[PLUG] Dual Boot

[Deepak Dinesh]

Hello,
     This happens only with win9x OSs IMHO. I have installed NT/2000
     on several machines and it never touches the MBR.
Cheers,
Deepak Dinesh.


On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Christopher N. Deckard wrote:

>Windows will ALWAYS blow away whatever is on the MBR.  You should
>either:
>
>a)  make a boot floppy for Linux, install windows, boot from the
>     floppy and restore lilo/grub/whatever.
>
>b)  install windows, boot off of the install program for Mandrake
>     and restore lilo/grub/whatever.
>
>c)  throw away your windows CD, use the space on your IDE disk
>     for things like "compressed media files" or digital video
>     editing, or maybe even write a book on why one should NOT
>     use windows EVER.
>
>-Chris
>
>Brent Meshier wrote:
>
>> My current setup:  Linux Mandrake 7.2 & Win98 dual boot.  Linux is on my
>> SCSI drive, and Win98 on my IDE.  I have my bootloader on the MBR of the
>> IDE, which my system reads from on boot.  Now here is my question.  I'd
>> like to format my IDE, and install Windows 2000, however I'm afraid
>> Windows will overwrite my bootloader and I'll no longer be able to get
>> into Linux.  Can someone tell me for sure?  And if this is the case,
>> what is the remedy?  Or does Linux ALWAYS have to be installed after
>> Windows?
>
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