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[Faldegast <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:55, Tom <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Of course if Windows is reinstalled and data gets lost
> > then people don't talk about that often because they then feel it shows
> > them up as bad computer-users, also it's difficult for them to
> > understand or express clearly.  Blaming linux is easy for them.
> 
> Yes, that's true and if you say, the same would have happened for a
> clean Windows reinstall, they don't believe you, anyway...

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
> 
> 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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