Dual booting with windows 7 - solved

[Southern yankee]

Hi folks,

I was dual booting windows 7 and another distro on two separate drives.  Windows on drive a and other distro on drive b.  I detached the two drives and attached another drive and installed PCLinusOS on the new drive to check it out.  Now I want to hook up drive a and dual boot windows 7 on drive a as before and use the new harddrive with PCLinuxOS as drive b.  What can be done to accomplish this without having to reinstall PCLinuxOS on drive b?  Would Super Grub work for this?  Or would it be easier to reinstall and let it workout the booting sequence.  Not a real problem if I have to reinstall.  

Thanks Mike

[Just17]

I would connect the two drives ....  Win as A and PCLOS as B ......  and then go into the BIOS and select to boot from B.

That should allow PCLOS to boot, and when it has you can redo the Grub entry to include Windows, thus giving you both bootable.

Should you ever wish to take out the PCLOS drive, all you need to do is to change the BIOS back to boot A and Windows should boot without problems.

On the other hand if you wish to take out the Win drive that won't affect PCLOS at all ....  except there will be an entry to boot Win which won't work (naturally).

Just my opinion .....  there are other ways to achieve this too ....

regards.

[Southern yankee]

Ok thanks,  never thought of going that route.  Now since the MBR on drive A was modified with the other distro installation I am assuming I will have to redo the MBR on drive A?  Since windows will be drive b instead of drive a would that have any affects inside windows itself?  Guess I could just keep it as drive a?

Sorry wasn't thinking right.  I would keep it as drive a.

[Just17]

Ok thanks,  never thought of going that route.  Now since the MBR on drive A was modified with the other distro installation I am assuming I will have to redo the MBR on drive A?  Since windows will be drive b instead of drive a would that have any affects inside windows itself?  Guess I could just keep it as drive a?

Sorry wasn't thinking right.  I would keep it as drive a.

I suggested connecting the drives as they have been ....  Windows drive connected to the same position as before.

[Southern yankee]

Thanks for the help.  Back up and running.

[Just17]

Thanks for the help.  Back up and running.

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