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I tried to setup a dual-boot system on our home pc. unfortunately, the cd was corrupted and the installation failed. i then rebooted the system to make sure it was ok. It wasn't. "PBR error" or something like that. so i natually assumed the bootloader was corrupted so i used a windows installer disk to try and fix it. however it asked me for the admin password (which is blank). i entered the correct (blank) password and it said the password was  >:( INVALID?!?! anyway , i went with a =reparatory install. i tried the ubuntu installer again and discovered that the window's partition's bootable flag was off. i fixed that and rebooted. But windows STILL wanted to go through with the install. there was no choice and i had to do it. in the end, no data was lost.

feel free to laugh at me if you like.

You /did/ have backups, didn't you? ;)

Can I point at your .sig and laugh?

Not a backup. we have about 48gb of data on that hard drive.lucky nothing got destroyed.

Oops! Misread the last few words.

Happier to laugh at you knowing no data was lost.

Will you be making backups?

48gig of data? You're a busy soul!

yeah, i'm a real download freak, never mind i haven't cleaned up my stuff for a year. :)

oh yeah- i'm not making any backups. Know how many dvd's that'll take? ;D

Aahh - serial troffer! At least it would all be re-downloadable.

48gig would be about a dozen DVDs, half that if you use Dual Layer. Or one small portion of a new HDD. :)

My CRITICAL data totals less than 10 gig. Customer info, reports, etc. Everything else is re-downloadable. The critical data is copied to three network locations and is backed up onto tapes. One is in my fire safe, one is in the fire safe off-site.
My MP3s are /not/ critical data!

that reminds me, i once had to recover over 15gigs of music. ;D

Finally resolved! i have a new cd that i burnt the xubuntu installer unto. It works perfectly now!! :D

I usually create two partitions one that hosts the OS files (approx 6 - 10GB) and then on the other partition I install apps and data, that way if I need to reinstall I never touch the data partition. Most people that I know create one partition that spans the whole drive.