My new system has a UEFI (Gigabyte) motherboard with Core i3 second gen processor. The OS is Windows 7 on a 500 GB HDD presently MBR with 4 primary partitions, one reserved (MS), second Windows 7. Other two are available and plenty of space. I have an external HDD which is not bootable and I had installed 12.3 on it booting through a USB pen drive on a Dell C521 (old story, Dell mother board and HDD failed). I would like to avoid that round about method.
Decisions/questions I am faced with for installing 12.3:
a) Should I switch the existing HDD to GPT? What could be the advantages/disadvantages?
b) I am inclined to get a separate HDD for Linux (mostly open suse) so as to keep Windows disk totally segregated. If so, would it be better to go GPT rather than old MBR? The disks are not all that big below 1 TB.
c) The board being UEFI any special care/details for installing 12.3?
d) Do I need to worry about Secure boot stuff as present OS is not with secure boot?
PrakashC
Decisions/questions I am faced with for installing 12.3:
a) Should I switch the existing HDD to GPT? What could be the advantages/disadvantages?
b) I am inclined to get a separate HDD for Linux (mostly open suse) so as to keep Windows disk totally segregated. If so, would it be better to go GPT rather than old MBR? The disks are not all that big below 1 TB.
c) The board being UEFI any special care/details for installing 12.3?
d) Do I need to worry about Secure boot stuff as present OS is not with secure boot?
PrakashC