Help - disaster recovery

[pierre jocelyn andre]

Look at here
http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=5745281#p5745281
or
Boot-Repair live CD


2013/1/13 Phil <phil_lor at bigpond.com>

> Thank you for reading this,
>
> I have done an incredibly stupid thing after a fresh installation of
> Kububtu. Instead of copying my backup files I moved them to the new OS and
> due to a second blunder I deleted a KDE file from the new installation and
> now I cannot log in and I no longer have a backup. We suffered a power
> interruption before I had a chance to make a new backup plus the
> temperature has been up 45 degrees C for the past two weeks which has been
> very tiring. Losing 13 years of work, e-mails passwords etc is very
> destressing to say the least.
>
> After spending most of the day searching Google for an answer I'm no
> further advanced and this is where things stand at the moment.
>
> I used photorec in an attempt to cover my backup files from my USB backup
> drive. This resulted in two further problems:
>
> 1. My internal hard drive (on a second older laptop) is nowhere near large
> enough to hold the recovered files. That system also failed to reboot
> because my home directory was full - I managed to solved that problem.
>
> 2. The recovered files have nonsense names such as f1234.txt, which can be
> almost any type of file and there is likely to be thousands of them.
>
> Using the KDE Partition Manager from the live dvd I found that the file
> system is corrupted.
>
> /dev/sda3 ext4 mount point "/media/and a long string of digits" is
> readable and seems to be the / directory.
>
> /dev/sda4 extended no mount point - this could include the /home directory
> and possibly /usr/local.
>
> Also included under /dev/sda4 is a large unallocated block and
> /dev/sda...(can't determine the digit) a FAT32 block which is a second
> partition for Vista which is also readable.
>
> Vista seems to be intact but I cannot log in because grub is corrupted.
>
> There should have been three ext4 partitions plus a swap.
>
> Naturally I'm very keen to recover my home directory and any help will be
> greatly appreciated. It seems to me that the best option is to recreate the
> corrupter partitions on the laptop with the Kubuntu installation.
>
> Looking forward to receiving some good news.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Phil
>
>
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