On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, eric huff wrote: > > I have also run XP in another partition, and crashed it often, then > > reinstalled it, and it has never reworked the MBR, just put itself > > back in with out destruction. > > Is it "safe" to reinstall 98 and XP? I was always told it would > reformat your entire drive (wether you wanted it to or not).
98 should be no problem, except that it will overwrite your MBR (which means you'll need to boot from a floppy and rerun /sbin/lilo, or boot to the rescue system on MDK CD #1, and reinstall LILO from the menu there). With XP, it depends on the disc you have to reinstall from; if it's a full XP version, it's essentially the same as with 98. If it's one of those G-D "Recovery Disk" versions, then all it is capable of is returning the HD to the condition it was in when the system was originally purchased - which means XP filling the entire thing. If you run it, and Linux is currently on the same HD, then that Linux installation is toast. :( Just another "feature" brought to you by your "friends" at Micro$haft ... who think that you should buy the OS at least twice, if you actually plan on using it at all, and at least once even if you don't ... :( -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
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