Before wiping the drive, please consider running Ubuntu, or Knoppix, any live distribution will do, from CD-ROM/DVD-ROM and just see if you can look at the drive's contents. If there's information there, let us know, and we can guide you on how to recover it perhaps, or at least try. Good luck, Daniel <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM, alfred <<a href="mailto:alfred.s@nexicom.net">alfred.s@nexicom.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 14/06/2010 7:04 AM, John Gill wrote: > Oh dear, I'm the person that the original post was directed at. I > actually just deleted it originally because I had no idea what it was > really about. Oh, and I'm not hard to track down. I also have a > compromised immune system, I have Myasthenia Gravis and am on immune > suppressants to treat that. > > I think I pointed Alfred at this posting on my blog: > > <a href="http://bytesnbikes.blogspot.com/2009/11/karmic-koala-on-acer-aspire-116-za3.html" target="_blank">http://bytesnbikes.blogspot.com/2009/11/karmic-koala-on-acer-aspire-116-za3.html</a> > > I used the poulsbo fix myself and have had no problems at all with it. > Note the instructions I linked to re poulsbo are on ubuntuforums. > > As you will see from my blog comments, Alfred posted anonymously to the > blog reporting problems, I asked for more information and got no response. > > I would be very surprised indeed if lucazade's scripts caused the > problems that Alfred is describing, but it would be good to dig into > this a bit deeper and find out what really happened. > > If you read my blog I think you'll see I'm someone passionate about > Ubuntu and open source in general. I put the posting out there in the > hope it would help someone else with the same hardware find the > solutions I had found -- which reminds me, I should post on how to get > poulsbo working in 10.10. > > Alfred, if you are ever in Ottawa, I'll buy you a beer and hopefully we > can have a constructive conversation about Ubuntu. > > John > > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 7:37 PM, alfred <<a href="mailto:alfred.s@nexicom.net">alfred.s@nexicom.net</a> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:alfred.s@nexicom.net">alfred.s@nexicom.net</a>>> wrote: > > On 13/06/2010 5:10 PM, Phil Woodland wrote: > > On Sunday, June 13, 2010 04:06:04 pm James wrote: > >> alfred seriously tl;dr ... learn to write e-mails not > novels...also do not > >> accuse ppl on the list > >> > .... > > > This all started in January. A person from this list, told me about a > Puolsbo Chip fix for an Acer Aspire One. In order to download the > required fix, you had to use sudo to get the fix File. I know that using > Sudo is risky before going on the web, but this person made it sound > like this fix really worked for him. So I gave it a try. I was > Downloading about 1.2 gigs of files, and that Poulsbo Fix, whish cost me > about $60.00 in High Speed Internet fees, over a three day period. On > the last day there was that Poulsbo Fix, that was supposed to fix the > video problem. When I rebooted 184 Megs of Software got deleted from my > machine the Acer Netbook, and there was a criptic message about what to > do which had no effect at all, it was a complete, start over from the > beginning sort of thing. I lost about $200 worth of software Downloads > in addition to those last three days. Plus my Accounting, Plus many of > my personal files. The last backup was about a month earlier. I wrote > this person from this list an email telling him what happened. and > suggested that if it was his doing that caused, the problem, perhaps he > should stop doing that, because some other person might get rather > Violent with him. Which is the Truth! From that time on, it just > continued month after month. On Three Computers all my Installations got > destroyed. All my backups acted like viruses, all my Personal files got > completely destroyed, about 30 gigs of Pictures from my Mother She's > dead now, letters, Emails I sent to people, things I did. ODSP Files, > all got destroyed. When I tried to restore the backup it put 224 Gigs of > Junk on my Hard Drive, so My Linux Box the second one would not even > boot. Something about GDM not able to be Accessed. I keep that hard > drive in tact. During the time my First Linux Box had a 100 % CPU usage > that cooked my Athlon XP -$170 loss. My second homemade Linux Box had on > it easily $300.00 in Linux Software just in Download fees. The Back ups > with Simple backup did not work. So I lost all of it! > > I made mention of these things on this list and got no reply, I made > mention about this on Landscape, and got lots of excuses, and no help at > all. Fact is I've lost confidence in Landscape to help me with anything! > It could really be anyone,and none of you on the list, and I stated > that, and all the BS, well that's my experience with this world, it may > seem like BS to you out there, but to me it is not. I just got very > Frustrated, that for months now I'm not able to use Linux. I don't have > much faith in Windows, but it seems to work ok now, not like windows 98. > All I have now is a bunch of Photo's that need Scanning, and a few CD's > with bits of data on them. > > Today I met someone that confided in me that they were a Computer > hacker, and that it was not very nice of me to refer to Computer Hackers > as Some Computer hacker. She Spoke like her hacking and destroying > Peoples Property was some sort of Rightious thing that she was doing. > Hackers have cost me Thousand of Dollars, and perhaps I missed something > along the way. I've known about some Religious Angle, but then I'm not > from that religion. I didn't want to live the way they do. Hey within > that religion, everyone can live by it's laws, but I have the right to > live by what I would like to live by, and I live and let live for that > religion. She didn't say much, but sort of left it as some sort of > threat. > > I can write very short things too, still don't know what tl;dr means! > > It seemed to start on this list, but it may just be some coincidence, I > have no way of knowing about. All I know is that I got three Computers > with Ubuntu on them that now don't work at all! That I get upgrades that > on reboot, make it so that my Computers no longer work! Guess I had to > Vent somewhere! > > Alfred! > > > > -- > ubuntu-ca mailing list </div></div>> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> <div class="im">> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> > > </div>Thank you for doing this! I don't recall all the little details anymore. My IQ took a hit when I had a little stroke a few years back. I might know some things that can help your medical condition. Landscape wanted to find out what caused the 224 Gigs of stuff on my hard drive, but I'm just going to wipe it, and do a fresh 32 bit 10.04 install. Start over. Try to piece back what I had, with the bits of stuff left over. <div><div></div><div class="h5"> Alfred! -- ubuntu-ca mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ca</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>