RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade

[Brandon Vanderberg]

I haven't had any troubles installing Mandrake on a disk with an existing Windows 2000 NTFS partition. It was very clean. Obviously, you want to take your time and be very careful.

 

On a side note, I would never have tried it even once without my important data backed up. I'd seriously think about finding some way to save that data. You say you have no way of backing up that much data right after you say that you can't afford to lose it. Can you afford 30 bucks and some time for a burner and a stack of cds? A second HD wouldn't be too much, and you'd have some quick and easy insurance. And a tape backup unit would be even better, but they're pretty pricey. So it's like the mechanic said, "Good, Fast, Cheap - Pick two."

 

On a side note to a side note, I know some people are right now have figured that it would take about 80 650MB CDs to do this, and then figuring out that how much time that would take. But that answer doesn't mean anything until it's compared to the time of recreating that 50GB worth of data from scratch. 

 

Anyway, hope it goes well for you.

 

.02

~Brandon

 

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Mitchell
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade

Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data

- Mark

Keith wrote:

Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders

On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote:
  

    I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0
I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of 
before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will 
be screwed.

- Mark