1st option : get a CD including Boot-Repair

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Would dualbooting Windows mess up GRUB?

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I have Ubuntu 12.04 as my main OS, but have been thinking of doing some dualbooting, would making a partition specifically for Windows and installing it to that partition mess with GRUB? or Would it be fine?

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1st option : get a CD including Boot-Repair

The easiest way to use Boot-Repair is to burn one of the following CDs and boot on it.

Boot-Repair-Disk is a CD starting Boot-Repair automatically. (English only).

Boot-Repair is also included in Ubuntu Secured Remix CDs (multi-languages).

Get boot-repair disk

Remarks:

You can also install the ISO on a live-USB.

Please note that this ISO is not an official Ubuntu image.

2nd option : install Boot-Repair in Ubuntu

Either add ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair to your Software Sources via the Software Centre or, for speeds-sake, add it using a new Terminal session:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

Image of Boot-Repair application

You can run this from terminal sudo boot-repair