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 <nicepenguin@webcanine.com
> <mailto:nicepenguin@webcanine.com>> 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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