Re: reinstall lilo after windows

[Angelo Bertolli <angelo@freeshell.org>]

Maurits van Rees wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:39:22PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
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> > I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up.
> > I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR)
> >
> >    
> (...)
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> > The partition for the windows OS is ready and empty. It's hda4
> >    
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> I wonder if Windows knows that it should not touch hda1-3...  It's
> been a while since I last installed it.  Since the other partitions
> obviously do not have a Windows file system it may work.
>  
If it's a copy of Windows, yes.  If it's a "restore CD" all bets are off ;)