Dual Booting Windows 8 & Ubuntu

DennisColes

DennisColes

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I currently have Windows 8 64 bit installed on my Crucial M4 64GB SSD.

I also have a seperate 1TB hard drive which i use for general storage with about 200gb of free space. Is it possible to install Ubuntu on this seperate internal HDD and have a dual boot setup? Windows on the SSD and Ubuntu on the other internal HDD?

If so, how do I go about doing this? I've googled, but i've never done this before and it's all quite confusing. I have no idea what grub is and i've never used linux.

I would really appreciate someone linking me to a guide that uses an example similar to my setup.

I have a MSI Z68-G45 motherboard.
 
Okay.

Change of setup.

I have 3 hard drives. 1 64 gb SSD with Windows 8. One 1TB HDD with data and 1 256gb empty HDD.

I want to install Linux on the empty HDD.

I am unsure which device i should choose for "boot loader installation". I have linked the options in the image below.

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Please explain which I should choose and why as I want to understand what's going on.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Install the bootloader to SDA your primary hard drive, unless you want to install to the home partition / (not recommended unless you know what you're doing)

it will overwrite the windows bootloader, just so you know.

Your 256gb drive SDC is formatted as NTFS and isn't empty by the way... this is the drive you want to install your linux partitions to...

you don't have UEFI I hope?
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What are the consequences of overwriting the windows loader? What should the 256gb be formatted as?

According to "My Computer" it has 217gb of 217gb. I've formatted to make sure. Why is it showing that some of the space is used? What is UEFI?
 
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