Quote Originally Posted by Blodrast
Ok, I thought I remembered that it was able to chain the bootloaders - its own, plus whatever existing one(s) - which implied detecting their presence, naturally. I seem to recall that was working (from personal experience, not second-hand) - but perhaps it was only for some specific combo of windows and linux bootloader, or perhaps my memory is foggier than I am aware of.
Well the Ubuntu forums are always full of threads where the user reinstalled XP and wiped out grub in the process. I've never seen any option to keep the bootloader but I may be wrong of course. I don't think repair install touches it but a format and reinstall always does AFAIK.
Quote Originally Posted by Blodrast
Cool, you learn something new every day - thanks for the hint.
As I said I'll hopefully have a go at this next weekend and keep you posted, if it does work it may be an idea for those that want to get MTW running on a new machine. Dual booting of course.