[wplug] Reinstalling windows on a dual boot

Patrick Wagstrom pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu
Tue Mar 1 15:12:40 EST 2005


Dileep,

A recovery cd should work just fine.  Boot the recovery cd and mount
your drive.  Then mount your linux drive as something like /mnt/linux
and run the following command: 

grub-install --root-directory /mnt/linux hd0

Should do the trick for you.

--Patrick

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:11 -0800, Dileep Vangasseri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My sony laptop has a dual boot with windows XP and
> Fedora core 3. Now  (as always) my windows is giving
> me lot of problems (it is not recognizing any of my cd
> or dvd (internal or external), which it used to
> recognize even last week. As usual, sony denied any
> help since I have loaded linux in my machine and so
> according to them I am "not eligible" for their
> support (more so due to the fact that my system is one
> year old)! Microsoft will not offer any free online
> help me since I have not got the operating system from
> them and have asked me to check with Sony. So I have
> now decided to throw away my 'sony given OS' and is
> thinking of reinstalling windows. I know that if I
> install windows, it will overwrite my MBR  and so I
> would not be able to boot to linux. So, before doing
> anything, I would like to get some expert opinion as
> to how can I go about this. I do not have a floppy
> reader in my system and do not have a boot floppy.
> However, I do have the FC3 recovery CD with me. Would
> that be fine to get my linux box working after the
> fresh install of windows?  Can I just keep a copy of
> the present grub.config and use the same after my
> fresh install?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dileep
> 
> 
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