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  1. August 15th, 2002, 07:11 PM #1
    Witch-King
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    Question 98 Reinstall on a Tri- Boot

    Greetings,

    I am running a tri boot with Win XP, Mandrake, and Win 98. Recently 98 became FUBAR and needs a reinstall. My question is can I do this without rewriting the MBR and having to reinstall XP and Drake?
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  2. August 15th, 2002, 07:49 PM #2
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    I would think that if your specific as to what partition your going to do a re-install of Win98 to, you'll be fine.
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  3. August 22nd, 2002, 12:15 PM #3
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    Unfortunately, not without some headache. I've got a similar box, running Win2k, Win98 and Redhat. When you install an OS you're writing to the MBR, which overwrites what you had previously. I know there must be a way to either copy the MBR to floppy or perhaps just copy your boot.ini file and restore that when you're done (or both) but since I keep all my data and drivers backed up to CD (and because I'm mentally challenged) I just reload all three OS's.
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  4. August 22nd, 2002, 02:14 PM #4
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    How about slapping something like System Commander on your PC?

    You could access all your partitions independantly with it.

    I've used a previous version and I loved it. It's even better now.
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