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Install HyperOs 2014 over any existing version of HyperOs you may already have installed. Do not uninstall your previous version as its components may be used by legacy systems. You will need to install HyperOs 2014 in all of your existing systems and also in any systems restored from backups which were created using your earlier version of HyperOs.
If you are upgrading from HyperOs 2004 or earlier please note that the backup format has changed. In order to use your existing backups in HyperOs 2014 you must restore them to a drive in your old version of My Other Computers then create new backups using My Other Computers 2014. To access your old version of My Other Computers, open My Other Computers 2014 from the desktop icon, click the Tools button, then click "Open My Other Computers 2004". You can keep both versions of My Other Computers open at the same time.
To make partitions manually in Vista/Win7/Win8 please use the Windows partitioning utility. Right click My Computer, then click Manage then Disk Management.
HyperOs 2014 implements PerfectClone Technology. This clones a system and then does not run a WinMove to rereference the registry to the new drive letter. Instead it rereferences the new partition to the old drive letter. So the drive letter of Windows does not change in the clone but the partition number does. This is why we have included a partition number column in My Other Computers. So it is best to stop thinking about Windows on C and start thinking about Windows on partition 3 for example. Think of a Windows system as resident on a partition, rather than referenced to a drive letter. For example if you make 5 clones of Vista32 from C, they will all run on C! But each one will be resident on a different partition with a different partition number. The advantage of doing this is that the clone genuinely believes itself to be the original. Therefore no cloning problems such as Microsoft Office not working, or Anti Virus or Firewall programs playing up, or applications failing to install from cloned systems can occur. The clone behaves exactly as the original does because the one is the other from a software standpoint.
Here is the procedure to add Vista/Win7/Win8 to your XP machine:
That is it. Here are some things to bear in mind:
HyperOs 2014 supports live cloning of XP/Vista/Win7/Win8 32-bit and 64-bit (copying the system you are in). So you can create a second system directly from your first system.
Microsoft allows you to install Vista/Win7/Win8 from the XP desktop but does not allow you to install XP from the Vista/Win7/Win8 desktop. So you need to install XP by booting from the XP installation CD.
First, install HyperOs into Vista/Win7/Win8. Then create another partition for XP using either your favourite partitioning utility (Acronis Disk Director is good. Partition Magic 8 does not work with Vista/Win7/Win8) or Windows Disk Management (right click My Computer, select Manage, then select Disk Management). Vista/Win7/Win8 can shrink partitions and create new partitions and delete partitions.
Having created a partition for XP, reboot from the XP installation CD. You now follow the normal XP installation procedure until XP gets to the first reboot of the installation. This will not work because XP has overwritten the Vista/Win7/Win8 MBR.
The solution is to put in a Vista/Win7/Win8 installation DVD and choose Repair, then Next, then Startup Repair, then Finish. Now since you are merely going to repair Vista/Win7/Win8 from this DVD, not install it again, you do not need to buy the DVD and you do not need to enter any product key. So there should be no cost associated with this fix.
Then once Vista/Win7/Win8 is repaired, the PC will boot and give you two booting options: Vista/Win7/Win8 or “Earlier version of Windows”. Choose “Earlier version of Windows” and you can continue with your XP installation. XP will reboot one more time and again you have to manually choose “Earlier version of Windows”. Then the XP installation will finish and leave you at the XP desktop.
Now install HyperOs into XP and you are finished. To swap back to Vista/Win7/Win8, open My Other Computers and double click the relevant system icon.
This information only applies to users of Norton GoBack. If you are not using GoBack you may proceed with the installation.
GoBack must be temporarily disabled during the installation of HyperOs. To do this, wait until HyperOs restarts your computer to partition your disk and press the space bar when the GoBack screen appears. Click Disable GoBack, then click Yes to confirm the action. When you return to Windows you will be asked if you if you wish to re-enable GoBack. Click Yes to do so.
The My Other Computers icon on your desktop is your portal to all your Windows systems. Double click it to begin working with your extra systems.
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A Documents Drive icon will appear in a partition if it has files on it but does not have Windows on it. |
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A Spare Computer icon will appear in a partition if it is possible to create a new Windows system on that partition. |
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A Computer icon will appear in a partition for each Windows system residing on that partition. |
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A ticked/checked Computer icon will appear if that system is currently the one you are running (the active system). |
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Backups appear in the lower part of the window. If the backups pane isn't visible, click the Backups button on the toolbar to show it. |
Alternatively select a system to clone and then click the Clone button on the toolbar at the top of the My Other Computers window. The "Clone To" window will then appear. Select your destination system (either a Spare Computer or a Computer icon) and click Clone.
Note: You cannot clone Vista/Win7/Win8 systems from 2000/XP as these versions of Windows cannot handle relative symbolic links.
By default, HyperOs puts all backups on your C drive in the C:\SYSIMAGE folder. If your C drive becomes full then you should allocate a second choice location. To do this click "Manage", then click "Add" to choose a new backup location.
Note: You cannot backup Vista/Win7/Win8 systems from 2000/XP as these versions of Windows cannot handle relative symbolic links.
Note: You cannot restore a backup to the system that is currently running. You cannot restore Vista/Win7/Win8 systems from 2000/XP as these versions of Windows cannot handle relative symbolic links.
You can lock a system so that My Other Computers cannot change it. This is a small security measure to prevent you altering a system inadvertently. To lock a system, click the icon of the system to lock and then hit the "Lock" button on the toolbar at the top of the My Other Computers window. To unlock a system hit the "Lock" button again.
Note: You cannot delete Vista/Win7/Win8 systems from 2000/XP as these versions of Windows cannot handle relative symbolic links.
If Windows crashes and won't restart, use the boot menu to switch to another system. The boot menu is shown each time your computer starts up, and begins with the text "Please select the operating system to start". If the boot menu isn't being shown, restart your computer, then as the PC goes through the start up BIOS screen hit the F8 key every half-second until the Windows Advanced options menu appears. Choose "Return to OS choices menu" to access the boot menu.
If you had previously been using a multiboot system and you wish to convert your PC back to single boot for HyperOs, then run FIXMBR from the Windows repair console. This will rewrite your Master Boot Record to single boot.
To partition your hard disk we recommend using the latest version of Acronis Disk Director (PartitionMagic is now obsolete).
Alternatively you can use the less powerful Microsoft Disk Management utility. To access this, right click My Computer, click Manage, and then click Disk Management.
The size of each partition that you make must provide room for the operating system, any applications that you intend to use, and your documents if you plan to store them in this partition. Our recommendations when designing your own partitioning scheme using only one OS per partition are:
| Partition Containing | Minimum Size | Recommended Size | Maximum Size Recommended |
| Windows 2000 | 2GB | 6GB | 20GB |
| Windows XP (Home or Pro) | 3GB | 8GB | 20GB |
| Windows Vista/Win7/Win8 32 bit | 11GB | 20GB | 30GB |
| Windows Vista/Win7/Win8 64 bit | 15GB | 25GB | 35GB |
If you wish to use two Windows systems per partition then simply double the figures in the table above.
Your C drive must be PRIMARY.
We recommend that all other partitions on your first drive be LOGICAL.
Likewise with your second/third drive make the first partition PRIMARY and the rest LOGICAL
Windows does not speak to your BIOS. Therefore Windows will merrily give your hard disks numbers which are different from your BIOS disk numbers. For example it may call your Bootable Disk, the one with the C: drive on it, Disk 1. In fact it can recognise and copy files to and from a disk which it has detected but which the BIOS has not detected. Now if you only have 2 Physical Hard Disks, the BIOS will call the bootable disk, the one with the C: drive, Disk 0. And obviously it will call the second Physical Hard Drive, Disk 1.
But if you have 3 or more Physical Hard Drives you basically have to guess what disk numbers the BIOS has given you non bootable Physical Hard Drives . Even Partition Magic is not an accurate guide. The BIOS itself cannot tell you directly either in our understanding.
So we have provided an interface where you can etner the correct BIOS Disk numbers against the Windows Disk numbers. If you swap to a system on a new Physical Hard Drive and you either end up on the wrong system on with a hardware configuration problem and XP refuses to boot, then swap back to your original system and try another BIOS Disk number order!
We believe that most BIOSes order your disks as follows:
To manually enter your guess at the correct BIOS disk number order:
Double click My Other Computers > Click the Tools menu > Click Options > Click the Booting tab > Adjust disk number order
Right click My Computer > Choose Properties > Click the System Restore tab
Open Control Panel > Switch to Classic View if necessary > Double click Power Options > Click the Hibernate tab
Right click My Computer > Choose Properties > Click the Advanced Tab > Click the Settings button in the Performance section > Click the Advanced tab > Click the Change button in the Virtual Memory section
The most important performance element with a PC today is the Hard Disk controller and the hard disk. Make sure you have a fast SATA disk (such as a Western Digital Raptor) and preferably purchase a fast SATA controller card if your MOBO does not have a fast native SATA controller on board.
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The HyperOs Design Team
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