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On 11/09/12 18:40, Cramptons wrote: > Hope this catches you in time. > Windows 7 update can screw up a dual boot machine. Suggest you make > sure you update Windows first and then switch update off. Should Ms > update work in the future you can always switch it back on again. > John. > With all due respect, you're doing it wrong. As much as I dislike windows, I have *never* seen windows/microsoft update trash a dual boot setup and I used to administer 4,000 hospital workstations that were windows boxes during the day and rebooted into a distributed openmpi cluster during the night for processing the lab guys gene sequencing data. The windows side of things sometimes blew up even on an internal WSUS setup - with full patch and regression testing for our corporate images - but they never once wrecked the linux partitions or touched the grub boot loader. As I said, you should use dd to backup the MBR anyway, which protects you from the obvious point of failure. Additionally, I suggest you never, ever run an unpatched windows box: completely turning off windows update is a remarkably stupid thing to do (selectively managing windows update yourself is another matter entirely and recommended). Actually, forget "suggest": the internet at large *demands* you never run an unpatched windows machine because it will be compromised and then we'll all have to put up with your spam-spewing zombied mail relay/DDOS bot. No offence Cramptons, but that is the worst advice I've seen for a long time. Apologies if I've come across harshly but I have to deal with the consequences of unpatched windows boxes all day, every day and I'm not keen to see more added to the millions already out there. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq