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I have two hard drives, one of which (sda) is a 30 GiB SSD, the other (sdb) is a 930 GiB HDD. I have some unallocated space at the end of sdb that I want to install windows to.

Here is a picture explaining it:

Main boot disk Secondary data disk

What is the easiest way to install windows into that space? I want sda to be my main boot disk, and use GRUB from there to launch either my main ubuntu install, or my windows install.

Also, is there a good way to help preserve my /data partition? While I agree that a backup is the best option, my backup options are limited, as the only storage device I have that is big enough is limited to a 10MB/s upload, meaning it would take nearly 10 hours to make a backup. (That, plus the fact that most of the data I store there is barely even worth storing once, let alone twice. Rest assured that I will be backing up any actually important data regardless of what else I do.)

I have read How do I install Windows 7 alongside a pre-existing Ubuntu installation? and Install on Second Hard Drive with startup boot option?, but neither quite answer my question.

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What seems more practical is:

Disconnect the hard disk /dev/sda.

Install Windows in the free space of /dev/sdb (now /dev/sda)

Reconnect hard disk /dev/sda

Run to incorporate Windows to Grub:

sudo -i
update-grub
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