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October 4th, 2011, 05:31 AM
Hello everyone!
I have Ubuntu 11.04 on my Dell Vostro 1400. I always have a / partition and a /home partition.
I installed Windows 8 on a separated partition (that belonged to Windows 7) to give it a shot.
Ok, tested, now I had to recover my Grub2. I used the following commands:
sudo -i
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt (sda3 is my / partition)
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda
It gave a strange warning about my sector50 being used by NetFlix (that had never happened before). I thought, ok, strange, better back everything up - but it was too late. My sda4 (/home) was UNALLOCATED. I lost a lot of stuff.
Is there a way to even try to recover whatever files I can? Or everything is forever lost?
Thanks everyone!
I have Ubuntu 11.04 on my Dell Vostro 1400. I always have a / partition and a /home partition.
I installed Windows 8 on a separated partition (that belonged to Windows 7) to give it a shot.
Ok, tested, now I had to recover my Grub2. I used the following commands:
sudo -i
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt (sda3 is my / partition)
grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda
It gave a strange warning about my sector50 being used by NetFlix (that had never happened before). I thought, ok, strange, better back everything up - but it was too late. My sda4 (/home) was UNALLOCATED. I lost a lot of stuff.
Is there a way to even try to recover whatever files I can? Or everything is forever lost?
Thanks everyone!