[plug] dual boot - Windows reinstall

[Cameron Patrick]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:06:13AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:

| If the Windows installer is an OEM version, it is likely to blow away all 
| unrecognised partitions and redo everything from scratch. Polite. So back up 
| anything you treasure first, including hard-won config files or whatever.

Windows ME did this to me...  I created a Linux partition and a FAT32
partition, installed Linux, and then installed WinME.  I lost my Linux
partitions without warning - it created a FAT32 partition spanning the whole
drive whether I wanted it or not!

| If there's nothing you treasure on there, safest approach is to install 
| Windows first, then (re)install Linux, FreeBSD, whatever afterwards.

Yes.  I'm not sure whether all versions of Windows allow you to choose the
size of the partitions it creates, though... urgh.

Cameron.