Acronis os selector 8.0 User Manual

5.8

OS Detection Wizard

OS Detection Wizard is used for manual addition of operating systems that
Acronis OS Selector could not detect automatically, including the operating
systems who’s boot sectors are stored in files. With help of this Wizard you
can select which partitions will be hidden from an operating system. It is
useful for example for Windows 95/98/ME operating systems for which
system folders reside in different partition than the system files do.

5.8.1 Intro

Page

Intro page of Wizard describes what this Wizard does and asks you to press
the Next > button to proceed to the following page.

You can interrupt the Wizard at any time by pressing the Esc key or the

Cancel button. In this case the Wizard will request a confirmation.

5.8.2 Partition

Page

On this page of the Wizard you can select which partition should be scanned
for an operating system, which partitions should be active, and which should
be hidden from this operating system.

It is not enough to simply highlight a partition to select it as the boot partition of an
operating system. You must use the

Boot part.

button for this purpose.

Partition page has the following controls:

• Partition list (for each partition its number, flags, size and type is shown;

hidden partitions are grayed);