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Installation and Use 10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20073. You will be prompted to choose Typical, Custom or Complete installation. If you pick

Installing and using several operating systems on a single PC 100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Chapter 8. Installing and using several opera

Installing and using several operating systems on a single PC Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 101If this happens, you won’t have to reinstall A

Installing and using several operating systems on a single PC 102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 8.2.2 Installing another Windows on a separ

Installing and using several operating systems on a single PC Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 103 • Now you can start installing a new OS in t

Installing and using several operating systems on a single PC 104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 New Operating System Wizard Having installed

Installing and using several operating systems on a single PC Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 105If you chose to update the existing OS, the Ne

Installing and using several operating systems on a single PC 106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 8.3 Installing Linux and Windows on the sam

Installing and using several operating systems on a single PC Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 107 8.3.4 Installing Linux Having created partiti

Bootable Media Builder 108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Chapter 9. Bootable Media Builder 9.1 General information There are situations in wh

Bootable Media Builder Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 109 Selecting components to place on the bootable media Acronis Disk Director Suite offe

Installation and Use Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 11a dialog to confirm removal. Click Yes to confirm and Acronis Disk Director Suite will b

Bootable Media Builder 110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Selecting type of the bootable media 4. If you are creating a CD, diskettes or any

Hard Disk And File Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 111 Appendix A. Hard Disk And File Systems These appendices contain additional infor

Hard Disk And File Systems 112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 A.2 Hard Disk Partition After low-level formatting creates disk sectors, parti

Hard Disk And File Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 113 • Create a primary partition with a single logical disk • Create an extended p

Hard Disk And File Systems 114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 A.5 Extended Partitions The extended hard disk partition was developed as a way

Hard Disk And File Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 115 A.8 File Systems The logical structure that has been created on the hard disk is

Hard Disk And File Systems 116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Table 1. Windows file systems. File system FAT16 FAT32 NTFS Windows NT/2000/X

Hard Disk And File Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 117A.9.2 FAT16 The FAT16 file system is widely used by DOS (DR-DOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS,

Hard Disk And File Systems 118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 A.9.3 FAT32 The FAT32 file system appeared in Windows 95 OSR2 and is also suppo

Particularities of Operating Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 119Appendix B. Particularities of Operating Systems B.1 DOS-type Operatin

Installation and Use 12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007You can invoke system hard disk checking tools directly from Acronis Disk Director Suit

Particularities of Operating Systems 120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 4. Then the boot manager reads the DOS configuration file (CONFIG.SY

Particularities of Operating Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 121• WINBOOT.INI (alternative MSDOS.SYS) • CONFIG.SYS (for all DOS versi

Particularities of Operating Systems 122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 B.2.3 System Folders Main Windows parts reside in the following folde

Particularities of Operating Systems Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 123• NTLDR (mandatory) • BOOTFONT.BIN (mandatory for those language vers

Particularities of Operating Systems 124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 B.4 Linux Acronis Disk Director Suite automatically detects and suppo

Glossary Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 125 Appendix C. Glossary Absolute sector. All the sectors of a hard disk can be numbered sequentially,

Glossary 126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Cylinder. A group of all the tracks on all the magnetic platters of a hard disk that can be acces

Glossary Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 127 Hidden partition. A partition that is somehow made invisible to the operating system. Usually part

Glossary 128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 MBR can contain not more than one partition entry and one table entry. This simplifies the parti

Beginning The Work Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 13 Chapter 2. Beginning The Work 2.1 Acronis Disk Director Suite Logical Organization Acroni

Beginning The Work 14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Installation Process»), you can switch to another mode at any time. Select View Æ Automa

Beginning The Work Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 15 Acronis Disk Director Suite main window, Manual Mode 2.2.1 Disk and partition informatio

Beginning The Work 16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007• Hide/Unhide — hide/unhide a partition • Set Active — set an active partition • Resiz

Beginning The Work Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 172.4.3 Viewing delayed operations All pending operations are added to the pending operatio

Beginning The Work 18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20072.4.6 Undoing user actions Calling wizards or dialog boxes for planning disk partition o

Beginning The Work Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 19After clicking Finish on the last wizard page: • The new partition structure is graphical

2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007. All rights reserved. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of

Beginning The Work 20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 3. Click OK to enable password protection. After you run the program, you’ll be prompte

Beginning The Work Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 21 If any step was terminated by an error, the corresponding log will be marked with a red c

Automatic Partition Operations 22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Chapter 3. Automatic Partition Operations The «Automatic partition operations

Automatic Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 23 Partition creation method selection window 2. If you want to create a partiti

Automatic Partition Operations 24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20074. On the next wizard page, select partition type — Active (Active Primary),

Automatic Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 25 Partition file system selection window Selecting a partition file system res

Automatic Partition Operations 26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Hard disk partitions are not only assigned letters, but are also numbered. Th

Automatic Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 27OS startup problems may appear if you directly change the letter assigned to t

Automatic Partition Operations 28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 2. On the Select Hard Disk Drive wizard page, select a disk on which to cre

Automatic Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 29 The window of existing partition selection to create a new partition By creat

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 3 END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT BY ACCEPTING, YOU (ORIGINAL PURCHASER) INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS. IF

Automatic Partition Operations 30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007In this case, you will have to return to the previous wizard page and select

Automatic Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 31Click Finish on the last wizard page to allow Acronis Disk Director Suite to c

Automatic Partition Operations 32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007«Enlarging a partition at the expense of another partition» is described abov

Automatic Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 33Note that although selected partition size is increased at the expense of othe

Automatic Partition Operations 34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Selecting a partition to copy 3. On the next Partition Location wizard page,

Automatic Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 35 The copy will be located after the PROGRAM(H:) partition in the figure below.

Automatic Partition Operations 36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 The page to select a partition, which will be partly used for a copy locatio

Automatic Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 37 The page for partition copy size selection The minimum copy size is determine

Manual Partition Operations 38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Chapter 4. Manual Partition Operations Unlike the «Automatic partition operation

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 393. In the Create Partition window, enter a partition label and select a file syst

Table of contents 4 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION...

Manual Partition Operations 40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20071. Select a hard disk and a partition to copy. Selecting a partition to copy 2

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 414. Select the unallocated disk space to copy a selected partition to it. 5. In

Manual Partition Operations 42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007For example, Windows 98/Me, unlike Windows NT/2000/XP, does not let users assign

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 43 Unallocated space available for partition moving Note that the unallocated space

Manual Partition Operations 44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Entering moved partition parameters The size and location of a partition copy c

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 452. Select Disk Æ Resize or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or clic

Manual Partition Operations 46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Acronis Disk Director Suite features a wizard for performing more complex partit

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 47 Selecting folders to be moved 4. Distribute the source partition free space betw

Manual Partition Operations 48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20075. By clicking Proceed, you'll add a pending operation (your actions may on

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 49Merging an NTFS partition to a partition with file system not supporting security

Table of contents Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 5 7.12 RENAMING OPERATING SYSTEMS ...

Manual Partition Operations 50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Acronis OS Selector also allows editing text files (see 7.7.6 “Files”), but only

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 511. Select a disk and a partition. 2. Select Disk Æ Format or a similar item in t

Manual Partition Operations 52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20074.1.10 Deleting a partition After a partition is deleted, its space is added to

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 53The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis Disk D

Manual Partition Operations 54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Partition check results window 4.1.12 Defragmenting a partition Defragmentatio

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 55 Run partition defragmentation window 4. Defragmentation results are shown in th

Manual Partition Operations 56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20072. Select Disk Æ Wipe or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or click

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 57 Hard disk clearing parameters window 4. By clicking OK, you'll add a pendin

Manual Partition Operations 58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Change letter window 4. By clicking OK in the Change letter window, you'll

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 59The main difference between FAT32 and FAT16 is the support of higher-capacity fol

Introduction 6 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Introduction What is Acronis Disk Director Suite? Acronis Disk Director Suite is a complex prog

Manual Partition Operations 60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20071. Select a disk and a partition to hide in the list in the Acronis Disk Direct

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 613. By clicking OK in the Unhide Partition window, you'll add the pending ope

Manual Partition Operations 62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20073. By clicking OK in the Set Active Partition window, you'll add the pendin

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 63FAT16 can contain a maximum of 65,520 elements. 4. By clicking OK, you'll a

Manual Partition Operations 64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Cluster size window 4. By entering a new cluster size and clicking OK in the C

Manual Partition Operations Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 65 Partition type window 4. By clicking OK in the Partition type window, you'l

Manual Partition Operations 66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–20072. Select Disk Æ Advanced Æ Change Bytes per i-node or a similar item in the Ad

Working with Acronis Recovery Expert Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 67Chapter 5. Working with Acronis Recovery Expert Acronis Recovery Expert

Working with Working with Acronis Recovery Expert 68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Acronis Recovery Expert checks to see if your hard disks c

Working with Acronis Recovery Expert Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 69 Deleted partitions search progress The information about hard disk par

Introduction Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 7 rename and delete files and folders, create folders on the selected partition, and even edit tex

Working with Working with Acronis Recovery Expert 70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 A deleted partition found Note that you do not have to se

Working with Acronis Recovery Expert Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 71If you exit Acronis Disk Director Suite without confirming the partition

Working with Working with Acronis Recovery Expert 72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Searching method selection The Searching for Deleted Part

Working with Acronis Recovery Expert Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 73The manual recovery mode allows you to select all found partitions for r

Working with Acronis Disk Editor 74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007Chapter 6. Working with Acronis Disk Editor 6.1 General information Acronis

Working with Acronis Disk Editor Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 756.3 Main Window of the Program The main window shows the numbers of disk an

Working with Acronis Disk Editor 76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007The current editing position is shown by the cursor that can be either in t

Working with Acronis Disk Editor Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 77see that the Save sector item in Edit menu will become enabled as well as th

Working with Acronis Disk Editor 78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Write to a file To read a block from a file and insert it into a disk se

Working with Acronis Disk Editor Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 79 View menu The editor offers seven view modes: • hex • partition table •

Introduction 8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Technical support Users who have legally purchased and registered their copy of Acronis Disk Di

Working with Acronis Disk Editor 80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 The Search dialog window A search line can be set both as char and numeric

Working with Acronis Disk Editor Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 816.8 Working with Different Encodings The main window of the program feature

Working with Acronis OS Selector 82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Chapter 7. Working with Acronis OS Selector 7.1 General information Acroni

Working with Acronis OS Selector Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 83 Acronis OS Selector Main Window The key part of the main window, Operating

Working with Acronis OS Selector 84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 • Delete – deletes a selected operating system or shortcut • Rename – re

Working with Acronis OS Selector Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 857.4.1 Booting an OS using the boot menu Having turned on the PC, wait for t

Working with Acronis OS Selector 86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007• Select an OS to protect • Click Set Password in the Operations section

Working with Acronis OS Selector Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 87• Write Boot Sector – write boot sector each time an operating system boots

Working with Acronis OS Selector 88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Partitions properties window 7.7.4 Disks Generally, Windows can boot fro

Working with Acronis OS Selector Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 89 Disks properties window Moreover, you can choose the disk order when insta

Installation and Use Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 9Chapter 1. Installation and Use 1.1 System Requirements To take full advantage of Acronis

Working with Acronis OS Selector 90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007already installed (see 8.2.3 “Installing another Windows on the same partit

Working with Acronis OS Selector Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 91 Files properties window Properties of system files will provide you with t

Working with Acronis OS Selector 92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Advanced properties window 7.8 Hiding operating systems If needed, you ca

Working with Acronis OS Selector Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 937.9 Using shortcuts Acronis OS Selector allows you to create shortcuts for a

Working with Acronis OS Selector 94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 Selecting where to search an OS • If you selected the hard disk, select th

Working with Acronis OS Selector Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 95will be enough. Having selected the second, you will have to specify a path

Working with Acronis OS Selector 96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007System folder protection is required when multiple OSes are on a single PC,

Working with Acronis OS Selector Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 97 Startup options window 7.14.3 Display properties Acronis OS Selector can c

Working with Acronis OS Selector 98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007• Resolution – you can manually set the resolution you want, provided that

Working with Acronis OS Selector Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000–2007 997.14.5 Input devices In this section of Acronis OS Selector options, you can