Should I move Ubuntu 11.10 to another HD?

**Oldhacker** · October 23rd, 2011

Having just solved the problem of not being able to Boot into Ubuntu (turned out to just be a bad BIOS battery) I would still like to move Ubuntu to a different HD from the one where I keep my Back In Time backups. To me, this seems to be a better insurance against HD failure than having the OS and the backups on one physical HD.

When I installed Ubuntu 11.10 using the default settings, it only offered to put it on my third HD, which is where I already had my Back In Time backups. This puzzles me as to why it did not give the option of either of the other two HD's.

**Paddy Landau** · October 23rd, 2011

If you want to control the location of the installation and your home partitions, you need to choose a manual set-up. Don't use the defaults.

**Oldhacker** · October 23rd, 2011

Thanks for the input. You are correct that I should not use the defaults. In one's haste it is all too easy to take the short road.

However, in the interim I tried a different approach. Instead of moving the OS, I moved the Back in Time backup location to another drive. That was an easy way to separate the two that had escaped me before.