<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 26/07/10 14:49, Liam Proven wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTikDgmePYw6nCfLR3PrGfH=otbi+QtMDaVt1-h+6@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 26 July 2010 14:40, Norman Silverstone <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:norman@littletank.org"><norman@littletank.org></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Some time ago I had a desktop machine which had been set up with 2 HDDs one running Ubuntu and the other Windows XP Pro. Unfortunately this machine is no longer in the land of the living and I am considering setting up another machine with a similar configuration. The intention would be Ubuntu 10.04 on one drive and XP Pro on the other. (I still have the old HDD with XP Pro installed and would like to use that.) I remember that I needed to make an addition to the Ubuntu boot menu and I can find the details of that addition. However, I expect that the current version of Grub is not the same as the old one and would much appreciate it if someone would be kind enough to tell me whether or not what I propose is feasible. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> It certainly is and you don't need 2 HDs to do it. A single large one will do fine. Just install Windows *first*. Note that you probably can't move an existing install of XP from one machine to another; usually, the drivers etc. for one machine mean that the installed copy will not work on different hardware. Ubuntu, OTOH, is very likely to work fine when transplanted. When installing Windows, leave (say) half the HD unused. Install Ubuntu after Windows - it will sort out the dual-boot stuff for you. If you have 2 disks, no problem; put Windows on the 1st and Ubuntu on the 2nd, and again, Ubuntu will do all the necessary legwork for you. The thing to avoid is putting Linux on 1st, /then/ Windows. At best, this will stop Linux booting; at worst, it will result in a non-working Windows install /and/ a now-non-working Linux. </pre> </blockquote> To add to the above advice, some references I found useful for the new grub bootloader seen sonce 9.10 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2</a> HTH -Mark </body> </html>