for the love of god...

[dean_machine]

Originally Posted by Izzy

Say i have a 2nd hard drive that doesn't have an OS on it. I has 450gb's of stuff but it still has enough room for ubuntu. Could i install ubuntu without formatting that drive, and losing everything? I would have to change the bios to boot from that drive to load it up, but i want to know if that's possible.

if you want all that stuff on the 2nd hard drive on the same logical drive (same partition or drive letter) as the ubuntu OS, I don't think that's possible, but you can split up some of the free space on the 2nd drive and set it apart for ubuntu.

Originally Posted by who_cares973

i would also like to know if you could use an external HD to boot ubuntu

That's a good question, I'm not sure, but I think you could. All I think is required is that one OS and the boot configurations is on the master drive (the first, or only, internal hd) although, if you want windows along with linux OSs and want to be able to access all of them, windows has to be the first one installed and on the master drive. Maybe it's called primary drive, I forget. It's been a while since I've had a class that had to do with installing operating systems and building and fixing computers.