I've never had a dual boot on a single drive....

the first time I configured my system as a dual boot was ages ago, and I got some damned decent advice on how to do it...

the key advice, which still makes obvious sense, is to use 2 separate HDDs so that if a drive goes south you still have an active OS available...the same concept applies if the OS gets hosed, and too boot you can many times remotely (via the other OS) repair the damaged OS....the concept of partitioning is in my eyes simply for defragmentation concerns (as previously noted) as partitioning slightly reduces performance of the drive as the first step it has to do is locate the partition...

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