roy1984 Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Hi,anyone have experience to create multi boot for Windows XP professionalAcronis Rescue Mediacan multi boot able to set boot from iso?I am looking for boot from Winxp to enter windows XP or boot from Acronis rescue media to enter recovery modenot creating a bootable CD with windows XP / Acronis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 can multi boot able to set boot from iso?I am looking for boot from Winxp to enter windows XP or boot from Acronis rescue media to enter recovery modenot creating a bootable CD with windows XP / AcronisCan you better explain/describe what you want to do? (I cannot understand it from your post ). jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy1984 Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 Hi there,My Pc is installed Windows XP proI would like to create an alternative boot option which is "acronis True Image"Which mean, before I enter my Windows XP, there is another option to boot Acronis True Image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Which mean, before I enter my Windows XP, there is another option to boot Acronis True ImageI see. Get latest grub4dos from here:http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/listExpand with 7-zip two files:grldrmenu.lstto root of your boot drive (usually C:\)Copy to root of the same drive the .iso (I will call it "acronis.iso")Add a line to boot.ini:C:\grldr="grub4dos"Edit menu.lst adding to it:title Acronisfind --set-root /acronis.isomap /acronis.iso (hd32)map --hookchainloader (hd32)ortitle Acronisfind --set-root /acronis.isomap /acronis.iso (0xFF)map --hookchainloader (0xFF)Try it.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy1984 Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 Thanks!!! I will try it now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy1984 Posted August 14, 2011 Author Share Posted August 14, 2011 It works perfectly !!Thanks for your help !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 It works perfectly !!Thanks for your help !!Another happy bunny jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roy1984 Posted August 15, 2011 Author Share Posted August 15, 2011 Hi Jaclaz,With your help I had make the multi boot easily.I would like to know if I would like to copy this multi boot to a portable drive, how to make it work? I would like to have this multi boot on external hard drive. how to move the MBR to my external drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 I would like to know if I would like to copy this multi boot to a portable drive, how to make it work? I would like to have this multi boot on external hard drive. how to move the MBR to my external drive?You don't actually need to "move" the MBR. (or more generally to "move" anything)You just partition the external hard drive, then you format the active priamry partition on it under any NT based system before Vista or 7 and you will get a PBR that invokes NTLDR. (and you are in the same condition as you are now):BIOS->MBR->Active Partition->PBR->NTLDR->BOOT.INI->grldrOr you use Vista or 7 and add grldr.mbr to the BCD.BIOS->MBR->Active Partition->PBR->BOOTMGR->\boot\BCD->grldr.mbr->grldrOr you use a PBR invoking grldr.BIOS->MBR->Active Partition->PBR->grldrOr you use a PBR booting DOS, and from it you run grub.exe.BIOS->MBR->Active Partition->PBR->IO.SYS->grub.exeOr you install grub4dos to the MBR <- this will load directly grldr.BIOS->MBR (grldr.mbr)->grldr(plenty of choices, as you can see)Read the guide:http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htmjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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