henriqueweis

Man, it is too complicated for me. I'll study it from the beginning. So for now, i'll forget about my idea of using the 500MB free space to fashion some booting system with grub4dos. But, to only fix my problem of accessing the Linux on the other HD? how can I add this Linux with BOOTICE ?

Hello there, I'll try to inform all the details of my case here. I have an old Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. I replaced the DVD drive for my HD with a caddy adapter (the DVD is IDE, the caddy I installed converts sata to ide socket). So I installed an SSD in the HD tray with windows 10 and got my 500GB HD as a storage. I left 30GB out for future Linux dual boot. well, yesterday I decided for Linux mint and Installed in the 30GB free space of the 500GB storage drive in the caddy adapter. i selected this drive as well for installing the bootloader. The problem started when i tried to select this drive as the main boot drive in Bios configuration, but this bios does not have the option to select hard drive priority, and if you put CD/DVD as the first boot option it doesn't recognize for the boot. So I tried to keep booting from the windows of the SSD and installed easyBCD for windows and tried to add an option to dual boot with the Linux on the other drive with no success. Finally i though of getting rid of the system reserved partition (I moved the windows bootloader to C: and deleted the system reserved partition), and though of installing a GRUB on this 500mb free space and manually redirect the boot for Windows or to linux. And that is my question. is it possible to use WinSetupFromUSB and install its GRUB on this 500mb partition, and the edit the menulist to direct the boot wherever I want?