On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Kelly J. Morris wrote:
Greetings. I have just managed to lose all my data.
Ouch! I hope I can help...
In preparation for upgrading my Linux installation, I bought and installed a
WD USB 500 GB external drive. I copied all my data from my SuSE 9.2 partition
to the external drive. I rebooted to my WinXP HE partition and saved my data
to the same external drive. I then deleted the old SuSE partition and
installed Ubuntu 8.041 LTS where SuSE had been. I rebooted into Ubuntu and
looked for my folders on the external drive. They are not there or, if they
are there, I can't see them. Only the Windows folders remain.
I assume that, when I saved the Windows folders to the external drive, they
wrote over the files that were already there, i.e. the folders from my
previous SuSE Linux installation that I had saved there. It was not a case of
space - I had saved about 75 GB of files from my SuSE partition and only
about 10 GB of files from Windows (that I rarely use).
Many external drives come pre-formatted as 1 big FAT32 partition. Did
you leave it like that? Or did you create some kind of Linux partition
(e.g. ext2/ext3, resierfs, jfs, etc.)? Did you just copy the files (as
in a "cp" command, or dragging and dropping from a Gnome/KDE desktop)?
Did you "tar" them (as in "tar -cvf /mnt/external/backup.tar /")? Did
you use some kind of backup program that did it for you?
From the Windows side, what did you do? (The above questions mostly
apply.) In general, you are probably ok, unless you used some program
that assumed it could use the whole external drive for its own (nefarious)
purposes.
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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