Boot Acronis product from HDD with XP bootManager

[Tlem]

Hello,

For some reasons, i use sometime a boot CD of Acronis Trueimage to make image or clone HDD for backup my OS or backup a great work.

But one time i can't use the CD because it was broken by something, and i will be very sad of this, so i realease that a CD is "big" and it can easily be broken ...

How can i make, without installing the application or use the CD ... And i remenber the famous floppy image of Bart (http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/) where we can put a lot of think (Like ModBoot) and boot it from a CD.

I have search on internet, and find a lot of thing, interesting.

So i have decided to make a floppy image of Trueimage and made something to boot it from the HDD, like this, no need of a CD to make the clone or the image of my HDD.

To realease that,

I have made the 1st floppy disk with the Acronis Trueimage mediabuider, and With Winimage 7, i have saved the boot sector of the Trueimage boot floppy disk.

After that, i have download an image of 11 MB floppy Disk ( http://bootcd.narod.ru/images.htm ) and delete the files in it.

In a second time, i have made another boot image with mediabuider, but this time i put it on a USB key, so the files was in one track).

I don't try this, but probably it will working whith a CD image ???

So with all of that, i use Winimage to put the files of my USB key and the boot sector in the 11 Mb floppy disk, like this , i can put it on a multiboot CD and have a new Acronis Trueimage CD create by myself !!!!!

But .... How to boot it from HDD ....

The answer is ..... Grub for NTLDR

So I have installed Grub for NTLDR ( ftp://ftp.linuxeden.com/tinybit/grub_for_....4.0pre7.tar.gz ) ,

made modification to the boot.ini of my Windows XP (Adding in section [operating systems] the line C:\GRLDR="Chargement de Grub"),

put the PCcloneur.ima (Boot image of 11 MB) in c:\boot ,

create the file c:\menu.lst with this in :

title Lancement de PC Cloneur 8

map --mem (hd0,0)/boot/PCcloneur.ima (fd0)

map --hook

chainloader (fd0)+1

rootnoverify (fd0)

boot

So when i boot my computer, i have the choice to lunch Windows XP or the Grub menu, and if i choice Grub, i can lanch Trueimage or other think i made like this ...

If you plan to make other boot image, it is important to take the boot sector of each boot floppy created by the médiabuilder of each application.

So in example, if you want to make a boot image of Acronis Partition Suite, make the first floppy disk, take the boot sector, re-create the boot media on a large support, take the files, put all of this in the appropriate floppy size of this site http://bootcd.narod.ru/images.htm (Of course before you have to suppress the files in) and make what you want with it

Now i use it on a USB key, to copy the files on the computer i want, and with a batch scrip that mod's the boot.ini file, i can activate or dé-activate the Grub menu.

I hope that this could help someone.

Sorry for my bad English and the mistakes.

Best regards

Thierry