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yesterday I installed Ubuntu 17.04 alongside windows. When I chose to boot ubuntu I could choose between ubuntu and windows in menu. But today when I booted into ubuntu, instead of menu I went to grub command line.

When I try ls there is no directory containing linux booting files. Do I have to reinstall ubuntu? What will happen with a space that was allocated for the first installation?

Thanks

MrAzgra
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Did Win10 update? the Windows 10 Creators update deletes Linux partitions.

Boot a LiveCD or similar media. testdisk shoud be installed. If not type `sudo apt-get install testdisk'

Then use `testdisk to recover the deleted partitions.

In most cases the recovery is all that is needed for a normal boot.

ravery
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  • No I have had creators update installed before.

    Actually I think I f*cked it myself. I allocated free space in windows before ubuntu installation, after I installed ubuntu and was there, I went back to windows, checked disk partion and it was still labeled as unallocated space so I merged it back with main disk space. Could this delete ubuntu?

     – MrAzgra Oct 03 '17 at 15:00
  • the data on the disk isn't erased, just the partition information is changed. It is still possible to recover the partitions with testdisk. Note: Windows can not read ext partitions without special drivers being added (if they are available) – ravery Oct 03 '17 at 15:13
  • Ok I will try testdisk. If that won't work I will reinstall. I did not have any data there yet. Thank you @ravery – MrAzgra Oct 03 '17 at 15:17
  • if there is nothing important there, then reinstalling is easiest, and doesn't risk the windows partition – ravery Oct 03 '17 at 15:19
  • ok I will reinstall just for sure. – MrAzgra Oct 03 '17 at 15:29