User Guide

The following features are unique to Acronis OS Selector:

• Standardized intuitive user interface.

• Power-off from Boot Menu.

• Flexible Boot Menu appearance adjustment.

• Fast creating and adjustment of different configurations of an operating

system.

• Actions that can be performed from the installation media (usually a

bootable diskette or a CD-ROM), such as activating and deactivating

Acronis OS Selector, uninstalling it, running Disk Administrator etc.

• Supports operating systems with same system folder names (like

Program Files) on one partition.

• Very flexible adjustment of boot context for each operating system

including the possibility to hide any partition. A special mode is provided

to hide partitions for Windows NT, 2000, and XP operating systems.

• Can be installed on any FAT16 or FAT32 partition of any hard disk or on

a separate partition that will be hidden from all operating systems.

• Increased stability in case of partition structure and hard disk

configuration changes.

1.4 Main Disk Administrator features

Disk Administrator has the following main features:

• Create and format FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3, Linux ReiserFS

and Linux Swap partitions;

• Convert FAT16<=>FAT32 partitions without data loss;

• Copy and move any partitions;

• Resize FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3, Linux ReiserFS and Linux

Swap partitions on the fly without data loss;

• Select cluster/block size and any other file system parameters manually;

• Delete partitions of any type;

• Edit partition label;

• Adjust logical partition chain parameters automatically;

• View partition and file system parameters;

• Optional usage of 64-kilobyte clusters.