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Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

ollie — Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:06 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:06 am

nelz wrote:

You'll learn

... and that's important.

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

nelz — Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:08 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 10:08 am

You'll learn

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

heiowge — Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:39 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:39 pm

I'm not entirely sure how that helps me though!

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

nelz — Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:27 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:27 pm

That's worse than a reinstall. Repeat100 times, Linux is not Windows.

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

heiowge — Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:25 am

Author: heiowge

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:25 am

Actually, I didn't do a reinstall. Sorta. I followed loads of different advice sets, none of which worked as advertised.

The last one said to reinstall, but not use the format option. How was I supposed to know that it'd remove some software! The guide (off ubuntu forums, which had lots of people saying how well it worked) seemed like a good method.

And yes. First thing I did was search round forums, starting with this one.

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

towy71 — Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:50 am

Author: towy71

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:50 am

This topic has been covered many times! A quick google comes up with loads of help forum threads the best of which is here

heiowge you can expect a severe telling off from nelz for doing a re-install rather than fixing the problem

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

heiowge — Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:29 am

Author: heiowge

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:29 am

Thankyou for that!

I have managed to get it back up and running, but had to reinstall and set up compiz, ubuntu tweak and god knows what else. I just wish that the discs had a "reinstall grub menu after windows install" option. Maybe a request for a new option for the cover discs?

Bearing in mind just how many linux users have dual boot systems with windows and that a lot of them will be installing Win7 atm, wouldn't it be nice to show just how easy it is to repair the damage windows does?

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

ollie — Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:56 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:56 am

heiowge wrote:

rebooted and no grub. went straight to win7

Well, you definitely didn't overwrite the MBR

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

nelz — Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:22 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:22 am

heiowge wrote:

followed instructions. setup (hd0) failed.

...

ideas?

One idea would be to tell us the output from setup (hd0), then we might be able to do more than guess why it may have failed.

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

heiowge — Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:04 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:04 pm

followed instructions. setup (hd0) failed.

rebooted and no grub. went straight to win7.

ideas?

Re: Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

ollie — Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:19 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:19 am

You can install Windows 7 to your Windows XP partition but you will have to rewrite the MBR using GRUB.

You can find the instructions at Reinstall Ubuntu Grub Bootloader After Windows Wipes it Out.

Replacing Windows without disturbing Linux

heiowge — Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:41 pm

Author: heiowge

Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:41 pm

Ok, I'm sure it's possible. Is it easy though?

Can I replace XP on my XP / Ubuntu 9.04 dual boot with Windows 7 without major damage to my Ubuntu setup.

I can reinstall ubuntu but i'd rather not. I've only just got it back to the way I like it after the last reinstall!