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...
