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Dual booting windows and Ubuntu. Can I do a fresh install of Windows safely without messing up the Ubuntu installation?

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I have windows 10 installed on my SSD(C:), and ubuntu installed in a partition on my hard drive(D:). Will the fresh installation affect my ubuntu partition in any way? 

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in theory no, but there is a chance that Windows will overwrite Ubuntu's boot loader. to avoid this unplug the drive on which Ubuntu is installed. 

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It's also possible that Ubuntu put it's bootloader on the SSD in which case you'll have to use Super Grub Disk or similar to get into Ubuntu and regenerate grub.

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