Partition not found after upgrade

[luvburrell]

I installed 9.04 then tried to upgrade to 9.10 and it froze so I had to reboot. Since then I have not been able to re-install 9.04 or see my partition. Everytime I try to reinstall it says and shows that it can't find the partition like there isn't a hard drive installed. HELP!!!

[darkod]

Boot into the live desktop and try running fsck for the root partition, for example:

sudo fsck /dev/sda1

or

sudo fsck /dev/sda5

what ever your root partition is.

[luvburrell]

Thanks but that did not work. I tshows that I have a live session user but there is no hard drive showing just the cd rom. I guess I will have to get some help in cleaning up this drive and starting fresh

[darkod]

There is software for checking partitions and drives, TestDisk:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

You can also install it in live desktop I think, with:
sudo apt-get install testdisk

But I haven't used it so far (luckily, never needed it), and can't offer much assistance how to use it.