Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 .................................................................................... 6
2 Installation and upgrade .......................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Hardware requirements ............................................................................................................ 8
2.2 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Supported file systems .............................................................................................................. 9
2.4 Installing Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................. 9
2.5 Installing Acronis OS Selector .................................................................................................... 9
2.6 Updating Acronis Disk Director ................................................................................................10
2.7 Removing Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................10
2.8 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................10
2.9 Demo version information .......................................................................................................10
2.10 Technical support ....................................................................................................................11
3 Basic concepts ....................................................................................................................... 12
3.1 Basic and dynamic disks ...........................................................................................................12
3.2 Types of basic volumes ............................................................................................................13
3.3 Types of dynamic volumes ......................................................................................................13
3.4 Active, system, and boot volumes ...........................................................................................14
3.5 Dynamic volume types support ...............................................................................................15
3.6 Working with disks having a 4-KB sector size ..........................................................................15
4 Getting started ...................................................................................................................... 17
4.1 Precautions ..............................................................................................................................17
4.2 User privileges .........................................................................................................................17
4.3 Running Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................18
4.4 Acronis Disk Director main window .........................................................................................18
4.5 Disk and volume information ..................................................................................................19
4.5.1 Disk statuses ...............................................................................................................................................19
4.5.2 Volume statuses .........................................................................................................................................20
4.6 Disk layout ...............................................................................................................................21
4.7 Performing operations .............................................................................................................21
4.7.1 Pending operations ....................................................................................................................................22
4.7.2 Undoing pending operations .....................................................................................................................22
4.8 Log ............................................................................................................................................22
4.8.1 Actions on log entries .................................................................................................................................23
4.8.2 Filtering and sorting log entries .................................................................................................................24
4.9 Collecting system information .................................................................................................24
4.10 How to .....................................................................................................................................24
5 Volume operations ................................................................................................................ 26
5.1 Creating a volume ....................................................................................................................26
