My files were wiped out upon downgrade from ubuntu 11.X to Ubuntu 10.04

Hi Vic,

Unless you backed them up on an external drive or service they are gone. When you go back the drive is wiped and the new system is installed over what was there.

Please tell how do you have downgrade your ubuntu ? i guess by reinstall 10.04 so in that case you must have a separate partition for your home directory (and always a backup) otherwise the Ubuntu reinstall from scratch will erase all your data.

Can you send us the result of this terminal command:

sudo fdisk -l

give your user passwd when requested, you will not see any screen chars when you type the passwd, so type then press enter.

Thanks Paul,
I thought that there would be some way of recovering them by setting the
recovery date to before the download....Windows has a setting like that on
their system so I thought there might be something similar in Ubuntu. Or is
there some way to access to file log through terminal?

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Vic

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> Hi Vic,
>
> Unless you backed them up on an external drive or service they are gone.
> When you go back the drive is wiped and the new system is installed over
> what was there.
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@Marcobra,

I assumed that reinstalling wiped your drive. Is that not correct?

Thanks
Paul

Hi marcobra,
I'm not very tech savvy but I hope I entered the command correctly into
terminal. Here is the result:

vic@vic-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk
[sudo] password for vic:

Usage:
 fdisk [options] <disk> change partition table
 fdisk [options] -l <disk> list partition table(s)
 fdisk -s <partition> give partition size(s) in blocks

Options:
 -b <size> sector size (512, 1024, 2048 or 4096)
 -c switch off DOS-compatible mode
 -h print help
 -u <size> give sizes in sectors instead of cylinders
 -v print version
 -C <number> specify the number of cylinders
 -H <number> specify the number of heads
 -S <number> specify the number of sectors per track

vic@vic-laptop:~$ ^C
vic@vic-laptop:~$

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> Can you send us the result of this terminal command:
>
> sudo fdisk -l
>
> give your user passwd when requested, you will not see any screen chars
> when you type the passwd, so type then press enter.
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Vic

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Hi marcobra,
I was having difficulties with the ubuntu 11.04 so my friend tried to help
out by replacing it with 10.4 but I'm pretty sure the files were not backed
up so I lost all of my files plus photos of my late mom......

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:41 PM, marcobra (Marco Braida) <
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> Your question #171034 on ubiquity in Ubuntu changed:
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> marcobra (Marco Braida) posted a new comment:
> Please tell how do you have downgrade your ubuntu ? i guess by reinstall
> 10.04 so in that case you must have a separate partition for your home
> directory (and always a backup) otherwise the Ubuntu reinstall from
> scratch will erase all your data.
>
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Vic

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Hi Vic,

I think the command Macrobra said was:

sudo fdisk -l

don't forget the -l

Thanks
Paul

Your assumption is correct Paul, lol! I lost all my info. Oh well I guess
this is a painful lesson on backing up data....
Thank you for replying. Have a fabulous and prosperous day

Kind regards,

Vic

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> @Marcobra,
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> I assumed that reinstalling wiped your drive. Is that not correct?
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> Thanks
> Paul
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Okay I hope I got it right this time

vic@vic-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000da6e9

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 29675 238361600 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 29675 30402 5834753 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29675 30402 5834752 82 Linux swap / Solaris
vic@vic-laptop:~$

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> Hi Vic,
>
> I think the command Macrobra said was:
>
> sudo fdisk -l
>
> don't forget the -l
>
> Thanks
> Paul
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Thanks marcobra (Marco Braida), that solved my question.

Thank you for trying marcobra,
I appreciate your taking the time to look into it for me.

Have a fabulous and prosperous week.

Kind regards,

Vic

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> marcobra (Marco Braida) proposed the following answer:
> >From result from fdisk you have only one linux partition the /dev/sda1
> so your data is gone...
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Vic

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