duel Linux and windows 7 on my windows 7 computer

ryannick700

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.

LegacyUser

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

ryannick700

Izzy1512 wrote:

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

it works great but i installed it on the wrong hard drive.

LegacyUser

Oh, do you need any help?

ryannick700

Izzy1512 wrote:

Oh, do you need any help?

i fix it i put it on the outer hard drive but when i try to load it up it said it needed a CD????

mfillpot

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?