I have a computer running Debian 7.1. What I want to do is to add another hard drive to it and install windows on the new drive, so I can run photoshop, some games and other software not available in linux on it.
I want to be able to boot to Debian and Windows from the same GRUB menu, but I have no idea about how to do that (From previous experiences I am assuming simply installing windows on that drive and then plugging it in would be a bad idea) and the only related things I have found (Including in this site) are about booting another linux distribution from an external drive and installing grub on another external drive, which is not what I am looking for (I can't simply add one of those microSD cards with grub in it in a USB adapter since my computer can't boot from a USB port).
Can this be done? Is is a reasonable approach to my problem?
As an alternative, and if what I am looking for is not possible, I could install Windows on another partition of my drive if I could resize the LVM in which my debian system is installed, but I'd rather put windows on another drive to avoid problems.
Update: Following Mark Lopez's advice I installed windows on the hard drive (No problems there), but I have been struggling to boot to linux with the actual drive attached. If I connect both drives the bios won't load. If I boot with only one of them I can't access the other drive for obvious reasons. fdisk -l in debian with the win drive attached returns nothing (I can't see the drive on the list) and I'm out of ideas.
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