Am Freitag, 26. Oktober 2007 12:14:41 schrieb Jake Conk:
Hello,
I have openSUSE setup right now on my machine that has 2 mirrored 80gb disks. I just got another disk 80gb disk but I would like to install windows on it. My question is, is it possible to install windows on that new disk without it taking off my grub? I know most multiboot setups that include windows always say install windows first then install linux so it can auto detect your windows partition and setup grub accordingly but in my case I already have linux setup and want to install windows while keeping suse's grub menu. Is this possible and how?
You should be able to install Windows after Linux too, however it's easier, more comfortable and safer, when you do it first. As I get from your description, I can understand you didn't installed it in the first place, but want to have it as alternative now. When you install windows you can be sure it will screw up grub, in other words kill and replace it, however this isn't such a big problem if you've a Linux liveCD and can access the old system to re-do the grub install part, also you'll have to add the windows boot entry by hand but that shouldn't be a big deal either. Greetings Michael