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Data recovery question
26-03-2011 6:32 PM
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My son has been using it and has data stored on the linux partition.
Long story short, the Ubuntu began failing to start, (although windows starts) I played around with Grub loader and a live cd but I was unable to access the home partition at all.
I decided it would be clever to reinstall Ubuntu into the (formatted) root partition but the install kept hanging and that is where I am with it.
I have removed the hard drive, put it in a caddy and plugged it into another linux computer The home partition was not recognised.
Any ideas on how I could try and recover his data would be gratefully received.
Re: Data recovery question
26-03-2011 10:24 PM
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gpartedshow?
If you find a partition of roughly the right size as the /home, then you'll need to type a couple of lines to mount the file system....
BTW When Ubuntu started failing to start, what symptoms did it show?
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Re: Data recovery question
26-03-2011 11:10 PM
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I know which is the /home partition I can see it when I ran the gparted disc.
The Ubuntu failure was the grub loader stopped working.. i went through the process of reinstating it but kept getting error 15
Is the way to mount the file system using the live cd?
Re: Data recovery question
27-03-2011 12:26 AM
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$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
[...]
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1045 8388608 12 Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2 1045 19458 147899393 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1045 2261 9764864 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 2261 2534 2196480 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 2534 19458 135936000 83 Linux
In this case /dev/sda7 is my /home partition
$ sudo mkdir /media/hdd
$ sudo mount /dev/sda7 /media/hdd
Open the file manager and navigate to /media/hdd and you should have access to your data.
Re: Data recovery question
28-03-2011 4:51 PM
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It supposedly enables you to view Linux files from within Windows.
http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/
Re: Data recovery question
28-03-2011 5:42 PM
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http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
Otherwise your best bet is any livecd and chroot into your ubuntu installation to recover the data and then reinstall.
Re: Data recovery question
03-04-2011 1:29 PM
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@waldo I ran the code as you suggested but I still could not access the data. The media HDD folder was empty.
@sabyon, I had tried supergrub but it was the same, would let me into the home partition.
I probably did something wrong.
@garlic, I downloaded the diskinternal programme and I am happy to report that it enabled me to access the data and I am copying it to an external drive as I type.
Re: Data recovery question
03-04-2011 1:33 PM
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Quote from: Oddball
@garlic, I downloaded the diskinternal programme and I am happy to report that it enabled me to access the data and I am copying it to an external drive as I type.
That's good news. Glad you got your data back.
Re: Data recovery question
03-04-2011 3:13 PM
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I am just copying over the last lot of data, it was my son's college work, he is relieved!
When I have finished I think I will do an ubuntu install and see how it runs.
Re: Data recovery question
03-04-2011 10:21 PM
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Quote from: Oddball @waldo I ran the code as you suggested but I still could not access the data. The media HDD folder was empty.
Odd...but kudos to diskinternals for getting the job done.
Re: Data recovery question
19-04-2011 10:44 AM
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http://theoatmeal.com/blog/fix_computer ;
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03-05-2011 11:57 PM
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04-05-2011 12:09 AM
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04-05-2011 6:28 AM
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