>I'd looked up the documentation and expected an option "Install Trisquel
alongside Windows 7", but that option wasn't there.
But there is! http://trisquel.info/files/trisquel1.png
>It was only after all my files were gone that I realized I could have saved
them—the Windows partition was still accessible in the Trisquel
installation. I was just too panicked to realize it.
I too panicked when my hdd died on me. In my case it was a head crash so any
further use of the disk might've saved me a few files at the expense of all
the rest. Long story short, I had to take the disk to shop and it became very
expensive and took a long time and didn't recover all my files... So backup!