alan c wrote: > Keith Powell wrote: >> I was rather scared of doing anything which may adversely affect the XP >> drive, such as installing GRUB on it, as I didn't want to go to the >> palava of having to reinstall Windows. >> >> Now, having read your replies, I'm confident of having the two drives >> internally and selecting them with GRUB. I'll do it over the week-end. > > The biggest risk if there is one, with a dual boot install is the > possible resize of the ntfs partiton I would guess, so I always > suggest scandisk well and defrag at least once if not more, to ensure > tidiest hard drive, Also obviously to have a backup in case of > unforseen disaster. > > However, if you use a second hd for ubuntu, there is very little > touched on the first drive at all. So (almost) no risk to data. > > If you do go for a ubuntu reinstall, an easy way would be to leave a > large unpartitioned space on the drive (maybe the whole drive, > partitions previously deleted), if you want a semi automagical > install, anyway. >
Thanks for the additional information, Alan. Much appreciated! Cheers Keith -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
