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Working with Acronis OS Selector

Chapter 7. Working with Acronis OS

Selector

7.1 General information

Acronis OS Selector is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use boot manager that allows

several operating systems on a single PC and lets you create different configurations for

any OS installed. With Acronis OS Selector you can:

• Install several different operating systems on a single PC

• Load installed operating systems from any hard disk partition or boot the PC from

bootable CD/DVD

• Load installed operating systems from under Windows

• Install several operating systems on a single partition

• Hide or protect with a password any operating system on your PC

• Duplicate installed operating systems and define different configurations for each copy

7.2 Starting the work

After Acronis OS Selector is installed together with Acronis Disk Director Suite, all

operating systems that exist on the given PC will be automatically located and added to

the boot menu. The software will also automatically set the parameters and properties for

every OS found (see section 7.7 «Setting operating system properties».

You can run Acronis OS Selector by clicking the respective item in the tools section of the

Acronis Disk Director Suite main window sidebar or in the main menu.

• Acronis OS Selector can also be run as a separate application by clicking Start Æ

Programs Æ Acronis Æ Disk Director Suite Æ OS Selector

You can control Acronis OS Selector in two ways:

• From its main window under Windows

• From the Acronis OS Selector boot menu invoked at bootup before the operating

system is booted. The boot menu has the same interface and structure as the main

window.

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