Table of contents
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Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 ...................................................................................6
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Installation and upgrade ........................................................................................................8
2.1 Hardware requirements ............................................................................................................ 82.2 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 82.3 Supported file systems .............................................................................................................. 92.4 Installing Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................. 92.5 Installing Acronis OS Selector .................................................................................................... 92.6 Updating Acronis Disk Director ................................................................................................102.7 Removing Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................102.8 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................102.9 Demo version information .......................................................................................................102.10 Technical support ....................................................................................................................11
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Basic concepts .....................................................................................................................12
3.1 Basic and dynamic disks ...........................................................................................................123.2 Types of basic volumes ............................................................................................................133.3 Types of dynamic volumes ......................................................................................................133.4 Active, system, and boot volumes ...........................................................................................143.5 Dynamic volume types support ...............................................................................................153.6 Working with disks having a 4-KB sector size ..........................................................................15
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Getting started ....................................................................................................................17
4.1 Precautions ..............................................................................................................................174.2 User privileges .........................................................................................................................174.3 Running Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................184.4 Acronis Disk Director main window .........................................................................................184.5 Disk and volume information ..................................................................................................19
4.5.1
Disk statuses .................................................................................................................................................. 19
4.5.2
Volume statuses ............................................................................................................................................ 20
4.6 Disk layout ...............................................................................................................................214.7 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 .................................................................................................244.10 How to .....................................................................................................................................25
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Volume operations .............................................................................................................. 26
5.1 Creating a volume ....................................................................................................................26