Will upgrading to Windows 7 affect my Fedora installation?

[Seedrick]

I have three logical partitions for Windows from which one contains Vista OS and the other two contains data. Apart from that I have two partitions for Fedora (OS + swap).

Now I want to upgrade my Vista Installation to Windows 7. Will that, in any way affect my Fedora12 installation? Break something? What are the things I should be careful about, if any?

Thanks!

[marcelkraan]

upgrade could change the bootloader..
update is no problem

[Seedrick]

Windows Vista to Windows 7 counts as an update or an upgrade?

[bennachie]

This is probably worth reading:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...a-to-windows-7

I haven't actually done this (I have replaced XP with 7 a couple of times, but that is effectively a clean install, and I had to restore Grub after completing the installation). From the description in the Microsoft reference, I suspect that the process is actually an upgrade disguised as an update, and that you too will need to restore Grub after you have completed the exercise. Restoring Grub is a pretty simple process, though, and I can't see any other reason for your Fedora installation to be affected.

[forkbomb]

Windows installers have been notoriously greedy in my experience - and not just with regard to the MBR. At the very least expect the installe to rewrite the MBR. I ran an install of Win7 in a dual-boot and the Win7 installer insisted on hosing my partition table and existing install. Don't know if it was bad coding or the installer being deliberately spiteful.

It might actually be most expeditious to back up data and expect to do a fresh install of Fedora.

[GoinEasy9]

This is why I use EasyBCD as the bootloader when I have to dual boot with Vista/Win7. I just did 2 upgrades Vista to Win7 and they went without incident, didn't touch my fedora partitions. I don't trust Microsoft, they can't mess with grub if it's in the /boot partition.
http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3153

[an15wn]

Do you want to preserve your Fedora grub configuration?

Read this...

In short, NEVER install grub in MBR. Place it on ACTIVE partition boot sector.

Good luck...