Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:34:12 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: I recently installed Debian on a new hard disk. Although I rarely used Windows I kept a 20 Gb partition to +install it, just in case. I've found out that if I do install Windows, I won't be able to boot Debian. Although it appears that

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012 schrieb Brian: On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:34:12 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: I recently installed Debian on a new hard disk. Although I rarely used Windows I kept a 20 Gb partition to +install it, just in case. I've found out that if I do install Windows, I won't

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Wow. Your message came as a separate base64 encoded attachment. Whatever you did when you sent it please try to do something different next time. Gustavo J Mata wrote: I recently installed Debian on a new hard disk. Although I rarely used Windows I kept a 20 Gb partition to install it, just in

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
I've no idea what Windows does when it installs but if it leaves the other partitions undisturbed you should be able to get Debian running and put GRUB back on the hard disk's Hi Gustavo, in this case I am using R.I.P. (Rescue is Possible), which is a livefile-CD for those purposes. Also

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
I've no idea what Windows does when it installs but if it leaves the other partitions undisturbed you should be able to get Debian running and put GRUB back on the hard disk's 2nd try, hope it is better Hi Gustavo, in this case I am using R.I.P. (Rescue is Possible), which is a livefile-CD

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:02:47 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Wow. Your message came as a separate base64 encoded attachment. Whatever you did when you sent it please try to do something different next time. Is that what happened? With Mutt I did 'v' and copied and pasted. But forgot to tell vim

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Gustavo J Mata
Hi Hans The rescue mode of the Debian Live CD has a grub installer. In the end all I had to do is give it the device file for the hard disk. I'm not sure if Windows did appear in the grub menu after reinstalling. But I ran grub-update and it did show the next time around. Since the rescue mode