Using 2 Os's on 2 hard drives? what do i do?

Captain Ritalin · 01-03-2008, 02:03 PM

i have 2 hard drives in my dell 4600. the new one has linux ubuntu on it with the server pac and the other has Xp on it. Ubuntu is the master and is working fine, but i cant find my other hard drive and much less i am not able to boot it up. how do i fix this?

**linderman** · 01-03-2008, 04:37 PM

you need to find out what the bios command is to activate the boot loader on your machine ????

example; on most asus motherboards you keep tapping F8 at start-up until you see a boot loader menu appear >>>> then you choose hard drive from the boot loader menu >>>>> then a list of all drives in your machine will appear >>>>. choose the drive you want to boot from

in gigabyte boards F12 is the boot loader

Dells I "think" use F1 or F2 ??? dont remember now

you will just need to play around with "F" keys and keep trying till you find the command for the bios boot loader ????

just give us a shout if you need help

01-03-2008, 02:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
Captain Ritalin Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 OS: interchangeable	Using 2 Os's on 2 hard drives? what do i do? i have 2 hard drives in my dell 4600. the new one has linux ubuntu on it with the server pac and the other has Xp on it. Ubuntu is the master and is working fine, but i cant find my other hard drive and much less i am not able to boot it up. how do i fix this?

01-03-2008, 04:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,412 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Using 2 Os's on 2 hard drives? what do i do? you need to find out what the bios command is to activate the boot loader on your machine ???? example; on most asus motherboards you keep tapping F8 at start-up until you see a boot loader menu appear >>>> then you choose hard drive from the boot loader menu >>>>> then a list of all drives in your machine will appear >>>>. choose the drive you want to boot from in gigabyte boards F12 is the boot loader Dells I "think" use F1 or F2 ??? dont remember now you will just need to play around with "F" keys and keep trying till you find the command for the bios boot loader ???? just give us a shout if you need help __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial