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    would backing up mbr work?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by grizzly, Feb 26, 2007.

  1. grizzly

    grizzly Notebook Guru

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    I am dual-booting between xp and vista right now, using ofcourse vista's boot manager.
    Now suppose if I reinstall xp, naturally xp will overwrite the MBR and one will not be able to boot into vista.
    Possible solution:
    I am wondering If before reinstalling XP I backup the MBR (using dd or hiren's boot cd) , and then after XP is re-installed I restore the backed-up old MBR .
    Assuming that my partition table remains the same , will this work? As in will restoring that MBR, will I also get back vista's boot-manager bacK?
    This has worked for me while dual-booting between xp and ubuntu (with grub as the boot manager)


    Thanks
     
    grizzly, Feb 26, 2007
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