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8.4.5 Copying operating systems

Acronis OS Selector allows you to duplicate any installed operating system or its shortcut. It might be

useful if you want to test unknown software before installing it on the main OS.

Copying an operating system implies duplicating all its system files and folders and configuration

files, as well as all programs installed, into a separate folder located inside the hidden BOOTWIZ

system folder — see Acronis OS Selector installation (p. 9).

Copying can take a long time, so you will be prompted to confirm that you want to perform the task.

To copy an operating system

1. Select an operating system in the boot menu or program main window

2. Click Copy in the Edit sidebar section or select a respective item in the main menu or context

After this, you will see a copy of this operating system in the Operating systems window with a

number automatically appended to its name, depending on the number of copies already made. If

needed, you can rename a copy by clicking Rename in the Edit sidebar section or selecting a

respective item in the main menu or context menu.

8.5 Detecting operating systems

The OS detection tool allows an operating system that has been unintentionally deleted from the

boot menu to be found and added to the Acronis OS Selector boot menu and main window. Besides,

if an operating system on a newly connected disk was not detected automatically, you can try to add

it to the boot menu using this tool.

A deleted Windows operating system cannot be detected if its system folders have been deleted from the hard

disk. A deleted Linux system cannot be detected if its loader was located in the master boot record (MBR).

To run the OS Detection Wizard

1. Select the OS Detection Wizard from the Tools menu.

2. Select whether you want to detect an operating system on the hard disk, on CD, or to detect its

record in the MBR.

3. If you selected the hard disk, select the partition where the operating system (to be exact, its

boot part) is located. When detecting Linux, choose the partition containing Linux loader (for

Windows — see Installing several Windows copies to a single machine (p. 66)). Then click

Bootable.

Whatever the location of the operating system selected, you can set options of available

partitions, for example, hide some of them. These settings will be applied to the partitions each

time you boot the detected operating system.

4. If you selected Detect OS in MBR or on a FAT hard disk partition, select if you want to use Boot

sector on partition or Boot sector in file. Generally, the first setting will be enough. Having

selected the second, you will have to specify a path to the file, containing a previously saved boot

sector of the detected operating system.

5. Next, you will see a list of detected operating systems. Click Finish to add them to the Acronis OS

Selector boot menu and main window.

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