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2.3 Supported file systems
Acronis Disk Director supports the following file systems for performing operations:
FAT16
FAT32
NTFS
Ext2
Ext3
ReiserFS3
Linux SWAP
The operations resulting in a change of volume size—that is: Create (p. 26), Resize (p. 28), Copy (p.
29), Move (p. 29), Merge (p. 31), Split (p. 33)—are not available for the XFS, ReiserFS4, HPFS and JFS
file systems.
2.4 Installing Acronis Disk Director
To install Acronis Disk Director 11
1. If you have the previous version of Acronis Disk Director, remove it before proceeding with the
installation of Acronis Disk Director 11.
2. Run the setup file of Acronis Disk Director 11.
3. Click Install Acronis Disk Director.
4. Accept the terms of the license agreement.
5. Type in your license key. Skip this step if you want to evaluate the demo product version (p. 10).
6. Select whether you want to install the program for all users on this machine, or for the current
user only.
7. Proceed with installation.
2.5 Installing Acronis OS Selector
To install Acronis OS Selector, you need to first install Acronis Disk Director (p. 9). Then select Start ->
All Programs -> Acronis -> Disk Director -> Install Acronis OS Selector and follow the setup program
instructions. If you already have Acronis OS Selector installed on your computer, it will be updated by
the new version.
Acronis OS Selector can be installed on volumes of basic MBR disks only.
During the installation of Acronis OS Selector, the hidden system folder BOOTWIZ will be created on
your machine to keep the program loader. Acronis OS Selector will also copy operating system files
found on your machine into this folder to avoid problems during the booting process and to simplify
adding a new operating system in the future.
Acronis OS Selector can be installed in the Typical or Custom mode.
During Typical installation, the BOOTWIZ folder will be created in the system hard disk volume that
contains the Windows files and folders.
Using the Custom installation option, you will be able to select the location of the BOOTWIZ folder.
This might come in handy when a system volume is accidentally destroyed or damaged. In that case,
