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    Dual boot reinstall

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Primes, Sep 16, 2010.

  1. Primes

    Primes Notebook Deity

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    I have dual booting setup on this laptop with linux mint9 and Windows 7RC. I haven't touched win7 on this in a long time and being just an alpha build I'm ready to get rid of it and possibly replace with xp or vista.
    I plan to wipe Win7 and want to reinstall windows. How do I reinstall windows without messing up grub?

    my partitions look like this:
    [150gb ntfs windows][20gb /root ext3][120gb /home ext3][8gb swap]
     
    Primes, Sep 16, 2010
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  2. Nankuru

    Nankuru Notebook Evangelist

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    It's a while since I've done this but. You will mess up grub when you reinstall Windows, but you can recover it afterwards. Exactly how depends on whether you're using grub/grub2.

    If you google 'recover grub grub2' you'll find lots of instructions.
     
    Nankuru, Sep 16, 2010
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