partition and allows hiding any specified partitions from any given
operating system.
Aside from performing its main function, Acronis OS Selector has many
additional features.
1.2 Acronis OS Selector as a Partition Manager
When new operating systems are installed, hard disks are replaced or added
and in some other cases the necessity arises in relocating the information on
hard disks. That is why the Acronis OS Selector distribution package now
includes Disk Administrator – a program that allows users to easily perform a
variety of operations with partitions such as creating and deleting, formatting
and resizing on the fly without data loss, moving and copying.
Because of the limitations in the FAT16 file system that is used in many
popular operating systems such as MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME, up to
40% of disk space might be wasted. With help from our Disk Administrator
you will be able to easily analyze the waste and reduce it by choosing
appropriate partition or cluster sizes or converting the partitions to the FAT32
file system. Reverse conversion is also possible.
With the same ease the Disk Administrator can perform various actions with
NTFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3, Linux Swap, and even Linux Ext3 and ReiserFS
partitions.
You can also get detailed information about the hard disk drive geometry and
partitions, as well as view and edit their content sector-by-sector.
1.3 Acronis OS Selector Key Features
Here the key features of Acronis OS Selector as a boot manager are listed:
• Supports more than 100 operating systems on one computer.
• Supports operating systems both on primary and logical partitions of any
hard disk.
• Can boot both from A: and B: floppy drives.
• Supports multiple operating systems on one FAT partition.
• Automated backing up and restoring the critical system and configuration
files, such as IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM, CONFIG.SYS etc.
• Detects possible boot virus infection.
• Ability to establish password protection on Boot Menu and any operating
system configuration.
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