Triple booting stuff

[Kryten]

Here's a gooden.

Been triple booting for a while, Ubuntu, Vista and XP.
Fairly simple setup : XP as primary system, with Ubuntu and Vista as secondary.
Primary drive has XP on it and the system files including boot records and what not.
Secondary drive has Vista and Ubuntu.
GRUB and Vista bootloaders both on the primary drive : first Grub starts, automatically times out and loads the Vista bootloader, which times out and XP starts (unless I want to use Vista or Ubuntu).

However, I'm now sufficiently pleased with Vista to want to get rid of XP.
Before I go formatting things, I know the bootloaders for Grub and Vista are both on that drive, so I'd appreciate any advice on the best way of ridding XP without buggering things up somewhat. Want to avoid having to reinstall Vista and Ubuntu naturally, and can see plenty of solutions such as booting from the install CD and running recovery mode & fixmbr for vista - and just reinstating Grub from Ubuntu, but I'd like to know in which order I should do this.

Any advice gratefully received

 

[thergador]

install grub on your second drive make it your priamry then configure Grub
job done

of switch secondary to primary drive then put in your vista DVD/CD and then repair the boot this will get your vista up and running now if you want you can use vista boot manager if so edit the vista boot manager if not install of the linux install disc configure
job done

 

[Kryten]

Thats pretty much what I thought, and what I attempted, but had a slight change of plan.

Decided to put my OS's on the smaller drive and leave the larger for storage, game installations and what not, so ended up lobbing everything onto the large unit for storage ten formatting and installing Vista and Ubuntu from fresh.

I did actually start by using Ghost 12 to do an identical copy of the Vista installation over to the smaller drive, but it failed miserably. Last time I use ghost for something simple

Cheers anyhoo

 

[thergador]

dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/bkup/hda1.img

makes an image of your physical drive and mounts

tada job done

 

[Kryten]

Bit late, but cheers anyway will certainly make a note of that for future