Windows Vista & Windows XP

[#1]

When starting the XP System Recovey process, the first screen states that all my data will be lost.  I have a linux partition on the machine that I want to keep intact.  The question is: Will the recovery process destroy my linux partition?

Thanks in advance.

[#2]

Do you have the option to Recover without changing the hard drive partitons?  IF so then you can more than likely do this without losing the Linux partiton (although you will need to re-install your GRUB).  If you don't have this option then it will wipe out everything.  

See http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/support/downloads/PMA500339010_web.pdf  for details.

[#3]

Yes, It turns out that I did have an option to save the partitions, and yes, I did have to reinstall grub.  To do that I had to boot up from a Linux Live cd (I used Knopix Live CD) and enter the following lines in a terminal:

grub

>find /boot/grub/stage1

>root (hdx,y)

>setup (hdx)

>quit

The x in hdx and the y are the parameters returned by the find command.  I'm posting this here because it took me an hour and a half wading through linux forums to find it.

Cheers.

[#4]

Been there, done that.  So is it all working correctly now?

[#5]

Absolutely!  Thanks for the help.