MadridBill
April 12th, 2013, 09:59 AM
Hi guys.
ok.
I installed ubuntu 12.04 on a 24gb partition on my HDD.
It wouldn't boot though, kept getting a grub error.
So I created a new partition from free space and installed again.
It worked so I spent the rest of the day on other tasks.
I deleted and formatted the 24 gb partition and saved photos and other personal files to it.
I updated and done a restart.
It restarted fine but didn't show the 24 gb partition in home folders, I ran testdisk to see what was going on.
It showed 2 24gb partitions.
After it had completed its checks it told me the New folder with all my files was fine.
The other couldn't be recovered, which was fine. I didn't think I needed it.
The I tried to restart the computer again.
Back to the grub error and ubuntu won't start.
I thought about instaling again over the top of the installation I have but here is the problem.
When I am in ubuntu loaded from my USB stick the home folder shows the "3 devices" which are all partitions of the HDD.
System volume - Media - New Folder
Although when I try to install ubuntu, from boot or from desktop it only shows the 250gb HDD without any partitions.
I don't want to lose my data.
I don't really want wasted space with multiple installations of any OS, never mind 2 instalations of ubuntu.
System volume has the ubuntu files on it. The other 2 contain only documents, music, video and photos.
Any advice on what I do from here?
ok.
I installed ubuntu 12.04 on a 24gb partition on my HDD.
It wouldn't boot though, kept getting a grub error.
So I created a new partition from free space and installed again.
It worked so I spent the rest of the day on other tasks.
I deleted and formatted the 24 gb partition and saved photos and other personal files to it.
I updated and done a restart.
It restarted fine but didn't show the 24 gb partition in home folders, I ran testdisk to see what was going on.
It showed 2 24gb partitions.
After it had completed its checks it told me the New folder with all my files was fine.
The other couldn't be recovered, which was fine. I didn't think I needed it.
The I tried to restart the computer again.
Back to the grub error and ubuntu won't start.
I thought about instaling again over the top of the installation I have but here is the problem.
When I am in ubuntu loaded from my USB stick the home folder shows the "3 devices" which are all partitions of the HDD.
System volume - Media - New Folder
Although when I try to install ubuntu, from boot or from desktop it only shows the 250gb HDD without any partitions.
I don't want to lose my data.
I don't really want wasted space with multiple installations of any OS, never mind 2 instalations of ubuntu.
System volume has the ubuntu files on it. The other 2 contain only documents, music, video and photos.
Any advice on what I do from here?