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Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home .........................................................................6 2 Installation and upgrade ........................................................................................................8 2.1 Hardware requirements ............................................................................................................ 8 2.2 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 8 2.3 Supported file systems .............................................................................................................. 8 2.4 Supported media ....................................................................................................................... 9 2.5 Installing Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................. 9 2.6 Installing Acronis OS Selector .................................................................................................... 9 2.7 Updating Acronis Disk Director ................................................................................................10 2.8 Removing Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................10 2.9 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................10 2.10 Demo version information .......................................................................................................10 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 Volume alignment in disks with a 4-KB sector size ..................................................................15 4 Getting started .................................................................................................................... 18 4.1 Precautions ..............................................................................................................................18 4.2 User privileges .........................................................................................................................18 4.3 Running Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................18 4.4 Acronis Disk Director main window .........................................................................................19 4.5 Disk and volume information ..................................................................................................20 4.5.1 Disk statuses .................................................................................................................................................. 20 4.5.2 Volume statuses ............................................................................................................................................ 21 4.6 Disk layout ...............................................................................................................................21 4.7 Performing operations .............................................................................................................22 4.7.1 Pending operations ....................................................................................................................................... 22 4.7.2 Undoing pending operations ........................................................................................................................ 23 4.8 Log ............................................................................................................................................23 4.8.1 Actions on log entries.................................................................................................................................... 24 4.8.2 Filtering and sorting log entries .................................................................................................................... 24 4.9 Collecting system information .................................................................................................25 4.10 How to .....................................................................................................................................25 5 Volume operations .............................................................................................................. 27 5.1 Creating a volume ....................................................................................................................27 3 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. 5.2 Resizing a volume ....................................................................................................................28 5.3 Copying a volume ....................................................................................................................29 5.4 Moving a volume .....................................................................................................................30 5.5 Merging basic volumes ............................................................................................................31 5.6 Formatting a volume ...............................................................................................................32 5.7 Deleting a volume ....................................................................................................................33 5.8 Splitting a basic volume ...........................................................................................................34 5.9 Changing a volume label ..........................................................................................................34 5.10 Changing a drive letter ............................................................................................................35 5.11 Converting a primary volume to logical ...................................................................................36 5.12 Converting a logical volume to primary ...................................................................................36 5.13 Changing a partition type ........................................................................................................37 5.14 Setting a volume active............................................................................................................37 5.15 Adding a mirror ........................................................................................................................37 5.16 Removing a mirror ...................................................................................................................38 5.17 Breaking a mirrored volume ....................................................................................................39 5.18 Browsing a volume's content...................................................................................................39 5.19 Checking a volume for errors...................................................................................................39 5.20 Hiding a volume .......................................................................................................................40