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   Message 1,970 of 2,222   
   Jack to Hodges   
   Re: Windows 7 and XP   
   29 Oct 09 13:29:24   
   
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   From: nospam@invalid.not   
      
   Hodges wrote:   
   > On Oct 28, 4:54 am, Maurice Helwig    
   > wrote:   
   >> I have my HDD set up with a number of partitions and a boot manager   
   >> in its own partition.   
   >> I have Windows XP and Linux running all in their own partitions and I   
   >> can select which one to boot up to.   
   >>   
   >> My question is can I install Windows 7 in one of the primary   
   >> partitions and expect it to be selectable from the Boot manager.   
   >>   
   >> I do not want it to mess up XP or any of the other OS's on my system.   
   >>   
   >> Has anyone tried this and does it work.   
   >>   
   >> Maurice Helwig   
   >   
   > Windows will always set itself to be the boot partition,   
      
   No, it doesn't. Windows will always make "C:" the boot partition, Windows OS   
   can be anywhere.   
      
   > so you will   
   > need to reinstall grub afterwards.  As for having XP and 7 on the same   
   > machine, I've got 7 as my primary OS and XP as my secondary.  But I   
   > haven't booted into XP in over a month.   
      
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