two hard drives

I have two hard drives on my PC but one is un-allocated, is there any way i can use this?
I want to load UBUNTU.
can i find a way to load it on the second HD or do i have to shrink the partition on my primary drive C and duel boot?
Thanks in advance.:confused

 

Hi Bill, you just installed a new drive eh? If you want Ubuntu to dual boot with Vista, I would give it a max of 10 GB so make two partitions at least on the new drive, install Ubuntu on the 10GB, and format the second or more drives as NTFS for windows use.

 

I am still fighting with the problem you know about.(ex marine never gives up)
I have just formatted the second HD and named it "new volume B".
Where i get into hot water is not understanding the logistics of how i am going to get this running?
does the new HD run in tandem with Drives C and D or does it run alone as if it was an external drive.
If i load Ubuntu onto this drive will it continue to run if i switch to Vista on drive C.
Sorry if these Qs sound a bit silly but i am on new territory here.

 

What i have done fitted a extra 300gb in the hope i can utilizes it and run 2 OSs.
If no one knows what will happen then i will give it a try and take the risk of having to re format it it all goes pear shaped because i have backups of all my stuff.
This is what the PC looks like at the moment as you can see storage is not a problem and the only thing that has changed so far is i now have a small windows logo on drive "c "that was not there before i formatted the new HD

 

The new drive is available for whatever you want to do with it, like backup or load different OS's or use it as your music/data/whatever.

Nope, you can't run two OSs concurrently this way, You can only do this in a virtual scenario. Also GPU folding is worse in Ubuntu last I heard. That's a dead end for what you want to do.

BTW, I really don't get why your BIOS is frozen, nobody's ever heard of that. I mean you must be able to get in and change the time and date at least?:confused

 

I find it strange that i can get into Bios but can not change maybe it had something to do with updating them but that's not a problem for now as the PC works well and fast so it can wait until i am ready to change some bits.( i have got the bug now and can't stop tinkering)

I think i will install Ubuntu on the new HD and play with that for a while.