Partition deleted by mistake

[iamrandy]

i just deleted the partition unbuntu made with windows on a HD that i have and when it deleted it it deleted the permissions for it too can anyone help me figure this out please i'm just trying this out too and the os is ubuntu 11.10

[papibe]

Hi iamrandy. Welcome to the forums.

I'm afraid we are going to need a little more information.

How did you install Ubuntu (regular install or Wubi)?
The partition you deleted was a Windows partition or a Ubuntu partition?
What do you mean with "the permissions were deleted"? What kind of problems are you having because of that?

Kind Regards.

[iamrandy]

installed regular and it was the windows partition and permissions for saving files it won't let me save anything to it


thank you

[papibe]

You can't save files to the Windows partitions from Ubuntu? Is that it?

How did you delete the partition?

Regards.

[Kneegrowplease]

Welcome


I know I've been in a similar situation, but you're going to have to be a little more descriptive. not even sure what you did at this point, but we'd love to help if you could just please provide a bit more info.

[iamrandy]

i had windows xp and my friend told me i might like ubuntu better.
he downloaded this free version. we created the partition to have it just incase we wanted to go back, which i never would by the way, it created a partition for ubuntu that was only 4 gigs we installed gparted partition editor and erased the partition along with windows and now the ubuntu is on it's own HD the other hd that was with it i lost ownership of


thank you

[papibe]

Could you post the result of these commands?

sudo fdisk -l

mount -l

df -h

Regards.

[iamrandy]

i don't even know what to do with that


thank you for helping though

[iamrandy]

no problem what do you need i am only a novice with this but i can stand on my own two feet

[iamrandy]

just found out on the forum how to get the terminal window up but it needs a password and my login password doesn't work