Beginning the FreeBSD Installation
As mentioned previously, the first thing you should do before installing FreeBSD is to make backups of anything important on your system that you want to save—even if you plan to use a program such as Partition Magic to repartition your drive. Although these programs normally do their job without damaging your data, mistakes can be made that could still cause you to lose everything on your disk. So it is always a good idea to make backups.
 | If you plan to start with a blank hard disk and you want to install Windows and FreeBSD, make sure that you install Windows first. If you don't, Windows will make assumptions ... |
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