Fedora and reinstalling Windows

[Mike McCarty]

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.

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> 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
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