the operating system resides is called the system folder partition. Multiple
operating systems of Windows 95/98/ME and Windows NT/2000 may conflict
because of the application folder (see 9.2.3 «System Folders»).
It is possible that several different Windows NT/2000/XP are booted from
one single loader.
9.3.3 System and Configuration Files
Windows NT/2000/XP system files list:
• NTLDR (mandatory);
• BOOTFONT.BIN (mandatory for those language versions that use their
own font);
• NTDETECT.COM (mandatory);
• NTBOOTDD.SYS (mandatory if the system folder partition cannot be
accessed with usual BIOS hard disk access function).
Configuration files list:
• BOOT.INI (mandatory).
9.3.4 System Folders
The major parts of Windows NT/2000/XP resides in the following folders:
• System (its name can be set during installation, its default value is
«Winnt»).
• Applications (in English and most Eastern Windows versions its name is
«Program Files», in other Western Windows versions this folder has
other names).
• Personal documents and settings (in English and most Eastern Windows
versions its name is «Documents and Settings», in other Western
Windows versions this folder has other names).
Because application folder name cannot be changed, the ability of several
operating systems to have folders with the same names on a partition was
added to Acronis OS Selector. Such folders are called system folders. A
system folder is moved to its place (root folder) only when the corresponding
operating system is booted, otherwise it remains in the OS Selector system
folder.
The above-mentioned folders are added to the system folders list
automatically when an operating system is detected. Nevertheless you can
always manually edit this list by running Setup from Boot Menu and editing
the properties of the selected operating system. For example, sometimes it is
useful to add the «Recycle» folder.
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