Boot Manager
Acronis® Disk Director® Suite 10.0 includes new Acronis® OS Selector — a powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use boot manager. It allows you to install 100 or more multiple operating systems (OSes) on one computer. You can boot an OS from any partition on any hard disk or have several multiboot systems on the same partition. This completely redesigned solution is now easier to use and faster.
Protect your data with Acronis® boot manager
Acronis® OS Selector allows you to install different multi-boot systems for your children, your work and for software tests. You can also protect multi-boot OSes with passwords.
Use your favorite old programs as well as modern environment Your favorite games and applications don't work with Windows XP? Simply install both XP and your old Windows version and reboot when necessary.
Try Linux or any other new OS You have probably heard and read much about Linux, but never tried it before? Acronis® OS Selector will help you to resize your partitions, including NTFS, and provide room for Linux. Acronis® Disk Director® Suite 10.0 is THE BEST CHOICE if you are looking for the fastest, easiest, most intuitive boot manager!
Key features New! Boot from an additional hard disk drive. Acronis® OS Selector enables you to set the disk order so you can boot from any hard drive you select New! Insert a bootable CD/DVD and it will automatically be detected and displayed as a multiboot option by Acronis® OS Selector New! Detect multiple operating systems that became unbootable due to some accidental reasons with Acronis® OS Selector detection tool Support up to 100 of any known operating systems including Windows XP and Linux on a single PC. Install several versions of Windows on a single partition. Operating systems with the same folder names (e.g. C:\Program Files) on one partition are supported. Exclusive! Install and boot an operating system from any partition of any hard disk. Protect multi-boot OSes and setup with a password. Hide operating systems and partitions. Clone OS installation as a back-up. Repartition your system for a new OS installation. Boot viruses protection included. Usability Intuitive Windows XP-styled interface with comprehensive on-line help and full mouse support. Very flexible and fine adjustments of the boot menu. Increased stability with respect to changes in partition and hard disk configurations. Turn off power and clock available for your comfort. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 |
Other Features:
Partition Expert
Disk Editor
Recovery Expert
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