On 10/06/2013 11:06 AM, James Knott wrote: > Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: >> It was really "nice" of Windows to stop allowing me to boot into Ubuntu >> after I upgraded from Vista to Win7. I had to use a boot "fixer" disc >> to give me back my Ubuntu. At least that laptop is the one I use only >> once in a while, since I have a small drive in it, compared to my other one. > I have never had a problem with not being able to access Linux when > Windows is on the system. Windows installs will always break the boot > loader, so you have to be prepared to deal with that. However, > reinstalling Windows from the DVDs has never trashed Linux, though I > have heard some recovery discs will. So, as a rule, unless I have no > alternative, I install Windows first and then Linux. With my ThinkPad > E520, the first thing I did was to build the recovery DVDs and then used > the Windows tools to shrink the partition, to make room for the Linux > install. I have not had to reinstall Windows 7 since then. On my old > ThinkPad, I did reinstall from DVD, but it did not touch the Linux > partitions, only the boot loader. > >
It was the upgrading [overwriting with new install] from Vista 32-bit to Win7 Pro 64-bit that messed with GRUB. I had my Ubuntu installed like I like it and did not want to wipe the entire drive for the Vista to Win7 "upgrading". It takes a lot of work to install Ubuntu 12.04, plus MATE d.e., and all of the packages I want and setting up all of the printers and such just like it was before. Then there are the endless amounts of updates that Ubuntu would do. So I really do not like to wipe the drive just to install the newer version of Windows. At least it was not setting up my main desktop. When I replaced a bad primary drive [/sda], it took over 15 hours to install, tweak, etc. all of the packages, plus all of the files back from backups and STILL I am finding that I missed a tweak or package. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
