Looking to set up a 3 partition drive with XP, XP SP 2 or 3, and Win7 (may want to later add fourth partition with Win8).
Here are the details of why I need these old OS's.
The version of Adobe Premiere Pro I use had issues with XP service packs. By the time I tried to use their link for the patch to solve the problem, the link was no longer good. None of my other searches worked and this was 4 years ago (I'm using version 1.5 and I think they were up to version 3 four years ago, now at least version 4 so I doubt I would have better luck finding a patch now. This software would cost me between $600-1000 depending on whether or not I bought the single title or suite to replace (I'm not a fan of upgrade versions).
Can someone advise me on the steps to setup this type of partitioning? I did this in school about 8 years ago, but cannot remember the steps.
Thought we used PM to create first partition, marked as active, loaded first OS, created next partition, loaded next OS, and so on. We ended up with 5 partitions with 4 different windows versions plus Linux. Is there any special set of steps? I'm guessing create 3 primary partitions, format and use sys command on first partition and mark as active, load XP, format next two partitions, load XP SP2, load Win 7. I think we also had to use the included Boot Magic to make them all bootable back then (?2003)
If you think some other partition software would better suite this task, what are they and what would the steps be?
I appreciate all the help you guys have given me. I picked up an external Seagate 3TB drive for 149.00 at Bestbuy a few days ago, so no more messing around without proper backups.