OK, well you've probably had to to do this fewer times than me, and you won't ever need to do it again anyway.*
Trust me, it's the easiest way to hit a bootloader, boot into linux and restore the mbr after xp nuked it... if your mb is not usb-bootable, like mine.
Saves faffing around with tedious slow boot from a live disk, and chroots.
It's true the boot floppy could die in the meantime, but it's a doddle to recreate (best to test it first though).
*unless you need to resq gran's old pc. Oh wait, gran's vey unlikely to have a dual boot with linux. Never mind.
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"Giant pig hot air balloon crashes after tangling with a cowboy-shaped one"
On a proper computer I have never let myself do a single drive dual boot. I didn't trust any OS to live happily with another. I always used a totally separate drive and picked the drive to boot from at POST.
Well yeah, that was kinda exhausting having that happen every night, then one day I realised I could stop putting a pack of mints on my pizzas and by strange coincidence it hasn't reoccurred since.
That's what he used to have - I can only assume that the minty taste doesn't do it for him anymore and he's moved onto harder herbs. Oregano, basil and dill could all be contenders. Unless he's a ponce and goes in for saffron.
bastard by name