SSD's and WinXP/Win7/Linux all in one desktop

[Mars999]

What I am wondering is this...

If I have my desktop and have Win7 on one SSD, WinXP on a second SSD, and Linux on a third SSD,

what happens to the other SSD's that are setup under Win7? Meaning what about WinXP trying to mess with the file format(alignment?) or Linux even?

What I am hoping for is I can run all three on separate drives, and boot into each OS, natively and have access the my 3 Win7 SSD drives if need be by Linux and WinXP....

Thanks!

 

[postmortemIA]

you won't have access to Linux partitions from the windows. Windows does not read ext4. use windows 7 formatting to properly align XP and Win 7 partitions. Win 7 should do trim to XP partition.

 

[Coup27]

Why do you need 3? You can quite easily tri-boot a system with a single SSD.

To do it your way you will have to change the boot order every time you wish to boot a different OS and if you use UEFI/GPT that won't work.

Regarding messing with alignment or anything, if you install one OS at a time and them remove the SSD, put in the next one and repeat the process then it won't mess with alignment or anything, but seriously one SSD for the 3 OS's and then storage SSD's would be a lot simpler.