Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home .........................................................................5
2 Installation and upgrade ........................................................................................................7
2.1 Hardware requirements ............................................................................................................ 7
2.2 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 7
2.3 Supported file systems .............................................................................................................. 7
2.4 Supported media ....................................................................................................................... 8
2.5 Installing Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................. 8
2.6 Installing Acronis OS Selector .................................................................................................... 8
2.7 Updating Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................. 9
2.8 Removing Acronis Disk Director ................................................................................................ 9
2.9 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director ................................................................................................ 9
2.10 Demo version information ......................................................................................................... 9
2.11 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................10
3 Basic concepts ..................................................................................................................... 11
3.1 Basic and dynamic disks ...........................................................................................................11
3.2 Types of basic volumes ............................................................................................................11
3.3 Types of dynamic volumes ......................................................................................................12
3.4 Active, system, and boot volumes ...........................................................................................13
3.5 Dynamic volume types support ...............................................................................................13
3.6 Volume alignment in disks with a 4-KB sector size ..................................................................14
4 Getting started .................................................................................................................... 16
4.1 Precautions ..............................................................................................................................16
4.2 User privileges .........................................................................................................................16
4.3 Running Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................16
4.4 Acronis Disk Director main window .........................................................................................17
4.5 Disk and volume information ..................................................................................................18
4.5.1 Disk statuses .................................................................................................................................................. 18
4.5.2 Volume statuses ............................................................................................................................................ 19
4.6 Disk layout ...............................................................................................................................19
4.7 Performing operations .............................................................................................................20
4.7.1 Pending operations ....................................................................................................................................... 20
4.7.2 Undoing pending operations ........................................................................................................................ 21
4.8 Log ............................................................................................................................................21
4.8.1 Actions on log entries.................................................................................................................................... 21
4.8.2 Filtering and sorting log entries .................................................................................................................... 22
4.9 Collecting system information .................................................................................................23
4.10 How to .....................................................................................................................................23
