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I wanted to do a dual boot with Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10.

I followed this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNCSbTyUzoM

When I was on the installing Ubuntu part, the free space was not showing, it was showing as unusable. So I clicked on my C drive on the installation screen and pressed the - button to remove the partition I created and just created the swap space on the C drive and installed Ubuntu on the C drive choosing to use 50GB. So I installed, rebooted and can no longer run Windows 8, where all my files are accessible.

I'm not just talking movies, tv shows galore that I have not watched. I'm talking about all the music I've collected over 3 years and all my pictures and important documents. I know I should have a backup, but I don't so that's that.

Now, can I do anything to access these files at all on Ubuntu, because I cannot find this 'host' folder containing my Windows 8 user where all my files are.

Thanks for your time, I hope I ain't buggered this up!

Kristopher Ives
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hugo
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Open your file explorer in Ubuntu and on the left side, under "devices" it will say something like "50gb file system" (it may not be 50gb it will be whatever you set it to)

That file system is your windows 8 partition. Once there, you can browse it just like in windows; it contains the same files.

When you start up your computer what does it look like? Do you get a menu that lets you choose between Ubuntu and Windows? If these don't work you may have done the installation wrong and deleted your entire windows partition.

Thirdly, the Ubuntu install comes with a partitioning tool (gparted or fdisk), you didn't have to make it in Windows. Instead when it says "install alongside windows 8" just choose that option and press "install".

Manishearth
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Dave
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