Upgrading Windows on a Linux laptop

[fedora]

Ever considered to install W XP as a VM on linux?
I was successful with both of them (XP and 7) installed on VirtualBox in 
Linux.

suomi


On 2014-05-11 17:14, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I rarely use Windows on my dual-boot Fedora-20/KDE laptop,
> but I'd like to update Windows XP to Windows 7 now.
>
> I found when I did this on a CentOS machine
> I was unable to get back to Linux,
> and had to re-install CentOS.
> I don't understand why, as I had saved and re-installed the MBR.
>
> Am I wrong in thinking that this should be sufficient?
> If not, what else do I need to save?
>
> I don't intend to make any partition changes.
>
> All suggestions and advice gratefully received.
>
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