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Acronis Disk Director allows conversion of free logical volumes into primary — see Converting a
logical volume to primary (p. 35). Still, you must remember that there cannot be more than four
primary volumes in a system.
2. Set the prepared volume active for the new operating system — see Setting a volume active (p.
36).
When installing a new operating system from CD/DVD, select the CD item in the Operating
systems area of the Acronis OS Selector main window.
When installing a new operating system from floppy disks, create a new Boot from floppy item
by selecting OS -> New -> Boot from floppy in the Menu.
Then right-click on that item, select Operating System Properties -> Partitions from the context
menu and flag the volume you want the operating system on as Active.
3. Reboot and select your CD/DVD or floppy bootup from the boot menu, having inserted the disk
with the operating system distribution.
4. Once booted from the disk, follow the instructions to install the operating system. During
installation, the Windows bootable part will automatically place itself on the primary volume you
have previously set as active.
When you boot either version of Windows using Acronis OS Selector later, each operating system
in the list will recognize the volume where its bootable part is located as active.
8.7.2.3 Installing another Windows OS on the same volume
In some cases, you might want to install several operating systems onto the same volume. This is
usually not possible due to system files conflicts, and even operating systems from the same
developer require different volumes for installation.
Acronis OS Selector enables you to avoid this restriction easily by protecting system files and folders
of various operating systems from each other.
To install a new operating system onto a volume where another Windows operating system exists,
you need to do the following:
1. Select Tools -> Options -> General options and flag Yes, protect folders.
2. In the active operating system’s Properties, select Folders and enable the restoring of each
system folder's content at system start — see Folders (p. 61).
3. After that, system files and folders of an existing operating system will be stored in the BOOTWIZ
folder and made inaccessible for other operating systems installed.
4. Reboot the machine to finish the configuration.
5. Start installing a new operating system in the ordinary way from a CD/DVD or from under
Windows.
8.7.2.4 Installing another Windows OS on a different disk
To install a new Windows operating system onto a different disk, do the following:
1. When installing a new operating system from CD/DVD, select the CD item in the Operating
systems area of the Acronis OS Selector main window.
2. When installing a new operating system from floppy disks, create a new Boot from floppy item
by selecting OS -> New -> Boot from floppy in the Menu.
3. Then right-click on that item, select Operating System Properties -> Disks from the context
menu and set the target disk, where the new operating system will be installed, to be the first.
