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d3Xt3r: I've dealt with plenty of dead and dying HDDs. I've also restored quite a few 'presumed dead' HDDs (basically, stiction problem drives). One of my hobbies is to buy faulty HDDs for real cheap, restore them and use them for temp/data-transfer and/or sell them. Yes, sometimes the drives are indeed dead, but you win some you loose some.
I somehow suspect the OP is not in the capacity of recovering from an unintentional partition removal, like yourself.
d3Xt3r: Point is, I don't see how your point of HDDs dying has anything to do with installing W7. This isn't about undermining the concept of backups, but about realistic risk assessment for the task at hand. It's definitely not a long time oriented advise, which you all are giving.
I somehow suspect the OP is not in the capacity of recovering from an unintentional partition removal, like yourself. And seeing there are quite a couple of large folders, modifying the current partition layout may be not possible if the drive is full.
d3Xt3r: @freitasm: How many cases have you seen, and were it all with 7100? Also, at what point were the setups interrupted?
Not with Windows 7 (although I did try upgrade from Windows Vista RTM, and installing on a Bootcamp partitioned drive on Mac), but I've seen it happening on Windows Server.
You know, my reply was a warning. Such as "you should really have a backup, just in case things go bad, and you don't know how to recover a deleted partition".
d3Xt3r: All you "backup! backup! backup!" people are missing the point. The OP *does* want to take a backup - he just doesn't have the resources at the moment. Repeating it over and over will not magically transfer funds into his account. He just can't get an external backup option and nothing you say will change that, so get over it already.
Correct. But telling the OP to go ahead and do it, is not sensible I think. Perhaps delay a bit until a backup is possible?
