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By this I mean if I have two partitions on a drive, can I mount one as a separate drive letter and use the other as a boot for an os? I am not planning to dual-boot, I need a separate drive for my second OS and don't want to waste a 500gb hard drive on a small partition to be used only with a change of the boot order. If there is another way to do this and still be able to use the extra space on my first OS, I'm all ears.

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    Windows treats each partition as a logical drive. If Windows recognizes/supports the filesystem of that partition, then you must assign a drive letter to that logical drive for access.
    – sawdust
    Commented Jun 21, 2019 at 22:24

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"Drive letters" are always assigned to partitions. (They're only called drive letters because they existed for years before PCs had HDDs which could be partitioned, and the name stuck.)

So if you have a disk with two NTFS partitions, they will both have individual drive letters (or folder mountpoints).

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  • Thanks, I'm a bit new to this side of windows, I deal more with advanced programming languages.
    – CRIMSON_QUO
    Commented Jun 21, 2019 at 22:22

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