Booting an Old SATA Disk with ONLY LINUX

Booting an Old SATA Disk with ONLY LINUX

I made hash of things trying to erase an OLD one terabyte SATA Disk with DATA. To begin with formatting it was difficult took a long time.

Even Ubunbtu could not get the GRUB file configured.

Two of one terabyte disks and one 360 GB SATA disk with seven (7) distributions in them to boot.

First terabyte hard disk was OK with new almost unlimited GPT partitions.

The other had old four primary partitions table, one being a 600 GB NTFS partition. 

Ultimately with the help of Debian I got three distributions installed with a relatively big NTFS partition for DATA.

After 48 hours careful planning I got the Seagate disk working for my needs.

One of 120 GB SATA disk was retired having formatted with a FAT partition. 

I did not want to retry the other one terabyte SATA disk. It also goes back to its original box for safe keeping.