[ubuntu-uk] Please help.I've lost my partitions

[Rob Beard]

Quoting javadayaz <javadayaz at gmail.com>:

> Just to let you know, that i used Testdisk last night. It worked a treat. I
> am in the process of retrieving my data. I have managed to get back at least
> 65%. Have almost filled up a 240gb on a 300gb disk.
>
> I am most grateful to all of you for your help.
>

That's good to hear.  Once you've got back the data it's probably a  
good idea to start archiving off the importent stuff that you want to  
keep.  Not sure what everyone else thinks is best for archiving, I  
tend to archive important stuff (like family photos, videos etc) onto  
DVD-RAM discs and maybe also high quality DVDs too.

It's also a good idea every so often to check the backup media just to  
make sure it works, I've had some CD and DVD media fail after a couple  
of years with read errors, but no the other hand some media is still  
working okay.  Anyway, it's probably something for a new thread I guess.

Rob