Simviation Forum - Acronis Boot Director 10.0

Sep 20^th, 2009 at 12:01am

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I want to be able to boot my sytem to Win 98 SE, XP Pro 64 and Vista Ultimate 64 at will. Each OS on its own drive.

Would Acronis Boot Director 10.0 do what I need? And well?

Here's the link:

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/multibooting.html

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Reply #1 - Oct 9^th, 2009 at 3:02am

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Sorry; I can't tell you. But I can tell you that Acronis True Image has saved my bacon once, and that was well worth its $50 purchase price. Your hard-drive will someday take a powder. Get Acronis and a back-up drive before that happens. Save yourself the anguish...

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Reply #2 - Oct 9^th, 2009 at 3:00pm

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You can also change your boot disk in bios and boot whichever OS you want.

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Reply #3 - Oct 9^th, 2009 at 6:38pm

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richardd43 wrote on Oct 9^th, 2009 at 3:00pm:

You can also change your boot disk in bios and boot whichever OS you want.

Am currently doing that. I was hoping Acronis would allow me to boot a particular drive without having to enter the bios.

And as for having backups? I run Norton Ghost on my Vista Ultimate x64 install. I use it to backup to three WD MyBook backup drives. One lives in the documents firebox, one in the gunsafe and one in the garage.

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Reply #4 - Oct 16^th, 2009 at 1:09pm

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I run Norton Ghost on my Vista Ultimate x64 install. I use it to backup to three WD MyBook backup drives. One lives in the documents firebox, one in the gunsafe and one in the garage.

You are seriously backed-up! Smart man...

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Reply #5 - Oct 16^th, 2009 at 10:45pm

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hhomebrewer wrote on Oct 16^th, 2009 at 1:09pm:

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I run Norton Ghost on my Vista Ultimate x64 install. I use it to backup to three WD MyBook backup drives. One lives in the documents firebox, one in the gunsafe and one in the garage.

You are seriously backed-up! Smart man...

I didnt mention the 500gig IDE drive in a USB external case I use to back up my Windows install. Thought that isnt as important as my data backups. Ive got so much music, videos and other stuff that I could NEVER replace it all. And the family photos? Fagetaboutit!

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