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Acronis

Disk Director Server 10.0

User’s guide

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Table of contents

A.7 FORMATTING HARD DISKS ................................................................................................................ 88

A.8 FILE SYSTEMS .................................................................................................................................... 89

A.9 FILE SYSTEM MAIN SPECIFICATIONS ................................................................................................. 89

APPENDIX B. GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................... 93

Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 What is Acronis Disk Director Server?

Acronis Disk Director Server is a complex program that includes partition manager and

hard disk data editing tools. With it, you can:

• Create hard disk partitions

• Resize, move, split and merge partitions without data loss or destruction

• Convert partitions to other file systems without data loss

• Copy (move) partition contents

• Delete partitions

• Create, delete and resize hard disk partitions using the command-line mode

• Recover hard disk partitions that were accidentally deleted or damaged due to a

hardware or software error

• Format, label, assign letters, hide and unhide partitions, set active partitions and

perform additional disk management operations

• Recover boot records, files and folders structure, find lost clusters, remove viruses,

etc.

Some terms of this guide might be unfamiliar. Chapter 7 «Hard Disk And File Systems

» and

Appendix B «Glossary» provide descriptions of some hard disk data storage compo

nents and

used terms.

1.2 What’s new in Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0?

• Splitting/merging partitions

You can split a partition in two, moving the selected folders to the new partition and

leaving the rest of the data on the old one. This operation can also be used for

creating an empty partition from another partition’s free space. You can merge two

partitions, as well, even if their file systems are different. All data will stay intact and

reside on the resulting partition.

• Exploring and managing partitions contents

You can explore or manage partition contents before configuring operations on that

partition directly from Acronis Disk Director Server. It enables you to copy, paste,

rename and delete files and folders, create folders on the selected partition, and

even edit text files.\

• Working in the command-line mode

An administrator might need a console interface to create, delete and resize the

partitions. Acronis Disk Director Server supports this mode with

Introduction

diskdirectorcmd.exe utility. The file is located in a folder where Acronis Disk

Director Server has been installed, by default it is C:\Program

Files\Acronis\DiskDirector.

• Viewing logs

Acronis Disk Director Server now keeps working logs. They store information about

implemented partition operations, including reasons for failure, if any.

• The new Bootable Media Builder, common for all Acronis products

The new Bootable Media Builder is able to create bootable media for every Acronis

product installed on the computer, or one bootable disk for several products. It also

supports creating a bootable disk ISO image on the hard disk and storing the

bootable programs versions on PXE server.

1.3 Software use conditions

The conditions of use are listed in the supplied «License Agreement». The unique serial

number is the confirmation of your legal purchase and usage of Acronis Disk Director

Server on your system.

Under current legislation, the «License Agreement» is considered a contract between you

and Acronis Inc. The contract is a legal document and its violation may result in legal

action.

Illegal use and/or distribution of this software will be prosecuted.

1.4 Technical support

Users who have legally purchased and registered their copy of Acronis Disk Director Server

will receive free technical support from Acronis. If you have installation or working problems

that you can’t solve by yourself using this manual and the readme.txt file, e-mail the

technical support team. You will need to provide the serial number of your Acronis Disk

Director Server copy bundled with the program.

Before you do this, you will have to register your copy at:

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/my/products/registration/ .

Support URL:

http://www.acronis.com/support/

Installation And Use

Chapter 2. Installation And Use

2.1 System Requirements

To take full advantage of Acronis Disk Director Server you should have:

• A PC-compatible computer with a Pentium or similar CPU

• 128 MB RAM

• A floppy or a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive

• A mouse (recommended)

2.2 Supported operating systems

• Windows NT Server

• Windows 2000 Server

• Windows 2000 Advanced Server

• Windows 2003 Server

• Windows 2003 Server x64 Edition.

2.3 Installation Process

2.3.1 Acronis Disk Director Server installation

To install Acronis Disk Director Server:

1. Run the installation program.

2. Follow the setup program instructions.

3. You will be prompted to choose Typical, Custom or Complete installation. If you

pick Custom, you can choose not to install the Bootable Media Builder, a tool for

Installation And Use

A power loss, turning off the PC or pressing the Reset button on your PC during the

repartitioning procedure could result in partition damage and data loss.

Please take all necessary precautions and following these simple rules:

1. Create a disk image of the disk on which partitions are to be reconfigured. This will

ensure that your data will not be lost under any circumstances.

Almost all current PCs feature CD-RW drives. Having your most important data backed up

to a hard disk or CD will enable you to work on the disk partitions with full confidence that

your data is safe.

Acronis offers extremely effective hard disk and partition disk imaging software — Acronis

True Image (visit

http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/). It creates a backup stored

in a compressed archive file whose contents can be restored at any time.

2. Test your disk to make sure it’s fully functional and does not contain bad sectors or file

system errors.

You can invoke system hard disk checking tools directly from Acronis Disk Director Server

by selecting Disk



Check or clicking Check the selected partition for errors toolbar

button.

3. Do not perform any partition operations while running other software that has low-

level disk access, such as antivirus or backup tools. Close such programs before running

Acronis Disk Director Server.

If you follow these simple rules, you will protect yourself against data loss.

2.8 Running Acronis Disk Director Server

2.7.1 Running under Windows

Under Windows, select Start  Programs  Acronis  DiskDirector  Acronis Disk

Director Server.

Under Windows, Acronis Disk Director Server

can perform operations on any partitions,

including primary, logical, system or data

without

rebooting your PC.

2.7.2 Running Acronis Disk Director Server for the first time

When you run the program for the first time, you will be prompted to choose whether you

want to work in Automatic Mode or Manual Mode.

Automatic Mode provides enough functionality to create almost any partition configuration

on your PC hard disks.

If you need a detailed partition structure representation with a complete set of partition

operations and controls, select Manual Mode.

Installation And Use

You can switch between modes at any time (see 3.1.3 «Switching modes»).

2.7.3 Running from bootable diskettes or CD

Previously, we explained how to create bootable diskettes or a CD (see

2.2 «Installation

Process»). While working with Acronis Disk Director Server, you may need to use the

bootable media: (1) after a serious Windows failure or (2) to work on a Linux-based PC.

(See also

Chapter 9 «Bootable Media Builder».)

Your PC BIOS must be set correctly to boot and run the software from bootable diskettes

or CD.

Glossary

Cylinder. A group of all the tracks on all the magnetic platters of a hard disk that can be

accessed without moving the magnetic head. Access to the data inside one cylinder is

much faster than moving the head from one cylinder to another.

Disc. A non-magnetic storage media (compact disc, CD-RW or DVD).

Disk. A magnetic storage media (floppy disk or hard disk). (Note: Disc and Disk are often

used interchangeably.)

Drive. A general word that can mean both a device for accessing information on a disk

(floppy disk drive) and a partition that can be accessed from an operating system (logical

drive).

File. A file is named information storage in the file system. In different file systems, files

can be stored in different ways, with different file names and different ways to write the

full path to the file in the folder tree.

File allocation table (FAT). The hard disk area, located after the boot sector, which

describes physical files locations; a duplicate for higher data storage reliability follows

FAT.

The FAT also contains the disk cluster list, as well as many records as there are clusters

on a disk. If a FAT cell contains «0», the cluster is empty. The last file cluster, defective

cluster and reserved clusters have their own special markings.

The FAT describes each file by a chain of numbers — like serial numbers of a file’s disk

clusters. The number of the first cluster of each file is stored in the folder. Writing,

deleting and modifying files and folders results in corresponding FAT changes.

File system. Data structure that is necessary to store and manage files. A file system does

the following functions: tracks free and occupied space, supports folders and file names,

tracks the physical positions of files on the disk. Each partition may be formatted with its

own file system.

Folder. A table in the file system that contains a description of files and other folders.

Such a structure allows creation of a folder tree that begins with the root folder.

Formatting. The process of creating a service structure on the disk. There are three levels

of hard disk formatting: low-level (marking the magnetic surface with tracks and sectors),

partitioning and high-level (creation of a file system on a partition).

Hard disk (hard drive). Fixed storage media along with integrated electronics that consists

of several magnetic platters that rotate synchronously on one spindle. Hard disks have

relatively high capacity and high read/write speed.

Hard disk geometry. A set of hard disk parameters that usually includes the number of

cylinders, heads and sectors per track.

Head (magnetic head, read/write head). A hard disk consists of several magnetic platters;

for each side of each platter, there is a head that is used to read and write information on

it.

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