Documents gone! Help :(

SazM030306

I just tried to get onto my spreadsheet on my Acer Asire One and it says file does not exist! ALL of my documents/pictures etc have gone!! Pease help, is there any way at all to get them back? It's on Linux. Also it won't connect to the internet. There's something wrong but I've no idea how to fix it.
Thanks

SazM030306

Well I've found them! Except they're not all in the usual place, and won't load up when I click on the desktop icons.. I can't get it to go online either, or recognise the hard drive so that I can save my stuff!!

Any ideas??

McKneff

Im not a techie myself but in the meantime could you save it on to a disc or a memory stick.

Hopefully someone will be along soon to help more.

SazM030306

Thanks, It won't recognise the external hard drive but I will try a memory stick when I find it. It is just so frustrating!!

leemoss

Worst case, from a Windows PC download this http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ then create a bootable USB stick with something Ubuntu on it.
Boot your netbook from USB and it will load Ubuntu/whatever distro you chose. You should be able to read the files from the netbooks hard drive and copy them to the external.
That wont fix the issue with the netbook but will save your files.
One last thing...
Backup!

SazM030306

Thank you, how exactly do you boot from usb?
I have certainy learned the backup lesson!!

leemoss

SazM030306 wrote: »

Thank you, how exactly do you boot from usb?

When you first switch on the netbook, keep hitting 'Del' on the keyboard and it should take you into the BIOS where you can set the boot options.
If 'del' doesn't work it may be another key like F2, it often tells you on the POST screen at startup, it'll say something like 'Press Del to enter Setup'.