I have been using a dual-boot system on my laptop for sometime now.
I've mostly misgrated to Ubuntu 6.06, but once in a while I have to go
back to XP for some things. It looks like I may need to re-install XP
due to an svchost error that I can't get rid of (still working on it
though), has anyone successfully reinstalled Windows XP and kept their
linux partition working? Everything I've read and how I've always done
it is install Windows THEN linux. But will re-installing windows wipe
grub away and lock me out of my linux partition?

On 9 Nov 2006 09:03:34 -0800, "FireDrow" <lee.rowland@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I have been using a dual-boot system on my laptop for sometime now.
>I've mostly misgrated to Ubuntu 6.06, but once in a while I have to go
>back to XP for some things. It looks like I may need to re-install XP
>due to an svchost error that I can't get rid of (still working on it
>though), has anyone successfully reinstalled Windows XP and kept their
>linux partition working? Everything I've read and how I've always done
>it is install Windows THEN linux. But will re-installing windows wipe
>grub away and lock me out of my linux partition?

A XP reinstall will overwrite the Boot sector, but thats not a big
deal: start from a LiveCD, Ubuntu itself or Knoppix, and reinstall
grub.

I have done it many times.

Mektub