ubuntu got uninstalled after a reboot how to recover

Koh Choon Lin 2choonlin at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 18:12:16 UTC 2011


Hi

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Abhishek Dixit <abhidixit87 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> in a surprising turn of events while I was working on my Ubuntu laptop
> the OS got erased.
> I rebooted the laptop after installing some fonts sudo apt-get
> ttf-mscorefonts on Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit.
> My Ubuntu installation was done via Wubi in a Windows partition.The
> Windows partition on which Ubuntu was present root.disk and other
> files
> no more exist.I would like to tell that these Ubuntu disk files were
> not deleted and neither windows was in use on this laptop,
> the moment I installed mscorefonts and rebooted the laptop I noticed
> every thing Ubuntu installation finished.
> I thought of installting Ubuntu again on this one but then Wubi
> detects previous installation and says it should first erase the
> previous Ubuntu install.
> How ever I noticed the driver where I had installed Ubuntu, any Ubuntu
> file does not exist there.

Are you dual booting Windows and Ubuntu on the same computer?

It looks like your boot loader is being overwritten. Try booting using
the 11.04 LiveCD and check if all your data are still present.



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Regards
Koh Choon Lin




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