Re: partitioning and use thereof

On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 19:19:38 -0700, Robert Baer wrote:
> 
>    So, for arguments sake, i would like to put on the hard drive DOS, 
> Linux, Win7 and Win10.

IMO, there's no point of having two Windows versions where both are NT6+.
When one is NT6+, it would only make sense if the the other is NT 4.x-5.x,
because there are things that are no longer available in NT6+.

>    And since i am starting with 4 drives i would naively partition an 
> empty drive into 4 partitions, and just copy each drive onto a partition 
> and use a partition manager to select and boot where i want.

That would work if it's just in terms of copying/restoring files from
different drives or backup/archive.

Copying OS requires more effort. Especially for Windows OS. Linux OS on the
other hand, surprisingly doesn't require as much effort as Windows OS, as
its boot manager is quite flexible already, and the OS doesn't bound itself
to a specific partition location & size like Windows does.

IOTW, for Linux there's a high chance that it may not require additional
effort. But for Windows, there's a high chance that it will require
additional effort. ...to make the copied OS partition be bootable from the
new drive.