new distro what should i do

[nihil]

It might work just fine pal, but I don't think that it is worth the risk. You see the problem is that Billy Windoze thinks it is the only OS in town Make sure that it boots from your first HDD, preferably your "C:\" partition.

Then load whatever distros you like on the second drive as your bootloader in Linux should support this.

Anyways, what the hell do you want 2 distros on your primary drive for?

What I see mostly is a configuration something like:

HDD #1: Windows, Linux distro #1
HDD #2: Linux distro #2 ~ #howevermany

I am assuming that this is just experimentation, and that you have no pressing reason to have two Linux distros on your primary HDD?

My next alternative strategy is to burn an ISO/Mirror to a DVD.

The big problem that I see with that, and your suggestion, is that Billy Windoze gets updates every month, so you really do need it online and available for monthly updates (patch Tuesday) if you want to keep it.

Just a few more thoughts