Acronis Backup for PC - User Guide - Manual (Page 187)

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If you are creating a basic volume, which can be made into a system volume, this page will be
different, giving you the opportunity to select the volume Type — Primary (Active Primary) or
Logical.
Typically Primary is selected to install an operating system to a volume. Select the Active (default)
value if you want to install an operating system on this volume to boot at machine startup. If the
Primary button is not selected, the Active option will be inactive. If the volume is intended for data
storage, select Logical.
A Basic disk can contain up to four primary volumes. If they already exist, the disk will have to be converted into
dynamic, otherwise or Active and Primary options will be disabled and you will only be able to select the Logical
volume type. The warning message will advise you that an OS installed on this volume will not be bootable.
If you use characters when setting a new volume label that are unsupported by the currently installed operation
system, you will get the appropriate warning and the Next button will be disabled. You will have to change the
label to proceed with the creation of the new volume.
If you click the Back button, you will be returned to the previous page: Set the volume size (p. 186).
If you click the Finish button, you will complete the operation planning.
To perform the planned operation click Commit in the toolbar, and then click Proceed in the Pending
Operations window.
If you set a 64K cluster size for FAT16/FAT32 or on 8KB-64KB cluster size for NTFS, Windows can mount the
volume, but some programs (e.g. Setup programs) might calculate its disk space incorrectly.
10.7.2 Delete volume
This version of Acronis Disk Director Lite has reduced functionality because it is mainly a tool for
preparing bare-metal systems for recovering previously saved volume images. The features of resizing
the existing volumes and creating the new volumes, using free space from the existing ones, exist on
the full version of the software, so with this version deleting an existing volume sometimes might be
the only way to free the necessary disk space without changing the existing disk configuration.
After a volume is deleted, its space is added to unallocated disk space. It can be used for creation of a
new volume or to change another volume's type.
If you need to delete a volume:
1. Select a hard disk and a volume to be deleted.
2. Select Delete volume or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or click the Delete the
selected volume icon on the toolbar.
If the volume contains any data, you will receive the warning, that all the information on this volume will be
lost irrevocably.
3. By clicking OK in the Delete volume window, you'll add the pending operation of volume
deletion.
(To finish the added operation you will have to commit (p. 190) it. Exiting the program without
committing the pending operations will effectively cancel them.)