[nflug] restoring windows w/out bothering Linux

[Cyber Source]

joshj at linuxmail.org wrote:
> Thus spake Cyber Source on Sun, 19 Feb 2006
>
>> 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.
>
> I wasn't there when he installed winxp, but he said that there was no
> such option. In the future I will have to check it out and see if there
> is an "advanced" setup option. This copy of winxp came with his laptop.
> So I don't know if it might be more dummied-down then when you buy em 
> standalone.
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ahhhhh I see. If it came with the laptop and he didnt see such an option 
then I can pretty much guarantee that it was a restore cd and not a 
windows installation cd. If he already did this, he hosed his Linux.
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