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How do I reinstall LL safely in a win7/zorin/lubuntu/LL multiboot?
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My young son expressed a wish to have Lubuntu14.04 & LL2.8 added to his win7/zorin9 dual-boot [see setup (3) in signature below], which I've now done. However, I need to delete & reinstall the LL partitions on this multiboot system.

The situation doesn't seem (at least to me)  to be as straightforward as a win7/LL dual boot. With win7/LL I would use the win7 repair disk and enter the commands bootrec /fixboot  and then bootrec /fixmbr in the command prompt (X:\Sources>), following deletion of LL using gparted. After that, LL (or another OS) can either be safely added to win7 or win7 simply left as a single-boot system.  However, I don't think I can do that here as I have more than one distro booted with win7.

As I wish to remove & reinstall  LL2.8 in a win7/zorin9/lubuntu14.04/LL2.8 setup, can I merely delete LL in gparted and then simply reinstall it.  As I'm replacing like-with-like, I'm assuming the grublist or win7 bootloader wont get messed up - is this assumption correct or is there another method to do this?

Thanks for any help on this one.
Mike
64bit OS (32-bit on Samsung[i] netbook) installed in [i]Legacy mode on MBR-formatted SSDs (except pi which uses a micro SDHC card):
2017 - Raspberry pi 3B (4cores) ~ Arm710@1.2GHz - LibreElec, used for upgrading our Samsung TV (excellent for the task)  
2012 - Lenovo G580 2689 (2cores; 4threads] ~ i3-3110M@2.4GHz - LL3.8/Win8.1 dual-boot (LL working smoothly)
2011 - Samsung NP-N145 Plus (1core; 2threads) ~ Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz - LL 3.8 32-bit (64-bit too 'laggy')
2008 - Asus X71Q (2cores) ~ Intel T3200@2.0GHz - LL4.6/Win8.1 dual-boot, LL works fine with kernel 4.15
2007 - Dell Latitude D630 (2cores) ~ Intel T7100@1.8GHz - LL4.6, works well with kernel 4.4; 4.15 doesn't work
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How do I reinstall LL safely in a win7/zorin/lubuntu/LL multiboot? - by m654321 - 09-10-2016, 06:03 AM

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