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I was recently trying to format a disk on my ubuntu 16.04 desktop with gparted and I accidentally formatted my boot partition which deleted GRUB and everything else on the partition. I managed to reinstall GRUB with boot repair. However, when I attempted a reboot, I was greeted with an initramfs console. Upon typing "exit" the console said that ubuntu--vg-root does not exist. When I actually change to the directory where it is supposed to be, it is not there. I am using a fully encrypted ssd (operating system), and another 2 tb hard drive (all the other stuff). I have really important data on the ssd and I really need to get it back. Any and all help is highly appreciated!! Thanks you in advance!!

-Kolkoz P.

Kolkoz Ponga
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  • Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! ;-) With great security comes great responsibility... Do you have any kind of system backup of your SSD? That would be the easiest... in any case: immediately do a dd of your drive to something else so you can try multiple times on the same image... – Fabby Oct 20 '16 at 08:02
  • Hey! I'm love the friendly community here and I want to get more involved with it. Thank you so much for responding to mys questions! I never got th chance to make a backup of it, but I will do a dd of it as soon to possible. – Kolkoz Ponga Oct 20 '16 at 13:22
  • Okok, I makes dd of drive and im ready to try stuff on it. – Kolkoz Ponga Oct 21 '16 at 14:07
  • OK, start by booting from DVD and using This answer to mount the drive. – Fabby Oct 21 '16 at 19:55

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