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Old 09-18-2015, 01:45 AM   #1
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Dual boot on 2 hard dsiks


Hi!
A friend of mine has a notebook with 2 internal hard disks; he wants to install W7 on one and an Ubuntu based Distribution on the other one.
Could he proceed as follows:
1. Install W7 on the second one (/dev/sdb)
2. install Ubuntu or another Linux on the first one with Grub2 into MBR
(/dev/sda)?
How is the chance that Grub2 is detecting W7 on the second hd?

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Old 09-18-2015, 02:41 AM   #2
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Better to remove the disk that will be Linux altogether. Then install Win7.
Plug the other drive in, and install Linux. Grub will find Win7.
 
  


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