Comment 20 for bug 1325786

I consider myself lucky to have avoided this disaster. It presumably helped that I dual-boot Mint and W7. When I upgrade I always choose the 'Something else' option during installation, which lets me manually specify the partitions where I want the boot loader and OS installed. I copy my personal data to a storage partition. I do have to set everything up again the way I want it each time I install a new Mint, but I've gotten used to it and it doesn't take long. It's good to start with a clean system, too.