Phoenix, When i did my dual boot, tri boot 2000,me,suse, I added a new hard drive for suse and put that as the slave. But Yast2 saw the windows partitions. i believe it moved the windows mbr somewhere on hda, and installed lilo. Did yast2 see the windows partition or had you removed the first hard drive when you installed? i do know if you reinstall windows it will wipe out lilo. So I'd switch back the hard drives and see if you can boot windows, then rerun the suse install and make sure it sees the windows stuff. Then have it write lilo to the mbr. all should be fine. just make sure it doesn't say its going to format the windows partitions Franklin On Friday 13 September 2002 11:42 am, Phoenix wrote:

HI,

my problem is this:

I wanted to switch to Linux and needed a new HD. So I bought the new HD and then installed SuSe Linux on it. I connected the old HD as primary slave and let is as it was. This means my primary slave HD contains a W2k installation and the MBR is set up to be primary master. When reinstalling W2k the installer says it needs to rewrite the MBR of my primary master HD. I fear that I won't be able to run my Linux installation after installing W2k... Should I just do the installation and then install a Linux bootmanager? But if that works - I have no clue how...

Any suggestions or solutions? It would be great if the data on my slave HD won't get lost. I backed up the absolutely necessary stuff, but I'd like to keep the rest, too.

Regards,

Phoenix