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[all variants] Dual OS on SSD and HDD

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http://ubuntuforums.org – have'm building a computer within the next few weeks, and I'm finishing up the last few things. I want to have Linux and Windows available. I originally was going to go with only Ubuntu, but then I realized it would be easier to run games and stuff from Windows. I bought a 90GB SSD for a boot drive, this is big enough for windows, but it isn't preferred. What I want to do is have Windows on the HDD and Linux on the SSD. I want to install Windows on the SSD first and then replace it with Linux so that I don't have to install the drivers, which worked on my other computer. Then I want to install (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 12/04/2012

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