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   From: nospam@invalid.not   
      
   Hodges wrote:   
   > On Oct 29, 4:29 pm, "Jack"  wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Yes, it does.  You will have to reinstall your bootloader because   
   > Windows will set the hdd up to use its bootloader instead.  Have you   
   > never setup dual booting?   
      
   C: = DOS 6.2 (on FAT16)   
   D: = Windows 98   
   F: = Windows XP   
      
   C: is the Boot Partition for all three. Sounds like your 'situation' is   
   created by linsux, not Windows.   
      
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