ext drive as part of dual boot?

[betty]

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 at webcanine.com 
> <mailto:nicepenguin at 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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