Two Hard Drives, Two Operating Systems. Suggestions.

[Dogsthumb]

I bought a g750jw-db71 and am loving it. I have purchased a second hard drive and wish to take advantage of the second hard drive bay. I want to have, as the title stated, two hard drives and two different operating systems.

I would like to have instructions just to ease my mind. From what I have gathered it is as simple as removing my old hard drive and placing my new hard drive in the first hard drive bay. Install Linux and place it back into the second slot. Then replace my old hard drive and enjoy two different operating systems by switching which boots first in the BIOS. (i have disabled secure boot)

My fear is that I will mess something up on the old hard drive or the BIOS.

Note: I do not wish to ghost anything or move files from my old hard drive. I am also not interested in dual booting on the same hard drive. I plan on using my second hard drive for learning Linux and I plan on messing that partition up through the wonderful process of learning.

Thank you for any help you give.

Edit: I have also read something about how UEFI requires GPT. If I format the disk using GPT will this cause any problems with Linux?

[Zygomorphic]

Dr. Zchivago wrote:
What benefit is there to having more than two OS's installed?

I could see Linux + Windows, or Win Server + Win 8, but five?!?!

Gee-willickers, Zygoman!!!

Sometimes a man needs more...it impressed you, didn't it. :cool:
Actually, I had multiple different LINUX distros installed, because some programs that I use are pretty much Ubuntu only, and I was trying out other distros as well to see how they performed. The configuration that I listed was only one of several iterations. Actually, I've since cut it back...to three (Win 7 HP+Ubuntu with Linux Mint on the other drive). However, I now have more VMs running since that's actually more convenient.

[Dr__Zchivago]

Maybe impressed is a strong word. I think I was more amused by the excess - like a guy in the 90's building a box with 1 TB just to do it.

I'm joking, actually, that would've been awesome - I'm doing well enough just being versed in one OS at a time.

[Zygomorphic]

Dr. Zchivago wrote:
Maybe impressed is a strong word. I think I was more amused by the excess - like a guy in the 90's building a box with 1 TB just to do it.

I'm joking, actually, that would've been awesome - I'm doing well enough just being versed in one OS at a time.

I really only had two OS types, just Windows and LINUX. I can't use Mac OS X at all (not that it's a loss, really).

[MaYaSeVeN]

Just Confirm. I can make Dual Boot Windows8.1, Linux in same SSD Raid0 and Enable EFI, Secure Boot. Everything is working perfectly now but not out of the box, It's need some complex config to make it working.

Picture of GRUB bootloader:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=543393279065935&set=a.528927450512518.1073741826.13910515949...

[rawpure]

Also Linux sucks, yes it can be a F1 car, but a F1 car needs constant maintenece^^

Linux problem is that its open source, everybody and his/her granny are writing drivers on repos so you will need a real genuine wizard to help you find it all and compile it 😛