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jacobxtyler
December 10th, 2009, 04:45 AM
i was trying to install ubuntu, and i accidentally changed my ntfs partition with my windows 7 stuff to ext4 and now windows wont boot and i cant get to it. what can i do?

raymondh
December 10th, 2009, 04:49 AM
i was trying to install ubuntu, and i accidentally changed my ntfs partition with my windows 7 stuff to ext4 and now windows wont boot and i cant get to it. what can i do?

If it reformatted from NTFS to ext4 ... sorry ...... reformat means it will rewrite clean said area/partition to the new format. :(

jacobxtyler
December 10th, 2009, 04:52 AM
so what your telling me is that everythings gone? :(

raymondh
December 10th, 2009, 05:13 AM
so what your telling me is that everythings gone? :(

Are you using the liveCD? Access a terminal and type

sudo fdisk -l

post back. I want to make sure. Did you proceed and reformat the win7 partition? If yes, then you overwrote said partition by formatting (writing) a new file system/format. That means you lost win7. Sorry.