Hi, I've been using the guide for multiboot-dvd - it works perfectly. Now however , I want to be able to add acronis disk director to my boot options, but how do I go about that? It seems on my bootable Acronis CD, that there is only an audio track on the cd?!?

I've seen some posts covering this for easyboot - but I'ld still like to use cdshell...

please help

Make the Acronis bootable CD , then extract the bootimage from it using Ultraiso , you'll get a ~15MB .bif file , rename it to .wbt ,

In cdshell you must have the bcdw module ( in boot\modules folder ) then put a line like

this in cdshell.ini :

if $lastKey == key[??]; then bcdw /<path-to>/DDSuite.wbt

You can also build some Floppy Image of your Acronis Product

Here is my current method:

1) Start Acronis Media Builder and insert your first empty floppy. Let the media builder finish the first diskette and copy the files from the floppy drive to a temporary folder named SOURCE. The thing you will notice is that Windows still have those files in memory so there is no actual reading of the floppy! Ultra reliable and fast!

2) Do the same for the rest of the floppy required for you Acronis product.

3) Use EasyBoot to create a floppy image of the FIRST diskette

4) Use EasyBoot to create a floppy image to the size required by the number of diskettes and use the floppy image you created at step 3 as the SEED image.

5) Open this new oversized floppy image (empty) with WinImage

6) use the INJECT option and add all the files from the SOURCE folder

7) save

that's it! No more tampering with diskettes.

So far I've created all the floppy image for Disk Director Suite 9 and True Image 8 Corporate Workstation (total 6 images) without a hitch!

P.S. I think this technique will also work with any utility which create boot diskettes like Hard Disk Drive Diagnostic, etc...

****, too complex.

I have disabled my floppy drive from BIOS (for security and speed reasons). I use virtual floppy disk to mount empty images created by winimage. Then when its written to, unmount it and merge all the floppy images.

In any case, with acronis its very easy. Use the Media Builder to write to a CD-RW, then use ultraiso to extract the BIF. Then use easyboot to load it with bootinfotable command.

The biggest advantage with easyboot is that it has its own folder by default, and does not go cluttering the root folder of your CD. Use ultraiso to "hide" the ezboot folder, and even THAT is not visible now - perfectly clean CD (and anyone who copies your CD will normally be idiotic enough to not do an ISO or CD-to-CD copy, and will end up with a useless disk stripped of its boot-sector).

I had to do the floppy method for TIS 8 & DDS 9 because the CD-RW method for those two would never work properly.

There is a little "bonus" with my method. You can boot directly in the Full or Safe mode (1 floppy image each) without having another menu before (Acronis menu)

With EasyBoot, you can put the Floppy images files where you want on your cd, just use the following to navigate to the folder you want with this command:

cd /;cd EZBOOT;cd UTIL;cd DISK;run ACRONIS.IMG

Right, I saw that in the ezb forum by you, I believe.

umm.... I have a question for you.

Using Acronis Disk Director Suite 9, starting OS selector asks for my key everytime. Having a license, how can I have it already embedded so it won't ask again?

If you want to use ISOLinux (probably needs some syntax modification for ISOLinux under CDShell?), you can also load Disk Director this way:

kernel /DD9/kernel.dat
append rw vga=788 acpi=off initrd=/DD9/ramdisk.dat /s ramdisk_size=20480 quiet

kernel.dat and ramdisk.dat should be in your program folder. eg. C:\Program Files\Acronis\Disk Director\.

Cheers

I thank you all, but but but but... I don't have a BCDW folder/module, the ones I found on the net isn't compatible with my version of CDShell 2.1.0.4

Trying the floppy solution ended up in an error: blablabla... floppy is a HD ... blablabla

I use this command to mount/execute the floppy:

if $lastKey == key[5]; then memdisk /acronis.img

any help would be appreciated

I lucked out and found and old version of cd shell in google cache, so now I can use bcdw and everything works

Hi,

I have some problems with my acronis disk director!

I added it to my multiboot dvd with cdshell v.2.0?! Where can find the revisionnumber of cdshell?

Then I added bcdw.csm (v.1.50) to my module folder and I created a wbt-file with ultraiso!

The problem is that acronis wont start! See attachment!

With the 6 disks method it wont work, too!!

Can someone please help me?

if $lastKey == key[6]; then bcdw /ACRONIS.WBT

thx Ghandalf

CD Shell 2.0.11 was the last fully stable release to work with the bcdw 1.5z plug-in.

If someone is willing to host them for a good amount of time so all may share, I can send both full releases.

(I also have the bcdw 1.5z plug-in for bscript as well if anyone is interested.)

You could always just use the ISOLinux cdshell module w/ the kernel.dat and ramdisk.dat.

if ($lastKey == key[??]); then isolinux /DD9/kernel.dat rw vga=788 acpi=off initrd=/DD9/ramdisk.dat /s ramdisk_size=20480 quiet

kernel.dat and ramdisk.dat should be in your program folder. eg. C:\Program Files\Acronis\Disk Director\.

Cheers

Hi Jotnar,

sorry but in my folder, there are no dat files!

Only these: -> Attachment

Do I only need this two files?

thx Ghandalf

Hi again,

I get this error when I includ all diskimages to one big ima!