Fedora and reinstalling Windows

[Peter Reed]

ethericalzen at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:51:00 -0600
> Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> took out a #2 pencil and
> scribbled:
> 
>> Grumpy_Penguin wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 14:59, Arghavan Sabahi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>  Some time ago I installed Fedora Core 4 on my PC with your
>>>> great help.
>>>> Everything was fine until when I decided to reinstall Windows
>>>> XP. I formated the two partitions which were for windows' use
>>>> and reinstalled it.
>> [snip]
>>
>>> This is a famous W$ problem/feature. The installation of
>>> windows overwrites the master boot record.
>>> If windows is installed first then install linux ...Then lilo
>>> or grub is smart enough to recognize the other operating
>>> system...windows ain't that smart
>> This is untrue. I have a machine which is dual-boot Windows XP and
>> Fedora Core. I use the Windows XP boot manager to boot Fedora (via
>> GRUB).
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Mike
> 
> But did you install Windows first or Linux (any flavor) first?
> Because Widnows (as far as I have ever experienced) overwrites the
> boot sector. You can of course use the Windows Boot manager to boot
> linux as I have done this before, but you must install Windows
> first and then your flavor os linux.
> 
> Is this not correct? I've never experienced it any other way.
> 
This is correct.
Peter

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