Can 2 separate OS on 2 separate drives share 1 Desktop folder?

lehnerus2000 said:

I foolishly "upgraded" my W7 Home Premium laptop to W10 Home.

Please accept my deepest condolences!

Brds7t7 - Out of curiosity - with the windows 8.1 and windows 7 - were you any closer to 2 separate opera\ting systems share the one Desktop folder? Or was there anything holding you back from trying? Or had you tried such an installation by now? Was the exploration successful?

I decided not to bother in the end. Thought it might cause some issues somewhere down the line. And if I set it up that way it kept marking my disks as dirty when I ran a System Image backup in 8.1. Easily fixed by running Startup repair, but too much faffing around with permissions in the end, so decided to keep them separate.

There's probably a way around it, but I don't have the patience. I'm not as much of a tinkerer as I used to be, and tend to just want things to work with little fuss now. I must be getting old.

What I have done is set it up like this now:

Disk 1 (250GB SSD):
Windows 7

Disk 2 (250GB SSD):
Windows 8.1

Disk 3 (2TB HDD):
Windows 7 Desktop + Data

Disk 4 (2TB HDD):
Windows 8.1 Desktop + Data

This way I can keep separate permissions for each drive and contained folders.