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when dual booting is it best to use seperate hd's
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Dont matter really although two drives is always an advantage i think, regardless of what your doing with them.
All our desktops use two drives although none are ever Windows on mine.
There is an xp drive on the other desktop there though.
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It doesn't really matter just be a bit careful about which partition you install to
Formatting the wrong partition or even drive is a pain in the backside and I should know Did it once when reinstalling windows wiped my Data drive instead
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If using one drive i think the easiest way is to just to split the drive in two,install windows first and leaving the other half unallocated install *buntu(for example) to "largest continous free space".
The same if your just shrinking your current Windows partition,just leave the newly created space unallocated and install *buntu to "largest continuous free space" during the partitioning stage.
Of course you can start faffing about with manual partitioning and making XYZ partitions beforehand but the quickest,easiest way is the above imo.
EDIT:remembering of course to defrag a few times first if carving a current Windows partition/drive up.