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Table of contents
1
Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 12 ...................................................................................6
1.1
New in this version .................................................................................................................... 7
2
Installation and upgrade ........................................................................................................8
2.1
Hardware requirements ............................................................................................................ 8
2.2
Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 8
2.3
Supported file systems .............................................................................................................. 9
2.4
Supported media ....................................................................................................................... 9
2.5
Installing Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................. 9
2.6
Updating Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................. 9
2.7
Removing Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................10
2.8
Upgrading Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................10
2.9
Demo version information .......................................................................................................10
Basic concepts ..................................................................................................................... 11
3.1
Basic and dynamic disks ...........................................................................................................11
3.2
Types of basic volumes ............................................................................................................12
3.3
Types of dynamic volumes ......................................................................................................12
3.4
Active, system, and boot volumes ...........................................................................................13
3.5
Dynamic volume types support ...............................................................................................14
3.6
Volume alignment in disks with a 4-KB sector size ..................................................................14
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Getting started .................................................................................................................... 17
4.1
Precautions ..............................................................................................................................17
4.2
User privileges .........................................................................................................................17
4.3
Running Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................17
4.4
Acronis Disk Director main window .........................................................................................18
4.5
Disk and volume information ..................................................................................................19
4.5.1
Disk statuses .................................................................................................................................................. 19
4.5.2
Volume statuses ............................................................................................................................................ 20
4.6
Disk layout ...............................................................................................................................21
4.7
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 .................................................................................................24
4.10
How to .....................................................................................................................................24
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Volume operations .............................................................................................................. 26
5.1
Creating a volume ....................................................................................................................26
