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Can I boot linux from another hard drive?

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PCpwnz
Well right now i currently have a 500GB HDD with my windows xp on it and a 160GB internal HDD. I am wondering if I can buy another internal HDD and boot linux off of that. Is that possible? Thanks alot!
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t_russell
Yea.
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whe3ls
ya. i did that for a while. its not to hard
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-iceblade^
yeah. you can. you could also partition one of your drives...

i suggest you install it to a separate partition / drive, and have windows installed BEFORE you install linux, to avoid having bootloader issues.
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PCpwnz
How about this. Can i partition my 160 Storage HDD so that it is 80/80 and put linux on one 80?
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t_russell
Yes you could do it that way. Make the system partition first and then make the storage partition once you have the OS loaded.
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thiussat
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Originally Posted by PCpwnz View Post
How about this. Can i partition my 160 Storage HDD so that it is 80/80 and put linux on one 80?
Do you already have files on this storage drive you wish to keep? If not, then just use the whole 160GB for Linux.
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