how install win w/o wiping the disk

[G.]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Perhaps I can not install W7 because my copy is a 32 bit version.  I
have an intel atom N 550.  It is a 64 bit unit.

garyk