Afraid you might mess up your MBR? Back up the bootsector: dd if=/dev/hda of=bootsector.img bs=512 count=1 If anything goes wrong, you can boot from a LiveCD and restore the bootsector with dd if=bootsector.img of=/dev/[...]
Whenever you reinstall Windows with an existing Linux installation already present on the hard drive, the MBR gets an overwrite. You can restore GRUB to the previous settings by booting a Linux Live CD and following the [...]
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