BartlebyScrivener
May 23rd, 2009, 08:15 PM
I have been reading dual boot with 2 hard drive threads. Confusing! I am posting this just in case someone has been here before. I have a fresh install of XP on an oldish IDE drive (which Windows sees as Drive D). I have a new SATA drive where I'd like to install Ubuntu (Windows sees it as C: but it's raw or unformatted).
I am at the "Prepare Disk Space" screen of the Ubuntu installation. As long as I have "Install Them Side by Side selected" the Install program sees XP and the IDE drive and the SATA drive below it.
If I select the SATA drive and "Use entire disk" or "Use largest continuous free space" for where I want to put Ubuntu 9.04, it says at the top, "This computer has no operating systems on it." I'm guessing that if I install this way, when I reboot, I won't be able to select XP at a boot menu?
What to do? Must I specify partitions manually or something?
Thanks for any help.
I am at the "Prepare Disk Space" screen of the Ubuntu installation. As long as I have "Install Them Side by Side selected" the Install program sees XP and the IDE drive and the SATA drive below it.
If I select the SATA drive and "Use entire disk" or "Use largest continuous free space" for where I want to put Ubuntu 9.04, it says at the top, "This computer has no operating systems on it." I'm guessing that if I install this way, when I reboot, I won't be able to select XP at a boot menu?
What to do? Must I specify partitions manually or something?
Thanks for any help.