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5959424 No.5959424 [Reply] [Original]

Guys, I commit a very very big mistake.

I was trying to install Ubuntu on my computer. When I though I was partitioning my disk, what it was trully doing was FORMATING my fucking second hard drive, where I had all my images, all my doujins, all my touhou stuff, all my software, all my fucking MUSIC...

I lost fucking EVERYTHING. Now I have to start all over again, download EVERYTHING again.

Fuck Linux.

Well, at least I have a file with lots of ecuations.

>> No.5959427

Install Gentoo

>> No.5959429

>>5959427

No, I don't like it.

>> No.5959431

You idiot you used whole disk. You should have used just part of it.

Dont install new OS if you dont know how to format.

>> No.5959433

Thank you for this blog post. It was very interesting to read.

>> No.5959436

Genius move, guy

you might wanna put a little more thought into that next time, you shouldn't be installing Linux if you don't know a decent bit about computers.

>>5959427

Don't you have to bloody compile the kernal before you get it running? not entry level Linux

>> No.5959439

>>5959431

And what if I was trying to make a smaller part of it? I didn't knew this shit was trying to use the whole disk.

I have Partition Magic, I should have used it instead.

>> No.5959443

>halp I want to roll with the cool linix kids but I'm too stupid, what do?

>> No.5959444

>ubuntu

>> No.5959452

>>5959443
>cool linix kids

Nice one. But linux is not for kids, you know...

>> No.5959453

>>5959448
The files are gone, do you not know what reformatting is?

>> No.5959449

>>5959439
Partitioning a drive without reformatting, sounds like bad juju to me man

I always just used a completely seperate drive to install Linux on, as not to have those problems

and remember people, if you want to dual-boot windows and linux, install windows then Linux, the other way around ends up a waste of time since Windows will fuck with your GRUB

>> No.5959448

Go download a file recovery tool and recover the files.

>> No.5959455

>>5959424
Installing Ubuntu is a crime. You punishment will be to collect everything from scratch by yourself.

Not that anyone would want to help idiots like you anyway.

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5959460

cool blogging bro

>> No.5959461

>>5959449
He doesn't even know how to reinstall grub laughinggirls.jpg

>> No.5959463

>>5959455
I am not asking for your help, but thanks.

>> No.5959467

>>5959455
I think Ubuntu is a pretty good entry level Linux

now its the lack of foresight that led to his reformatting all his files into oblivion that is what is punishment should be

>> No.5959469

>>5959453
You clearly have no idea about how all this works, do you?

>> No.5959475

>>5959463
Then why are you posting? To attention whore? Get out.

>> No.5959471

>>5959461
I mean for those who don't Linux-fu too well, they wouldn't even know what GRUB was to begin with.

>> No.5959484

>>5959469
Then do please tell me how your files can stay on disk after its been all ERASED

if it was still on disk, it would be taking up space, and that would be no good, now would it (to new installations, that is)

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5959486

>>5959424
I was gonna say "not /jp/ related, not your blog, get out", but I feel sympathetic for you since something similar happened to me once. Best of luck, OP.

>> No.5959490

>>5959424
Hahahahaha.
He think he can partition a used HDD to ntfs/ext without wiping it.
Faggot deserved it.

>> No.5959500

Ubuntu being user-friendly as usual, eh?

>> No.5959504

>>5959484
/g/ here
Formatting normally deletes only that little segment that says that 'a file system like this exists here'.
It doesn't delete anything. Same with 'delete' even after 'erasing the recycler'; it only deletes the 'hard link' that points to the data on the disk.
The data remains just is treated as if wouldn't. It would be much slower and useless to rewrite gigabytes of shit to 0's.

>> No.5959512

>>5959484
Data on hard drives is not usually "deleted" on formating. To delete data from a hard drive, you'd need to overwrite every single bit on it, and this takes time. A lot of time. Especially with evergrowing disk sizes.
Formatting a hard drive just marks sectors as "free to use" and they get overwritten whenever space is needed in the future.

>> No.5959519

/jp/ - Technology

>> No.5959522

>>5959512
>>5959504

I could not imagine what time it would take for a file recovery program to find EVERY GOD DAMNED BIT, and somehow make sense of them when the INDEX has been wiped out.

>> No.5959527

>>5959522
Searching for the start and end of .jpg/.mp3 is so hard am I right.
Learn to technology tripfag.

>> No.5959529

>>5959522
Oh, not to mention that if those files are still there, a shit-ton have been over-written by his installing a new OS, so finding whole files might be a tad difficult

>> No.5959534

I have no idea what Ubuntu's default partitioning is. It's folly to just install any OS without backing up first anyway. So treat it as a lesson that backups are important.

>> No.5959545

>>5959522
It's possible and depending on your previous free space and luck you could recover 100% of your files, unless you did one of those LOOOOONG format which overwrites every sector with 0s twice to be sure.
Find some program to do a sector scan of your HD, they'll probably find even years old partitions.
Restore your old one and pray, the worst thing that can happen is that your OS/Drivers' files got corrupted and now you have to reinstall them.

>> No.5959549

>>5959545
I always do a long format, the quick format does nothing more than wipe out the old file system and plop a new one in, which I don't find prudent.

>> No.5959551

>>5959522
Only in this case the only thing that's been deleted was partition tables. File metadata should still be on disk (unless overwritten by Ubanto installation).

>> No.5959552

>>5959529
You mean the HUGE ASS Linux installation wiped all of his files? I would've thought the guy had more than 1 or 2gb of data.

>> No.5959570

>>5959552
My last installation of Ubuntu was about~ 10gb, so that'd mean 10gb of data overwritten, potentially, and for images...that is a lot

>> No.5959571

>>5959549
Even so, the files are still there.
The only good way to be sure a file inside an HD is erased is to burn the hardware.

>> No.5959615

There's a good reason companies use huge ass machines that crunch their old hard drives into little shreds of metal, after all.

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