Acronis disk director suite 9.0 User Manual
Installing and using several operating systems on a single PC
Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2005
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When a new item is created, open its Properties with the context menu and
select Partitions;
Flag the partition you want the OS on as Active;
In the left side bar of Acronis OS Selector, in the Tools group select Options
→ General options and flag Yes, protect folders;
In the active OS properties select Folders and set Enable option active for
all system folders included;
Reboot and select the newly created and edited diskette bootup from the
Boot menu, having inserted the respective diskette or CD with the OS
distribution;
distribution;
Once booted from a diskette or CD, follow instructions to install the OS.
If you only have a bootable CD and no diskettes, all the properties you have set for
Boot from floppy will work for this CD as well. You will have to reboot, insert the
CD and select the respective item in the boot menu. But first you will have to
adjust BIOS settings so the PC boots from a CD first.
During Windows installation, the bootable part will automatically select the
primary partition you have previously set as active.
primary partition you have previously set as active.
When you boot either version of Windows using Acronis OS Selector later, each
OS in the list will recognize the partition where its bootable part is located as
active.
OS in the list will recognize the partition where its bootable part is located as
active.
8.2.4
Re-activating the Acronis OS Selector boot menu
Because Windows operating systems can change the Master Boot Record (MBR)
during installation, Acronis OS Selector, which also uses the MBR, might become
inoperable.
during installation, Acronis OS Selector, which also uses the MBR, might become
inoperable.
If this happens, you won’t have to re-install Acronis OS Selector, but you will
have to restore it by re-activating from a backup bootable disk (for more details
see Chapter 9 «Bootable Media Builder»). After loading it, select Activate in the
Activation section of the main menu.
have to restore it by re-activating from a backup bootable disk (for more details
see Chapter 9 «Bootable Media Builder»). After loading it, select Activate in the
Activation section of the main menu.
Besides, automatic activation is provided for Windows 95 and Windows 98
operating systems. To do this, Acronis OS Selector adds a REINSTAL.COM launch
line into AUTOEXEC.BAT that restores Acronis OS Selector MBR code. Still, if this
program doesn’t do the thing correctly, you can re-activate Acronis OS Selector
manually.
operating systems. To do this, Acronis OS Selector adds a REINSTAL.COM launch
line into AUTOEXEC.BAT that restores Acronis OS Selector MBR code. Still, if this
program doesn’t do the thing correctly, you can re-activate Acronis OS Selector
manually.
It’s impossible to perform automatic MBR recovery under Windows Millennium
Edition, as this OS has a feature-limited version of MS-DOS 8.0 that can’t run
programs from AUTOEXEC.BAT.