Pinkie_B
June 17th, 2019, 06:19 AM
Hi All,
I had a Dell desktop dual booted with Windows and Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. I was told with extremely short notice that I would have to relinquish the machine to my university and in a desperate effort to wipe my data from the hard drive I deleted the partitions from with Ubuntu. I restarted the machine and boom, blank screen of only someone with skills could find my "erased" files (which is better than the blue screen of death, by far).
Now they have returned the machine to me in the state I relinquished it in and I'd like to restore its partitions and my files and settings, if possible. I've downloaded 18.04.2 LTS and I have booted the machine from the USB drive. It recognizes the previous installation and is offering me the option to "Install Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS alongside Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS."
I'm tempted to just go for it, but what will happened to the data in the partitions that I deleted? I imagine there must be a way to restore the partitions without wiping all the data since I deleted them simply enough (and the system didn't get weird until I restarted it), but I'm not sure how to proceed or how to go about retracing my steps.
I had a Dell desktop dual booted with Windows and Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. I was told with extremely short notice that I would have to relinquish the machine to my university and in a desperate effort to wipe my data from the hard drive I deleted the partitions from with Ubuntu. I restarted the machine and boom, blank screen of only someone with skills could find my "erased" files (which is better than the blue screen of death, by far).
Now they have returned the machine to me in the state I relinquished it in and I'd like to restore its partitions and my files and settings, if possible. I've downloaded 18.04.2 LTS and I have booted the machine from the USB drive. It recognizes the previous installation and is offering me the option to "Install Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS alongside Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS."
I'm tempted to just go for it, but what will happened to the data in the partitions that I deleted? I imagine there must be a way to restore the partitions without wiping all the data since I deleted them simply enough (and the system didn't get weird until I restarted it), but I'm not sure how to proceed or how to go about retracing my steps.