dual boot Xp and Ubuntu Studio

[Lindsay Haisley]

On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:23 -0500, Mike Holstein wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Douglas Pollard
> <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>         Hi Folks,  I have xp on my first drive and Ubuntu Studio on the second.
>         I have a partially installed Kodak easy share program that crashes xp
>         and I have been told that I will have to reinstall xp. I can't remove
>         the Kodak program. As I remember  Xp will  wipe out Ubuntu if I
>         reinstall it. Is this correct ??

Reinstalling XP won't necessarily wipe out your Ubuntu install, but it
will overwrite your boot loader (GRUB, I assume) so that your Ubuntu
boot becomes inaccessible.  If you have Ubuntu on a separate drive you
can, as someone else pointed out, disconnect the Ubuntu drive while XP
re-installs just to help your peace of mind.

Fixing this is just a matter of re-installing GRUB with the proper
stanzas in the config file pointing to your two different OSes.  I find
that a self-booting CD or USB-drive with Linux on it is a really handy
resource for situations like this.

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