ADD11 OSS - How to sort the entries
Is there any way to sort the entries in the OSS?
MudCrap,
Thank you for your response. I installed the OSS - now I think it was not a good idea - see the other problems and they are only a part of all problems.
Cannot believe it that it is not programmed that you cannot change the order of the entries. Really not. Did the programmers ever use this software?! To change the bootwiz.oss does not seem to be so easy. Just could try to move some entries without understanding the meaning. Better not.
If the OSS just took the order of the partitions how they are on the disks it would have been perfect. But I ended up with 5 Win 7 OS (I have only 4) and 2 (not working) XP OS and 1 entry for a not existing Floppy drive. The order of the OS in the OSS was completely wrong. I tried to find out with the partition menu in the OSS what is what afterwards. But I still do not understand it. When I look at one entry for instance (see attachement) then the 32 Bit Win 7 is the boot partition and the 64 Bit Win 7 is the system partition. What starts here is the Win 7 32 Bit OS. So what is the meaning of these entries?
The file is just a standard XML file. When editing it, use a plain text program (like Notepad). Sorting involves changing the order of the <id... /> sections in the <oses> ... </> section. This feature has been requested many times, but Acronis hasn't added it.
If you care to read it, you can learn more about the layout from this page on my website.
The "boot" partition in OSS (checkered flag) is the one for the selected OS that contains the booting files for that OS. This may or may not be the same as the OS partition. In a Microsoft muti-boot system, the boot partition is often the same for each entry since there is normally only one. Also, if you have Windows on a Logical partition, a Primary is usually the boot partition.
Looked at your great documentation and helped me to understand the file a lot better - thank you.
But in respect of the attached picture and the partition entries I am still confused. It boots from the R1 Win 7 32 (Bit) and uses as system partition R1 Win 7 64 (Bit).
At the moment I am in this boot entry R1 Win 7 32. Loaded is the R1 Win 7 32. When I look into the DD then the R1 Win 7 64 is the active partition at the moment - see attachement. Does it mix now the 32 Bit with the 64 Bit system or what does this mean?
On this DD screen shot you can see that all my OS partitions are primary - a question you had. The "MAIN" entries are for the two XP systems.
By the way - the DD just crashed when I switched from full window to smaller window.
Faulting module name: fox.dll
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0009deec
But this is a different story.
Without seeing the BOOTWIZ.OSS file it's really difficult to tell what's going on.