So, it went off more or less smoothly. Windows asks which partition to install on. I put it in. On restart, it went straight to windows. For the record, here is what I did to restore Grub as per the Ubuntu How-To...<br>
<ol><li>
Boot from the Live CD if you can't boot from the hard disk into Ubuntu.
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In the terminal, run:
<pre class="code">sudo grub<br></pre>
At the grub command prompt, run the following commands:
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<pre class="code">find /boot/grub/stage1<br></pre>
You should see something like <span class="code">(hd<span class="arg">X</span>,<span class="arg">Y</span>)</span> where <span class="code"><span class="arg">X</span></span> and <span class="code"><span class="arg">Y</span>
</span> will be numbers, e.g., <span class="code">(hd0, 1)</span>.
</li><li>
<pre class="code">root (hd<span class="arg">X</span>,<span class="arg">Y</span>)<br></pre>
where <span class="code"><span class="arg">X</span></span> and <span class="code"><span class="arg">Y</span></span> above should be replaced by the appropriate numbers returned in step 1.
</li><li>
<pre class="code">setup (hd<span class="arg">X</span>)<br></pre>
where <span class="code"><span class="arg">X</span></span> above should be replaced by the appropriate number returned in step 1.
</li><li>
<pre class="code">quit<br></pre>
</li></ol>
</li><li>
GRUB should now be installed on the Master Boot Record (MBR). Reboot.</li></ol>All is well now. Thanks.<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Rosi-Kessel</b> <<a href="mailto:adam@rosi-kessel.org">adam@rosi-kessel.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Stephen R Laniel wrote:<br>>> I have a dual boot system, winxp and ubuntu. the windows side has an<br>>> unlicensed installation. I want to install a legal version over it, without it<br>>> messing up my ubuntu install. Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to
<br>>> safely install windows without it interfering with the other partitions?<br>><br>> I'm pretty sure you'll have no problem. What you'd do is<br>> reboot from the Windows CD; it'll ask you which partition
<br>> you want to install to, and you'll select the partition that<br>> already has Windows installed. (You should get a list of<br>> partitions, one of which will hopefully be labeled 'Linux'<br>> and another of which will be labeled 'Windows.') It'll go
<br>> from there and never touch the Linux one, I believe.<br><br>I'm not so sure. My experience has been that Windows likes to wipe the<br>entire device, although I haven't done an XP installation recently. Or
<br>maybe ever.<br><br>If you have an external hard disk with enough space, I would recommend<br>backing up the whole disk first. Or you could just back up the linux<br>partition, and if the device is wiped, you could then shrink the XP
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