Recover data after adding a dual-boot

Linux Beginners / Newbie
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And… Part 2

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I’m sorry I misunderstood what you were asking.

Tom Markham

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Hi Tomm,

No problem, we got the info we needed. Next let’s see what is available to boot by executing:

$ efibootmgr

Assuming you’ve got UEFI system.

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Oh no! “EFI variables are not supported on this system.”

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Oh no! “EFI variables are not supported on this system.”

Now what?

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Now we will check your grub menu items.
Please execute the following as normal user:

$ awk -F’ ‘/menuentry / {print $2}’ /boot/grub/grub.cfg

And paste the results here.

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got this:

awk

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Hi Tomm,

Sorry, typo on my part, my last post missed a backslash. Let’s try again with the correct command:

$ awk -F\’ ‘/menuentry / {print $2}’ /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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Now I got this:

awk3

copy/paste did not work for me on that previous attempt

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Hi Tomm,

Sadly this doesn’t look like a dual-boot grub. How did you performed the dual-boot setup? You’ve set the Ubuntu installer to dual-boot?

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I youtubed “how to set up Ubuntu to dual-boot with another linux program.”
I must have missed a step.

Thank you sincerely for trying so adamantly, Sandman.

Tom Markham

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Hi Tomm,

One more thing: is your hard drive the size displayed in the output of fdisk utility, around 220 GB?

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1- I’ve been out of communication for almost 2 weeks, so I haven’t been ignoring you.

  2- If my hard drive is not 220 G, how do I find out? I thought the report I sent was a FULL report. Does Linux/Ubuntu allow a part of the drive to be hidden?
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Hi Tomm,

Let’s see the parted output, just to be sure:

sudo parted /dev/sda print

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MyPartitions

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Hi Tomm,

This indeed looks like you have a disk of the size of 240GB, which is filled with the new Ubuntu partitions. Which means that your previous data is wiped.
A backup would save you now…

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Thank you very much. I’m busy switching from U to Mint, and installing “Back in Time”

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Is it possible to use a data recovery app/system to find out if the data I’m looking for is buried somewhere within the Ubuntu partitions. I know that in the Windows world erasing a file doesn’t fully erase it, and even formatting can still leave recoverable portions of files.
If the same is true in the Linux world, maybe the keyword/login is still floating around within one of the Ubuntu partitions.
Once again, my apologies for beating on this seemingly dead horse.
T

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Hi Tomm,

It is understandable that you don’t want to loose your entire wallet. I haven’t got much experience with such recovery tools (I’ve learned the hard way that there must be a backup all times), but TestDisk may worth a try.