[Wolves] Adding a new hard drive

Andrew Lewis andrew at monkeysailor.co.uk
Tue Mar 10 16:02:24 UTC 2009


2009/3/10 Howard Berry <howard at berry-loubaud.com>:
> Hello All,
> I have been quite happy using Ubuntu so that I decided to get rid of XP .
> This was precipitated by the fact that I was also running out of disk space.
> Now I have been given some work to do using Sage and "Microsaft" Office. So
> I will have to put XP back. I have bought another hard drive and propose to
> move the current drive with Ubuntu on to the subsiduary bay so that I can
> install Windows where it will be happiest on the first hard drive.
> What I want to know is how I can get Ubuntu to put a new GRUB on the first
> hard drive without having to re install Ubuntu. Will I need to get rid of
> the old GRUB MBR?

 I think http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_installed_first.htm?page=5
will give you the info you need.... but I also recommend using
virtualbox or crossover for business software.

spline



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