Repairing Ubuntu without loosing data or breaking Windows

[Enrique Becerra]

Hi MrZenWiz.
I have some doubts

1) custom disk setup? you mean to build a custom dvd install disc? how?
2) I don't have /home on a sep. partition. Can I move/separate with a
partition tool?
3) Any visual stuff available on the installation DVD that allow me to do this?

And finally

4) a friend of mine told me he believes the gdm freezing is being
caused by grub with ext3 and that I should reinstall everything from
scratch (backup before) and put everything on ext4

Thanks a lot for helping me to stay a little less freaked


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:08 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just make sure you do a custom disk setup and tell it NOT to format
> anything you want left alone.  If you put your /home on a separate
> partition from / (and /boot), you should be able to reformat the /
> (and /boot) partition(s) without affecting your /home or your Windows.
>
> (Yes, I've done it - it's only scary the first time around but you
> *do* have to be careful. :-)