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Installed Ubuntu 7.04 and can't see any files from Windows XP

Asked by Fuzz4you

Installed Ubuntu 7.04 and can't see any files from Windows XP home edition that were there before.
How do i access them to as i could from when i booted from ubuntu disc ?- I am a real novice .

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Amin Contreras (koutarou) said : 		#1

have you tried to install ntfs automount with automatix?
http://www.getautomatix.com/
i hope this should help you :)

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Jayson Vaughn (thedonvaughn) said : 		#2

Hello,
Thank you for your question. I would not recommend installing Automatix on any Debian based distribution. Automatix has been known to mess up MANY Ubuntu systems. Here is a good link describing how to mount and write to NTFS partitions with Ubuntu. http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=585

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#3

Hello,
I would not recommend installing Automatix either but there is a better method than Jayson link.
official documentation:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

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Fuzz4you (neil4thomas) said : 		#4

Thanks i tried all of above and can''t see any nfts -any comment?

:/$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4676 37559938+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4677 4864 1510110 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4677 4864 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#5

Yes, there is no ntfs partition on it. How did you install ubuntu. If you chose to use the entire disk, it would have overwritten your existing partition. Or do you have a second drive that is not detected?

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Fuzz4you (neil4thomas) said : 		#6

Thanks-I have to say i'm a bit confused about the exact steps-i started off to do a dual boot but i came up against a no go so i thought i was installing into a free space on the disc.
So i guess i'm after confirmation of whether or not any windows XP files still exist if partitions have been over written? No second drive.

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Best Paul Hoell (hoellp) said : 		#7

Considering the fdisk -l output you postet, i'd say the files are gone.
You really seem to have reformatted the whole disk. I'm sorry about the bad news, but be sure, that already happend to a lot of us others too.
Another hint:
Consider wiping your disk again and put your /home folder on a seperate partition, that will help prevent this kind of dataloss in the future.
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Fuzz4you (neil4thomas) said : 		#8

Thanks Paul Hoell, that solved my question.