funzith
October 12th, 2014, 08:14 AM
Yesterday I was doing a test installation of Ubuntu 14.04.1 on my 1015px netbook.
Prior to this I was having a dual boot of 12.04 LTS + MInt 12. Now I wanted to replace the mint OS by U14.04.1 LTS.
I had a separate /home partition which was commonly used by both Ubuntu12.04 and Mint (ofc with different usernames). I just wanted to continue it that way, and have the home folder of the new 14.04.1 on the same /home partition, with all my previous files on that partition intact.
So, while installing the 14.04.out1, I had chosen to format only the root partition of the earlier mint. I had selected the home partition only to be mounted as '/home' but not to be formatted -- had left unchecked the corresponding option to format .
The installer was doing things very slowly, and finally when it finished the installation, I boot to the 14.04 only to find out that it had wiped of all earlier files (the home folders corresponding to users on the 12.04 and mint). I see only the home folder of the newly installed 14.04 and all others gone.
I have lost very very important precious data (many codes, original works, communications...) and I am stuck here now.
QUESTIONS :a
1) Why did it happen? The installer is buggy? or did I do something wrong?
0) most importantly, HOW DO I RECOVER THE LOST FILES?
Prior to this I was having a dual boot of 12.04 LTS + MInt 12. Now I wanted to replace the mint OS by U14.04.1 LTS.
I had a separate /home partition which was commonly used by both Ubuntu12.04 and Mint (ofc with different usernames). I just wanted to continue it that way, and have the home folder of the new 14.04.1 on the same /home partition, with all my previous files on that partition intact.
So, while installing the 14.04.out1, I had chosen to format only the root partition of the earlier mint. I had selected the home partition only to be mounted as '/home' but not to be formatted -- had left unchecked the corresponding option to format .
The installer was doing things very slowly, and finally when it finished the installation, I boot to the 14.04 only to find out that it had wiped of all earlier files (the home folders corresponding to users on the 12.04 and mint). I see only the home folder of the newly installed 14.04 and all others gone.
I have lost very very important precious data (many codes, original works, communications...) and I am stuck here now.
QUESTIONS :a
1) Why did it happen? The installer is buggy? or did I do something wrong?
0) most importantly, HOW DO I RECOVER THE LOST FILES?