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Acronis os selector from windows 7 and windows 8 multiloader

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Dear sirs! I would like to consult with you on some issues. I want to install several operating systems including different versions of windows 8 in addition to those which were installed already. I want OS selector to recognize all of them and already installed windows 8 to start by default. The virtuals machines were useless. Now I have such disks and systems. One has 2 system partitions on which OSes are installed and it has one data partition. The other two store backup copies of data and system partitions. But there are enough free space to install. The systems are windows 8 enterprise trial 64 bit и windows 7 Pro 64 bit . Windows 8 loader shows both of them. The 8 one loads by default. It is shown in the windows 7 msconfig menu.
I want to do the next: 1. Enter Windows 7 and create 4 partition on other disks 2. Use the partitions created to install windows vista 32 bit, Windows 7 enterprise 32 bit, windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit, windows 8 Enterprise 32 bit trial with help of OS selector. Disk director will be installed on windows 7 before it or used from bootable cd if any.

I want OS selector or Windows 8 loader to see all the systems. So I have questions:
1. Should OS selector see all of them after their installation?
2. Can there be conflicts between OS selector and Windows 8 loader which will lead to the impossibility to load any or all of the systems? I am afraid of it because Acronis disk director does not support Windows 8?
3. Are there beta versions of disk director supporting windows 8?
Please try to avoid complicated or unpopular computer terminology and folklore when answering when I am specialist in social sciences and computer self-taught.

Regards,

Alexander

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Alexander,
The current release version of DD (11) is not certified to support windows 8. While some of it's underlaying architechture may work with the current release of DD, compatibility cannot be guaranteed.