Data that is not backed up is never safe. The lessons appear to only be learned not taught.
Sure, do that but understand that we only lose what we didn't back up.
Again, many have tried what you propose and some succeed and some learn the lesson about back up.
Bob
I'm wondering when I upgrade from XP Pro to Win 7 Home Premium (32-bit), can I keep my data intact since it's on another partition? If so, will there be any problems with Win 7 other than pointing the Documents folder to the correct location? Just to be safe, I intend to image my whole drive anyway.
I'm also wondering if it's possible to install Win 7 on a second hard drive while keeping XP on the first one? This would be a dual-boot setup.

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