how to make second drive bootable

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Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70

11 Years Ago

The other day I installed a second internal hard drive so that I can put ubuntu on it. The primary hd has windows 7. Using the Ubuntu windows installer everything installed without a problem. When I rebooted I got a lot of error messages during bootup and finally the boot manager menu. I selected Ubuntu but it fails to start -- tells me to insert a disk. Selected Windows and it booted without a problem.

I checked bios bootup settings and it appears to me to be ok. Isn't it possible to have a bootable second hard drive, or do all operating systems have to be on the same primary hd, just in different partitions?

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caperjack 875 I hate 20 Questions

11 Years Ago

hello ,never used it myself , but i think this will help solve it .
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

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Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster · Answer 1 · 2013-07-08T16:27:44+00:00

Form what all I read on google it's not possible to boot from other than the first installed drive. So, I'm just forgetting that idea, reinstalled Windows to consume the entire hard drive. I told my sone to put me in a padded room if I ever try that again :)