Guest helloimtim Posted March 21, 2005 CID Share Posted March 21, 2005 I am considering getting a second hard drive. I thought about just putting a partition on this hard drive with is 80 gig and going with a dual boot setup that way. Seems like with xp trying to dual boot creates problems from everything I have seen. I want to play with Linux. Learn it and all that. Does it matter if I use an internal or external hard drive? I just thought an external would be easier to mess with and install. What do you think. I can use any and all suggestions. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netmasta Posted March 21, 2005 CID Share Posted March 21, 2005 Well before you get a second hard drive, you should know that an external one would be a little slower and a little more expensive than in internal drive. I think an external drive needs a external power source too. Also if you get an external drive, it can be very easy to move from one comp to another. Other than that, I can guess that most everything else is the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reno Posted March 21, 2005 CID Share Posted March 21, 2005 With an internal make sure you have a big enough power supply .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest helloimtim Posted March 22, 2005 CID Share Posted March 22, 2005 Think it would be better to partition? Running xp home with sp2? If so which program. I have tons of space on this drive. Just not sure with xp if its a good idea or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted March 22, 2005 CID Share Posted March 22, 2005 something like partition magic? xp should be the last OS installed (thats what Microsoft says anyway) so other OSes won't overwrite its files or something... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted March 22, 2005 CID Share Posted March 22, 2005 helloimtim i dont know how much u want to play but there is a version of linux u can run from a cd drive so u insert a cd in the cd-room and u restart and linux starts just like a normal linux was installed do u want me to find you the version of linux i think its suze that does it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted March 22, 2005 CID Share Posted March 22, 2005 Knoppix Linux (Boots from CD) http://www.knoppix.net/ Convert a Windows system to dual-boot Linux on a second drive http://enterprise.linux.com/enterprise/05/02/16/1919205.shtml?tid=129&tid=49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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