And tar does do volumes. On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 19:01, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: > 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 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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
-- Michael
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