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27 Dec 12
I have a windows 7 computer and i just got a second hard drive and a hard drive enclosure for it would works on my laptop it has 298 GB of free space on it i wont to use that hard drive for Linux but not the one build in my computer how do i do that and a download link for the Linux software wold be nice to.
28 Dec 12
Well, that all depends on which version of Linux you want. (There are thousands of versions of Linux.) I will give you a link for the most popular version:
Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
How to Install Ubuntu 12.04: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Ubuntu-12-04-LTS-266201.shtml
To install Ubuntu on your external drive, AND NOT YOUR IN-BUILT DRIVE, you need to select the "Something Else" Bubble on the "Allocate Drive Space" menu. Then, set up your partition, and select your external drive. After that, it's all gravy from there.
Hope this helps, and if you have any questions, just let me know.
Izzy
28 Dec 12
Izzy1512 said:
Well, that all depends on which version of Linux you want. (There are thousands of versions of Linux.) I will give you a link for the most popular version:
28 Dec 12
Izzy1512 said:
Oh, do you need any help?
28 Dec 12
That sounds like the bootloader is pointing to the wrong drive to find the Ubuntu boot partition, I was thinking that might happen. Can you attempt a re-installation and tell the boot option to boot on the first drive?
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