Our laptop initially had 12.04 LTS, and then we upgraded to 14.04 LTS. But the 14.04 version had so many errors, I had to disable further updates.
Skip a year later, laptop crashes frequently and my father suggested re-enabling the updates. I enable them, updating process starts and doesn't end. It got to around 70% and stopped. I used the power key to shutdown the laptop. The next day, my mother calls me and tells me that the laptop wouldn't start. I go back home and I try starting it. It doesn't start up at all.
I had several options and I chose to revert to 12.04. Unfortunately, that just erased ALL files. Everything. 3 years worth of work gone in a minute.
I believe it was a factory reset, but I am not sure.
Is it possible to restore some of the files?
Thanks!
factory reset
. Also, any revert or fresh install will only affect the system-wide folders... the files that are installed by default in the default install folders such as,/bin
,/usr/bin/
,/sbin
, etc. A user's data is in the/home
folder. That folder would not be touched. Also any other user created folders would not be touched. Even a fresh install would not touch those folders. The only way those folders would be touched is if an option toformat
the partition was selected. If that were the case you would need to run...(continued)