Acronis os selector 8.0 User Manual

 

 

 

This chapter contains the following information: 

In spite of Disk Administrator being very carefully debugged and tested 
software, different external factors, such as power failures and other 
hardware troubles may result in data loss. So before attempting any actions 
on changing the partitions structure with the Disk Administrator, some steps 
should be undertaken to reduce possible risk. Make sure that you have made 
backup copies of important information (again, you may wish to consider 
purchasing Acronis TrueImage at www.acronis.com), created boot floppies 
for the operating systems that are installed on your computer, and make 
sure that you still have the Acronis OS Selector installation media. 

 

Because of possible conflicts that might occur due to hardware and software 

differences on different computers, it is undesirable to create hard disk partitions on 

one computer and then to use this hard disk on another PC. Doing so may lead to 

data loss. 

There are two ways to run Disk Administrator: 

1.  Booting from the installation diskette (or CD-ROM) allows you to prepare 

the hard disk for installing Acronis OS Selector, and also allows you to 
perform actions in case of unexpected situations. 

2.  From the installed Acronis OS Selector Boot Menu. This is the usual way 

you will run the Disk Administrator. 

Disk Administrator main window consists of several main parts: 

•  Title and frame. 
•  Menu bar. 
•  Toolbar. 

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Chapter 6 : Disk Administrator