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Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 .0 User’ s guide.
2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 – 2010 . All rights re served. Windows and MS - DOS are registered trademark s of Microsoft Corp oration. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respe c tive owners.
Table of contents Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 3 Table of Contents TABL E OF CO NTENTS ................................................................................................................................ 3 INTRODUCTION .....
Table of contents 4 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 7.11 D ETECTING OPERATI NG S YSTE MS ................................................................................................... 92 7.12 R EN AM ING O PE R ATIN G S Y S TEMS .....
Introduction Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 5 Introduc tion What is A cronis D isk D ir ec tor Suit e ? Acronis Disk Director Suite is a complex program that includes partition and boot ma n ager s and hard disk data editing tools.
Introduction 6 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 rename and delete fi les and folders, creat e folders on the s elected part ition, and even edit text files .
Introduction Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 7 Users w ho have legally p urcha sed and regist ered t heir copy of Acronis Disk Director Suite will receive free technical support from Acronis. If you have inst allation or working problems that you can’t so lve by yourself using this manual and the readme.
Installation and Use 8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Chapter 1. I nstallation and Use 1.1 System Requirements To take full advantage of Acronis Disk Director Suite you should have: • A PC - compatible computer with a Pentium or similar CPU • 128 MB RAM • A f loppy or a C D - RW/ DVD - RW drive • A mouse (recommend ed) 1.
Installation and Use Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 9 If you have a nother Acroni s product wit h its own Boot ab le Media Builder, such as Acronis True I mage, installed on y our computer, the installa tion program will automa tically detect it and will not install a nother Bootable Media Builder regardle ss of your setting.
Installation and Use 10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 To remo ve Acronis OS S elector only, select Start Programs Ac roni s Acronis DiskDi rect or Ins tall Ac ron is OS Sele ctor . T hen select Unin sta ll Ac roni s OS Sel ector in the installation program window and follow the program inst ructions .
Installation and Use Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 11 3. Do not perform any partition operations while running other so ftware that has low - level d isk access, such as ant ivirus o r backup tools. Cl ose such pr o grams befor e running Acronis Disk Director Suit e .
Beginning The Work 12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Chapter 2. B eginning The Work 2.1 Acronis Disk Dire cto r Suite Logical Organiz ation Acronis Disk Dir ector Suite provides tw o o perat ion m ode s (see 1.
Beginning The Work Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 13 Installatio n Process »), you can switch to another mode at any time. Select Vie w A utomati c Mode for the automati c mode or Vi ew Manual Mode for t he manual. 2.2 Acronis Disk Director Suite Ma in W ind o w The program is controlled t hrough the main window.
Beginning The Work 14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Acronis Disk Director Suite main window, Manual Mode 2.2.1 Disk and partition information The main window shows t he partition’s disk number, assigned lett er, label, type, st atus, size, free space size and file sys tem.
Beginning The Work Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 15 • Hide/Unhide — hide/unhide a partition • Set A ctive — set an active partitio n • Resize Root — resize FAT16 partition ro.
Beginning The Work 16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 2.4.3 Viewing delayed operations All pending operatio ns are added to the pending operations list.
Beginning The Work Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 17 2.4.6 Undoing user actions Calling wizards or dialog boxes for planning disk parti tion operati ons are user a c tions . User entries are necessa ry operation parameters on the wizard or dialog box pages.
Beginning The Work 18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 After cli cking Finish on the last wizard page: • The new partition str ucture is graphically represented in the Acronis Disk Direct.
Beginning The Work Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 19 3. Click OK to enable pass word protecti on. After you run the p rogram, you’ll be p rompted to enter a pass word in the Pas s word Protected window: If you e nter a w rong pas sword, y ou'll be ask ed to re - enter it.
Beginning The Work 20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 If any step was termi nated by an error, the corresponding log will be marked with a red circle wit h a white cros s inside. The rig ht window features the list of steps contained in t he selected log.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 21 Chapter 3. Auto matic Partition Operations The «Automa tic par titio n operations» m ode enables you to perform the fo.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions 22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Parti tion creation method s election window 2. If you w ant to create a pa rtition us ing un allocate d disk s pace: 1. Set the switch to Unallocated spa ce. 2. The wiz ard wi ll off er to cre ate a part itio n on the lar gest unallo cat ed ar ea.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 23 4. On the next wizard page, select partit ion type — A ctive (Active Primary), Pr i ma ry or Logical . 5. Typically Primar y is selected to install an operating system to a part ition.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions 24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Parti tion file system sel ection window Selecting a part ition file sy stem results in pa rtition format ting, i.e. creating pa rtition data storage st ructures – boot record, file allocati on table, et c.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 25 Hard d isk part itions are not only a ssigned le tters, but are also n umbered. That mean s some opera ting s ystem part ition s are a ssig ned let ter s and numbe rs, i n ot h ers, only numbe rs.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions 26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Assigning a par tition a new letter or hidi ng it will pr e vent only its applicatio ns and files from running or opening. Other part i tions will not be affected by these operations.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 27 2. On the Select Hard Dis k Drive wizard page, select a disk on which to create a part i tion. Parti tion disk selection pa g e Note that this wiza rd page repr esents ph ysical d isks a ctually con nected to your P C.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions 28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 The window of existing pa rtition se lection to create a n ew partition By creating a partition usin g the free space of.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 29 In this case, you wi ll have t o return to the p revious wizard p age and s elect a differ ent partitio n from which to t ake the necessary sp ace.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions 30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Click Finish on the last wiz ard page to allow Acronis Disk Director Suite to creat e a pending operation list for new partition creation (thes e acti o ns may only m odify an e x isting oper ation.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 31 «Enlarging a partit ion at the expense of another partition» is described above: s ee 3.1 « Creating A New Partition ». Selecting a partition to use to inc rease free space 4.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions 32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Note that althoug h selected pa rtition size is increa sed at the e xpense of ot her partition space, unalloca ted space a lso will be used if nee ded. Unallocate d space is a ut omatically con sidered to be the max imum partition size.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 33 Selecting a partition to copy 3. On the next Partition Lo cation wizard page, a record of copi ed partition parameters will be cr eated.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions 34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 The copy will be located after the P ROGRAM( H :) partition in the figure b e l ow. The figure below sho ws the result of locating a partition copy after clicking af ter t he P ROGRAM( H :) partition.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 35 The page to sel ect a partition, which will be partly used for a copy l ocation If you do not s elect a p artition to be.
Automatic Partit ion Operat ions 36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 The page for pa rtition copy size selection The minimu m copy size is determined by the data area size of a copied part i tion. The maximum si ze is determined by the a vailable disk spa ce.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 37 Chapter 4. Man ual Partition Operations Unlik e the «Automatic partiti on operat ions » mode (see 2.1 ), t he « Manual partition operations » mod e is i nten ded for expe rien ced us ers on ly , a nd off ers muc h wide r o p eration lists.
Manual Partition Oper ations 38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 3. In the Create Partition window, enter a partit ion label and select a file sy s tem and partition t ype ( Pr imary — Lo.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 39 If you nee d to copy a partiti on: 1. Select a hard disk and a partitio n to copy. Selecting a partition to c opy 2. Select Disk Copy or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list or click Co py th e sel ecte d par titi on t o anot her fr ee s pace on the toolbar .
Manual Partition Oper ations 40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 If there is not enough fre e spa ce to copy a pa rtition o n a hard di sk, no unall o cat ed space will be available for selectio n. 4. Select t he unallocated disk space t o copy a selected partition to it.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 41 For example, Window s 98/Me, unlike Window s NT/2000/XP, does not let user s assign random letters to p artition s, so you must move a partit ion to a s sign it the necessa ry letter.
Manual Partition Oper ations 42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Unalloc ated space available for partition moving Note that the unallo cated space is smal ler than moved p artition size, but its d ata area is smalle r than unallocated space.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 43 Enteri ng moved partition parameter s The size and locati on of a partit ion copy can be provided with a mouse click or by entering data into the Unallocated space be fore , Partit ion size (and Unallocated sp ace after ) fields.
Manual Partition Oper ations 44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 2. Select Disk Resize o r a si m i lar item in t he O perations sidebar list , or click Res ize /mo ve th e sel ecte d par titi on on the toolba r.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 45 Acronis Dis k Directo r Suite features a wizard for perf orming more co mplex partition r esizing (see 3.2 « In creasing Partition »). Simple pa rtition resi zing lets you increa se partition size only if there is free ( unallocated) spa ce before or after a par tition.
Manual Partition Oper ations 46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 S electing fol ders to be moved 4. Distrib ute the sour ce part ition free space bet ween the two resulting p artitions .
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 47 5. By clicking Proceed , you'll add a p ending op erati on (you r actio ns may onl y undo o r modify already existi ng op eration; see 2.4. 5 « Modifyin g pendin g oper ations » ).
Manual Partition Oper ations 48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Merging an NTFS partition to a partition with file system not supporting se curity options (for example, FAT32 partition), will result in loss of security setting s (partition ownership data and access permis sions).
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 49 Acronis OS Select or also a llows editing text files (see 7.7.6 “Files ”) , but only those included into system fi les list. The Explore operat ion shows the real pa rtition co ntents, read f rom the disk.
Manual Partition Oper ations 50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 If you nee d to form at an e xisting pa rtition: 1. Select a disk and a partition. 2. Select Disk For mat or a similar item in t he Operations si debar list , o r click For mat the sel ect ed p artit io n on the toolbar.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 51 Remember that each operation describ ed must be execu ted by selectin g Operations Commit or clicking Commit Pendi ng Operations (see 2.4. 4 « Performing pendin g operations» ).
Manual Partition Oper ations 52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 5. By clicking OK in the De let e Par tit ion window, you'll add the pending oper a tion of partiti on del etion (y our ac tions m ay only und o an e xisting o perat ion depe nding on the situation sel ected see 2.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 53 Parti tion check results window 4.1.12 Defragmenting a partition Defragmentation is r eorganizing file storage on a hard disk parti tion. Defragmentation is the process of eliminating file fragmentati on, which causes files to be spread across t he disk after operations.
Manual Partition Oper ations 54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Run partiti on defragmentati on window 4. De fragmentation res ults are shown in the Defr agme nt Pa rtit io n window.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 55 2. Selec t Disk Wipe or a similar item in the Operations side bar list, or click W ip e th e s e l ected unal located space on the toolbar.
Manual Partition Oper ations 56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Hard disk cl earing paramet ers wind ow 4. By clicking OK , you'll add a pending operation of hard disk clearing. Deleting hard disk partit ions does not de stroy disk sect or contents.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 57 Change le tter window 4. By clicking OK in the Change letter windo w, you'll add a pending op eration to partitio n letter assignment (your a ctio ns may onl y undo or modify alr eady existing oper ation; s ee 2.
Manual Partition Oper ations 58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 The main difference between FAT32 and FAT16 is the support of higher - capacity fo lders, files and disks, and more flexible root organizat ion that features unli m ited size and long file- name support.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 59 If you nee d to hid e a partiti on: 1. Select a disk and a part ition to hide in the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window.
Manual Partition Oper ations 60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 2. Select Disk A dvanced Unhide or a similar item in the Adv anced sidebar list, or click Unhide the selected par tition on the toolbar (or select it from par tition or the graphical represent ation context menu).
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 61 Set A ctive Partiti on 3. By clicking OK in t he Set A c tive Pa rtiti on wind ow, you'll add the pendi ng operation of setting active p artiti on (your actions may o nly undo or modify an existi ng operat ion.
Manual Partition Oper ations 62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 3. Ent er th e new ro ot si ze (a nu mber o f elem ent s) in th e Resiz e Root window.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 63 Cluster size win dow 4. By entering a new clus ter size and clic kin g OK in the Cluster Size window, you'll ad d the pending oper ation of cluster r esizing ( your acti ons may only undo or modify an existi ng ope ration, See 2.
Manual Partition Oper ations 64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Parti tion type window 4. By clicking OK in the Par tition t ype window, y ou'll add the pending o per a tion of partitio n type changin g ( your actio ns may only undo or modify an e x isting operation , See 2.
Manual Partition Oper ations Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 65 2. Select Disk A dvanced Change By tes per i- nod e or a similar item in t he Advanced sidebar list, or cli ck Change t he number of by tes per i- no de on the too l bar (or s elect it from partit ion or the graphi cal represent ation co n text menu).
Working with Working w ith Acronis Recovery Expert 66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Chapter 5. W orking with Acro nis Recovery Expert Acronis Recovery Exper t all ows recovery of har d disk part itions accidentally d e let ed or damaged due to a hardware or software failure.
Working with Acronis R ecovery Expert Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 67 Acronis Reco very Exp ert checks to see if your hard disks contain unallocated space. If y ou have no ne , then it makes no sense to search for delet ed partitio ns. If you have una llocated space, it m ay have contained one or more partitions.
Working with Working w ith Acronis Recovery Expert 68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Delete d partitions search progress The information about hard disk partitions is st ored in a specia l disk area – the 1 st s ector o f 0 th cyli nder, 0 th hea d – call ed the partition table.
Working with Acronis R ecovery Expert Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 69 A d elete d partition found Note that you do not have to select parti tions for recovery in the automatic mode. Acro nis Recov ery Expert will recover all part itions found.
Working with Working w ith Acronis Recovery Expert 70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 If you exit Acr onis Dis k Director Suite witho ut confi rming t he partit ion rec overy o perat ion, it will be ca n celed. 5.2 Manu al R ecover y Set the switch to Manua l i n the Recov ery mode window t o select the manual r e covery mode.
Working with Acronis R ecovery Expert Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 71 Searchi ng method selection The Searching for Deleted Partitions wind ow shows you parameters of a pa r tition that exist ed on the select ed unallocated space befor e it was deleted.
Working with Working w ith Acronis Recovery Expert 72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 The manual recovery mo de allows you to select a ll found partitions for recovery.
Working with Acronis Disk Editor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 73 Chapter 6. W orking with Acro nis Disk Editor 6.1 Gene ra l info rm atio n Acronis Disk Editor i s a professional - grad.
Working with Acronis Dis k Editor 74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 6.3 Main Wi ndo w of the Program The main window shows t he numbers of disk and s ector where the inter nal pr o gr am cursor is positioned . It usually contains information about the work of var i ous modes.
Working with Acronis Disk Editor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 75 The current editing position is shown by the curso r that can be either in t he left or right part of the window In this section of the guide, a ll examples of A cronis Disk Editor’s main window vi ew modes are given for demonstrat ion purposes.
Working with Acronis Dis k Editor 76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 see that the Save sector item in Edit menu will become e n abled as well as the appropri ate toolbar button . If you do not sav e you r change s, yo u effect ively reject them.
Working with Acronis Disk Editor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 77 Write to a fi le To read a block from a file and insert it into a disk sector, y ou must place the cursor on the necess ary sect or byte an d then sele ct Read fro m file … menu item .
Working with Acronis Dis k Editor 78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 View men u The edit or offers sev en view modes: • hex • partition table • FAT16 boot sector • FAT32 boot sector • FAT32 FS info sector • NTFS boot s ector • FAT folder 6.
Working with Acronis Disk Editor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 79 The Searc h dialog window A search line can be set both as char and numeric (hexadecimal) value s . Du r ing a s earch, you can ignore letter case as well as search for a given line at a g iven offset inside t he sector .
Working with Acronis Dis k Editor 80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 6.8 Working w ith Differ ent Encodings The main window of the p rogram features a lis t of encodings av ailable in Acronis Disk Edi tor . This list is show n closed a nd dropp ed dow n bel ow.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 81 Chapter 7. W orking with Acro nis OS Selector 7.1 Gene ra l info rm atio n Acronis OS Sele ctor is a po werful, reliabl.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor 82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Acronis OS Sel ector Main Window The key part of the main window , Op erat ing sy stem s , contains a list of opera t i ng systems av ailable for loading on this P C .
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 83 • Del ete – deletes a selected operating sy stem or short cut • Rena me – renames a se lected OS or shortcut .
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor 84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 7.4.1 Booting an OS using th e boot menu Having turned on t he PC, wait for the Acronis OS Select or boot menu to b e i n voked and select and double - cli ck an operating syst em t o boot.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 85 To set a password: • Select an OS to pro tect • Click Set Password in t he Operations section of main wind ow sideb.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor 86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 7.7.2 Boot configuration This section allo ws you t o set the following boot parameters: • Write Boot Sector – w rite bo ot sector ea ch time an operat ing system boots • Boot as MS - DOS 7.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 87 Parti tions properties window 7.7.4 Disks Generally, Windows can boot from HDD only if it s boot files re side on the f irst (accord ing to BIOS) hard d isk (see detai l s in 8.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor 88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Disks p roperties window Moreov er, you can choose t he disk order when installing a new Windows o perating system so that its boot files a re installed on the same d isk where it s main part resides (see 8.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 89 already instal led (s ee 8.2.3 “ Installing another Windows on the same partition ”) . W hen you copy an op erating system usi ng Acronis OS S elector Copy feat ure, t he recovery option enables automat ically.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor 90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Files pr operties window Properties of system fil es will pro vide you with the following options: • Automatic dele tion o f a select ed file wit h Acronis OS Selector und er the given OS.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 91 A dvanced properties window 7.8 Hiding operating s y stems If needed, you can hide any operating system installed so it won’t be shown in the boot me nu and Operating s ystems section of the Acr on is OS Selector main window .
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor 92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 7.9 Using shortc uts Acronis OS Selector all ows you to create shortcuts for any oper ating system in the boot me nu . Shortcuts enable you to create several di fferent configurations for t he same operating syst em.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 93 Selecting where to search an OS • If you sel ected the har d disk , select the p artition where th e OS (to be exa ct, its boo t part) is located. When detecting Linux, choose t he partition containing Linux loader.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor 94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 will be enough. Having selected t he second, you will have to specify a path to the file, containing a previously s a ved boot se ctor of the detected operatin g system .
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 95 Syste m folder pr otecti on is required when multip le OSes are on a single PC, e s pecially in situations when several operating systems are located on the same hard disk part i tio n.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor 96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Startup opti ons window 7.14.3 Displ ay properties Acronis OS Select or can cont rol monitor video mod es before Window.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 97 • Resolu tion – you can man ually set t he resolut ion you want , pro vided that it’s su p ported by your graphics c ard and monitor and ranges from VGA (640 x 480) to SXGA (1280 x 1024.
Working with Acronis OS Selec tor 98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 7.14.5 Input devices In this section of Acro nis OS Select or optio ns, you can provid e extende d support o f input devices (mouse, etc .) in Acronis OS Selecto r boot menu .
Installing and using s everal operating s ystems on a single PC Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 99 Chapter 8. I nstalling and usin g several operating systems on a single PC 8.
Installing and using s everal operating s ystems on a single PC 100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 If this happens, you won’t have to rei nstall Acro ni s OS Sel ector , but you will have to restore i t by reacti vating from a backu p bootabl e disk (for more deta ils see Chapter 9 « Bootable Media Builder »).
Installing and using s everal operating s ystems on a single PC Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 101 8.2.2 Installing another Wi ndow s on a sepa rate partition • Prepare a free primary partition for t he new Windows system . You can do this by using unallocated sp ace (for partition creation instructio ns see 3.
Installing and using s everal operating s ystems on a single PC 102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 • Now you can start installing a new OS in the ordinary way from a bootabl e diskette o r CD or from under Wi n dows .
Installing and using s everal operating s ystems on a single PC Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 103 New Operating System Wiz ard Having instal led Window s 2000 or Windows XP, you can either save or replace a l ready - existing Windows versions.
Installing and using s everal operating s ystems on a single PC 104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 If you chose t o update the exist ing OS, the New O per atin g Syst em Wi zard will automatically determine the list of operating systems install ed available for update.
Installing and using s everal operating s ystems on a single PC Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 105 8.3 Installing Linux and Windows on the sa me PC 8.3.1 General information The Linux op erating system is a modern, reliab le and high - performance pla t form for bo th business and home users.
Installing and using s everal operating s ystems on a single PC 106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 8.3.4 Installing Linux Having created p artitions, you can start Linux installation fro m a bootable CD with Linux distributi on or disket te s created from images usually located on the first installatio n CD.
Bootable Media Builder Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 107 Chapter 9. B ootable Media Builder 9.1 Gene ra l info rm atio n There are si tuations in which you might have to run Acronis Disk.
Bootable Media Builder 108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Selecting components to place on the bootable media Acronis Disk Director Suit e offers the following components : • Disk D ire.
Bootable Media Builder Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 109 Selecting type of the bootable media 4. If yo u are creating a CD, d iskett es or any removable media, inser t the blank disk so the program c an d etermine it s capacity .
Hard Disk And File Systems 110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Appendix A. Hard Disk And File Systems These a pp endices contain additional information about hard disk construction and d ata storage, p artitions, file systems and interaction of operating systems with hard disks.
Hard Dis k And File Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 111 A. 2 Hard Disk Partition After low - level fo rmatting crea tes disk se ctors, partit ions must b e created on t he disk . A partiti on is an area on a hard disk that can be used to install an operating sy s te m and/or used as data storage.
Hard Disk And File Systems 112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 • Create a primary partition with a single logical disk • Create an extended par tition and divide it in to log ical part.
Hard Dis k And File Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 113 A. 5 Extended Partiti ons The ext ended hard disk part ition was developed as a way to avoid the four - primary - partitio ns limit. The extended partiti on is used only for creating a d e sired number of log ical p art ition s .
Hard Disk And File Systems 114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 A. 8 File Sy stems The logical st ructure that has been cr eated on the hard disk is supp orted by means of the operating sy stem. The file syst em itself prese nts the inform a tion on the disk as an ensemble o f files and f olde rs .
Hard Dis k And File Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 115 Table 1. Windows file systems. File sy stem FAT 16 FAT 32 NTFS Operating sys tems Almost all Windows 95OS R2/9 8/Me, 2000/XP , Linux Windows NT/2000/ XP, Linux (for reading) Max.
Hard Disk And File Systems 116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 A .9.2 F AT 1 6 The FAT16 file sy stem is widely used by DOS (DR - DOS, MS - DOS, PC - DOS, etc.), Wi ndows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems and is supported by most other systems.
Hard Dis k And File Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 117 A .9.3 F AT 3 2 The FAT32 file sy stem appeared in Windows 95 OSR2 and is also supported by Windows 98/ Me and Windows 20 00/XP.
Particularities of Opera ting System s 118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Appendix B. Particularities of Op erating System s B.1 DOS - ty pe Operatin g Sy stems B.1 .1 Supported Ve rsions Acronis Disk Director Suite support s the following versions of DOS - type ope r ating systems: • MS - DOS 5.
Particularities of Operating System s Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 119 4. Then the boot manager reads the DOS configuration file (CONFIG.
Particularities of Opera ting System s 120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 • WINBOOT.INI (alternative MSDOS.SYS) • CONFIG.SYS (for all DOS versions) • AUTOEXEC.BAT (for all D OS versions) B.1 .4 Limit ations Different DOS versions hav e the following limitations: • Only MS - DOS 7.
Particularities of Operating System s Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 121 B.2 .3 System Fo lders Main Windows parts reside in the following folders: • System (its name can be assigned du.
Particularities of Opera ting System s 122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 • NTLDR (mandatory) • BOOTFONT.BIN (mandatory for those language versions that use their own font) • NTDETECT.
Particularities of Operating System s Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 123 B.4 Linux Acronis Disk Director Suite automatically detect s and suppo rts any Li nux distrib u tion i f it is booted by Lilo or ASPLoa der installed in the MBR , or if it is booted by any loader installed in the boot sector of the Linux part i t ion.
Glossary 124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Appendix C. Glossary Abso lu te se ctor . All the s ectors of a hard disk can be numbered sequent ially, start ing with zero. Such numbered sect ors are cal led absolut e. A ctiv e partit ion . O ne of t he primary partit ions of a h ard disk is usually active.
Glossary Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 125 Cylinder . A group of all the tracks on all t he magnetic platters of a hard disk that can be accessed without mov ing the magnetic head. A ccess to the data insi de one cylinder is much faster than moving the head from one cylinder t o another.
Glossary 126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 Hidden partition . A partition that is somehow made invis ible to the operat ing sy s tem . Usually parti tions are hidden by changing their type. Label . An opt ional name that can be assigned t o a partit ion to simplify its ident i fication.
Glossary Copyright © Acronis, Inc ., 2000 – 20 10 127 MBR can contain not m ore than one partit ion entry and one tabl e entry . This simplifies the pa rtition struc ture gr eatl y – all the logic al part i tions form one chain. Partit ion tabl e .
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