Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'd like to install Ubuntu 10.04 on a
brand new Dell vostro v130. Dell notebooks usually come with a
recovery partition, which allows you to restore the original
Windows configuration of the notebook.  The question is: will
installing grub in the master boot record overwrite the address
of this partition, making it useless?  share|improve this
question  4 Answers 4  up vote 1 down vote accepted  No it
shouldn't. The MBR should have nothing to do with access to
partitions.  share|improve this answer MBR traditionally
contains the partition table so it has all to do with access to
partitions. That said, Grub by itself does not touch the table.
–  arrange Mar 14 '11 at 23:24  Installing grub to the mbr will
not affect the partition table, so the recovery partition will
remain intact and an entry for the recovery partition will be
automatically added to the grub menu so that you can boot from
it if needed.  share|improve this answer It should work, either
from Grub menu or via F8 during