You can use the livecd to reinstall grub, or supergrub - easily accomplished either way.
If you are though just using xp to run sage will running it in a virtual machine be sufficient - if that was the case you could run xp inside ubuntu and not need to worry - just a thought Kev Howard Berry wrote: > Hello All, > I have been quite happy using Ubuntu so that I decided to get rid of XP > . This was precipitated by the fact that I was also running out of disk > space. Now I have been given some work to do using Sage and "Microsaft" > Office. So I will have to put XP back. I have bought another hard drive > and propose to move the current drive with Ubuntu on to the subsiduary > bay so that I can install Windows where it will be happiest on the first > hard drive. > What I want to know is how I can get Ubuntu to put a new GRUB on the > first hard drive without having to re install Ubuntu. Will I need to get > rid of the old GRUB MBR? > I suppose there is info somewhere on this, but you may be able to give > me the griff straight away! > Thanks, > Howard Berry > > -- > Supporting Open Source Software. > http://www.fsf.org/ > And Open Standards > http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/