[wellylug] Dual booting with 7

[Jeff Hunt]

On 1/4/10, Ray Smith <nazgul748 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have my system dual booting with XP right now. I would like to upgrade the
> windows bit to 7. I know as soon as I upgrade windows, it's going to rewrite
> the boot sector and I'll not have access to grub or my linux partition. How
> can I fix this after the upgrade?
> Thanks,
> Ray
>
This will depend partly on what the Linux boot is.
See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
if you are running an earlier Ubuntu.
It's pretty nerve wracking to be changing GRUB on a working computer.