Mint install wiped my HDDs

[ShadowVVL]

I figured I would try mint today.I installed it on at 80gb sata and set it up as root ,home,swap and played around in mint for a wile after it installed.I went to access my storage drive but it said it couldn't mount.restarted and tried to boot into windows and it said no bootable media.

Not having a good first time with mint since I lost a good amount of data but lucky I have most of it backed up. I am a bit angry that mint decided to erase the other 2 drive.

wondering if there is a way to recover some of the lost data?

Never had this happen with ubuntu,kubuntu or open suse. From now on I will unplug other drives before installing linux distros.

 

[HeXen]

You must have misread drives and partitions or some other mistake, it happens. I never cared for their labeling of drives and partition and I usually triple checked everything or I would just disconnect my other drives I don't want touched and connect them again after it's installed.

 

[ShadowVVL]

yeah idk if I misread it or not, It listed the other drives underneath the 80gb as js or something but i just set up the 80 gb and didn't touch the other stuff.

I am just hoping there is a recovery program that might help me get some of it back.

 

[lxskllr]

You can try the testdisk suite. It should be installable in Mint, or can use the PartedMagic disc which includes it. Read the docs. It isn't the easiest thing to just fire up and use. Also look at photorec which is part of the suite, and a bit easier to use.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

 

[ShadowVVL]

Thanks lxskllr I will go ahead and dl and run it.

 

[ShadowVVL]

I cant figure out how to run test disk.I tired as root but still wont open.

nvm i got it the command from the cg society didn't work so I looked around on ubuntu form and found it

 

[ShadowVVL]

I ran test disk and recovered the partitions on the drives not sure about the data. When i try to boot into the windows drive it says grub error.

any way to open ntsf drives in mint?

 

[ShadowVVL]

I'm finally finished,windows is corrupt and crashes during loading screen so that needs a reinstall. But I got my data from the storage drive recover, so I'm as happy as a peach.

Thanks again lxskllr,you saved me!

 

[lxskllr]

Glad it worked after a fashion. Maybe a repair will fix Windows so you don't have to do a full install.

 

[ShadowVVL]

Oh yeah thx, I totally forgot windows has a repair tool on the disk.I will run it later, for now I am going to play with mint

 

[ControlD]

You have probably figured this out the hard way already, but when I install a new operating system and want to keep any other operating system(s) functional, the first thing I do is disconnect every other hard drive in the system until the install has completed. Once that is done, plug the hard drives back in and use the BIOS boot selector to choose what OS I want to run. This leaves very little chance of fragging an existing OS install by accident.

 

[ch33zw1z]

You have probably figured this out the hard way already, but when I install a new operating system and want to keep any other operating system(s) functional, the first thing I do is disconnect every other hard drive in the system until the install has completed. Once that is done, plug the hard drives back in and use the BIOS boot selector to choose what OS I want to run. This leaves very little chance of fragging an existing OS install by accident.

Same here. I learned the hard way back in '02 ish. was a rough lesson

 

[ControlD]

Same here. I learned the hard way back in '02 ish. was a rough lesson

Unfortunately I think we all learn that lesson the hard way!

 

[ShadowVVL]

I always unplugged them before kubuntu, but yeah hard lesson.I don't think I will be leaving drives in when installing kubuntu anymore either.
I think something is wrong with my mint install,its slow and keep getting a bunch of flashing 0's in the top left corner during boot, the task bar and wallpaper keeps breaking, some of the things in the start menu wont load and sound keeps bouncing from clear to grainy even when I put a cd in.

So far I like mints look and feel but I think I will go back to kubuntu and give mint another go later down the road.
I ran repair on windows and now it boots but it randomly crashes after about an hour or 2.I will just pull my bookmarks and anything else off and reinstall.

I am impressed with how well test disk did It far exceeded my expectations.all my photos,music and videos look and sound the same way it did before.

 

[VirtualLarry]

TBH, sounds like your HDD might be failing, or bad RAM, or something.

 

[ShadowVVL]

No they are fine, kubuntu is working fine.mint was having lots of issues,most of them being sound/video glitching.I think it was either a bad mint download,bad install or mint doesn't like my motherboard much.

I will try out mint 15 on my 20gb ide and see if it has issues,this time with all other drives unplugged lol

 

[ControlD]

No they are fine, kubuntu is working fine.mint was having lots of issues,most of them being sound/video glitching.I think it was either a bad mint download,bad install or mint doesn't like my motherboard much.

I will try out mint 15 on my 20gb ide and see if it has issues,this time with all other drives unplugged lol

This probably has nothing to do with the issues you were seeing in Mint, but I see you are running an overclocked processor. When I tried to install Mint the first time I had to remove my overclock (i5-750) before I could get a successful install. You might try removing your overclock and see if that does anything.

 

[ShadowVVL]

2.83ghz is the C2Q9550's stock clock.

 

[ControlD]

2.83ghz is the C2Q9550's stock clock.

D'oh .. never mind then