I recently picked up a Samsung 240gb SSD and want to install both OS's on the drive and then use my old 750gb HDD as a storage drive.
What would be the easiest way to go about installing both OS's and having them share data between another and potentially many other storage drives?
Install windows install linux done.
Is it really that simple? I remember having the hardest time of my life getting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 on my old ssd.
yup linux will see windows when you install it.
So after I install both OS's on the SSD, I can plug in my second drive and use it to store additional data. Movies, songs, photos things like that and be able to access them from both OS's?
yup keep in mind that it must be formatted in a way windows can read it.
Linux will just use it.
While linux can use it read/write It cannot apply permissions to those files so if you intend to run something on linux on that drive it won't work because you cannot apply the executable bit.
That confused the crap out of me when trying to play minecraft.
Yes and no.
Side note: I would install ubuntu 15.04. Right now it is still in beta, but it is pretty much finalized. They are releasing it officially next week
Anyways, sometimes if you install windows, the ubuntu installer will be like 'Hey I see you have windows installed, would you like to install ubutnu next to it'.
Although I have only seen this a few times. normally it can not see windows what so ever and you will have to enter a custom partitioner. There you will need to make a root, home, swap, and efi partition.
If you want to do yourself a huge massive favor, just go buy a cheap used 60+ GB ssd for linux. I can promise you that you will distro hop a fair bit, and if you sit there and constantly try to install new linux partitions on a dual boot drive........well lets just say that you will utterly hate life.
Huh, having a separate ssd for linux does sound like a good idea, I'm more or less stuck with a 240gb that my future father in law bought me (Hey I'm not complaining). When I first searched up how to do this I came upon this tutorial.
I might be able to do something like that.
It is...The only issue you might have is with grub not seeing the OS correctly or the system ignoring grub altogether and booting to windows immediately. If that is the case boot from the Live ubuntu usb and install the boot-repair application and follow its guidelines and it will fix everything.
About the sharing Linux will be able to see any windows partitions. As said by others it cannot apply permission on them, thus if you want to execute sth from there you cant, but for raw data (movies, videos, documents etc) it will be fine immediately. If you want to store executable though (like games for example) you will need to make a partition with a Linux file system.
I've had success just doing 'sudo update-grub'
Usually that is how it should work. In case it does not though boot-repair is an amazing tool to fix.
So with a Linux file system I would be able to install something like Cs:go or some other game and be able to launce it from both os's?
Every application is made to run on a certain OS. The Linux version of CS:GO runs only on linux, the Windows version runs only on Windows. You need a different installation for each one.
You can run some (not all) windows applications on linux with Playonlinux/wine but these still need to be on a Linux File system and they themselves will be a separate install.
Additionally windows are not able to see a Linux partition at all.
That being said if you run CS:GO well on one OS you do not really need to run it on the second one. So its not really much of a problem.
To sum up: to run programs you need the respective versions for the OS you want to run them on and you need to install them on the respective file system. That goes for both Windows and Linux. If you want to share raw data (movies, music, photos etc) between the two, you place them on a file system that windows can see (NTFS, FAT32) and Linux will be able to read/write on them no problem.
Yes, just make sure to split SSD to suite your needs. For example, i do dual booting Windows 7 and Linux on same drive, about 15% of SSD is alocated to Windows, and 85% to Linux. So, if you choose to have NTFS partitions on 2nd drive (logical choice, because of Windows), you will not need much of space on Windows system partition, and you will need more space on Linux partition, because your 2nd drive is NTFS (tho, you can combine thee also, but, in general...).
I made mistake on first install for dual booting, and made half-half separation on SSD, and it turned out it was not enough for me in Linux, also, system availability on my Windows installation is less then 5%, so keep that in mind, if you use more, you might want to allocate more space to it.
Still, it is not time for diching Windows completely, so, when is needed, you can always load it.
Well I got the SSD installed and everything but now my old harddrive won't show up at all in my bios or my disk management. I unplugged it when I was installing the SSD and windows but now I can't find it
*EDIT So I got the second hard drive to appear in management. Now I'm trying to use a restore point from my old hard drive E: to my new SSD C: I'm not sure exactly how to do this part either
When you shift hard disks the bios bootable device list can get mixed up a bit and leave a disk outside the list.
Well I got windows 7 installed on my SSD along with some drivers, but now when I tried restarting after installing AMD catalyst I'm met with a black screen. I can boot into safe mode on my ssd just not anything else
What GPU do you have?Also which drivers did you try to install from the AMD site. The stable or the beta ones? Try removing catalyst from safe mode and re-istalling them. at first.