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Bug #393933
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Comment 4 for bug 393933

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Bonnie (classicclippers) wrote on 2009-06-30: Re: [Bug 393933] Re: help! where are all my docs, pics, music files....

Dear Scott:

Thanks for converting this to a question for me. Just goes to show you how
little I know about this stuff; I was just desperate for help so I went
with the first thing I could find to try and get an answer.

I installed Ubuntu as a replacement for Windows. I do not recall choosing
to either reformat or repartition my hard drive.... so I hope it was the
latter. I believe reformat means you want it wiped out completely and
hopefully I had more sense than that when installing (though I guess
anything is possible as the whole concept of installing an operating system
when you already have one is completely foreign to me).

But, since I'm obviously not the brightest star in the galaxy, and let's say
in my excitement I did chose to reformat (ugh), all is lost I presume.

Is there anything I can do to try and recover my files?

Your help is greatly appreciated!!

Bonnie

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Scott Howard <email address hidden> wrote:

> To help you get better assistance, I'm converting this to a "question"
> instead of a bug.
>
> Also, did you install Ubuntu as a dual boot with Windows or as a
> replacement to windows? During install did you choose to reformat or
> repartition your hard drive?
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Converted to question:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/75724
>
> --
> help! where are all my docs, pics, music files....
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393933
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> i'm not reporting a bug. i'm just a casual computer user who was referred
> to ubuntu since i was unhappy with windows xp. so i switched to ubuntu
> yesterday and now i am unable to locate any of my documents, pictures, music
> files, etc... are they gone forever? surely ubuntu would have warned me of
> this before letting me install ubuntu in place of windows. please help.
> i'm panic stricken. :(
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
> Package: yelp 2.25.1-0ubuntu5
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: yelp
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
>

Dear Scott:

Thanks for converting this to a question for me.  Just goes to show you how
little I know about this stuff; I was just desperate for help  so I went
with the first thing I could find to try and get an answer.

I installed Ubuntu as a replacement for Windows.  I do not recall choosing
to either reformat or repartition my hard drive.... so I hope it was the
latter.  I believe reformat means you want it wiped out completely and
hopefully I had more sense than that when installing (though I guess
anything is possible as the whole concept of installing an operating system
when you already have one is completely foreign to me).

But, since I'm obviously not the brightest star in the galaxy, and let's say
in my excitement I did chose to reformat (ugh), all is lost I presume.

Is there anything I can do to try and recover my files?

Your help is greatly appreciated!!

Bonnie

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Scott Howard <showard314@gmail.com> wrote:

> To help you get better assistance, I'm converting this to a "question"
> instead of a bug.
>
> Also, did you install Ubuntu as a dual boot with Windows or as a
> replacement to windows? During install did you choose to reformat or
> repartition your hard drive?
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
>       Status: New => Invalid
>
> ** Converted to question:
>   https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/75724
>
> --
> help!  where are all my docs, pics, music files....
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393933
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Ubuntu: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> i'm not reporting a bug.  i'm just a casual computer user who was referred
> to ubuntu since i was unhappy with windows xp.  so i switched to ubuntu
> yesterday and now i am unable to locate any of my documents, pictures, music
> files, etc...  are they gone forever?  surely ubuntu would have warned me of
> this before letting me install ubuntu in place of windows.  please help.
>  i'm panic stricken.  :(
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
> Package: yelp 2.25.1-0ubuntu5
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: yelp
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
>