how install win w/o wiping the disk

[Ric Moore]

On 07/12/2012 12:08 AM, Doug wrote:
> On 07/11/2012 09:25 PM, Nick Bikkal wrote:
>
> /snip/
>>>> While we're at it if I may ask on this Ubuntu forum how does one
>>>> uninstall Windows XP?
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>> Why not just format the partition?
>>>
>>> --doug
>>>
>>> Reality is I screwed up bad&  now have a powerful desk top that can
>>> do little that I want. I lost much of my work I had on both an old
>>> Ubuntu&  a WXP. Feel resigned to all this bad luck. Sigh. If possible
>>> I'd like to salvage some. I thought I had it all backed up on an
>>> external disk but it also proved negative. About 10 years of work&
>>> pictures on it.
>> Nick
> Now you know how I felt when I let The Geek Squad work on my computer
> and tell me that the disk
> was ng, AND IT WAS THE WRONG DISK which I then threw away!  I trust you
> know who the Geek Squad
> works for.

Can you copy all the files you want to keep to your ubuntu partition, 
hopefully still running, then reformat the Win partition to ext3 or 4.
Then mount the old Win partition to /opt. copy all the files there. Then 
a fresh install of Ubuntu to the Ubuntu partition ONLY. Remount /opt and 
you have your safe storage. That's how I survive with fresh installs. Ric


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