I want to install Windows and ubuntu on my main hdd and to a second hdd i will have all the programs,files etc from the windows os and ubuntu os ....Can i do this?.
Yes*.
*you can divide the first hdd into the needed partitions (1 for windows C drive, and several for the Linux system, the swap space (Linux swaps RAM to a dedicated partition) and some space for the stuff needed to boot Linux. I'm a little bit hazy on the topic at the moment, but I think you would need to install windows first.
For the second HDD you could do a single partition and mount that as your home folder in Linux, although I would recommend placing your home folder on the first drive and mount the second HDD as /windows or whatever. On HDD2 you have to take care to use NTFS or FAT32 as file system otherwise Windows will not be able to read it. Generally Linux will read windows partitions fine, but Windows will not even see a drive formated in EXT4 for example (technically wrong, but I mean it will not show up when you open windows explorer).
What HDD sizes are we talking here?
In terms of Linux distro I would recommend Kubuntu or one of the nicer Mints, because I like the start menu.
Until i fix my 1TB WB i have 36gb and 232gb
36GB? That is kind of odd. What is that? A tiny mSATA drive?
I don't think is 36gb the actual size but this is what the windows shows me xD.Its 2'5" i borrow it from my ps3 xD
I forgot to mention the second HDD is external drive usb 3. The 232gb
I would toss the PS3-Drive and open the USB 3.0 case and run that as an internal drive. Or even better: Get a decent harddrive, ask your grandmother, uncle, parents, neighbour or other people for some money to keep your system usable.
In general I would not recommend using a dual boot system with that small amount of HDD space. A Linux Swap partition usually eats about 4 Gigabytes.
when i buy new 1TB its ok to use on single drive dual boot?.
Single drive dual boot is okay. 1TB is plenty (for most users). I would do something like >100 for Windows (more if you want to install steam games, >100 for all Linux stuff and the rest for Data.
Oh, try your Linux in a virtual machine first (I recommend vmware, as the setup is fairly easy) and then get your nose wet in Linux in the safe environment of a VM. Try some differnet distros (start with something ubuntu based since the wiki pages for that are quite good) and then decide on the final one.
Alternatively try to get an old Office Surplus PC (they get sold for around 100-200$ (or even free, most old XP machines are going to be scrapped) and sport a single core with around 3 Ghz or even a DualCore. I found it best to try Linux on a seperate machine first.
I don't recommend setting up your partitions in a way that you have programs on that external HDD as it will be too slow to be useful. I recommend having it used for files, documents, movies, etc however
If you REALLY want to do this, here's how. Install Windows first, put it in it's own partition leaving enough for Ubuntu. When you install Ubuntu do manual partition creation, put the / (root) partition on your tiny 36gb and then create a partition on your external HDD for your /home (where all your user files and whatnot goes) as well as swap (equalivant of Windows page file if you know what that is)
It'd be easier if you waited to use the new single 1TB drive though as dual booting on a single HDD is easy and more recommended than this configuration. Follow a similar procedure as I described above, but instead of creating a /home directory just leave it in /, so just create / and swap on the same drive basically
For space i think i will be ok with the 1TB when i buy it and the 230gb as external.
That sounds like a good plan, that's what I'd do given the options you've said
What he said.
Q: With 500GB instead of 1TB and the 230gb drive do you think i will be good with the plan i want to do?. I'm not hungry space user i think the most space would be taken from steam games on windows and when i finish the games after couple days i delete them from the pc.
put it this way, I was happy as a clam running Linux on only 80GB. If you want, you can partition the second drive into 2 separate 500GB partitions. 1 is NTFS and is where you store your Windows stuff. The second is EXT4 and stores the Linux data. 1 Partition you need to defrag. 1 you dont.