ubuntu got uninstalled after a reboot how to recover

Abhishek Dixit abhidixit87 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 14 11:44:04 UTC 2011


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Koh Choon Lin <2choonlin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
Yes
>
> It looks like your boot loader is being overwritten.
No.
>Try booting using
> the 11.04 LiveCD and check if all your data are still present.
I tried all this all the partition which had root.disk files (which
were created wubi) are no more on the machine any more.




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