Can i install hard drives with different OS's?

Question

Ok, so i'm going to build a new computer. It will have a 1TB hard drive, but I also want to install my old hard drive with it. Can i do this, or ill it interfere with the OS's or what? I mean if i have Windows on the old drive and Ubuntu Linux in the NEW 1TB hard drive, then how will it affect it? Will it be ok, or will I have to make a recovery disk to put in the different one? I'm gonna install 64-bit Ubuntu for the 1TB, but my current one is a 32 Bit Windows Ultimate. Will there be any complications toward this or should I just make a recovery disk, wipe out my entire old hard drive and restore with linux, or vice-versa? Any answers would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

Grub will probably detect the book sector on the second drive and add it as a menu entry.



And nope no problems, 32 and 64 bit kernels use the same file-system.



One thing I would suggest for your partitioning scheme is to separate out /home from / (root). mainly because you will likely never git for than 40 GB of programs under the root directly exluding stuff you put in your home folder. The entire software repository is 30 GB, so unless you will install a lot of games with wine 40 GB of the partition will be fine. Have the rest of the drive be partitioned and mounted at /home. (Include a swap equal to your RAM as well)

Answer 2

What Thankie wrote will paintings if your drives are IDE. If SATA, then plug the 2ndcontinual into an empty slot on your mom board, and in the BIOS, opt for the Win 7continual besides first. you're able to additionally get an exterior case and deploy thecontinual into that.

Answer 3

Si senor. You just need to configure the drives so they are independent (not in a RAID array) and have the proper boot setup.

Answer 4

if your processor is 64 then stick to 64 OS, likewise for 32. of course, you can have as many OS and HDD as you want. is like partitioning