O.K. thats out in the open.
I personally did this with XP.I've read it works with Win7 also.
Now...say you have xp,or even win7 installed,and want to dual boot.You install your brand new U.E 2.4,and reboot...Where the heck did my M$ partition go? (Take note this doesn't happen often,but it can) Relax...Its O.K. Heres four non geeky steps If you don't have an M$ cd to recover your M$ mbr...well 3 non geeky steps,but hey Its easy.
1) Boot with the U.E live dvd or USB
2) go to the web and download the ms-sys deb(64bitor32bit depending what live dvd your using.(if you enable the repo's on the live disk you can get it from synaptics too.)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/ms-sys
3)in a terminal...this is the geeky one.
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ms-sys --mbr /dev/xxX
xxx is what ever drive you M$ system is installed on.You can use the partition editor to figure this out.
4) Reboot.
You should see the Grub screen with your M$ OS in it.That wasn't so hard now...was it?
"Hey Cell it didn't work" your thinking (maybe yelling)...well you might have to update grub.The non geeky way to do it is to boot into recovery...remember the "hold shift" I mentioned above? When your into recovery scroll down to update GRUB,and press enter.
Cell
Keep in mind that GRUB2 is still evolving.In the past I always said "don't update.If it ain't broke.Don't fix it" Well now I do recommend updating...just be wary of what is updating on your machine.
I would like to thank Ranch Hand a.k.a. Widget for his hard work testing GRUB2.
Cell
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2