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kahlil88
March 13th, 2009, 04:23 AM
My friend is dual-booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.10 - the Windows system has been dogged down by viruses and really needs to be re-installed. I realize that doing this would erase GRUB. Can I somehow backup GRUB (I guess it's stored in the MBR?) and restore it after re-installing Windows?
circa82
March 13th, 2009, 04:45 AM
You might find this helpful installing GRUB from live CD (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351)

Technically, GRUB is already 'backed up' in the /boot/grub folder. When you 'reinstall' it, you're installing the stage1 and 1_5 files from that directory. No need to back it up beforehand.
kahlil88
April 16th, 2009, 06:40 AM
You might find this helpful installing GRUB from live CD (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351)

Technically, GRUB is already 'backed up' in the /boot/grub folder. When you 'reinstall' it, you're installing the stage1 and 1_5 files from that directory. No need to back it up beforehand.
Yay! Thanks, that was very helpful. I guess this officially disproves the myth that Windows must be installed first.