XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10

Carlos E.R. wrote:

> Select what disks to boot first here:
> 
>
> Note 1: It usually is a list; if the first entry fails, it tries to boot
> the second, then the third, till one boots - or none. In that list, HDD3
> is not the first.
>
> Note 2: I would suggest to leave HDD3 alone and install Ubuntu on HDD1 or 2.
>
> Note 3: Don't disable os-prober unless you know how to boot the computer
> with a broken grub. A mistake puts you out of commission.

One reason I'm not analyzing these pictures,
is you have to "build up" your computer, one
piece at a time.

You can't expect to "hammer downwards" and "tame" errant
pieces of this and that, with your magic wand.

If you don't want the other OSes, delete the OS giblets,
so that nobody, not the OS itself, nor any OS-prober, can
detect them.

Clean up the component disks.

Either work on each disk separately, repairing the
broken images on each one.

Or move the data off them (somewhere) and make
data partitions in their place.

To sit around doing "this and that" with that mess
plugged in, is pointless. It's just a big "maintenance time suck".
You'll be constantly hitting the side of the boiler
with your hammer, trying to get heat out of it.

You could, if you wanted, put all the Windows 10 on
one disk drive, and have them managed by the
Windows 10 boot manager.

Put all your Ubuntu distros on one disk drive. Have
them handled by Grub. Disable OS-prober.

Manage the boot using the popup boot menu (select
the Windows disk or the Ubuntu disk).

Many things are possible. They take thought and planning.

But lugging around a set of side-effects, from two
hard drives you're not using, doesn't make sense.
Build a setup that does makes sense. Build a setup
you like, not the one I like.

Just about everything on those disks, can be torn
apart and reassembled, and lashed together again.
And Arlen is the person to do it. A little Macrium
here (partition movement), some LiveCD there, and
you can fix it.

    Paul

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