I'm wondering how I can have one hard drive and be able to choose from one of multiple operating systems to boot? I just bought a 1TB hard drive and I want to be able to install 4 operating systems on it. What are the steps on going about doing this? I'm working on installing Windows 7 on it right now. What are the next steps for the other 3 operating systems?

 

Thanks

I've never done more than 2 operating systems per machine, but just follow the instructions to install on a new partition. When you boot, you'll be prompted to choose an operating system. There's not really anything to worry about.

 

Why do you need 4 operating systems though? Sounds like you've hit an XY problem

It's just for fun. I don't have much need for anything beyond 2. Just using this as a learning experience to be honest.

 

EDIT: How will I be able to choose which OS to have boot? Say I had Win7 and Ubuntu on there how would I choose one from the other?

There are some ways, mostly with Linux afaik to force it to offer the choice on boot, otherwise it'd be a case of having a default boot device and either changing it then rebooting or tapping the appropriate key during bios boot to choose the boot source for a 1 time boot to another os.

Basically, you press the power button on your computer, then the computer asks you to pick an operating system using your arrow keys, then the operating system boots.