A decade. Microsoft changed so much that I'm using the old "leave space open" or unpartitioned method. I find folk that partition in advance either go down in flames or post far and wide why this is. Again, I leave space unpartitioned and as I install an OS use it's own methods to select how much space to use.
Which leads us to boot managers. Microsoft still doesn't support more than its own. Yes, yes there are articles that appear to conflict so if you feel you must try, try and then you can ignore this.
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/windows covers the usual BIOS changes.
At this point you install your OSes of choice but my bet is that you'll install 10 first then the others.
Hi! I hope everybody is doing well. Forgive me if this is placed in the wrong place. Since it's a question about more than one OS I didn't think it would be appropriate to put it in a single OS board. Please bear with me, because the description leading to the question is a little long-winded. Here goes.
So I recently picked up the Samsung SSD 850 EVO (1TB) and I want to use that as my main drive for Windows 10 and all of my installed applications, games, etc. I have my old 1TB Seagate HDD (I forget the exact model) which I want to use for holding most of my date (like documents, or work I'm doing at the time such as word documents or programming code I don't need access to immediately). So there are a few things I want to do, and I'm not sure how to approach it exactly because I've always just done simple clean installs of single OS's on single HDDs.
I'm currently running Windows 8.1 on my computer. I want to replace it with Windows 10 then do a clean install (this I know how to do, which is simple enough). From there, I want to format my old drive and if possible, I'd like to install Chrome OS, Steam OS and then have some space for storage. I have a vague understanding of partition a drive, but would I be able to use this feature to do what I want, or would this be a bit too risky to try and do?
While I don't know exactly how to partition a drive, (having only done it once many many years ago), I don't remember it being too hard, so that I can figure out with a little research. I just need to know if I could put 2 OS's on the drive AND have a part of the drive for storage access (I was thinking of doing 100GB for Chrome OS, 400GB for Steam OS and the rest for storage).
Playing off of that, when I start up my computer, would it ask for which OS I want to start at boot or would it automatically do Windows 10 since that would be my primary drive (in which case, how would I be able to access the other OS's whenever I wanted to switch)?
Finally, this is a question of pure opinion. Would you guys think it would be easier to to a full clone of my current HDD onto the SSD using Samsung's feature, upgrade to Windows 10, THEN do a clean install? Or would it be simpler to just upgrade to Windows 10 on my old HDD, then use the USB install to do a clean install onto the SSD, THEN wipe the old HDD and set it up for the other features?
I apologize if a lot of this is very simple, but since I'm completely new to doing this I want to make sure I get some good advice before I dive into this project. Thanks a ton for all of your guys' time and attention!

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