Re: FYI... SUSE 10.1 trashed my XP partition.

Noozer wrote:
"houghi" <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:slrnea9tio.it0.houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Darklight wrote:

Noozer wrote:

If you were smart which you were for backing up you xp installation
you should of resized your partition with partition magic.

Indeed. That way if it went kaput, you could blame Partition Magic. :-)


I've had disasters with PM as well. I was hoping SUSE would do a better job.

I've had disasters with Win2000, just by itself! One fine day, it decided it wouldn't boot. So I had to recoup my data with Knoppix. That's when my decision to switch to Linux, and Linux exclusively, became final: if it hadn't been for Knoppix, I would have lost my data.

Admittedly, I had managed to leave a Win95 partition, which Win2000 doesn't usually permit. But Win2000 never complained. 3 months later, it just didn't boot.

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