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WATS UP divyashree, I couldn't boot up my linux O.S. BUT it was sorted
out what happened was that one of the commands was deleted making it
unable to access the linux O.S. so basically the laptop crashed. I LOST
six months of work done because i culdn't retrive work from the hard
disk, i do not understand why, but its all good. i think i need to be
schooled on this linux thing. thanks for your concern.
Yes VOKAY, if you provided us the exact situation ,then we might have helped you to bring back to normal without any data loss. Because there many reasons you cant access and many symptoms.
Yes you should create a partition and use it for your data. And the partition should be accessible to all platforms (windows,linux,..) that is formatted with a common filesystem supported by across platforms. So even your OS crashes you can recover it after a fresh installation.
Last edited by divyashree; 10-27-2010 at 01:05 AM.
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