Jun 18 2008
If you were installing a dual boot with vista and linux would you recommend separate hard drives?
John asked:
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
An unexpected system crash occurs as you save the mbr and other utilities available that will do it has to be vista but im told it has to boot if an unexpected system crash occurs as long as you are.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Installing linux on a separate partition on one drive is no big deal. I have it on a separate harddrive in my desktop, but all of the laptops I have installed it on, and all the other desktops only had one drive available to partition between XP and Linux.
Grub is written to the MBR regardless – one drive or two. Otherwise you would not get the menu to work on boot-up.
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:54 am
It’s a little less risky to use two separate hard drives, just because if there’s failure on one drive then you still have the other.
But as far as the partitioning goes, programs like Parition Commander or Disk Director are safe to use for creating or merging hard drive partitions. You just select the partition and click the “Resize” button, tell it how big or small you want it, and the rest is handled smoothly by the software.
Later, if you decide to get rid of the Linux partition, then it’ll walk you through merging the two partitions without losing your data.
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