Swapping HD's with diffenernt OS's is this possible

[solorize]

Hi,

I currently have Ubuntu installed onto my laptop, on a single drive partitioned into /root /home /swap.

I now have an additional spare HD that I was thinking of installing Win XP onto.
So If I needed to use XP for a specific program then I could just swap out the
HD’s instead of having a Dual Boot system on one drive.

Could someone confirm that by swapping out the HD’s this will not
affect the Grub Boot Loader and I will be safe to do this without
screwing up my Ubuntu, as if it will screw it up I will just stick with Ubuntu on my
Laptop and forget about XP

Thanks in advance.

Mark

[darkod]

I don't see how it can mess it up because you are talking about completely removing the hdd, and installing the XP on another hdd.
You ubuntu and grub2 are safe on one hdd, and have nothing to do with the other.
If you are willing to swap hdds every time you want to boot windows, I guess it's fine.

[solorize]

Thanks Darkod,

I will give it a go and see how I get on =)

Mark