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Installing Ubuntu on an Asus G75VW with a dual hard drive setup

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I've been searching online and cannot find an answer to this question. I have an Asus G75VW with dual hard drives. I have windows 7 installed on the c drive. I want a dual boot setup that will prompt me to choose an OS upon boot. Does Ubuntu have to loaded to a partition on the c drive to permit this setup or can I save it to the d drive and still be prompted upon boot?

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answered 3 Years ago impisaso · Accepted Answer

There are many ways to do this.

Use your BIOS one-time boot selection menu.

In this case, you install Ubuntu on the secondary drive, and leave Windows 7 on the primary drive. You can press F12 during start-up (that's the typical key combination for Asus laptops, but yours might be different) to choose which hard disk to boot from.

Install Ubuntu on the secondary drive

In this case, you install Ubuntu on the secondary drive, then choose to install the bootloader on the primary drive. This uses Ubuntu's GRUB boot loader to manage the entries available for booting. More information on how to achieve this can be found here: Install on Second Hard Drive with startup boot option?

Install Ubuntu on the primary drive

In this case, you install Ubuntu alongside Windows on the primary drive. This requires you to partition your hard disk, and is the only choice for laptops with 1 hard disk. This also uses Ubuntu's GRUB boot loader to manage the entries available for booting.

In all three cases, you have the choice of selecting an OS on startup.