OS Selector
Acronis OS Selector has been included in Acronis Disk Director® Suite 10.0 to let you have over 100 operating systems on one computer and boot them whenever you want. This boot manager has been completely redesigned to offer you a new level of speed and ease-of-use. Multiboot with Acronis
Acronis OS Selector enables you to have different systems for your children, your work and for software tests all on the same machine! For more security, protect your OSes with passwords. Use Vista and older Windows OSesSeveral applications don’t work with Windows Vista. No need to worry you can install both Vista and your old Windows version and reboot when necessary. Discover new OSesNever tested Linux but would surely try if you have a chance? Rely on Acronis OS Selector - it will help you resize partitions, including NTFS, to allocate enough space for Linux. Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is truly indispensable. Key features- New! Select the hard disk to boot from.
- Choose from over 100 operating systems Acronis supports.
- New! Boot from CD/DVD.
- The same partition can now contain several Windows systems! OSes with the same folder names (e.g. C:\Program Files) on one partition are supported.
- New! Acronis OS Selector detection tool will search for the OSes that could accidentally become unbootable.
- Use password-protection when booting up.
- Exclusive! Install an operating system to any location on your hard disk and be sure to boot from there whenever you need.
- Hide operating systems and partitions.
- Clone OS installation as a back-up.
- Easily repartition the entire system without losing your data.
- Protect your system against viruses when it boots up.
Usability- Increased stability with respect to changes in partition and hard disk configurations.
- Enjoy the XP-like intuitive interface.
- Navigate freely through the easy boot menu.
- Turn off power and clock available for your comfort.
Operating system detection- Automatically detect both known and unknown operating systems.
- Detect operating system update.
- Detect and turn off boot managers built into operating systems.
- Detect the version number and language of an operating system.
- Automatically create basic Windows 98 configurations.
- Automatically recover MBR.
- Support unknown operating systems.
Boot management- Support operating systems both on primary and logical partitions of any hard disk drive.
- Support several Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / XP OSes on a single partition.
- Boot Windows 98 / ME from a logical partition.
- Boot Windows 98 / ME from another hard disk.
- Automatically boot default operating system.
- Edit configuration files without booting an operating system.
- Make full copies of Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / XP operating systems.
- Update Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / XP without losing a previous version.
- Hide any partitions independently of any given operating system.
- Special partitions hidden from Windows NT / 2000 / XP operating systems.
Supported operating systems- DOS
- Windows 3.1 + DOS
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows ME
- Windows NT 3.1
- Windows NT 3.5
- Windows NT 3.51
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
| | - Linux (any distribution)
- FreeBSD
- Solaris
- SCO UNIX
- UNIXWARE
- OS/2
- BeOS
- QNX
- B-TRON
- Special support for unknown systems
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