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Partition gone after Ubuntu Installatiıon

Asked by Sevan

Hi,

I'm new to Ubuntu and so far i'm loving it !

My problem is,
I've installed Ubuntu on my partitioned Windows 7. There was 2 partition
C:
D:

Windows was installed on the D: and i was using the C: to store my important files.

Then i followed the installation steps in http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/install-desktop-latest

In the step 4 i've chose to ''Replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu''
I thought it would install the Ubuntu on the D: which the windows 7 was insalled on and keep my important files in the partition C:

But now when i try to acces the C: Ubuntu doesn't show that partition now. I know i should have backed up my important files before doing anything,but now it seems i've lost all my files. Should Ubuntu had removed the Partition C: or am i doing something wrong because i'm new to Ubuntu, but i can't reach the C: i hope it's still there.
Any help would be great if there is any solution.

Thanks !

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bhaskar (hinduvsp) said : 		#1

use command sudo fdisk -l (please copy and paste the command) and it will ask your password and enter it, it will be used to see available partitions. But it will show like sda, sda1, sda2 etc. depends on number of partitions of your disc contains.

And the output will look like this.

bhaskar@bhaskar-Inspiron-1525:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x88000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 240974 120456 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 241664 21213183 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 21213184 282693631 130740224 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 282695678 488396799 102850561 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 426509748 432373409 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 282695680 426508287 71906304 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 432373760 488396799 28011520 b W95 FAT32

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

If you don't have a backup then the data is NOT important. What if you never installed Ubuntu and continued as you were and your drive motor failed or the IDE failed and the drive doesn't detect. Where is your data? You will be paying literally thousands of dollars to get professional data recovery. Compared to a few hundred for a decent sized USB storage which helps guarantee data integrity. What sort of mentality is that!?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

You may be able to recover some of your "important" data with foremost in a liveCD. You will need an additional partition mounted writable which is of equal or larger size than the partition to recover from. Some files may be damaged and you will lose directory structure and filename but the file extension will be preserved. If the Ubuntu install has overwritten the bits of data on the drive where a particular file was stored then it is gone forever.

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#4

It's possible you have deleted it and will have if you told Ubuntu to replace everything.

The output of the command

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sudo fdisk -l
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Will tell us

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#5

Windows ALWAYS be installed in C: partition. This is the default way. It seems you made some mistake and with the Replace option you deleted your Windows (and all the files in there).

When you install Windows the first partition that Windows create is the C: partition. Not D:

Regards
 NikTh

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