 in win 7, how to recover? [closed]

I have a dual boot, win7 and ubuntu, system and started to format an empty partition on the drive while in win7, but in my haste thought that I had not started the formatting, reselected the partition ...
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Vanished partition recovered, disk still half full but no data to be found! [closed]

I recently had a hard drive partition vanish on me while moving the drive from one machine to another. In an attempt to fix the problem I took it out of my Ubuntu box and put it in a Windows machine ...
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I deleted disk partitions - installing Ubuntu 11.04 to WIN7 build - I need windows back but how?

Steps to disaster Installed Ubuntu 11.04 Partitioned drive upon install and gave Ubuntu entire disk. Several months later I need WIN7 as dual boot What happens at present ...
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How to restore data from a damaged partition

I unknowingly tried to change my 480 GB NTFS partition to ext4 from GParted. It did not warn me about any formatting, so i thought the data would be preserved. However, It encountered an error and now ...
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How to recover lost partitions data?

I have a 2TB SATA drive that was being used as file storage on my UBUNTU computer. I was re-imaging my windows box so I used that drive to back up some files to it. I did this by taking the drive from ...
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Can you make a bootable recovery partition for Ubuntu? [duplicate]

Okay, there's tons of questions about recovery partitions, but most, if not all pertain to Windows. My question is, "Can you make a bootable recovery partition FOR Ubuntu?" I'm soon going to put ...
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Ext4 partition converted to swap. How to recover?

While installing Ubuntu 11.10, I converted by Fedora's ext4 partition to swap by mistake. Please assist to recover the files and partition.
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How do I recover data from a partition I resized with GParted?

I have an external hard disk with two partitions. I wanted to merge the two partitions with GParted. So I followed the procedure: I saved the data on Partition A. I deleted Partition A. I extended ...
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How do I preserve the recovery paritition for the notebook eMachines e442 while installing Ubuntu?

So as wrote in the Q, here my problem: I want to install Ubuntu (11.10) on my notebook. On the hard drive I have a 14Gb partition for recovery (with the factory image). I need to preserve it at any ...
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How do I create a new logical partition from unallocated space?

I bought a new hard drive and installed Windows followed by Ubuntu 11.04 on it. In the screenshot below, Windows System, C:, swap are Primary partitions. I then put / and /home in an extended ...
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Recovering a lost file system off a hard drive?

I was repartioning my hard drive, and I was in the process of moving a partition left and resizing it, when I accidentally hit the "Cancel" button. While the partition itself was already resized, the ...
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I ruined my laptop. Any chance to restore the data? [closed]

I'm a newbie. I tried to make a dual boot (win7 x64+ubuntu). I used gparted (live ubuntu 11.10 USB) to move my Storage drive. Everything was going well. However, after about 10 mins, gparted froze. ...
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Does Ubuntu Live session write anything on the primary partition

Here is the situation.I am a duel windows ans ubuntu user. Accidentally I formatted the C partition(root partition of windows). Now I ran several live ubuntu sessions from CD. And found a way to ...

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