I'm no expert, but did you keep both drives connected when running the install when the same master/slave settings?
How many linux partitions could the Ubuntu install see? Did you have a separate partition for your /home for another distro? If so,is there a chance that the "autopilot" install could have possibly mounted this partition? You might remember one of the missing file names that you had in /home and grep every physical partion for that string? --- Dennis Bagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sent this message to the rlug list (unfortunately > several times) > yesterday but got > -0- feedback from anyone. I'm still looking for > answers because I do > NOT want to accidentally > repeat the problem. > > So anyone have answers besides "42"? > > Thanks again > > Dennis > > > > Came into my office this morning to discover data > missing from my PC. > > I am running Ubuntu 5.04 > > On Friday everything seemed to be intact and okay. > I have a dual drive > system > and decided to put the newest version of Ubuntu > (5.10) on the second > drive - it seemed to install just fine > and I was also able to reboot into the older > version. I must admit that > I did not run any programs > other than email and the browser before leaving my > office for the > weekend. > > HOWEVER, this morning when I tried to fire up VMWare > - my virtual > machine files were GONE. The directory > where the files should have been was there but the > files were not. > > Also missing: > all the bookmarks in my browser (Firefox) > all the pop3 mail on my system > all of the contacts I had in Evolution > all the "sent" mail > all special email folders I had created that > contained data. > > > All my other primary files appear to be intact. > Ideas? Have I been > hacked? Did the the install > screw something up? If so, how? > > (Fortunately I had a backup of the VM and the work > data is stored on the > server. But I did not have a backup of > the email and contact info and that kinda torques > me.) > > Thanks > > > Dennis > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
