Operation Manual

Particularities of Operating System Function
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• Windows Me contains MS-DOS 8.0, which supports FAT32, but does not allow
the use of MS-DOS
B.2.3 System Folders
Main Windows parts reside in the following folders:
• System (its name can be assigned during installation, default name is
«Windows»)
• Applications (in English and most Eastern Windows versions, its name is
«Program Files», in other Western Windows versions, this folder has other
names)
• Backup (available in Windows Me and is called «Restore»)
Acronis Disk Director Suite now supports multiple operating systems with folders
with same names on the same partition. These folders are called system folders.
A system folder is transferred to its proper location (to the root folder) only when
this operating system is booted; other times it resides in the OS Selector system
folder.
The above-mentioned folders are added to the system folders list automatically
when an operating system is detected. You can always manually edit this list by
running Setup from Boot Menu and editing the properties of the selected
operating system. For example, sometimes it is useful to add the «Recycle»
folder.
B.3 Windows NT/2000/XP
B.3.1 Supported Versions
Acronis Disk Director Suite supports Windows NT versions 3.51, 4.0, Windows
2000 and Windows XP; it can detect the most common language versions.
B.3.2 Booting Peculiarities
Operating systems based on Windows NT consist of two main parts: the boot
part and the main part. These parts can reside on different partitions. The boot
part consists of the operating system kernel loader NTLDR (which is also a simple
boot manager), its configuration file (BOOT.INI) and initial hardware detection
code (NTDETECT.COM). The partition where the boot part resides is called
Windows NT/2000 boot partition.
The loader usually opens a simple menu from which you can choose Windows
NT/2000 configuration or some other operating system whose boot sector is
stored in a file.
Main Windows NT/2000 parts reside in the WINNT system folder (this can be
assigned during installation) and in the application folder (Program Files usually),
whose name cannot be changed. A partition where the main part of the