[PLUG] MBR Question

[Marvin J. Kosmal]

One method would be to have grub make a boot floppy.


Install XP..

Boot off the floppy..

Run Grub to install itself in MBR.

HTH

Marvin


On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 06:42, Robbert van Andel wrote:
> I just got a new motherboard.   I transplanted my two hard drives over
> to the new computer.  Harddrive 1 has a windows XP installation and
> Harddrive 2 has a redhat installation.  I use grub to select which drive
> to install to.  When I transplanted the two over, the linux installation
> comes up great.  But the windows installation does not like it.  I'm
> unable to boot into Windows and I'm most likely going to need to
> reinstall it.
> 
> The question I have is after I reinstall Windows how do I restore the
> MBR that the reinstall is going to overwrite?
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