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I was having vista on my laptop and I installed openSUSE 11.2. But Vista now appears as as folder named Windows/C/ etc in main file system. How do I get dual OS?

Code:

ind@linux-mwxv:~/Desktop> sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
root's password:
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Apr 9 15:29:28 BST 2010
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader

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