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Old 11-01-2009, 12:21 AM   #11 (permalink)
 
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Well since Vista nor Win7 have the repair feature built in that is tough to answer.
*shrug* I just used the repair function with Windows 7 on friday...

I know with XP if you repair the XP install for whatever reason, it'll hose Grub and you'll need to reinstall Grub to re-gain Linux-boot functionality.

It really comes down to this... Windows hates everything, but Grub tolerates Windows. That's why the Windows boot loader overwrites it every time, but whenever you install Grub, it auto-picks up Windows as a valid bootable entry.
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You dont have to use GRUB. Can easily just get EasyBCD 2.0 Beta and add a Linux entry for GRUB and use the BCD as your boot loader.
Ultimately I went this way. Now I am dual-booting between Win7 & Ubuntu 9.10 using EasyBCD. Thanks Mak
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