Acronis os selector 8.0 User Manual
• System files of an operating system that are backed up by Acronis OS
Selector in its own folder and are copied by it to their place (usually the
root folder of the operating system partition) before booting the
operating system. Backing up the system files allows the installation of
multiple operating systems with same system file names, like IO.SYS,
MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM, NTLDR etc. on one partition.
root folder of the operating system partition) before booting the
operating system. Backing up the system files allows the installation of
multiple operating systems with same system file names, like IO.SYS,
MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM, NTLDR etc. on one partition.
• System folders of an operating system that are copied by Acronis OS
Selector from its folder where they are stored to their proper place
before the operating system is booted. It allows multiple operating
systems with same system folder names to share one partition while
preventing possible conflicts. System folder names usually include
Windows or WinNT, Program Files, etc. A partition where folders with
these names are stored is called a system folder partition of an operating
system. Such a partition is marked with a «Win» flag in Acronis OS
Selector Setup interface.
before the operating system is booted. It allows multiple operating
systems with same system folder names to share one partition while
preventing possible conflicts. System folder names usually include
Windows or WinNT, Program Files, etc. A partition where folders with
these names are stored is called a system folder partition of an operating
system. Such a partition is marked with a «Win» flag in Acronis OS
Selector Setup interface.
• Hidden partition list for an operating system. Hiding any specified
partitions from an operating system allows very flexible changes in letter
assignment to partitions by the operating system and some more exotic
things like booting operating systems, that cannot execute without
Acronis OS Selector, from different hard disks and logical partitions.
assignment to partitions by the operating system and some more exotic
things like booting operating systems, that cannot execute without
Acronis OS Selector, from different hard disks and logical partitions.
• Active partition list for an operating system. For some operating systems
the order of letter assignment depends on which primary partitions are
active. For each operating system, Acronis OS Selector allows separate
selection of active partitions on all hard disks.
active. For each operating system, Acronis OS Selector allows separate
selection of active partitions on all hard disks.
• LBA partition support flag that defines if there is any need to set LBA type
for partitions that can only be accessed via BIOS extension.
• Configuration files of an operating system configuration. These are files
that Acronis OS Selector backups in its folder and copies back to their
place (usually the root folder of the operating system partition) before
the operating system is booted. Backing up configuration files allows
users to have multiple configurations of an operating system on one
partition that differ only by the contents of their configuration files (the
latter being usually CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, BOOT.INI etc.).
place (usually the root folder of the operating system partition) before
the operating system is booted. Backing up configuration files allows
users to have multiple configurations of an operating system on one
partition that differ only by the contents of their configuration files (the
latter being usually CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, BOOT.INI etc.).
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Chapter 1 : Introduction