hello all, i have my computer with windows xp and i want to dual boot with ubuntu 7.10. I have a 200GB drive with an IDE interface that is my primary system disk, i have windows xp home currently installed on that drive. recently, i just added a 400GB drive to my system for a little extra storage. what i want to do was install ubuntu on the 400GB drive, with a 100GB partition. i booted from the CD and during setup i partitioned/formated my 400GB disk to install ubuntu(100GB partition for linux). i got the "installation complete" message and i clicked the restart now button. when the system restarted, i didnt get an option to boot into ubuntu, it automatically went to windows xp. why dont i get an option to go to ubuntu? additionally, when i was in setup for ubuntu it didn't "see" my 200GB IDE drive so all i could choose from was the 400GB drive(not a big deal) for installing ubuntu. could this be the problem? i wondered if that was the issue, maybe it didnt install a LILO or a GRUB boot loader, so i set my BIOS to boot from the 400GB SATA drive before the 200GB IDE and it still booted into windows xp. so, i dont know what the problem is. i think the problem may be that i have two differnt interfaces with my HDD? i may be wrong with that conjecture.. any advice? im running out of ideas!

Perhaps the answer is wubi. http://wubi-installer.org/ If ubuntu didn't see the 200gb drive, I think that could be something to do with it. Try using the live cd of ubuntu, & see if you can see both drives, then try the install from the live cd. Before posting try google. Backup. Use anti virus software.

how do you use a live cd with the installer?

Download the live cd iso file. Burn to cd, & boot, there is an icon on the desktop to install. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-liv... Before posting try google. Backup. Use anti virus software.