photonic
May 27th, 2008, 06:26 PM
Hi forum,
In the past, I successfully dual-booted Ub7.04 with Vista, which I later upgraded to Ub7.10. Since I messed some things up, I'd rather do a complete reinstall of 8.04 instead of upgrading. Obviously, I want to preserve my Vista installation, my shared data partition and the ability to dual boot.
What is the recommended way of doing the reinstall? I assume that grub is located on the bootable vista partition, so if I simply reformat the old swap and Ubuntu partition, will the installer overwrite the old Grub and make a new one? I read some forum posts of people not being able to boot windows and having to repair the MBRs and grub. I'd rather do it in a clean and simple way ...
My partions:
sda1 2 GB swap (former vista recovery partition, couldn't be moved so I used it for swap)
sda2 35 GB NTFS vista, boot partition
sda3 60 GB fat32 shared data between vista/ubuntu
sda4 15 GB ext3 ubuntu
Thanks,
Bas
In the past, I successfully dual-booted Ub7.04 with Vista, which I later upgraded to Ub7.10. Since I messed some things up, I'd rather do a complete reinstall of 8.04 instead of upgrading. Obviously, I want to preserve my Vista installation, my shared data partition and the ability to dual boot.
What is the recommended way of doing the reinstall? I assume that grub is located on the bootable vista partition, so if I simply reformat the old swap and Ubuntu partition, will the installer overwrite the old Grub and make a new one? I read some forum posts of people not being able to boot windows and having to repair the MBRs and grub. I'd rather do it in a clean and simple way ...
My partions:
sda1 2 GB swap (former vista recovery partition, couldn't be moved so I used it for swap)
sda2 35 GB NTFS vista, boot partition
sda3 60 GB fat32 shared data between vista/ubuntu
sda4 15 GB ext3 ubuntu
Thanks,
Bas