Yesterday I had two NTFS partitions on my drive. One on which Windows 7 was installed (C Drive) and the other contained my data (D Drive).  During Ubuntu installation I choose to install Ubuntu and erase my existing OS. When Ubuntu installed, I was shocked to see no partition. All my data was gone. I must have done something wrong in selecting my option during installation.  Is there any way I can recover my D Drive?
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I have a Toshiba satellite A-200 laptop with a Vista OS on it with 4 NTFS partitions  (C:) Vista  (D:) Entertainment  (E:) Work  (F:) Sources   and I wanted to start using Ubuntu instead. So I tried it first from the live CD and everything was OK and all the partitions were shown and working and so I decided to install Ubuntu to replace Vista on the (C:) drive. After I did that I can no longer find my folders and files on the (D:), (E:), (F:) partitions and the only file system that is shown is one 198 GB although my HDD is 320 GB.  I can't access the lost data on the remaining 120 GB which I hope is still there and not totally lost  I am now working from the live CD but I am unable to install testdisk. Can I recover the Vista partitions by the product recovery CD to get my laptop back to the factory settings? Can I recover the NTFS partitions using a recovery program for Windows or will that make the problem worse?   I need these data badly as I don't have a backup for them.
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I have one hard drive. It's partitioned into 4 partitions, one of them is encrypted by Windows 7 Bitlocker, then I used Acronis Disk Director to merge both partitions during the process PC power off now the encrypted partition and when I try to enter the partition I have a message to format it, the other partition seems to contain 20 MB but when I open it I found nothing.  all data in this partition is so important to me , so please if anyone can help me recover my data I will be thankful
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I am trying to install a fresh version of Ubuntu in my computer without touching the windows 10 dual boot! In the Installation Type, the first option seems exactly what i wanted to do.  My question is, is this feature is safe to use? because i don't want to lose any windows files and other NTFS partitions on the hard-disk. Please eliminate my confusion. Note as that i dont need any files or media which are in the ubuntu partition, Thanks.
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Ubuntu was installed alongside Windows 7 on my system. After some days, I deleted and formatted the Windows partition and didn't format the other NTFS partitions.  Before that, I installed Wine on my Ubuntu. I used it to install some software like Picasa. When I tried to open some images on a NTFS partition using Picasa, I was unable to view or access these partitions. I will show my partition details -    As you see, I have 4 NTFS partitions in total. When I opened Picasa and searched for the partitions in which the images are saved, I was unable to find some partitions (sda5, sda6 and sda7).    This is the window that was opened by Picasa when I tried to search image files. How can I access the partitions in which the images are stored from Picasa?
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I have dual booted Ubuntu with Windows 7. I wanted to uninstall Ubuntu. So as per an answer for one of the related questions on this site I did the following:   Deleted the Ubuntu Partition through Windows. As per the answer now I was supposed to boot Windows from USB &amp; then do "repair startup".   But Windows could not find any problem hence nothing was done. So when my laptop booted normally (i.e. from HDD) it was showing some error like GRUB:/ unknown file system. I dont remember the exact words but it was something like this. Thus I couldn't boot windows neither Ubuntu. So again I had to install Ubuntu.  But now my question is how do I remove Ubuntu so that my laptop returns to the previous state of installing Ubuntu?  UPDATE: Seems that it wasnt on this site. My mistake :P .Here is the link
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Can I install Ubuntu without formatting any partitions on my hard drive?  I am already running Windows 7 and I want to install Ubuntu as well without formatting any of the partitions I have already created.
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I have an NTFS formatted USB Hard drive that has my personal files backup. Today I mounted the drive to an Oracle Linux system and copied a regular file using the below command (please see below commands). By mistake I used the device file /dev/sdb1 during copy.  mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /sample cp file1 /dev/sdb1   After this I unmounted the drive and connected to Windows system. Now Windows system complains that the drive need to be formatted and/or corrupted.  My question is: can we recover this drive without losing any personal data? How can I view the files available on this drive? Just mounting back to Linux system will show the files?
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So I've got 2 hard drives, a 128GB SSD, on which Windows 7 is installed, and a standard 1TB hard drive.  Now I want to install Ubuntu. The SSD has only got about 4GB of space left, and I don't really want to delete anything to make space for Ubuntu so I want to install it on the 1TB hard drive. I know that in order to do this I will have to change the boot order each time I want to switch OSes, but I don't really mind since I won't be using Ubuntu as much as Windows anyway. I've got a lot of data on the 1TB hard drive, about 850GB, but there should be enough for Ubuntu.  My question though, is if I can just make a new partition on this drive and install Ubuntu to it, without erasing any other data. If I can, can I, like I specified, also just change the OS I want to use by simply changing the boot order? Sorry if this has been asked before, but most of the answers I could find were about installing it to an empty second hard drive, whereas I would like to keep the data on mine.  Thanks in advance!
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I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 on my pre-installed windows 7 pc and I want a dual boot. I have no empty partition on my hard disk drive. I don't want to re-install windows 7 and don't want to install ubuntu on c drive. I want to install on a different partition but I want to resize it. How should I do it? Please answer in steps. Also suggest the amount of space I should allocte to ubuntu 13.10.
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I was on my way installing windows 7 alongside linux installation that was scattered over 3 partitions, namely: root, home and additional big partition for data files. I was trying to install windows on 4th a non mbr empty partition that was specifically created for windows. When I booted from windows 7 DVD, I used "shift+F10" command to enter a command line interface and used "diskpart" app. While going through the disk partitions and selecting the empty volume I typed "clean" thinking that it would erase ONLY the selected volume, but instead the whole hdd drive was removed of its partitions. I could barely stand because the information on those non empty linux partitions is irreplaceable and worth months of work.  What should I do to get my data back guys? I have 2 usb sticks, 2 external hdds, another windows laptop and internet connection.
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I just bought a new laptop with Windows 7 installed and I'm planning on installing Ubuntu 11.10 for a dual-boot.  Here's my rather basic problem :  I have a 750go hard drive, pretty much partitioned like this :   Recovery : 25go C: (Windows 7) : 295go D: (Data) : 380go   That is the factory configuration, the hard drive is still fairly empty (I removed all the bloatware and didn't install anything yet).  This is what I'd like to obtain :   Keep my recovery partition A partition for Windows 7 A partition for Ubuntu A "big" common partition for Windows and Ubuntu data, all the files I'm going to create.   How can I do that? Do I have to resize/create the partitions in Windows 7 before installing Ubuntu? Do I have to do it while installing Ubuntu using Gparted?  I'm quite confused and I'd like to make it right so I guess I need your help.  Thanks a lot everyone.
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Okay, so here's the story.  I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04.  I currently have a 2TB drive in my computer where Windows 7 boots from, and a secondary 500GB drive that also has a bootable installation of Windows 7, because the version on the 2TB is a clone of what was on the 500.. I do not need any information on the 500 as I already have it moved over to the 2TB.  What I want is to completely reformat the 500 so that it has about 300GB for NTFS and the rest for Ubuntu.  However, I can't seem to find a straightfoward way to do that in the Ubuntu installer.  If I click on "Install Ubuntu alongside them," it does not give me the option to select my 500GB drive, only my 2TB.  I do NOT want any linux partitions on my 2TB drive.  I do not want to click, "Erase disc and install Ubuntu" for obvious reasons.  Finally, clicking "something else" brings up a menu that is quite confusing.  I can kind of figure out how to use it, but it's not as straightfoward as I'd like..  Further, I know that Ubuntu requires a SWAP partition, but I do not know how much, or even how, to allocate that with the stupid dropdown menus it gives me.  So, to get to the point..  What is the easiest, safest way to do what I want to do?  That is, allocate approximately 200G for Ubuntu on my 500G drive, and be able to choose between Windows 7 on my 2TB drive and Ubuntu at startup - all, of coarse, without touching the 2TB drive at all.  Thanks!
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Currently, my computer is dual-booting Linux and Windows 7. A series of unfortunate events has led to me needing to restore Windows using a restore disc.  I want to know if this can be done without formatting my entire hard drive, as I don't want to get rid of my Linux partition. That is, I want to reset Windows - which already has a partition on my hard drive - without affecting any of my other partitions on my drive.
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A virus has corrupted my desktop's hard drive. How can I remove the remnants of Windows and install Ubuntu on it?  I have only a working mobile phone and one 4GB USB drive. The 4GB drive has vacation photos on it. I have no friends to borrow things from. What to do? Step by step please, any terminal commands should be familiar to a Ubuntu user.  This question is loosely based on  which was deemed off topic by the DPP.
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How do I completely reinstall Ubuntu without affecting the Windows partition? The way I setup my laptop is like this:   Completely wiped everything using GParted from Ubuntu CD Partitioned the HDD to 3 partitions (one for Windows, one for Ubuntu, one for Storage) Installed Windows 7 Pro 64-bit Installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit   The reason why I want to reinstall is NOTHING works in Ubuntu. No internet at all both Ethernet, and Wireless and when I figured out how to fix the wireless, there is no way to download drivers for the display so everything is just ugly and big. To make things more complicated, upgrading to 10.10 via update manager just gives me an error.  The way I see it right now is I have to try to wipe 10.04 and just install 11.04 from scratch but I'm not sure how to do that? Does anyone know?
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I installed Windows 7, which ate Ubuntu's boot file. When starting up the computer, it now goes straight to Windows, without giving me the option of booting Ubuntu.   How can I get Ubuntu back?
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I have Ubuntu on my laptop. Now I want install Windows 7 in a dual-boot. How can I do this? I can't lose my Ubuntu files, and I'm afraid that I might break . Go  for UEFI only!