In Progress did I accidently erase a my data?

[generalhand]

im so fckign stupid i tried to install linux debian from my flash drive and when i went trough the installation it told me few times tht if i do something my other os will be erased but im sure that i made sure i didnt click any of it and when i got back into the booting menu there were those 2 options but in both of them when i open there is only black window with that little thing indicating me to write but i cant do anything. Im fcking crying because i got alot of photos and important stuff on it, is there any way i can get back to it? Please help i will be eternally grateful

 

[xrobwx71]

Ouch. I've got to ask, did you have a backup image of the drive before you started this?

What exact distro is on the USB?

 

[Bruce]

Let's get some members with more Linux experience than me - @PeterOz @jmarket

 

[jmarket]

Hello,

When you boot into Linux, are you able to mount the drive?

Try this:

lsblk

Find your drive. Make a note of the drive name (sda, sdb, etc). Then run:

sudo fdisk -l

Once you can see the drive, make an empty folder to mount it to:

sudo mkdir /mnt/mydrive

Then try mounting it:

sudo mount /dev/sdX /mnt/mydrive
df -h

Let me know if this works for you

 

[generalhand]

hello, i havent gone through the full linux download so im still in the install menu, and when i open the command line there it says it doesent exist. Should i go trough the installation? I fear if i will it will get definitely deleted

 

[PeterOz]

Wait for @jmarket to advise.
However

i havent gone through the full linux download

or do you mean the full install?
Do you have an external drive you can copy data to?
Do you have a spare thumb drive 4-8GB.
If jmarket aggress I would create a bootable Linux distro on the usb and see if you can read the drive
and copy the data to an external drive.
I can supply instructions on how to do this with Ubuntu.

AS I said wait for @jmarket as he knows Linux better than I do.

 

[jmarket]

When you're in the install, try this.

Drop to a TTY by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2. This will put you in TTY2 which the installer runs on TTY1. When you try the keyboard shortcuts, do you get to a command line?