I decided to install Ubuntu next to Windows, but on separate ssd drives. Windows is installed by default on the SX8200PNP-512GT-S drive, and I installed Ubuntu on the second Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB drive. Or more precisely, on one of the partitions of this drive. I'm wondering what this even means and if it's normal that in the bios, in the boot option priorities and in round brackets (), in both cases SX8200PNP-512GT-S the first of the drives. Could it be that my Ubuntu is installed incorrectly? Here's a picture of what is going on.
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The description is lacking some details of your installations, like: where the boot loader is (disk A or B), and what boot loader is used? What was the order of OS installations that you have carried out (which OS first)? (EDIT: no picture with an error, no picture with round brackets you are referring to.)
However:
In a nutshell, all systems that you want to have bootable on your computer (using one distinct BIOS setup/setting) shall be configured on a distinct boot-loader on a disk chosen as booting disk in BIOS. This way you should expect a boot menu on power-on where you choose the system to continue with.
Additionally:
- The binaries of the operating systems on that computer can be located on any disk (i.e. the same disk, different partitions, or different disks).
- Linux may be perceived easier to install its bootloader which also includes another (Windows) OS start-point, than configuring the dual boot in Windows. And this may be subjective.
If you installed Windows on one disk, then installed Linux on another disk, separately, with no common configuration of the boot-loader that the computer would use for booting, then you will have to manually choose in BIOS which disk you want your computer to boot from each time you want to boot the other OS. Tedious this may seem, it is a possible (I don't think it is the first choice for the most though) way to go if the installations have their separate boot loaders on separate disks.

