Recover from system down status

[Liam Proven]

On 1 May 2011 19:54, PIYUSH SINGH <meetpiyush2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
> i was upgrading my system from 10.10 to 11.04 then suddenly the power went
> down and my system got switched off .
> now the root file system is not being mounted either manually or if i try to
> recover it it's mounted with only a read only status even with root account
> .
> The system specs are
> Compaq presario Cq45-207tu notebook
> with intel dual core processor .
>
> Please help i cannot format the filesystem as i have important documents in
> it .
>
>
> thanks in advance

Isn't read-only access enough for you to copy off your important
documents etc. onto external media? You should be able to do this
booted off a LiveCD. If you have settings and things you need to
retain, copy your entire home directory:

/home/{yourusername}

Once you have 1 or ideally 2 copies of everything, I recommend that
you wipe, reformat and reinstall from scratch.

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