Originally Posted by
Harrison
If it was Windows Vista/7 being installed it definitely needs a primary partition and a logical partition, because the OS needs 2 partitions to install (a small one at the beginning of the drive that holds important OS system files that you can't access, and the second for the main OS. For XP it only needs one... but in most cases the first OS in a multi OS partitioned HD should always be a version of Windows, and annoyingly the older version first before any others, so something like 98 would need to be installed to the first partition before another newer version.
One question. If you have Linux installed, why not just run Windows in a Virtual Machine? No need for dedicated partitions and you can mess around with no real HD setup impact.