Fresh install?

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 16 October 2008, David Fletcher wrote:
> Personally, I prefer to make backups of everything I need to keep, then put
> a new hard drive in the computer, and install to that. That way, if you do
> discover that there was something else on the old drive that you needed, it
> can always be recovered. Considering the price of hard drives these days,
> the cost of doing this is almost irrelevant. A couple of months later,
> perhaps, the old drive can be recycled into another machine and put back
> into use.

Much better to define new partitions for the new system.   That way you can 
boot either the new or the old system without a lot of hardware diddling, and 
you can also copy files from the old while running the new.