Acronis software was a real discovery for me. And it began very prosaically, no matter how large the hard disk was, it will always be small, all users are familiar with this axiom. With longing looked, as the free space ends on two twenty on which the three systems peacefully got along, mentally preparing themselves for a nightmare of reinstallation on a new disk. In the newsletter and on the site Clubrus, attracted unfamiliar programs Acronis with promising chips, which at first did not attach much importance, as we saw such promises, which in actual fact were not so good. And so, closer to the body, I started with Acronis MigrateEasy 6.0 Rus, pre-combed Windows Me, removed all unnecessary from the C: drive, all other systems, boot sectors, although experts do not recommend this installation (with disk crash, do not get access to Other systems), but the second nature of J, and using Acronis programs it does not matter at all. Transferring C: to a new one, turned out to be ugly is simple and fast, choose only the "automatic" boot mode and Acronis Migrate Easy v.6.0 Rus will transfer the entire disk one to one. It's impossible to get confused there, in a beautiful graphical Russian interface it's all very clear what to do with the old disk the program will politely ask. If there is such an option, I recommend leaving the default "leave the data unchanged" and just do not run the two systems together, after the transfer, (otherwise The case on one part of the "Windows" and "Program Files" will be hidden in the folder "BOOTWIZ"), everything will work and not require a new Update, no new installation of drivers and settings of the system itself, the office, or programs running Windows Me - all this I was pleasantly amazed.

There were still two systems, which in addition worked on another physical disk. With this task perfectly handled

The second program Acronis TrueImage 6.0 Standard - it's fantastic, it's the best thing that ever saw, it really is a software product of a new generation. In the creation of images of hard disks and their partitions, for a short time allowed me to create a disk image (which I want to keep, regularly updating, in case of a system or disk crash) and directly from the running Windows XP system and the Windows 2000 image with subsequent transfer to New disk (do not forget to specify when transferring the image to a new disk, give it the name "primary", otherwise, the "logical" will clean the "Windows" or "Windows NT" and "Program Files" partitions on the new disk and the transfer operation from I'll have to repeat the image, please, I remind you again: do not run two systems together, otherwise on one partition "Windows" or "Windows NT" and "Program Files" will be hidden in the folder "BOOTWIZ") Of all the settings that I did After all the moves - this is on the C: drive in the BOOT bootable system partition

[Boot loader]

Timeout = 300

Default = C: \

[Operating systems]

C: \ = "Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition"

Multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (1) partition (2) \ WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows

XP Professional "/ fastdetect

Multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (1) partition (1) \ WINNT = "Microsoft Windows

2000 Professional »/ fastdetect

Changed rdisk (1) to rdisk (0), because the large disk I have

Now one and partition is the address of the boot partition

Systems

[Boot Loader]

Timeout = 300

Default = C: \

[Operating Systems]

Multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (3) \ WINDOWS = "Microsoft Windows

XP Professional "/ fastdetect

Multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (2) \ WINNT = "Microsoft Windows

2000 Professional "/ fastdetect

C: \ = "Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition"

For reference, since it is difficult for me to describe all the configurations that you might have. I think you already understood that this file contains the entire bootloader configuration. The first section [boot loader] determines how many seconds you are given to choose the OS and the system name by default, and in [operating systems] each line represents an OS. Systems like Windows XP and Windows 2000 are written in a special format: multi (0) disk (0) rdisk (0) partition (1) \ WINNT. The multi and disk parameters are almost always zero, and they should not be changed, but the values ​​of rdisk and partition are the address of the boot partition of the system (ie, where Win 2000 and XP are located). Rdisk should have a disk number in the system, it is assigned in the following way: primary master - 0, primary slave - 1, secondary master - 2, secondary slave - 4. True, here you need to take into account several points. Firstly, it is necessary that your system is properly assembled, or maybe it will contain a Secondary Slave CD-COM, but nothing will be on the Secondary Master channel. And although it will work - glitches can not be avoided. Or, for example, you have more than 4 devices installed (for example, an external controller is used). Finally, the partition parameter - it describes the partition number. Note that the numbering of disks starts from 0, and the partition starts from 1.

And one more program, Acronis Partition Expert 2003, was a great addition to everything said: under any system creates, adds, moves, configures partitions and logical disks, without data loss with such ease that hitherto never seen, you easily add free space , For one system, cutting off the other, changing any file systems and its colorful interface, which distinguishes all Acronis programs, resembles a puzzle game, Partition never did.

The last thing I did was put Acronis OS Selector 8.0 Standard Russian - the program with a few minutes created a colorful download manager, which turned out to be a lot of useful functions. The partition manager allows you to change the structure of hard disk partitions without data loss, as well as the Disk Administrator helping to work with the disk and its partitions, and not only, I will not dwell on this, since Acronis itself took care of equipping all its programs with detailed instructions on Russian in the .pdf file (you can read in AcrobatReader) and a brief reference in the program itself (the dream of any user!). Also, boot floppies are easily written, which it is desirable to have when working with programs.