If you had an existing EXT 3 partition you should have chosen the "manual" partitioning option during the installation process. You would have been able to select your existing partitions and set their mount points as well as format the partition or leave the existing data intact (with the exception of overwritten files). The automated choices will either wipe the whole disk or resize your partitions. Sounds like you did the latter.
I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 this past weekend to dual-boot with Windows XP on my laptop. Seems pretty good so far. Had some issues with the wireless card but finally got it working with ndiswrapper. I've got two 20gb partitions for windows (ntfs) and ubuntu (ext3), 2gb linux swap partition, 100gb data partition (fat32) and I also have a 5gb truecrypt partition I can access from both systems. --- Joe User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Sam, > > Friday, May 23, 2008, 10:29:41 AM, you wrote: > > > I just got the new Ubuntu and decided to try it. > > I put in the CD, followed the instructions to > install, and the darn > > thing trashed both my hard drives by the time it > was through. > > I had an EXT3 partition I thought it would use. > > That drive it wiped everything off it and took > over the end of the other > > drive. > > It squashed my 2 other partitions right up against > each other at the > > beginning of the drive, taking up all the extra > space. > > All my data was on partition 2 and it squashed it > so tightly I can not > > even access it. > > The first partition had my Windows on it. > > Windows would still run, but it was useless > because it could not access > > the data on partition 2. > > Can anyone tell me how to install Ubuntu without > trashing everything > > after I get my computer back running again? > > Or is it necessary to install it on it's own box? > > Sam > > I had no problems such as this, however I didn't let > it automatically > do things. Which I am willing to bet, you did. This > wasn't Ubuntu's > fault. I have a XP/Ubuntu machine & a > Vista/XP/Ubuntu machine. > > -- > Regards, > joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... > >
