tbrowder wrote: > No, but my last Fecodar upgrade killed my dual boot somehow--now windows > won't boot. There seems to me to be a very strong argument for saving the mbr with something like dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr-<today> bs=512 count=1 so you can restore it if needs be with dd of=/dev/hda if=mbr-<today> bs=512 count=1 I would suggest that any program that over-writes the mbr should do something like this. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland