My experience with Windows is that it needs to be installed on the primary disk. In order to install it on a secondary drive, I first hooked up the new disk as primary. I then installed Windows on it. Afterward, I made the disk secondary and in Grub did a drive mapping to make Windows think it was on the primary disk. My experience was with Windows XP so I don't know if things are different with Windows 7. My Windows entry in grub.conf: title Windows Bootloader map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 ----- Original message ----- From: "PJ Crump" <pjcrump at bitstream.net> To: "TCLUG List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 21:21:19 -0500 Subject: [tclug-list] Assistance with Dual Booting I have a perfectly fine Ubuntu installation and I need to dual boot with Windows 7. So what I want to do is install Win7 on a new hard drive and from the hours of googling I have been doing, I have not found a consistent way of doing this. (most directions point to doing it on the same HD and I see some vague references to issues with Win7 having dual boot problems) Has anyone done this and have some directions that they can share?? Thanks in adv. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list