Re: partitioning and use thereof

JJ wrote:
> 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+.
* Do not know what NT6+ etc are.
   Presume Win7 and Win10 are both NT6.
   So maybe put Linux, WinXP, Win7 and Win10 on.
   Very messy, as i only have disty install WinXP SP2 and separate SP3 
install disc.

> 
>>     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.
> 


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