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kaddy

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From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 192

Dual boot 7 and Arch [SOLVED]

Hey archers....

I have 2 hard drives.... 1 has windows 7 and the other is blank at the moment.....
I want to reinstall Arch on that blank drive... What do u reckon is the best way to do this.....

I was thinking of Installing arch on the 2nd drive and when the grub installation comes, maybe put it on the Windows Drive.....

anybody successfully running it that way without problems?

either that or i'll install arch and grub on the 2nd drive and just choose which drive to boot from the bios....

opinions??? what is working for you?

cheers
kaddy

Last edited by kaddy (2010-01-16 03:39:49)

M177ER

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 148

Re: Dual boot 7 and Arch [SOLVED]

Does your BIOS let you boot from either hard drive? If so I would install grub on the 2nd hard drive MBR and then point it to hard drive 1 to boot Windows.

That's what I did. I had initally had grub on the first drive but after I had to reinstall Windows I just put it on the 2nd hard drive. Works well.

Last edited by M177ER (2010-01-15 10:41:53)

kaddy

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From: Perth, Western Australia

Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 192

Re: Dual boot 7 and Arch [SOLVED]

all good
Installed Grub to the 2nd drive and linked it to windows 7 on the first drive.... awesome