I have a computer that dual-boots Windows XP and SuSE 10.1. The first hard drive contains a 100 mB Linux /boot partition followed by two large NTFS partitions for WinXP. The second drive contains my SuSE root and swap partitions and a 20 gB shared partition. Accumulated errors dictate that the time has come to reinstall WinXP. (Much as I'd like to, it is not possible to eliminate Windows altogether, or make SuSE my default platform, so please don't spam me with suggestions to do one of those things. Thanks.) Anyhow, reinstalling WinXP will reset the install drive to a single large partition, losing my linux boot partition. Can I take a backup of the /boot partition before I install windows, then boot from the SuSE CD into rescue mode to restore the partition contents and reinstall GRUB? I've done some homework, and it seems that should work, but I don't want to have to end up having to reinstall SuSE from scratch, or worse, end up with an unbootable box. Cheers, Gordon Keehn