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I'm wondering if this might be related.– XeoncrossCommented Apr 14, 2012 at 17:50
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I'm confused.. First, you want to run Ubuntu as a VM, correct? By booting both, you mean that you want to boot the Ubuntu VM in virtual box? And this Windows partition is an external hard drive, or an internal?– cutrightjmCommented Apr 14, 2012 at 18:06
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@ekaj, I only want to boot windows, and once windows is loaded I want to start up virtualbox with the second harddrive running the ubuntu install. However, I can't load anything if both hard drives are attached at the same time.– XeoncrossCommented Apr 14, 2012 at 18:25
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In the BIOS, set the Win7 HDD to the master, and the Ubuntu HDD as the slave. Also, in the 'boot order' section, you can turn off the Ubuntu HDD and the BIOS won't even know it's there. Have you tried either of these?– cutrightjmCommented Apr 14, 2012 at 18:28
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@ekaj yes, I've tried setting them to Primary/Secondary SATA on the same, and on different channels. Windows seems to be the problem though as it won't load when the second drive with ubuntu is attached.– XeoncrossCommented Apr 14, 2012 at 18:35
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