Acronis disk director suite 9.0 User Manual

Working with Acronis OS Selector 

 

 

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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 
•  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 

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. Besides, 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 

 Programs   Acronis   Disk Director Suite   OS Selector 

You can control Acronis OS Selector in two ways: 

•  From its main window under Windows 

•  From 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