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Debian and Win 7 on two separete SSD's

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  • Hard Drives
  • Debian
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April 8, 2014 10:13:14 AM

Basically I am building a new rig, so I am thinking of buying 2 250 gb ssd's and one 1 tb hdd. Both ssd's for OS and programs requiring fast speed and HDD for movies and stuff. I am thinking of installing Windows first, on one SSD and then install debian wheezy on another one, can I do so and if I can how can you chose from which ssd to boot.

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April 8, 2014 10:21:29 AM

Yes this is very easy.
1) Install windows!
2) Set your Debian HDD to first boot device in BIOS.
3) Install Debian!
4) The Debian Installer will auto-magically detect your windows installation and add it to the GRUB bootloader. (if not run 'sudo update-grub').
Since Debian hdd is set as first boot device, you will be presented with two options when you boot. Here you can choose Debian or Windows 7 :) 

Many video tutorials can be found on youtube as well. This is one, though it uses 1 HDD instead of 2. 2HDD is better choice IMO ;) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYw3FUnh-CQ

Be sure to read Debian WIKI on SSD optimization:
https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization
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