Installation on second HDD in UltraBay (T60)

[yak]

Hi,

today I finally burned the Win7 build 7000 iso I downloaded back when it was released and installed it on my T60 (sig). It installed with no problem but I have a slight boot selection problem.

I wanted to have it on the second HDD I use in the UltraBay caddy. Therefore I connected an external USB DVD drive to install the system from. The main drive with Vista and Linux Mint (GRUB selector) was in during the installation.

As an end effect, the GRUB was erased and I get the Vista bootmenu instead with Vista and Win7 options. No way to boot into Linux.

Now, I would like to get the GRUB back, the way it was. So if I take the second drive out I don't get boot options pointing to non-existing drives. Booting into win7 would be possible by selecting a different boot drive using the F11 key (IIRC).

How do I achieve that?

TIA,
yak

[Marin85]

I believe EasyBCD could fix this problem for you. You need to put back the GRUB bootloader and add the windows entries to the boot menu.

Hope this helps,

Marin

[yak]

Thanks Marin, I'll take a look.

Getting the GRUB back shouldn't be too difficult, what I'm more concerned about and what I forget to mention in the original post is that the second HDD isn't bootable. Choosing it as a boot device during power up doesn't boot into Win7.

I have no idea how to fix this.

[GomJabbar]

What I recommend is remove the main hard drive, then install Win 7 beta on the second hard drive. After Win 7 beta boots up, shutdown your T60 and reinstall the main hard drive. Now on boot press F12 and choose which hard drive to boot from.

The upside is that this will not mess with your XP, Vista, or Linux install. The downside is that you cannot boot Win 7 beta with GRUB.

Of course you will still need to fix GRUB on your main hard drive. I would do this with the second hard drive removed from the machine.

[yak]

Thanks GomJabbar. Too bad I didn't think about it before installing.

Ok, I've repaired the GRUB. I've booted from the Mint CD and used "sudo grub" from shell followed by some commands found on some Ubuntu forum (Mint is based on Ubuntu).

Right now I'm installing Win7 again but this time with the main HDD removed.

Thanks for your help guys.

EDIT: Ok, got it working the way I wanted. Writing this from Firefox on Windows 7 beta. Gosh, this works exceptionally nice. I won't replace Vista with it just yet but I'll most probably do it as soon as it gets to final and they don't screw it up in the meantime .