[ubuntu-uk] Adding a second hard drive

[Adam Bagnall]

Howard Berry wrote:
> Hello All,
> I have been quite happy using Ubuntu so that I decided to get rid of 
> XP . This was precipitated by the fact that I was also running out of 
> disk space. Now I have been given some work to do using Sage and 
> "Microsaft" Office. So I will have to put XP back. I have bought 
> another hard drive and propose to move the current drive with Ubuntu 
> on to the subsiduary bay so that I can install Windows where it will 
> be happiest on the first hard drive.
> What I want to know is how I can get Ubuntu to put a new GRUB on the 
> first hard drive without having to re install Ubuntu. Will I need to 
> get rid of the old GRUB MBR?
> I suppose there is info somewhere on this, but you may be able to give 
> me the griff straight away!
> Thanks,
> Howard Berry
>
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As neither sage nor office require 3d acceleration you could run windows 
in a virtual machine using virtualbox. This would prevent any problems 
with grub being overwritten and you wouldn't have to reboot to do the 
windows work. The only caveat is that you need a fair bit of ram (enough 
for both ubuntu and the windows vm) but that's pretty cheap these days.

Adam.