Windows 7 and fedora 12 dual boot problem

[RedHaze]

Hi I'm having a problem dual booting fedora 12 and windows 7.

I was dual booting windows vista and fedora 12 on my laptop and that worked fine
but then I installed windows 7 64bit over my windows vista and know my laptop just automatically boots up in to windows 7, giving my no option to boot in to fedora any more.
Any help on this would be great.

[mbratch]

Originally Posted by RedHaze

Hi I'm having a problem dual booting fedora 12 and windows 7.

I was dual booting windows vista and fedora 12 on my laptop and that worked fine
but then I installed windows 7 64bit over my windows vista and know my laptop just automatically boots up in to windows 7, giving my no option to boot in to fedora any more.
Any help on this would be great.

When Windows in installed, it has absolutely no regard for any other boot manager or OS that might be there, so it overwrites the boot manager with it's own boot program and you just get windows.

Do you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD? Boot that up and select "boot from local drive" (I think that's what the option is called). It will boot your Linux HD setup. Then you need to reinstall grub from there.

[glennzo]

You could also use the rescue mode built in to the Fedora install DVD to re-install grub.

[RedHaze]

Thank you both for your speedy reply to my problem, you helped a lot,
im pretty new to Linux but im learning so thnx for helping