hi

[Colin Law]

On 2 September 2010 16:27, Parshwa Murdia <ubuntu.bkn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> You should always have a backup of anything important.  A disk may go
>> up in smoke at any moment.  In particular when doing things like
>> installing Ubuntu it is always possible to click the wrong button and
>> overwrite your windows partition.  I forget exactly what the
>> installation screen is like but *do not* say Install Side By Side with
>> existing OS, instead you have to go to an advanced setup where you can
>> explicitly say which partition you want to re-format and install
>> Ubuntu on.  If in any doubt then ask for further help when you have
>> seen exactly what are the options.
>
>
> Okay, I would take first all the back of data and important bytes residing
> in the CMOS of my CPU.

I was not really talking about that (though it is a good idea to know
the cmos settings in case of battery failure).  I was talking about
any data you have stored on your windows system (photos, documents,
email and so on).

Colin