aftermath of an ubuntu installation

[Donny George]

i did sudo mount /dev/hda5 /mnt

and it says

/dev/hda5 looks like a swap space-not mounted.
you must specify the filesystem

i also did fdisk to verify the filetype of hda5 , its ntfs in it.


don



On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Donny George <donny008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> i am sure it was ntfs
>
> may be i will try mounting it. i think i can use the steps which u had
> mentioned earlier
>
> could you also show me a link to get internet working. i use a wired
> connection and as such i dont enter username and password, its plug and play
> in windows, and neither do i know the id and pwd as i share it. i tried the
> link for adding ethernet and so on. but i still cant get the internet
> working on ubuntu
>
> don
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > Donny George wrote:
> > > well finally i do see my d drive in windows but wen i click on it , it
> > > says its not formatted and asks me if i shud format it or not
> > >
> > > i am anxious now, did i loose my data
> >
> > I don't know if you lost your data. Just don't use any program to format
> > the partition or write to it. Hopefully none of the programs you
> > mentioned earlier in this thread have written anything to the partition
> > and made it worse. Please boot Linux and check if you can mount the hda5
> > partition now. Other than that, are you sure, it was an NTFS partition?
> > Maybe it was FAT32?
> >
> >
> > Nils
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