Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:55:11 +0100 From: Christian Baer <cb@icerats.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD Message-ID: <1871133.1mJRhnQs1i@falbala>
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Good evening, everyone! A few days ago I bought myself a new computer - at long last! :-) I have been working with FreeBSD for quite a while now, but only ever on servers, never on a desktop-computer or a workstation. This time I took special care to make sure FreeBSD would run on all the hardware. Only catch: The case has no room for a FreeBSD badge. :-) I guess I was a little over-enthusiastic and installed FreeBSD right away. As you can see, I managed to get it running, including X, nvdidia-driver and sound. ;-) At times, I still like gaming and although I do not spend most of my computer time doing that, I did leave some room on my SSD for Windows. To be exact, I created three primary partitions (MBR style, Win7 is a pain with UEFI), one 100MB, one ~120GB (these two are for Windows) and one ~118GB for FreeBSD. My problem is that should I install Windows now, FreeBSD won't boot anymore, because Windows will replace the boot loader. If there is any documentation about using FreeBSD and Windows on one machine, it usually assumes that Windows was installed first. Does anybody know of some documentation or howto to install these two OSs the other way around? As you can imagine, I don't really fancy the idea of starting from scratch here. Thanks for any suggestions! Best regards, Chris
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