Installing Windows *after* FreeBSD

[jd1008]

On 11/04/2014 02:24 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> On 11/04/14 14:55, Christian Baer wrote:
>> 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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>
>
> Run winders as a VM ? $0.02, no more, no less .....
>
>
Hey Christian Baer,
It is easy to restore FreeBSD bootloader.
Just go to this web page:

http://lqman.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/restore-freebsd-bootloader-after-installing-windows/