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roy1984

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Hi,

anyone have experience to create multi boot for

Windows XP professional

Acronis Rescue Media

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 mode

not creating a bootable CD with windows XP / Acronis

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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 mode

not creating a bootable CD with windows XP / Acronis

Can you better explain/describe what you want to do? (I cannot understand it from your post :blushing: ).

jaclaz

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Hi there,

My Pc is installed Windows XP pro

I 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

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Which mean, before I enter my Windows XP, there is another option to boot Acronis True Image

I see. :)

Get latest grub4dos from here:

http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/list

Expand with 7-zip two files:

  1. grldr
  2. menu.lst

to 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 Acronis
find --set-root /acronis.iso
map /acronis.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)

or

title Acronis
find --set-root /acronis.iso
map /acronis.iso (0xFF)
map --hook
chainloader (0xFF)

Try it.

jaclaz

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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?

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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 :ph34r: 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->grldr

Or you use Vista :ph34r: or 7 and add grldr.mbr to the BCD.

BIOS->MBR->Active Partition->PBR->BOOTMGR->\boot\BCD->grldr.mbr->grldr

Or you use a PBR invoking grldr.

BIOS->MBR->Active Partition->PBR->grldr

Or you use a PBR booting DOS, and from it you run grub.exe.

BIOS->MBR->Active Partition->PBR->IO.SYS->grub.exe

Or 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.htm

jaclaz

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