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How do I get grub to boot Windows from a second hard drive

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Problem

I normally boot into Linux using GRUB and have Linux on the first hard drive in my machine. I have Windows installed on a second hard drive and am trying to get GRUB to boot the second hard drive. The GRUB config file contains but it does not work.

Error Output

title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader +1
makeactive

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Fix for: How do I get grub to boot Windows from a second hard drive

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The Windows boot loader assumes it's the first disk in the system. You need to tell grub to remap the two disks as part of the Windows entry in : This is only an in-memory change to the way the chain-loaded boot loader sees the disks.

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