Installing on One of Two Identical Hard Drives

[wedgette]

Hi, this may seem kind of silly, but this is my first time installing Ubuntu. I have two SATA Western Digital 250GB hard drives, one with Windows XP on it. I want to install Ubuntu on the other one. However, I can't figure out which hard drive to install on in the partitioning screen, since they are both identically named, and both an NTFS file system. Is there any way to tell them apart easily?

Should I just remove my XP hard drive and install to other one, or will that mess up dual booting?

[wolfen69]

yes, you could unplug the xp drive and install ubuntu. then at boot up you can choose the quick boot option in BIOS to choose which drive to boot to. or just download PartedMagic (http://partedmagic.com/) and format with that.

[wedgette]

Thanks for the fast reply!

I would prefer if I didn't have to change a BIOS setting each time I want to change what I'm booting into. Is there anyway to still get the selection box to choose which OS on startup?