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  1. Bare Foot Kid
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    Good to see you getting it sorted and thanks!



    Have a look at this one to change the boot menu entry.


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  3. crodgers
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    gregrocker said:
    You did well. Was Rebuild MBR sufficient or did you also have to run Repair(s)?

    It's too bad you didn't originally boot the Win7 installer so it would have claimed C whenever booted as Win7 is designed. Because you ran the installer from Vista it tied up C so Win7 couldn't use it at all even after hasta la vista.
    I wanted to install Win 7 Pro 64 bit, but since I already had 32bit Vista, that meant a clean install - which was fine for me - but then I ran into the "I don't recognize the DVD drive)" - THAT IT IS RUNNING ON!!! i don't get that error. You are installing from the drive - how can you not let me install..... Anyway (this was last summer), I did not find a resolution for my drive at the time, so I was able to do a clean install of 32bit in a new partition. I did not understand the whole MBR until now (thanks to this site and you kind folks).
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  4. crodgers
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    Thanks, Bare Foot Kid! Easy Peasy Lemon Queezy!

    Any suggestions before I install UbuntuStudio into C? Should I let Ubuntu do the boot managing (which makes half of this work all for not, but I am fine with that)? Or can I have UbuntuStudio use the Windows 7 boot manager? Is there an advantage either way? Should I ask this in a different forum?
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  6. Bare Foot Kid
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    Hello mate.


    As you have several HDDs put Linux on a separate HDD from Windows and use the BIOS one-time boot menu specific to your motherboard so there will be no need for a Windows/Grub managed boot-loader at all.



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  7. crodgers
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    Thanks for the suggestion. So, I have 2x1TB mirrored, 500GB with Win 7, 1TB empty (formatted for windows). I will add 1 more TB internal and 1TB external (swap off with an old 500GB external). So, internally, I will have two 1TB drives free. Do I need to do something to make one bootable prior to installing UbuntuStudio? Or do I just put in the new drive and UbuntuStudio install will take care of it?
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  8. theog
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    Bare Foot Kid said:
    Hello mate.


    As you have several HDDs put Linux on a separate HDD from Windows and use the BIOS one-time boot menu specific to your motherboard so there will be no need for a Windows/Grub managed boot-loader at all.


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    • HP/Compaq - Esc
    • Sony - F2
    • Acer – F12
    • Gateway - F10
    • eMachnes - F10
    • Gigabyte – F12
    • Toshiba - F12
    • Dell - F12
    • IBM/Lenovo - the blue Thinkvantage button
    Use the BIOS boot menu.

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