Mount parent partition

Hi,

I am new to Zorin ( and Linux OS in general). I installed Zorin couple of years ago as dual boot with Windows. That Zorin installation crashed during a update few months back and I lost access to my data in Zorin partition.

Yesterday I installed latest version of Zorin and selected those options in the installation wizard which does not erase the existing data. Following is the output of sudo fdisk -l and mount commands.

Code:

$sudo fdisk -l
Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          206848   157571071    78682112    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       157571072   362371071   102400000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       362373118   976771071   307198977    5  Extended
/dev/sda5       362373120   976771071   307198976   83  Linux


Code:

$mount
/dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=swordfish)


But after installation I cannot see/access my data in /dev/sda4 which appears to be parent of /dev/sda5 as per shown in Gparted application (please see attached screen shot for reference).

Please help me on how I can access files in /dev/sda4.

Hi, I'm afraid you can't access 'sda4' as that is the partition parameters of where you have installed your new install of Zorin!

sda4 is nothing but the anker point of all extended partitions.

If you originally installed Zorin in the extended sda5, then you erased that one with the new installation.

Thank you @svx-biker and @Swarfendor437 for your replies. I am very disappointed to loose my data. Henceforth I shall be careful.