Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together

[Ric Moore]

On 08/10/2013 10:41 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.


A VERY old joke, from the tape backup days, "The backups went perfect, 
it was the restore that failed!"


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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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