Acronis os selector 8.0 User Manual

 

 

 

For the 1

st

 and 2

nd

 methods of installation, after the computer is 

rebooted control is passed to Acronis OS Selector Setup. This detects the 
installation configuration and if any Windows operating system is already 
installed on your computer, and prompts you to enter additional 
information: 

 

Select «Install a new one» item, and Setup will add the installation 
configuration to the Boot Menu. 

Installation gets to the 1

st

 stage either after the installation configuration is 

selected in the Boot Menu, or the computer is booted from an installation 
CD-ROM or installation diskette. 

On the 1

st

 stage you are prompted to select what do you want the 

installation program to do. Select «Start installation» on this stage. 

Next you are prompted to choose a partition on which to install the operating 
system. Choose the partition, then choose what has to be done with this 
partition during the installation (format, convert to NTFS, or leave 
unchanged). 

 

There is no problem if you want to choose a FAT partition where other Windows are 

installed, even with the same system folder names, since Acronis OS Selector auto-

matically resolves such conflicts. But in this case you should not choose to format 

this partition or convert it to NTFS! 

Next the installation program checks the selected partition, performs primary 
file copying, and reboots the computer. At this stage MBR can be 
overwritten, so you should boot from the Acronis OS Selector boot media and 
re-activate it. By the end of this stage the installation configuration is 
deleted, and a normal operating system configuration appears, i.e. for 
Acronis OS Selector Windows NT/2000/XP operating system installation is 
completed. 

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Chapter 11 : Installing/Updating Windows NT/2000/XP