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ozonora
April 19th, 2011, 02:06 PM
Hi, I've got a question.

I've installed Ubuntu several times on my Desktop computer which has a single 500 GB hard disk. I have always had problems, because I use the computer a lot for several purposes, including research, so I have many partitions. I have several Windows intallations.

The problem is that I also format the Windows partitions from time to time. The thing is that Ubuntu installs the GROOB loader, but when I reinstall Windows on another partition GROOB gets lost.

Summing it up, as I format Ubuntu and/or Windows usually, I have always had problems.

My question is this: If I use two independent hard disks, and I use the BIOS to choose from which of them start, and I use one disk for Windows partitions and the other for Ubuntu partitions, would each disk have its own loader (the first, the Windows loader, and the second, GROOB), so that I would stop having my problems?

Thank you guys.

Quackers
April 19th, 2011, 02:23 PM
Yes that can work well.
Be sure to install grub to /dev/sdb (or whatever designation your Linux drive uses during the installation. Otherwise the installer will put grub on /dev/sda.

ozonora
April 19th, 2011, 02:34 PM
Yes that can work well.
Be sure to install grub to /dev/sdb (or whatever designation your Linux drive uses during the installation. Otherwise the installer will put grub on /dev/sda.
What are /dev/sdb and /dev/sda? The two different physical disks?

Quackers
April 19th, 2011, 02:39 PM
Those are the designations that Linux will give your two drives (if they are the only two in use).

ozonora
April 19th, 2011, 03:15 PM
Thank you very much.

Quackers
April 19th, 2011, 05:29 PM
You're welcome. Good luck :-)

oldfred
April 19th, 2011, 05:34 PM
Herman has lots of detail on installing to a second drive. Not as complex as it may look since he is explaining so much.

Dual boot 2 drives
http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p24.html

GParted partitioning software - Full tutorial
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html
Screenshots of using gparted
http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning
with separate /home from aysiu
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installseparatehome