Need To Access Ubuntu Files On Win10

[TomZap35]

Help ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please

So I got all these family photos on my Seagate barracuda 1TB that was running Ubuntu 14.04 but today I went and installed Windows 10 on my 500GB Seagate hard drive because I was going to go and format my 1TB so I can install windows 10 on it but I accidentally formatted the boot portion for Ubuntu and now I cant boot on Ubuntu it just boots in emergency grub I think, but I need to do is get the photos from Ubuntu to windows 10, is there any way to get my files to windows 10 thanks

~Thomas

 

[Jasjar]

http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/how-to-access-linux-files-in-windows-when-dual-booting-linux-ubuntu-linux-mint-and-windows-10-81

 

[TomZap35]

http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/how-to-access-linux-files-in-windows-when-dual-booting-linux-ubuntu-linux-mint-and-windows-10-81

Hello when ever I try to download it just gives my a corrupt file error when downloading it

 

[Rocky Bennett]

After reading your post several times it seems to me that you did not effect your photos, just your Ubuntu installation. You should have no problems accessing your photos.

 

[TomZap35]

After reading your post several times it seems to me that you did not effect your photos, just your Ubuntu installation. You should have no problems accessing your photos.

Well what happened I used to use Ubuntu but today I and went and brought a copy of windows to install on my 500GB HDD so I can then wipe ubuntu on the 1TB HDD, right, but then I accidentally formatted the boot portion of ubuntu and now ubuntu boots in the emergency grub so it's just a command line terminal, (also just to clear things up the photo's are on the broken ubuntu disk)

 

[Rocky Bennett]

That doesn't make any difference. That should not effect your photos at all.

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying.

 

[TomZap35]

That doesn't make any difference. That should not effect your photos at all.

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying.

Alright at least that's ok, the only thing is I'm asking on how to get the photos on my windows 10 HDD

 

[Rocky Bennett]

When I dual-boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu I can access my photos from either my Windows 10 installation disc or my Ubuntu installation disc. If you wiped out Ubuntu you can still access your photos through Windows. There is no problem at all. I do it all the time.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

That doesn't make any difference. That should not effect your photos at all.

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying.

Alright at least that's ok, the only thing is I'm asking on how to get the photos on my windows 10 HDD

Where are your photos? What partition or disc are your photos on?

 

[TomZap35]

That doesn't make any difference. That should not effect your photos at all.

Unless I am misunderstanding what you are saying.

Alright at least that's ok, the only thing is I'm asking on how to get the photos on my windows 10 HDD

Where are your photos? What partition or disc are your photos on?

They are on the desktop however I think I put them in a folder inside another folder.... -_-

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Still you should have no problem accessing them. Where are your photos, on what partition or what drive?

 

[TomZap35]

Still you should have no problem accessing them. Where are your photos, on what partition or what drive?

I need to access them on my windows 10 computer from my windows 10 computer

 

[Rocky Bennett]

That should be no problem at all. I do this all the time. Where are your photos? On what partition or drive?

 

[TomZap35]

That should be no problem at all. I do this all the time. Where are your photos? On what partition or drive?

only my 500gb HDD and my spare 1TB HDD is showing up (the 1TB HDD is not my ubuntu drive)

See picture https://postimg.org/image/cdioex2cx/

 

[Rocky Bennett]

OK, I re-read the entire thread including the original post and I studied the picture that you attached. Where are your pictures, on what drive or what partition? If I understand your situation it seems to me that you should have absolutely no problem accessing your photos from your new Windows installation.

Where are your pictures, on what drive or what partition?

 

[Rocky Bennett]

That should be no problem at all. I do this all the time. Where are your photos? On what partition or drive?

only my 500gb HDD and my spare 1TB HDD is showing up (the 1TB HDD is not my ubuntu drive)

See picture https://postimg.org/image/cdioex2cx/

You are not saying this in plain English, so let me try to understand. How many physical drives and/or partitions do you have connected? Do you have 3 separate drives, 2 one terabyte drives and one 500 gb drive?

 

[TomZap35]

That should be no problem at all. I do this all the time. Where are your photos? On what partition or drive?

only my 500gb HDD and my spare 1TB HDD is showing up (the 1TB HDD is not my ubuntu drive)

See picture https://postimg.org/image/cdioex2cx/

You are not saying this in plain English, so let me try to understand. How many physical drives and/or partitions do you have connected? Do you have 3 separate drives, 2 one terabyte drives and one 500 gb drive?

Yup!

 

[TomZap35]

500GB currently has windows 10, one spare 1TB with nothing on it, and one TB with broken ubuntu 14.04 on it

 

[Rocky Bennett]

OK, then I see your problem. When you go into disk management in Windows 10 do you see the additional 1 terabyte drive that Ubuntu was on? If you see it there then we can walk you through the steps to assign a drive letter to that drive so that you can access that drive from Windows 10?

 

[TomZap35]

https://postimg.org/image/7o7whp4lj/

Sorry I must be a pain What one would it be?

 

[TomZap35]

OK, then I see your problem. When you go into disk management in Windows 10 do you see the additional 1 terabyte drive that Ubuntu was on? If you see it there then we can walk you through the steps to assign a drive letter to that drive so that you can access that drive from Windows 10?

https://postimg.org/image/7o7whp4lj/

Sorry I must be a pain What one would it be?

 

[Rocky Bennett]

It is the 4th one down on that list, the one that says 920.77 gb. The problem seems to be that that line of information that is associated with that drive also indicates that there is 100% free space on that drive, which means that in all likelihood you might have actually cleaned those photos off of that disc.

Can you try to assign a drive letter to that drive? Right click on that drive and see if you get the option to assign a drive letter. If you do not get that option there is also a back up plan, but I am going to be honest with you. Seeing that 100% free space assigned to that drive does not leave me with very much hope to retrieve those photos.

One more thing, those photos might still be on that drive so do not format that drive again or anything drastic until we try out all of the options.

 

[Rocky Bennett]

The easiest way to assign a drive letter to a drive is by going to that drive in the representation of it at the bottom of the screenshot that you sent, right click and see if you can create a new simple volume.

I have to go to the store right now, so I will check back in to this thread when I get home.

 

[TomZap35]

The easiest way to assign a drive letter to a drive is by going to that drive in the representation of it at the bottom of the screenshot that you sent, right click and see if you can create a new simple volume.

I have to go to the store right now, so I will check back in to this thread when I get home.

Hmm the option to assign a letter to the disk is greyed out so I can't select that option, is there like a data recovery tool I can use?

 

[Rocky Bennett]

As far as strictly a data recovery tool, it is best to try other options first. Can you create a bootable USB stick of Ubuntu? If you can you can run that as a live OS and then use GParted to try to access that hard drive. If you can access that hard drive explore it for any and all files and move any files that you find to another hard drive temporarily.