The first commandment of this class: Back up. Constantly.

(Usually via an external hard-drive)

In view of the above, I’ve decided to spend the evening cleaning up the 48GB of used space on my laptop before taking that momentous step of no return into opensource world - installing VMWare Server and running Ubuntu on my laptop. I plan to:

  1. Run Disk Cleaner
  2. Go through my files with the naked eye and delete all the seldom-used and super-old files (e.g. I have notes and assignments from 15 of my undergrad courses)
  3. Run Defrag
  4. Backup onto external drive
  5. Do a restore to see if the backup works Did not do this since I only saved the data in an external hard drive and don’t have an actual backup/restore program.