Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 11 March 2014, Timothy Murphy sent:
> I want to upgrade Windows XP on my laptop to Windows 7,
> but I'd like to be sure that I can get back to Linux afterwards.
> (I'm sure Windows installation will over-write the MBR.) 

Some people modify the Windows bootloader, so that *it* can be used to
boot Linux.  You *can* have the Linux bootloader set up to choose
between booting Windows and Linux, *and* the Windows bootloader set up
to choose which to boot.  

That allows you to use either to boot up, and can be handy if you
accidentally pick the wrong one - you can just reverse the decision when
the other's bootloader screen came up, not to mention handy for if you
get a glitch that modifies your usual way of booting up.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.