Hey there everyone. I ve got a really complicated situation here. I ve got a laptop with a relatively large hard drive (250GB) and I currently have Windows Vista and Linux Ubuntu 8.10 installed and have three partitions: One NTFS for Vista, one ext3 (I believe) for Linux, and a linux-swap for linux. I ve partitioned my NTFS that was originally 150GB to two sections, 120GB for Vista and 30GB for Windows 7. I am going to assume the installation procedures for Windows 7 are nearly identical to Vista s. So here is my question: Will Windows 7 re-write my MBR or Master Boot Record? A MBR is what you use to boot up your computer. I use the GRUB bootloader and I know quite well how to add another OS to the list AFTER it is installed and when I still have access to my Linux partition. Is there a way to manually choose which partition to boot from? Ok, I know this is really confusing because I would bet that well over 95% of anyone viewing this won t have Windows 7 on their computers and the other 95% might not even know much about the MBR and all. But PLEASE. ANSWER IF AT ALL POSSIBLE! Another quick question, does anybody know of any software that would allow me to read my linux partition while in Windows? I could POSSIBLY edit my bootloader then from Windows 7. Thanks a million everyone!
yes vista will rewrite your MBR, no that is not a problem, just make sure you have a GRUB floppy disk, or at least the MBR from a boot floppy for linux. i once had four+ OS s on the same hard disk, and i was booting them from the NTLDR. you can do that with xp just by putting the MBR copied file from the floppy in your route c: and then modifying your boot.ini
I assume (because i don t have windows 7) that it well replace the MBR. I now you could restore it back to Vista as the MBR, but I don t know if you can restore it back to Ubuntu.
Windows only supports its own OS.For example,you can install Windows Vista and Windows 7 together or only Ubuntu... Good Luck!
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