Saving Fedora when installing Windows?

[Mark Haney]

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On 03/12/14 08:39, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> 
>>> 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's interesting. I've always regarded the Windows bootloader as
> a black box, my occasional journeys into the Windows Registry
> having proved disastrous.
> 
> But I don't see how both can be on offer - do they use the MBRs of
> different drives?
> 
> 
I've actually done this before.  And it can be handy.  But for me, the
sheer terror of mucking with the NT boot loader kept me from doing it
more than once.  It was really just to say I did. And there is a trick
to it when using MBRs on different drives.  But I don't remember the
exact details (I did this before Win7 was released, God knows what
kind of funky voodoo magic would be needed with Win7 or 8.


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Mark Haney
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