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    Is this possible on a 1720?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by laptop23, Jul 29, 2009.

  1. laptop23

    laptop23 Notebook Consultant

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    I currently have one 160 GB 5400 rpm hard drive in my Inspiron 1720. It has Vista Home Premium 32 bit and Ubuntu 8.10 32 bit on dual boot using Grub. I am thinking of getting a 7200 rpm 500 GB internal hard drive and installing Vista Ultimate 64 bit on it (I have 4gb ram). So in the end, the 160 GB drive will have Home Premium and Ubuntu, and the 500 GB drive will have Ultimate. Is this possible? If so, when one hard drive is in use, will the other one be powered off?
     
    laptop23, Jul 29, 2009
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    I do believe that as long as you configure Grub correctly, your dual-drive-triple boot-should work fine. The unused disk definitely won't power down whilst you use the active disk, though.
     
    Commander Wolf, Jul 30, 2009
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    laptop23 Notebook Consultant

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    All right thanks.
     
    laptop23, Jul 30, 2009
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    ronss Notebook Evangelist

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    you can i believe..but you can only use one drive as the boot device...why don,t you just install all 3 operating sytems on the new drive, and then you can choose which system to go into when you boot.
     
    ronss, Aug 8, 2009
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    millermagic Rockin the pinktop

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    I have an Acer Aspire One (Yes I know completely different) running ubuntu off of a SD Card and Windows off of the Hard drive.

    The Hard drive wouldn't always spinning when I was running in ubuntu. When I tried to mount and access the hard drive it would spin up.

    But I'm not sure if that is software or hardware controlled.
     
    millermagic, Aug 9, 2009
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