I am a registered BIBM user.
My major questions are:
- In which order should I install the 3 OSS's thereby preserving the work already invested in Win8.1?
- Which OS('s) should best be installed on the SSD?
Please give your answers in the context of the following story:
Not knowing anything of Windows 8 and UEFI I had bought a new notebook (Medion AKOYA E7223 MD 98462) with Windows 8.1 pre-installed on the internal 500 GB SATA HDD. It is a GPT/UEFI installation with the partitions shown in the Attachment.
Naively I started configuring and customizing my Win8.1. I decided to make it very fast by transferring it to an SSD, which I intended to buy for this purpose.
Thinking that everything would run smoothly as I knew it from Win7 and BIBM, I planned to create a multi-OS boot menu (Win8.1, Win7, LinuxMint with 60 GB each as Primaries on my "Samsung MZ-7TE250BW Serie 840 EVO Basic interne SSD" and the Extended on my internal SATA HDD).
I installed the SSD into the notebook and it was only then that I started reading info about HDD – SSD migration and partitioning. I realized with dismay that all my work on Win8.1 might be lost because I would install the older Windows after the newer one and because BIBM can only deal with MBR/BIOS.
How can I make my plan (penultimate para) work? I do not care about using UEFI. Conversion to MBR would be acceptable. I would also be satisfied with one OS only on the SSD (preferably Win8.1) as a minimum and the other 2 OS's plus the Extended on the SATA HDD. But whatever the configuration, it should enable maximum speed of the SSD.