Dual booting Mdk10 + WinXP - reinstalling XP
Hi all
After getting a little sick of various shortcomings on windows i set the family PC up with Mandrake 10. The family like it and we're sticking with it. However we do need to retain WinXP for certain games / programs.
The current state of the hard drive is a split between windowsxp and linux. I want to wipe and reinstall WinXP without losing the ability to get into linux / any of my linux partitions / data.
I get the impression from past experience that if i reinstall winxp it'll overwrite the MBR and the only option i'll have on the windows bootloader is windows? Am i correct in this assumption? How can i get round this problem?
I am aware that having windows and linux co-existing on the same disk is not always ideal (in my main workstaion they're on seperate drives) but that isn't an option in this PC.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Thin
Last edited by Thin; 08-14-2004 at 07:54 AM.
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