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I broke my Ubuntu and it is failing to boot.

I've tried to save it but failed.

My PC has Windows and Ubuntu.

The good thing is that I can access all my files through windows.

I will install Ubuntu on a different partition and copy the backed up data to it.

But I am not sure which folder contains most of my data like installed programs and personal files.

Abhinav
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For most users, personal files are in your /home directory. Most is stored in "hidden" files, which are simply normal files and directories that start with a period (.) like ~/.config/ -- make sure you capture lots of those.

Do not bother backing up "installed programs". Done properly, those are distributed to several places in the filesystem. Those are easily replaced by apt or snap on your new system.

user535733
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