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This is probably more complicated than it first sounds. Here are the details. Take everything I say with a grain of salt, since I am not a hardware guy. This is all my best guess.
My motherboard has the Intel Z68 chipset, and I have a 64 GB SSD that I want to use as the Windows cache drive. This complicates the installation because it's sort of, but not really, a RAID setup.
Issue #1 -Installing the OSes:Here are the hard drives that concern the OSes:
- 64 GB SSD that I want to use as the Windows cache drive
- 500 GB internal SATA 3.0 WD black drive
500 GB hard drive partitioning - this drive is for system files and applications onlyThis is how I want the 500 GB drive partitioned:
- ~200 GB for Windows 7 and applications
- ~30 GB for "future use" where I can do stuff like install other linux distros to play with them
- Remaining space for whatever is appropriate for Ubuntu
Additional info: It would be nice if I could access files the Windows partition from both OSes, but this is not crucial. Anything on the Linux partitions can be ext3 or ext4, whatever it takes.
Issue #2 - My data and backup drivesI have all my data backed up on another internal HDD. Before, I had problems installing Ubuntu because of the "fake RAID" set up (google fakeraid) and I think it left a grub on this drive, because when I have it plugged in, I get errors about Grub recoveries or something. So I will need the grubs cleaned out of this drive, I think. We may be able to boot the system, and THEN plug in the drive as I think SATA drives are hot plug inable. This way it would not interfere with the boot and maybe we can clean out the grubs that way.
I am not going to run fakeraid on the system anymore since apparently, Ubuntu cannot handle it.
Right now I do have Windows 7 up and running with the SSD cache drive doing what it is supposed to. I tried installing Ubunto, but the installer did not see the drive, even though I was able to partition the unallocated space with GParted.
You should have some experience with dual booting on a Z68 chipset and SSD cache drive, or at least google about it to get some ideas.
Nothing on any of the drives is valuable, so if you want to wipe them and start from scratch, that's fine.
Do you need to know anything else important that I left out?
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