hi

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Colin Law wrote:
> 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
> 

	Colin - Judging by her (?) writing style in her posts, I'm guessing 
English is not her native language, and she didn't really mean backing 
up the BIOS/CMOS. Probably meant backing up the data on the hard drive...
	It almost looks like she typing in native language and using a program 
to translate it to English.. :)

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