Installing Windows 7 after LMDE <SOLVED>

[CliffD5]

Hi guys,
I am looking to install Windows 7 on a separate HD. I have not had a dual boot setup in several years as I primarily use linux as my main OS with windows running in a VM when needed. I, unfortunately, have a need for Windows outside of a VM for photo processing.

I assume I will need to re-install grub from a live CD after the windows install, but I am unable to locate any decent documentation on doing this. Any help is appreciated.

[sohardivetried]

just install windows to the hard drive then boot your live cd and chroot your root linux directory and run grub-install and update.

install windows, boot live cd then find out your linux root partitions name in linux, mine is sda5, but i dualboot, yours is probably sda1 or something like that, just replace /dev/sdaX with your appropriate partition designation. the next to last command needs to be run on your boot sector, so its the name of the harddrive with no number after it, this will write grub back to your boot sector.

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sudo mount /dev/sdaX /mnt
sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
sudo mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
sudo chroot /mnt
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
sudo update-grub


assuming i was clear enough you should be able to reboot, and profit...

[CliffD5]

Nice and easy.
Thanks!

[sohardivetried]

its pretty straight forward glad to help, mark thread solved also

[Gor]

Awesome guide; it certainly works.

Thank you