Arranging Boot Sequence, Advanced Cmos Setup Menu - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 8.0 User Manual

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For example, to demonstrate the main features of Acronis True Image we used a

Quantum

parameters have the following values:

Parameter

Type

Cylinder (Cyl)

Heads (Hd)

Sectors (Sec)

Mode

CHS

Maximum LBA Capacity

In BIOS setup, you can set the Type parameter to User Type HDD (user-defined

type). In this case, you also have to specify the value of the translation mode

parameter, which can be Auto/Normal/LBA/Large.

Translation mode is how sector addresses are translated. This parameter appeared because in

BIOS versions, there were limitations to the maximum address capacity of disks, which is

504 MB (1024 cylinders x 16 heads x 63 sectors x 512 bytes). There are two ways to bypass

this limitation: (1) switch from physical to logical sector addresses (LBA), (2) use mathematics

to reduce the number of addressed sectors (cylinders) and increase the number of heads; this

method is called Large Disk (Large). The simplest decision is to set the value of this

parameter to Auto.

If there are several hard disks connected to your motherboard, but you do not want

to use some of them at the moment, you have to set the Type of these disks to Not

Installed.

Parameters of hard disks can be set manually with the help of information provided

by the hard disk manufacturer on its case, but it is easier to use the IDE

autodetection utility that is usually included in modern BIOS versions.

The utility is sometimes a separate BIOS menu item and sometimes is included in

the standard CMOS setup menu.

Please note that in Appendix B. «Hard disks and BIOS setup» we have described the general

details of

physical

structure. As a result, the BIOS of the motherboard «sees»

sectors. We are not going to elaborate on this issue here, but knowing about this can

sometimes be useful.

B.2.3