Hey guys, I am going to try to explain this as best I can I have 1 drive with windows on it (le...

[G+_Jack Corbeil]

Hey guys,

I am going to try to explain this as best I can. I have 1 drive with windows on it (lets call that drive A). I have another drive with nothing on it (call it drive B). I want to connect both via sata. I want to put linux mint on drive B (installed via usb) and not partition drive A. Can you give me some step by steps on how I could put linux on drive B while connecting it to sata and installing via a usb drive.

Thanks,

Jack

[G+_Will O'Meara]

You should be able to do that using the normal Linux mint install wizard. Just boot from the USB while your empty hd is installed point the installer to the empty disk and instruct it to use the whole disk. It should handle adding windows and itself to a boot menu but if it doesn't just use the Linux utility "boot-repair" to build your boot menu, also "grub-customizer" is a good utility to edit the menu once it is built.

[G+_Brian Moses]

Install windows first

[G+_Brian Moses]

when mint asks .. choose the windows disk for the boot disc .. grub will bring it together and give a menu at boot to choose  mint or windows

[G+_Jack Corbeil]

Alright. You both mentioned grub.

A) what is that?

B) how do it get it?

C) how do I use it?

If you haven't noticed, I am new at this stuff.

[G+_Brian Moses]

when your computer boots you may see the basic input output screen (black n white) then it falls over to a default (from bios settings) boot device .. if you are booting from a mint disc the bios should be set to your dvd/cd device.... install mint to the second drive and when asked where grub or / boot loader should reside choose the drive where windows is installed

[G+_Ben Reese]

Yeah, Grub is the bootloader used by Linux, but it will also recognize Windows partitions/disks. Every OS has a bootloader but you don't usually see it unless you have a multi-boot setup like what you're going with. If you have both Windows and Linux installed, you'll have a prompt when you boot asking whether you want Linux or Windows.

 

Just be careful not to install Linux over your Windows installation.

[G+_Jack Corbeil]

thanks guys!