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Subject: Re: Adding Windows 2000 into a dual-boot after the fact?

From: Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:39:23 -0600

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Timothy Murphy wrote:

On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:25, Jeff Vian wrote:
I have heard that Windows will wipe out the boot info for Linux if you install Windows on a box that already has Linux installed.

this can hapen if you install the linux boot loader on the MBR then install windows.
Isn't it easy enough to save the MBR
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1
and then re-install it if windows overwrites it:
dd if=mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

yes, that works.

BUT you must be careful to do the save before you load windows, AND must have a boot floppy or a bootable CD sucy as knoppix or the install CD with rescue mode so you can get back to the location you saved it and do the restore.