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I need three bootable partitions + one other on one HDD
Hi, as the title says, i want three bootable partitions on one HDD and a small page file partition.
Partition 1: OS for DAW (audio composition) which has minimal software installed.
Partition 2: 20GB Page file partition that can be shared between the three OS's
Partition 3: OS for games
Partition 4: OS for work. Lots of installs, prone to conflicts etc so want to keep separate from games.
This has proven to be a bit harder than i thought.
Using MBR:
MBR allows 4 bootable partitions, or three bootable partitions and one extended partition that can be further divided.
The issue here is that win 7 creates a 100MB system partition. This leaves only 3 bootable partitions only (i need 4 partitions), or, two bootable partitions and an extended partition.
Using GPT:
This should work (essentially unlimited bootable partitions) but i can't get it to work with my motherboard/BIOS.
Also, this build has been prompted by a HDD failure that i wasn't quite prepared for and the customer service person at Zero Assumption Recovery (the only SW that would let me recover SOME files) recommended MBR.
Options:
Persist with trying to get GPT to work.
Remove the 100MB system partition and use MBR. A lot of information on whether this is a good idea or not is floating round, but i'm yet to find anything that i would consider definitive regarding whether this is a good idea or not.
Can anyone offer any advice on how i can achieve my goal?
Thanks,
Tim