User`s guide
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7.11 DETECTING OPERATING SYSTEMS ................................................................................................... 92
7.12 RENAMING OPERATING SYSTEMS ................................................................................................... 94
7.13 COPYING OPERATING SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................... 94
7.14 SETTING ACRONIS OS SELECTOR OPTIONS ..................................................................................... 94
CHAPTER 8. INSTALLING AND USING SEVERAL OPERATING SYSTEMS ON A SINGLE PC
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8.1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 99
8.2 INSTALLING SEVERAL WINDOWS COPIES TO A SINGLE PC ............................................................... 100
8.3 INSTALLING LINUX AND WINDOWS ON THE SAME PC ...................................................................... 105
CHAPTER 9. BOOTABLE MEDIA BUILDER .................................................................................. 107
9.1 GENERAL INFORMATION .................................................................................................................. 107
9.2 CREATING BOOTABLE MEDIA ........................................................................................................... 107
APPENDIX A. HARD DISK AND FILE SYSTEMS ........................................................................... 110
A.1 HARD DISK ORGANIZATION ............................................................................................................. 110
A.2 HARD DISK PARTITION .................................................................................................................... 111
A.3 PARTITION TYPES ............................................................................................................................ 111
A.4 PRIMARY PARTITIONS ...................................................................................................................... 112
A.5 EXTENDED PARTITIONS ................................................................................................................... 113
A.6 LOGICAL PARTITIONS ...................................................................................................................... 113
A.7 FORMATTING HARD DISKS .............................................................................................................. 113
A.8 FILE SYSTEMS .................................................................................................................................. 114
A.9 FILE SYSTEM MAIN SPECIFICATIONS ............................................................................................... 114
APPENDIX B. PARTICULARITIES OF OPERATING SYSTEMS ................................................. 118
B.1 DOS-TYPE OPERATING SYSTEMS .................................................................................................... 118
B.2 WINDOWS 95/98/ME ........................................................................................................................ 120
B.3 WINDOWS NT/2000/XP ................................................................................................................... 121
B.4 LINUX .............................................................................................................................................. 123
B.5 OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................... 123
APPENDIX C. GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................... 124