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[soma1234567896]

what happens if I install 5 operating systems on my laptop? Will it break?

[BondiBlue]

You'll open a portal to another dimension. 

 

No, it won't break. You can install many operating systems on your computer without issue, though why you'd need that many on one machine is anyone's guess. 

[mariushm]

Ideally, you should have separate partitions for each operating system ... so you'll also need a big drive (I'd suggest 1 TB or more)

 

Maybe try creating virtual machines and running operating systems inside virtual machines instead.

[SupaKomputa]

no nothing will break, as in breaking the hardware, unless the OS need some exclusive settings in the bios that would block other os to work.

[Margo]

everything will be fine, maybe it will slow down

[Willa]

On 4/30/2022 at 12:34 PM, soma1234567896 said:

what happens if I install 5 operating systems on my laptop? Will it break?

To install 5 OSes on your laptop, you need to ensure that the hard drive you're installing them to is using the GUID Partition Table (GPT; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table) instead of Master Boot Record (MBR; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record)

 

MBR only supports 4 primary partitions (as many extended partitions IIRC, but you can't install an OS on an extended partition under MBR)

 

GPT does not have those limitations.

 

Please note that changing the partition table of your hard drive will erase all data on that drive, all partitions will be erased in the process and the drive will be wiped completely clean.