Ubuntu 10.04

[Daniel Buhrman]

Hello,
Your data is not gone, unless you already wiped the partition Ubuntu resides on.  If you boot onto the LiveCD, you will be able to mount that partition and recover the data.
Next point: "There are two types of people in this world: those that backup and those that don't" ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATA.
Third point: even though you can upgrade via the update manager, I never recommend it.  Any one of the 200+ packages can become corrupted during download and extraction, thus breaking a system.  If you insert the Ubuntu install CD while logged into Ubuntu, you will be asked whether or not you want to upgrade your system.  This elimanates many packages having to be downloaded, and I believe leads to a better success rate in upgrading.
Four point: Never worry when something like this happens, the entire community is here to help: ubuntuforums.org, this mailing list, help.ubuntu.com, etc.  Most of the time someone else has the same issue as you and the solution is easy.  Try finding that kind of support for Windows without paying :)

Hope this helps!

Dan Buhrman



-- Sent from my Palm Pre
On May 3, 2010 11:40 AM, Richard Frankowski <rfranko at telus.net> wrote: 





I upgraded my system to Ubuntu 10.04 today.  When I open any
application the computer freezes.  I just lost 2 years of data.  Does anybody
test this shit before posting upgrades?  Contact me on my XP account.

Regards…….R. Frankowski







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