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I need to perform an operating system reinstall on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I have valuable data of size 300 GB that I would like to temporarily back up to another laptop (running Windows7), and copy it back after reinstalling the OS on my main laptop.

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  • The data in question sits on an NTFS partition
  • the 2 laptops are connected to the same Wireless access point
  • no cable connection between the 2 laptops
  • no USB flash storage device with a large capacity (only 2 GB)
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You can simply google the endless possibilities you have. You can just share folders and access them via WiFi or even better, via LAN.

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  • Definitely not LAN, cause I do not have an Ethernet cable.
    – user223255
    Commented Feb 20, 2015 at 12:55
  • Then WiFi, whats the point? If you have no hardware for this purpose, what do you want to hear? That you can beam the data using your finger? So take what you got, and this seems to be either WiFi or USB.
    – Benjoyo
    Commented Feb 20, 2015 at 12:57
  • It is highly recommended to use Ethernet cable instead of WLAN, since it will provide stable connection between the both computer. As for 300GB, you do not want the connection to break down at the last MB. Ethernet cable is cheap to have.
    – user3767013
    Commented Feb 20, 2015 at 12:58
  • In a normal environment that should be no problem.
    – Benjoyo
    Commented Feb 20, 2015 at 13:00
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First of all , I would get an external hard drive and make a backup of the data. If you have no choice occurs to me you can do one of two things :

1 - You can create multiple partitions on your hard drive with gparted and create one for data about 320GB and save your data there . Then reinstall ubuntu manually specifying partitions. Be very careful not to delete or overwrite 320GB partition containing your data.

2 - Create a network drive in ubuntu . Write to disk all your data. And then in Windows 7 , connect to that network drive and copy the data on the laptop.

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  • I haven't worked with Linux partitions, so I won't go that route. The thing is, the partition holding my data is an NTFS one and I want to format it to a ext4 linux file system.
    – user223255
    Commented Feb 20, 2015 at 13:06

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