Keith Gregory wrote: > norman wrote: > >> < big snip > >> >> So, things are not as simple as I first thought. The thing is, the hard >> drive I am thinking of adding is from my old machine and has Windows XP >> already installed on it. Does this make much of a difference to the >> advice so far given? >> >> Norman >> >> >> > The way I would do that is > > 1 Disconnect Ubuntu drive > 2 Add Windows hard drive as primary drive, Boot and install drivers etc. > 3 Reconnect Ubuntu drive configured as slave > 4 Boot from Ubuntu install disk using repair option see if that will > reconfigure grub for you > > > kfg > >
I'd add: Step 0 - Backup important things on both drives, just in case. -Matt Daubney -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
