Some of you may remember that I wrote the following a couple of weeks ago and I received several helpful replies:-
"The machine I am writing this on has been playing up for a long, long time and each time I switch on I wait in trepidation to see whether or not it will actually boot up. Usually it does but I have to accept that it is coming to the end of its life. I have a Windows XP machine, which I've never actually opened up. I propose to remove the master drive from the Linux machine on which Ubuntu is installed and insert it into the Windows one. It will then become the slave drive. What I would like to know is how to create a new MBR on the Windows machine as I shall wish it to boot up into Ubuntu for 95% of the time." As it turned out it was all academic because the drive in the ailing machine was an IDE drive and the newer machine had SATA connections so I ended up partitioning and installing Ubuntu onto the single, 320Gb, drive which seems big enough. As it happens I had lying about in the attic an old USB caddie so I inserted the Ubuntu disc into it and connected it to a Vista laptop which boots from USB and switched on. Lo and behold I was presented with the Grub menu and was able to boot up into Ubuntu. The reason for this now lengthy missive, for which I apologise, is to ask the experts who may read it whether it is safe to run Ubuntu in this fashion, or am I in danger of corrupting data on either the Ubuntu or the Vista hard drive. Many thanks for your patience in reading so far and I look forward to receiving any reply. Regards, Keith. -- Keith Bowerman, Prestwood, south Staffordshire, England. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
