[ubuntu-uk] Switched hard drives

Chris Rowson christopherrowson at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 13:44:17 GMT 2008


> > > Hi people
> > >
> > > l do hope that this hasn't been asked too many times before..
> > >
> > > l have 2 hard drives in my machine, 1 with windows 2k and the other with
> > > Ubuntu on it. l've tried having them both connected to the same ribbon
> > > and rebooting with either of the 2 hard drives powered. Sadly it doesn't
> > > seem to work so l wonder whether there's a solution..Both drives are set
> > > as masters.. l don't want to have both OSs on the same hard drive
> > >
> > > Please could someone offer a solution

I'm assuming you've got a boot loader (Windows - NT loader I think? -
or GRUB for Linux) installed on one of the hard drives. You'll need
this on the bootable drive so that your PC knows where the operating
system resides.

Chris



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