Dual Boot

[MouthBoy]

Hi All

Its been a while since I have played with any dual booting systems and wanted to really know the best way of doing it. Treat me like I know nothing about it.

Basically I have an old 1Tb HDD and I thought I would give Ubuntu a muck about with on it. I want to attach it up in my PC and when I boot up the PC to have an option to boot either from that drive of my windows drive. I will not be sharing any drives though, so for example when I am in Windows the Ubuntu 1Tb drive is not see and vice versa.

So yea...is there an obvious 'slap my self round the face' easy way of going about this?

Thanks

EDIT: I dont know if it makes any difference to what you will tell me, but currently I have a F3 500gb with 2 partions (windows and games) and a 2Tb drive (uni and media).

I guess I am wanting:

Boot into Windows: 500gb and 2tb drive seen
Boot into Ubuntu: 1Tb seen

 

[SiriusB]

Whichever OS you choose they will see the other HDDs installed on the computer. There is no way around that short of either removing the file/unmounting in Windows/Ubuntu or physically unplugging the drives.

I dunno why you are worried about them seeing the other partitions/drives. Unless you do something stupid they will not interfere with each other.

 

[MouthBoy]

Ah ok then.

I was hoping there would be a way round it just to make life easier.

So would I similar mount the ISO, install to the other drive and on next boot my computer will ask me to choose or something?