That sucks, what happened?
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i initially backed the files up to a separate partition. however, windows's recovery partition stubbornly caused issues during the install; an internet forum equated my system partition configuration (excluding the backup partition) to hell and recommended me to just erase the disk.
so, i found a 500GB microSD card, where a previously-copied soccer video was working, and used the live ISO's Dolphin file manager (KDE my goat) to copy the partition's files over. however this made my live ISO (run over ventoy) run out of SWAP or sth, so i rebooted into the live ISO and used rsync for the remaining files. I did not verify any of those, save for taking a glance at the files list. and uh it turns out none of my files were copied correctly! now, i have a list of files and their sizes (which are both correct), filled with garbage information.
I always recommend adding a hard drive for the backups, verifying that the files are on it, verifying that a live distro or other computer can see them (might need different filesystem and copy again), unplug or remove the backup drive from the computer to be linux'd, then installing the distro.
I've installed some distros that combine all the drives by default. Literally the most cursed default possible, but then I have to use a different distro to split them because it wasn't live and the installer can't do it alone.
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That's pretty rough. I switched almost 20 years ago, and lost everything because my Windows 98 machine suffered a hard drive failure. Anyway, what I was able to extract has always worked on various Linux OS perhaps requiring a moderator.
I hope you can recover some (or all!) of your files! Which OS are you using?
arch :3
Have fun with it!
I've been thinking about moving over to linux for a long time but I've been too scared for this very reason. Do you know what it was that specifically caused that to happen so it can be a preventetitive tale for others?
my number 1 tip for you is to try to open the files within the backup, right before you click on the shiny “install system” button in the live iso. besides that, use checksums. i used rsync to backup files onto an external drive and the idiot i am did not use the -v flag, which would’ve verified each file after copying.
and no, i do not know why the files corrupted, but i do know how to check now
Drives are cheap nowadays. Get a 2nd drive (nvme or ssd, you probably have space) and install Linux to that drive and keep windows on its drive. No cross contamination, no dual boot, just pick a boot disk with the bios. Simple as.
Im doing linux as my primary but I went with installing on different hardware. Will likely run windows for a bit while I migrate over stuff. Im a bit lazy so I did the quick stuff but I need to do some less used things.
have you tried running the less-used things over wine? (bottles is my preferred GUI wine frontend)
oh im experimenting im just slow once my day to day is covered. I actually used open source things on portable apps and im playing with appimages to replace it.
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