GRUB and two HDs

[Derek Martin]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:51:30AM -0400, Ted Roche wrote:
> What's the easiest way to get it to boot to Windows if that's the only 
> drive, and give me the option if both drives are inserted? Should I use 
> parted to shrink and move the NTFS partition and create a boot 
> partition on the built-in drive, or is there a better way?

I basically agree with everything Dan said in his follow-up, but I
wanted to add a few tidbits.

If you decide to repoartition your drive, you can't use parted, as far
as I can tell.  The last version I tried didn't support NTFS, and the
documentation on the GNU website seems to concur:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.htm

You can use qtparted, but I don't recommend it.  I tried it, and it
was not able to move some structures in the NTFS partition, even after
I disabled the system restore and swap file features.  This resulted
in qtparted being able to make the partition smaller, but not nearly
as small as it could have been.  Only Partition Magic was able to move
the relevant data, and make the partition as small as physically
possible.  If it weren't for the fact that I would only ever use it
about once every other year, I'd say that this program is well worth
the price.  Fortunately, I have a friend with a bootable disk...

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