Installing on SSD

[bower4311]

I have a 64GB Crucial SSD on the way. I am running 13.04, I've recently run 12.04 and 12.10 and for my luck 13.04 has been the most stable for me. Well, I'm ditching my HDD for an SSD. I have a 3T external for movies and music. I don't really do anything extraordinary on Ubuntu. I just like the quickness and stability. I am considering dual booting with XP, I am stuck on Word 2010 and can't break it, I have one year left of college then I will never need it for what I do now. I may also download the occasional program only for XP. Will I run into problems dual booting on the SSD? Or just search dual boot XP and Ubuntu and it shouldn't be a big deal? Any other quirks with the SSD?

[oldfred]

SSD & XP do not go together well as I found out. But then I was somewhat looking for a way to convince myself to stop booting XP anyway.

With the SSD you need BIOS set for AHCI and XP does not have those drivers. If a new install of XP it may be possible to install them. I only looked for ways after the fact and it was too much for a system I really did nto want anyway.

Also your 3TB drive will not be seen by XP, it has no drivers for gpt partitioned drives. I dual booted XP on a MBR drive and my older 160GB hard drive which I converted to gpt to learn about gpt. I also use gpt on my SSD.

[bower4311]

SSD & XP do not go together well as I found out. But then I was somewhat looking for a way to convince myself to stop booting XP anyway.

With the SSD you need BIOS set for AHCI and XP does not have those drivers. If a new install of XP it may be possible to install them. I only looked for ways after the fact and it was too much for a system I really did nto want anyway.

Also your 3TB drive will not be seen by XP, it has no drivers for gpt partitioned drives. I dual booted XP on a MBR drive and my older 160GB hard drive which I converted to gpt to learn about gpt. I also use gpt on my SSD.


Then no XP it is. I'm surrounded by enough Windows computers...unfortunately. Meaning I have to always fix them. I'll just be installing 13.04 and I'll be happy.

[oldfred]

How new is system? Does it have both UEFI & BIOS?

Since you have gpt on your 3TB drive, I might suggest gpt on your SSD. I was planning on a new system soon after my then new SSD so I use gpt and left space for an efi partition, but had to add the bios_grub partition to boot with my current BIOS. Still have not build new system, but hope to soon.


fred@fred-Precise:~$ sudo parted /dev/sde unit s print
Model: ATA SSD G2 series 64 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sde: 117231408s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2048s 616447s 614400s fat32 boot
2 616448s 618495s 2048s bios_grub
3 618496s 58925055s 58306560s ext4 Precise
4 58925056s 117229743s 58304688s ext4 Quantal

[bower4311]

How new is system? Does it have both UEFI & BIOS?

Since you have gpt on your 3TB drive, I might suggest gpt on your SSD. I was planning on a new system soon after my then new SSD so I use gpt and left space for an efi partition, but had to add the bios_grub partition to boot with my current BIOS. Still have not build new system, but hope to soon.


fred@fred-Precise:~$ sudo parted /dev/sde unit s print
Model: ATA SSD G2 series 64 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sde: 117231408s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2048s 616447s 614400s fat32 boot
2 616448s 618495s 2048s bios_grub
3 618496s 58925055s 58306560s ext4 Precise
4 58925056s 117229743s 58304688s ext4 Quantal



I don't know much about computers compared to most, I just like Ubuntu's reliability and simplicity.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2406888

That is my motherboard, it has UEFI.

[oldfred]

How you boot install media is how it installs. So if you boot Ubuntu flash drive installer from UEFI in UEFI mode it installs in UEFI mode. If you turn off UEFI and turn on CSM/Legacy/BIOS and boot flash drive in BIOS mode it installs in BIOS mode.
You can also tell as in UEFI the installer gives you a grub menu, where BIOS has the accessibility icons (tiny keyboard & person at bottom of screen) for a few seconds at startup.

If installing UEFI mode, see link in my signature.

[TNFrank]

Not to change the subject but, couldn't you use something in the LibreOffice suite to do your Word stuff with? :confused: