Win XP and repartitioning

[Joshua Bergland]

Installing XP will not erase your linux partition, but it will overwrite 
your boot loader... Before upgrading [RANT: an actual reformat of your 
windows partition and fresh installation is the recommended method, the 
NT setup of windows allows you to choose the partition easily and 
finally the XP setup will do a quick format, no more 20 minutes waiting 
for it format the huge drives some of us work with now] make sure to 
make a bootdisk for your linux system... Do this with the mkbootdisk 
command. TEST THIS DISK! You don't want to be caught unable to easily 
boot back into linux!

Then upgrade to WinXP, and you will notice your bootloader is gone, and 
XP loads automatically...

Boot back into Linux with your bootdisk and resinstall your boot loader 
(for lilo run 'lilo' as root, grub takes a little more work to get 
reconfigured)

Josh Bergland

Eric Gilliland wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am running Win ME and Mandrake 8.0 on my dual boot Dell 8100.  If I 
> upgrade to Win XP, does anyone know if it will erase my linux partition?
>
> Thank for the advise.
>
> Eric Gilliland
>
> J. Eric Gilliland
> jegilliland at hotmail.com
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