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about data recovery

Asked by arpit

I had been using windows 7 for about 1 year, then I installed ubuntu 10.10 but due to unknown reasons now I'm not able to access my computer drives.

 i had allocated a separated free 30 GB for ubuntu. other then that memory, the remaining 220 GB is not accessible.

And the windows drive and other drives are not shown by the system.

it is also not letting other OS cd's to boot... I'm stuck in a mess and some of my important data (including a project in PHP ) is in danger, please help me .

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

You probably only have 1 drive with many partitions. Windows incorrectly names partitions as drives and causes confusion when you come to an OS which actually names things properly. You can have physical drive and make 2 NTFS partitions, WIndows will show a 'C drive' and a 'D drive' which is wrong, there is only one 'drive' but 2 partitions.

Why is the project in any danger? Do you not have a backup? and if not why not?

Can you give the output of:

sudo fdisk -l; lsb-release -a; uname -a

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#2

what actionparsnip said.

also, you might want to click on places at the top of the screen. this is the filemanager.
the top entries are for the ubuntu partitions. the bottom ones are for windoze. it will NOT say C:, D, etc. rather it will have something like the name of the drive manufacturer, the label of your windoze partition (most likely win or filesystem), or the size of your hard drive. click on one of those and you'd be able to see your windoze drives.

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