I have before installed ubuntu alongside windows but I had to format that drive so both ubuntu and windows were gone so I wanna know if its recommendable and if its even possible to install ubuntu in a separate hard drive that will live inside my computer say disk f: and only install ubuntu there by itself nothing more while having disk c: for windows only.Will I have to always go to bios bootsetting to tell my pc I wanna boot from disk f or c? or I can use the dual install option and somewhere in the settings will tell me to install ubuntu in disk f: while still keeping the dual bootable screen that comes by default?(I have not attempted this for fear i will mess up and install ubuntu in c rather than f by itself) or should I just install in an external ssd running in wither usb c or 3.0 .Please tell me what is the most recommendable way to run ubuntu or how you run it to avoid having the issued I had.
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Installing Ubuntu on Second Drive, Windows on First
Unplug Windows hard drive.
Install Ubuntu on second hard drive.
Plug Windows drive back in.
Boot Ubuntu hard drive.
In Terminal run:
sudo update-grub
This should automatically add a Windows menuentry to the grub boot menu.
You can change back to Windows bootloader, (first HDD), using BIOS if desired.
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