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Loss of my documents after reinstalling Ubuntu 10.10

Asked by Daniel Scherer

I had to reinstall Ubuntu 10.10 after having lost the possibility to use my mouse. Unfortunately, reinstalling made me lose all my personal documents. Any possibility to recover ?

Thanks

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Best Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros) said : 		#1

Daniel...(I can not beliefe it). ->lol^x

Shame on you.

"..reinstalling made me lose..."

-> It is already done!? You are lost buddy.

There is the dialog on Ubuntu installation that says that it will erase all data.
It means what it says to you.

Your data is lost! That was it. End of game. You may search for esoteric solutions in the internet, but your chances are very low!

For the next time: Save your data before you erase your sytem to ubuntu one, externel dirve, .. whatever.

And Daniel:

There is Ubuntu11.10, it has bugfixes an features that 10.10 will never get. Because, there is not anymore tha possibility to lost data, you should install the very last version in 64bit. It is not only fun, why development goes further.

It is not affected with shame to use:

http://www.ubuntu.com/business/desktop#services

for your very first year. Going by you will learn enough from them to not need them anymore later.

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druisan (druisan) said : 		#2

You can't restore anything, if you reinstalled Ubuntu, your data have been formatted. You should make backups frecuently.

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Daniel Scherer (danielscherer) said : 		#3

Thanks melchiaros, that solved my question.

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Chris (fabricator4) said : 		#4

You can reinstall Ubuntu without losing data by specifying the partitions manually and NOT clicking the format button. Having a separate /home is also a good option since it allows a clean install without formatting the /home partition only.

Regardless, doing regular data backups is essential because eventually you will have a computer or hard drive failure that will make recovery necessary.

Chris