Comment 1262 for bug 1

Alternatively we could help raise mainstream awareness of options such as
Dual-Boot and LiveCd (and with *buntu, Puppy and a rare few others the 'install
inside Windows' option) as all of these are easy ways for non-techies to keep
data intact.

Regards from
Tom :)

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From: Faldegast ...
Thats why you let them try a clean Windows install first. Then when they lost
data you blame tell them "It would not have happened if the files was stored in
Linux."

> > The simplest work-around when installing linux is to setup a dual-boot
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> You could also simply save the data. I guess many of those doing Linux
> support also have many years of experience with Windows - so you
> probably know where the data is. I do. And I back that up and then
> wipe the machine. Prior to this I usually use CloneZilla to create an
> image.

I usually prefer to just make an archive with rar, 7zip or whatever. Then it can
easily be extracted to whatever filesystem they are using under
/home/user/olddisk
As you never know where all those Windows programs store their data its usually
not safe to delete stuff like c:\windows. However it should be safe to exclude
exe and dll files from the backup.

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