July 26, 20169 yr Crew Hi, As above, I'm wondering what the potential downsides of multiple OS installs on different partitions on a single drive are in comparison to having multiple drives? Since you don't need that much space for each OS when benching (as far as I'm aware) Splitting a 120gb SSD into a couple of partitions with different OS installs seems like a sensible idea? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks, George
July 27, 20169 yr Author Crew I always used three OS per HDD/SSD without problem. Even if you'd had a corrupted/slightly dodgy OS from lots of crashes etc?
July 27, 20169 yr Been running multiple OS's on HDD for years and if one went south it had no impact on the others.
July 27, 20169 yr Even if you'd had a corrupted/slightly dodgy OS from lots of crashes etc? Yeah, they didn't cause problems to the others.
July 27, 20169 yr Side note - with XP there is a limit in a boot menu, it can display only 10 OS, even though you have more entries in boot.ini.
July 28, 20169 yr Author Crew Been running multiple OS's on HDD for years and if one went south it had no impact on the others. Yeah, they didn't cause problems to the others. Great thanks Side note - with XP there is a limit in a boot menu, it can display only 10 OS, even though you have more entries in boot.ini. Thanks for the info, should be a problem though as I only intend on having a 2-3 on a drive I think.
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