Syntho said:

If I have two OS installs on the same hard drive, when I put something on the desktop in one OS and boot into another, it appears there as well. I'd like to keep them separate if possible.

What I mean by contextual menus is control-clicking on an icon and getting more options. Doesn't seem to work in System 7 and I didn't see anything in the Control Panels that would let me change it,

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As for the separate OSes and their software/data, that is not exactly possible. You can have separate partitions for each OS, their software and their data, but they will be visible. Even in OS 9 and OSX, they are still visible and accessible to each other.

The only thing I can think of is three partitions - 1 for System 7 on HSF, its software and data; 1 small partition for OS 8 Booting on HSF and 1 for OS8 software and data under HSF+. This would only hide the HSF+ partition from System 7, but everything done on System 7 can be seen in OS 8. This is not exactly a two-way street.