Hey so I tried upgrading to the new 12.04 version. When I tried to reboot it up though, it went to the purple screen and hung there. I wanted to get my important documents off of my old Ubuntu, so I switched over to Windows and redownloaded the jump drive boot up. Once in the trial version I cannot find my files, only files that are on my Windows section. Is there any way to recover the files that were on my old Ubuntu, its finals week and I really need a couple of them, and starting to freak out a bit that I will have to start all over on two semester long projects. Any help I would appreciate, and so would my sleeping schedule. Thanks so much.
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Trying running ubuntu off a disk or USB in its Live Session. You can go into your hard drive and fetch files that way. Windows won't be able to understand some hard drive formats, especially from linux.
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Use a live / recovery disk and use it to copy the data to your Windows accessible disk (Ubuntu's LiveCD should be able to read/write NTFS easily). If you want to get it off the machine entirely, use the Cloud or USB disk.
It is possible that your disks are in lvm - and in the liveCD you'll need to install install lvm2. If your /home partition is on a separate physical partition from the / (root) partition, you may be able to do a fresh re-install.
Edit: Noting from OP's comment; if this is installed via Wubi, you can get to them via 3rd party software.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How_can_I_access_the_Wubi_files_from_Windows.3F
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