Windows 8 installation over already installed windows 7 & opensuse 12.1

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#1

Hi,

     I already have windows 7 & openSuse 12.1 installed on my laptop. I want to upgrade to windows 8 from the upgrade option given in windows 7. But I was thinking that after upgrading to windows 8 won't my grub entries be updated? Have anyone tried it yet?

Thanks & Regards,
Prateek

#2

Nope. Haven’t tried Windows 8 upgrade… yet. However, it has been our experience… in the past… that Windows does NOT share. It is not expecting a Grub or a LILO entry to be in the MBR so, unless they have changed their ways they will over-write it. However, IF you use SuperGrub you may, and probably will, be able to correct the Windows over write. That is IF you don’t let Windows take over the whole drive and reformat over your Linux. Nope. We do not have the Web Site that contains Super Grub on our brains at this time -but- there is also a Super Grub2. So, use Google -or- whatever search engine and look for Super Grub -or- Super Grub2

Thanks and take care,
Chuck

#3

You’ll loose grub and need to repair it
Re-Install Grub Quickly with Parted Magic - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

You’ll probably regret moving to win 8, it sucks compared to 7

#4

Thank you administrator & chucktr.

Thanks & Regards,
Prateek

#5

chucktr wrote:

>
> Nope. Haven’t tried Windows 8 upgrade… yet. However, it has been our
> experience… in the past… that Windows does NOT share. It is not
> expecting a Grub or a LILO entry to be in the MBR so, unless they have
> changed their ways they will over-write it. However, IF you use
> SuperGrub you may, and probably will, be able to correct the Windows
> over write. That is IF you don’t let Windows take over the whole drive
> and reformat over your Linux. Nope. We do not have the Web Site that
> contains Super Grub on our brains at this time -but- there is also a
> Super Grub2. So, use Google -or- whatever search engine and look for
> Super Grub -or- Super Grub2
>
> Thanks and take care,
> Chuck
>
>
I don’t know abour Grub2 but it seemed OK on my laptop using Grub. I warn
you that installing the update is a real pain. You may find that many of
your programs and perhaps some of your hardware will no longer work. On my
laptop the Toshiba DVD driver had to be removed before the installation
would proceed. Then I discovered that Toshiba does not and will not provide
a driver for this particular laptop so I chose to go back to W7 rather than
have a laptop without DVD drive. Suggest you run Microsoft’s Windows 8
upgrade assistant to find out what you will have to remove or update.

Allan

#6

On 2012-11-04 14:58, aemau wrote:
> On my
> laptop the Toshiba DVD driver had to be removed before the installation
> would proceed. Then I discovered that Toshiba does not and will not provide
> a driver for this particular laptop so I chose to go back to W7 rather than
> have a laptop without DVD drive.

Typical Windows. This doesn’t happen in Linux, or rarely.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))