Nadim Hoque wrote:
Hey,
It seems like that you have two hard drives, one with ubuntu and the
other windows am i correct. Well if that is the case just put both
drives in the computer, but remember what drives is on what sata port
(the motherboard should have them labeled). When that is done go into
your BIOS and choose your ubuntu drive to boot first and you might
have to configure grub to detect the windoze boot loader on the second
drive. The plus side to this is that if anything goes wrong you can
easily boot into windows.
Generally speaking in most cases of dual boot systems both os are on
the same drive. The problem with this is if you need to reinstall
windoz then you will have to reinstall/reconfigure grup so you can
choose what os to boot because when you install windows on the same
drive then windows uses its own boot loader. With this two drive
scheme, when you have to reinstall windows, windows will put the
bootloader on the the same drive as windows and not touch ubuntu's in
any way.
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 12:26 PM, betty <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
my computer mobo died, but luckily since i have ubuntu :) i could
buy another computer and put my nice sata drive in it and start it
right up.
the computer i bought (new) had come with windoze 7 on a 500gb
drive. i disconnected it.
- can i put the windoze 7 sata drive on an external enclosure and
then, boot the computer in ubuntu and access the external drive
and boot the windoze (so we can access the media center functions) ?
OR
-can i make a dual boot out of the windoze drive without
destroying the media functions, so that when i boot up, i can
choose which to boot into?
i like the first choice because it seems easier, if less elegant. :)
thank you all for any help, remember i am the technically
challenged list member - keep it s simple as possible.
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that worked fine, thanks a lot !
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