Multiple Disks with Xp partitions

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Hello I have 4 hard drives with four primary partitions each. I have installed Windows xp in each of the 4 partitions on the first 3 disks. I am able to log into each of the partitions but I am not able to hide partitions on disk 2 and disk 3. It appears that when I boot into the partition on disk 2, disk 3 is being used as a boot disk and vice versa. I can hide partitions on disk 1 without any issues.Following sequence was used:

1) Installed windows xp on disk 0 partition 1 from windows xp disk
2)copied xp from disk 0 partition 1 into unallocated space of disk 1, 2, and 3 using acronis disk director
3)changed boot.ini file to point to the partition location for each of the xp
4)load hive and delete all entries under mounted drives in the registry
5)installed OS selector

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Mon, 09/24/2012 - 21:36
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What version and build of DD/OSS are you using?

Why can't you hide the partitions? Are they disabled for selection? A screenshot may help. No partitions (Disk 1 or otherwise) are set hidden in the BOOTWIZ file you attached.

Other than the partitions not hiding correctly do they all boot correctly into their "own" XP partition? This means that you have booted each XP and verified that Disk Management shows the correct partition as (System).

Normally, this type of setup benefits from setting all the entries as "rdisk(0)" in boot.ini and using the Disk Order feature in OSS to make sure the correct drive is #0. For example, when booting Disk 1 you would put it first in the order list. This lets XP on each drive think they are the booting drive. Also can keep things simpler if drives/partitions get moved around.

Tue, 09/25/2012 - 01:23
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Thanks for the Comment. I have reconfigured all the boot.ini to point to rdisk 0. This solved the issue of hiding the partitions. One thing that confuses me is that the Acronis disk manager shows partitions in particular disk in a particular order. When OS selector boots the disks disk 2 seems to point to disk 3 partitions and disk 3 partitions seem to point to disk 2 partitions. I am including screen shots form the disk director, os selector and the latest bootwiz file. Could you please explain the discrepancy. Thanks in advance

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Tue, 09/25/2012 - 17:22
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I'm not sure what you mean. The OSS screenshot is just showing the order of the drives for an entry, not any partitions.

OSS is accesses the drives differently than DD since it has to work with the BIOS. Kind of the same thing as Windows disk order may be different than BIOS order.

Tue, 09/25/2012 - 20:04
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I am sorry I wasnt clear previously. If you look at the DD screen shot it is very close to what I see with the Windows Disk Management. It shows the Vapor partition on Disk 3. When I right click on Vapor OS under OS selector, the disk order shows disk 2 being the one booted. I hope this clarifies my point. Thanks

Tue, 09/25/2012 - 20:10
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You can't compare the order reported in Windows with the BIOS order (which is what OSS uses). Windows orders the drives by its own rules. When configuring the OSS boot entries just do it by how OSS sees the drives/partitions.

Tue, 09/25/2012 - 20:41