[SOLVED] How To Arrange Separate Storage Drives in a Dual Boot Machine?

[maskedriderchris]

My current build I'm planning will be dual booting both Windows 10 and Linux Mint 18.3, and I intend on having separate storage drives for each OS. Say, a 1TB HDD for each OS to store information to. How does one go about separating the two drives so that one is dedicated to each OS? Is this at all possible? Am I bonkers for thinking this is the case? Thank you all in advance!

 

[USAFRet]

The easiest way is to install each OS with only the one desired drive connected.
At boot time, interrupt the boot process and choose the desired drive.

Alternately, Install Windows on one drive, with only that drive connected.
Later, connect the other drive, and install Linux.
Linux will take over the boot sequence with a GRUB menu.
Select which drive you want via that menu.

I prefer, and have done, the first option.

 

[maskedriderchris]

The easiest way is to install each OS with only the one desired drive connected.
At boot time, interrupt the boot process and choose the desired drive.

Alternately, Install Windows on one drive, with only that drive connected.
Later, connect the other drive, and install Linux.
Linux will take over the boot sequence with a GRUB menu.
Select which drive you want via that menu.

I prefer, and have done, the first option.

The boot drive will have both Windows and Linux on it; what you're suggesting is to install Windows first with the storage drive connected as well as the one storage HDD, and then ditto for Linux? I'm talking about having a separate storage drive for each OS as well as the boot drive. I'm slightly confused and wanted to clarify.

 

[USAFRet]

Ah, OK. I thought you meant a different drive for each OS.

No problem.
Install Windows, sizing the partition accordingly.
Install Linux, using the rest of the OS drive.

Later, attach the 2x storage drives.
Format the Windows one as NTFS
Format the Linux drive in whatever Linux compatible format you wish.