[nflug] restoring windows w/out bothering Linux

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joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
> Is it possible to reinstall windows without messing up your Linux
> installation? Yesterday my roommate got a virus on his windows xp. No
> matter what we tried it never got back to normal. So I told him to go
> ahead and reinstall it and it would leave linux alone. This is
> apparently not correct in all cases. I did it once in the past with
> windows98. It simply recognized the FAT partition on hda1 as the C: 
> drive which I had set
> aside for it. It installed without incident and I just had to restore
> the master boot record. winxp doesn't really give you any choices on
> install. Is it possible to do this? I hope that it is. Whereas linux
> will be fine indefinitely windows will definitely
> have to be restored at some point (in my experience).
>
> -Josh J
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During the install/reinstall, there will be a selection to be made on 
the partition, just reuse the one that it was using before. You will 
have to reinstall GRUB after.
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