Will I Overwrite by OpenElect Installation?

[ProNuke]

When I installed & initialized my SD card using NOOBS, I elected to install both OpenElect and Pidora. I've spent several hours setting up my OpenElect installation and have it running beautifully.

Question: the boot loader gives me the option of booting into either OpenElect or Pidora. Before I boot for the first time into Pidora I want to make sure I will not overwrite my OpenElect installation.

Can someone help this novice and confirm for me that booting into Pidor will not overwrite my OpenElect installation? I would hate to undo all my hard work!

Thanks!

[DougieLawson]

It should just work with the NOOBS boot manager process. Pidora will be in two separate partitions on the SDCard, the OpenELEC partitions won't be mounted on that system when it boots (unless you want to deliberately mount them) so can't be overwritten.

If you're really nervous take a backup of the SDCard before you start Pidora.

[AndrewS]

Dougie is right
NOOBS itself will be on the partition 1 of the card, OpenELEC will be on partitions 5 and 6 of the card, and Pidora will be on partitions 7 and 8. Using the NOOBS boot menu simply chooses between booting the "real OS" from either partition 5 or partition 7.

The only way to overwrite OpenELEC would be to hold down SHIFT at power-on to access the NOOBS recovery menu, and then manually choose to re-install. But even if you did that, it'll pop up a warning dialogue first warning you that everything on the card is about to get overwritten.

The primary motivation for NOOBS was to keep everything simple for new users

[ProNuke]

Dougie and Andrew,
Thanks a bunch! I appreciate you taking the time to respond so quickly!