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It looks like these two answers might help with my problem. However, in the second answer, they give instructions on what to do with partitions during an install in order to save personal files. I don't have the same partitions so I don't know how to follow the instructions. I have 

/dev/sda1 fat32 (size: 7699 MB used 65 MB)
/dev/sdc1 ext4 (size: 95912 MB used: 17550 MB Ubuntu 16.10 (16.10))
/dev/sdc5 swap (size: 192 MB used: unknown)

I'm using an ASUS. Advice?

How can I revert from 13.10 to 12.04? [duplicate]

Keeping the same /home partition after a clean install

Jennifer Hughes
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Here's what I ended up doing (with the help of Xen2050):

  1. Cloned (using Clonezilla- http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php) the messed up 16.10 onto an external hard drive (just in case).
  2. Installed 16.04 again, alongside the messed up 16.10.
  3. The "home" files (they were not named as such, I just had to go in and look at a couple to determine that these were what I was looking for) from the original 16.04 were listed as an external media device (it was listed as "255 GB Volume"). I mounted this drive.
  4. I then dragged and dropped the files into the corresponding folders on the fresh 16.04 install.
  5. I deleted some of the included software that I didn't want (rhythm box, libre office, etc.) and added ones that I had previously, before everything went to crap (inkscape, chrome, etc.).

Precautionary measures that I took for the future:

  1. Set up the system backup to save to my Dropbox account.
  2. Cloned the "255 GB Volume" drive to an external hard drive (just in case).
  3. Deleted the "255 GB Volume" drive from my computer.
  4. Cloned the fresh, working 16.04 install (with all my files) to an external hard drive.
  5. Deleted the messed up 16.10 demon from my computer.

Lessons Learned:

  1. Don't install xx.10 upgrades.
  2. Install xx.04 upgrades alongside the working system.
  3. Test out new upgrades before committing.
  4. Have online backup of system.
  5. Have external hard drive backup of system.
  6. Keep a clean, live iso of current version.

Final Thoughts: "Not today, Satan! Not today!"

Jennifer Hughes
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