Regards John. John Farrar , Jan 15, Joined: Feb 24, Posts: 5. I just bought True Image and Disk Director about a week ago. So, of course, I had to use the Disk Director rescue CD in order change the active partition to the 1st primary partition, and I was able to successfully boot unto Windows XP that I had originally copied from I realized that maybe the 2nd copy didnt work because the MBR was probably screwed up since the partition wasn't exactly at the same location.
Although, I thought I read in the manual that it was possible although not recommended. But it didn't go into any specific details on how to do it. Now I thought this thread could help me, but I realized that it only applies if one wants to multiboot OSes but with each OS by itself occupying on its own physical hard disk.
I know Disk Director can multiboot and install several OSes within a single primary or logical partition. It's ability to do this is because it saves system folders separately for each operating system in order to prevent corruption and conflicts, and I believe if I understand correctly, it rewrites the boot code for each duplicated OS.
I would like to create three separate primary partitions on physical Disk 0 Master drive , and have Windows XP installed or copied on each partition. I'm not sure if copying an OS unto another partition will work as I've learned. But maybe someone knows how it can be done. Maybe the way I went about imaging the bootable partition was incorrect. I was hoping that copying a primary partition with a bootable OS would eliminate the need and an enormous amount of time of installing multiple copies of an OS by traditional means i.
I've learned that the copying function is really useful for logical partitions data partitions , or for backing up an OS partition. For example, making a copy of bootable primary partition unto another partition, yet not boot the OS from that location. It would just be a copy sitting there for safekeeping.
The 2nd drive slave drive is where I'll keep all my data which I will then back up periodically by imaging with Acronis True Image. I would appreciate if someone could write a step by step process of what I would have to do to make this work. Your help is greatly appreciated! CMarquez , Mar 3, Joined: Feb 19, Posts: Acronis OS-Selector does not work properly.
It may or may not recognize operating systems. The automatic 'sensing' of operating systems does not work. And there is no 'manual' way to make it recognize operating systems.
It's a pretty useless product at the moment. I have a setup with 3 primary partitions all with a supported operating system on it and a logical partition with a supported operating system. I've been in contact with Acronis about this product for over 2 months now and the Acronis people are polite and helpful, but the product just doesn't work.
On questions about 'manual' tweaking i get no answer. Updates of the product show no improvement. I have the same problem as many above. When you boot either version of Windows using OS Selector later, each operating system in the list will recognize the volume where its bootable part is located as active.
Installing additional Windows OS on a separate disk To install a new Windows operating system on a different disk, do the following:. By setting the target disk to be the first, you will force the boot part of Windows to be installed on that disk so that the new operating system can boot, even if the first disk is damaged or removed.
If you need to install several copies of the same Windows operating system e. The copied system will reside on the same partition as the original system. Acronis Disk Director 12 Serial Key : is a complete toolkit for performing hard disk operations, with an emphasis on partition management and recovery. Also bundled in the package is a dedicated boot manager, Acronis OS Selector, which allows for the proper control of a multi-OS computer.
It sports an array of features that are rarely found in similar software. It is a top disk management application. Its only downside is that it allows for high-risk operations without explaining them first or without triggering a warning, which could result in serious trouble for inexperienced users. Get your copy of Acronis Disk Director 12 full version today! It also allows you to manage your hard disk and volumes as you want.
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