I have two separate hard drives: C:\
with Windows 10 and D:\
with data. Now I want to make two partitions on D
drive. One with 80GB for Ubuntu installation and other one with all data I have right now. I don't want to have dual boot screen at startup instead I want to optionally choose from which drive to boot. (By optional I mean pressing something like F10 button to choose drive without using grub.)
How can I perform such installation? Should I partition D
drive in Windows and later install Ubuntu on that partition?
Most importantly I don't want to loose my data on D
drive.
Output from sudo parted -l
Model: ATA HGST HTS541010A9 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 1000GB 1000GB primary ntfs
Model: ATA PLEXTOR PX-128M5 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 128GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 128GB 128GB primary ntfs
sdb
is my C
drive and sda
is my D
drive.
Easy:
- Install Ubuntu according to the standard instructions
- When you come to item number 8, take advanced partitioning and set the
grub
boot drive to SDB in MBR mode - continue a normal installation
Now, when you want to boot into Ubuntu, set the boot drive to /dev/sdb
(probably PLEXTOR
in your BIOS) and boot off there!
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