Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together

[Babak Hashemian]

Dear Colin

I see what you mean, I'll go for a real backup of all my data. Than you.

Babak




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 From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together
 

On 10 August 2013 15:33, Babak Hashemian <cleverboby_bh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Colin,
>
> I did that first of all. I copied almost everything on my win partition to
> my external HDD. I am not sure whether I should copy my other partitions .

You should say to yourself if this computer went up in smoke
(literally or metaphorically) is there anything important on it that I
cannot recover from somewhere else?  Anything that you cannot recover
should be backed up, and you should check that you can actually get
the data off the backup.  IT history is littered with backups
religiously taken day after day or week after week that were found to
be garbage when they were actually needed.

Colin

> Thank you anyway.
>
> Babak
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together
>
> On 10 August 2013 15:06, Babak Hashemian <cleverboby_bh at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I have a VAIO laptop with Intel Core i5 CPU which had a Windows 7 bundled
>> with it. For sometime, I had a Ubuntu 12.04 Lts on another partition
>> because
>> of my modeling works. 3 days ago, my friend connected his laptop HDD to my
>> system as an external device (which had a bootable win 7 on one of its
>> partitions). I currently have a GNU Grub menu to choose on startup between
>> my OSs. It looks like my system tried to boot from his HDD instead of my
>> own
>> HDD (My boot prioraties might have been on external device !) and so my
>> Windows 7 boot files have been corrupted and after 2 or 3 times power up,
>> the Grub has omitted it from the list. I just have a windows recover boot
>> on
>> the list. I tried to repair my windows via a bootable windows
>> installation,
>> but it did not recognize my windows 7 on its partition. Because of thesis
>> works and projects, I do not want to loose my windows, and more
>> importantly
>> i do not want to loose my Ubuntu. I fear if I try to recover my windows
>> via
>> recover media it may destroy my Ubuntu boot paths. Does anyone have an
>> idea
>> on what should I do ? How can I repair my system ? Do I have a chance to
>> repair or bring back or install windows 7 without loosing my ubuntu ? I
>> appreciate your helps, Thank you.
>
> Before doing anything else make sure your backups are up to date.  You
> should be able to access your Win partition from Ubuntu so you can
> backup the Win stuff from Ubuntu if necessary.
>
> Colin
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