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Dual Boot Question

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Enceladus

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Lately, I've been thinking about switching to a distro of Linux. I was considering Ubuntu since I've heard it was fairly n00b friendly.

I was at Best Buy yesterday and found a Seagate SATA 320GB HDD for $60 retail and since I thought it was too good of a deal to pass up, I got one. I could use it for back up, but I already have a 400GB HDD that I use for storage and I could just back up my files on that if needed.

Now my main question is, would I be able to install Ubuntu on the HDD I just got and Dual Boot it with my main HDD that runs XP Pro? I'm not sure if I want to partition my main HDD and have both on it. I would if it would be better overall, but I was hoping to use one HDD for Windows and another for Ubuntu.

Would it be easy to Dual Boot from separate HDDs?

The rig I want to do it on is in my sig.
 
Yes, it's doable, it really doesn't matter if you have both OSes on separate hard drives. The Ubuntu installer will handle the process of installing a bootloader and configuring it for dual booting.

Before you make a plunge you may want to try a Linux distro out via a LiveCD or virtualizing an instance.
 
Would I be able to run Ubuntu from a LiveCD? If so, how?

I would like to try it before installing it, so that would be a good idea.
 
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Download an .iso from there (don't check the box for alternate desktop CDs, as that will not be a live CD). Then you can either burn the ISO (as an image) onto a disc, or install a VM software like VirtualBox or VMWare Server and create a VM pointing to the ISO file.
 
You can run the live cd no problem... just boot from the Ubuntu cd and select "boot or install Ubuntu" and it will load itself into memory, you can play around all you want, just don't hit the install icon on the desktop and no permanent changes to your system will be made. When you done, shut down, pull the cd and you'll be able to boot back into Windows just fine.

Have fun!
 
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