Multi-Booting with Three or More Operating Systems
For maximum OS flexibility, you want to have three or more systems available on your machine so that you can multi-boot among them. Depending on the operating systems you want to use, this isn’t all that much more work than setting up a dual-boot system.
If you’re installing only Windows operating systems, you need only keep the following two points in mind for foolproof multi-booting:
• Install each operating system to its own partition on your hard disk or to its own hard disk connected to your PC.
• Install the operating systems in release date order, with the oldest operating first and Windows 8 last. For example, if you want to multi-boot Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8, install XP, ...
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