I have 2 seperate hard drives, one is a 1TB hitachi that currently has my windows installation, another is a 500 GB which is completely empty.
Both drives are completely operational, but I need some help with dual-booting.
I want to dual boot Windows 8.1 and Elementary, but I am unsure how. I know I install one OS on one drive, and one on the other.
I want to install elementary and be able to dual boot, but I don't really know how.
Does Elementary come with a dialogue box on bootup to ask if you want to boot into windows or elementary?
Can anyone help me with this?
It should be fairly simple to dualboot Elementary with Windows. As far as I know Elementary uses the same installer as Ubuntu, so it would look something like this (Ignore the green highlightning):
[IMG_thumb]http://itsfoss.itsfoss.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Install_ElementaryOS_Luna-4.jpeg[/IMG_thumb]
Be sure to install GRUB/Bootloader on the primary HDD though (It should be a toggle somewhere under the install process). The bootloader/GRUB will autodetect all the OS's availble on the computer and will present them to you as a select menu when you boot.
[IMG_thumb]http://www.elfnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/GRUB.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
So do I install elementary on the second drive, and make that drive be the first one to boot so it detects Windows?
If you have Secure Boot enabled on Windows 8.1, you'll have to use Windows' bootloader instead of Grub.
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