<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Jorgenson</b> <<a href="mailto:jjorgenson@gmail.com">jjorgenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Unfortunately, I lost an entire year's worth of digital photographs<br>and videos due to a bug in Kubuntu's HDD install software, </blockquote><div><br>what version?<br>and what's the bug? sounds ridiculous, never heard of it.
<br>could you please, give more information about it?<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">but I was<br>able to get a lot of it back. I have been looking for the CD I used,
<br>but have not yet been able to locate it. I am sure I will be able to<br>locate it before the meeting, which I am almost certainly going to be<br>attending. I will bring it along. It only recovers data files, but<br>
is very very good, and easy to use. Especially with partitions. Let<br>me tell you the (embarrassing) story.<br><br>I decided to increase the size of my linux partition, and decrease<br>Windows one day. Using the GParted live cd i redid them, no problems.
<br> All of my photos etc were on their own partition, which was not being<br>touched, and everything was fine. The Kubuntu installer, however,<br>deleted the partition! I was horrified, but this software recovered<br>it perfectly. Nothing was lost. I was at this point though, not
<br>aware of what had caused it to happen, so I carried on with the<br>installation.<br><br>The second time around, it actually changed the file systema dn<br>formatted the partition. </blockquote><div><br>any partiotioning software says
<span style="font-weight: bold;">to back up your partiotions first!.</span><br>it's a rule. troubles may never occur. but (Murphy laws) as soon as you<br>break the rule for the first time, it crashes. the world is cruel.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So this time, it really was bad. *sigh*<br>Anyway, by booting from an external with this cd I cant remember the
<br>name of (but will find) I was able to recover a *lot* of the stuff.<br>any file that was fragmented was basically no good, but there wasnt a<br>lot of fragmentation anyway, so I would say I recovered a good 80-85%.<br>
Best of luck to you. whatever you do, don't do any writes to the<br>drive until you get this software....<br><br>Jason Jorgenson (aka Arkygeek)<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Liverpool mailing list
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