Installing Windows 8.1 on SSD and Ubuntu on a partition of a secondary HDD?

Question

Currently I have 2 drives in my system, a main SSD where my Windows 8.1 copy is installed, and a 2TB storage drive for all files.

My plan is to partition the 2TB hard drive into a 200gb partition solely for Ubuntu. I'm not keen on being asked whether I want to boot into Windows or Ubuntu everytime, so I'm hoping that by making a partition on my HDD and installing Ubuntu on that, I won't be asked every time. If I'm correct, to boot to Windows I just need to boot up from SSD, and to boot to Ubuntu, I just need to boot from my HDD. Is this correct?

If so, how would I go about doing this? Do I just install Ubuntu normally from a CD? Would I need any tweaks?

Any advice is appreciated as I am a novice on this. I would like my Ubuntu installation to be seperate from my Windows, in that I can just delete the partition if I no longer need Linux.

Thanks.

Answer 1

A similar question about windows and ubuntu from another user is Windows 10 & Ubuntu read my advice and try reading both articles I linked there.

You can alternatively install Ubuntu as a virtual box and try before switching to Ubuntu when you are comfortable.