Document Outline

• 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 12
  • 1.1 New in this version
• 2 Installation and upgrade
  • 2.1 Hardware requirements
  • 2.2 Supported operating systems
  • 2.3 Supported file systems
  • 2.4 Supported media
  • 2.5 Installing Acronis Disk Director
  • 2.6 Updating Acronis Disk Director
  • 2.7 Removing Acronis Disk Director
  • 2.8 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director
  • 2.9 Demo version information
• 3 Basic concepts
  • 3.1 Basic and dynamic disks
  • 3.2 Types of basic volumes
  • 3.3 Types of dynamic volumes
  • 3.4 Active, system, and boot volumes
  • 3.5 Dynamic volume types support
  • 3.6 Volume alignment in disks with a 4-KB sector size
• 4 Getting started
  • 4.1 Precautions
  • 4.2 User privileges
  • 4.3 Running Acronis Disk Director
  • 4.4 Acronis Disk Director main window
  • 4.5 Disk and volume information
    • 4.5.1 Disk statuses
    • 4.5.2 Volume statuses
  • 4.6 Disk layout
  • 4.7 Performing operations
    • 4.7.1 Pending operations
    • 4.7.2 Undoing pending operations
  • 4.8 Log
    • 4.8.1 Actions on log entries
    • 4.8.2 Filtering and sorting log entries
  • 4.9 Collecting system information
  • 4.10 How to
• 5 Volume operations
  • 5.1 Creating a volume
  • 5.2 Resizing a volume
  • 5.3 Copying a volume
  • 5.4 Moving a volume
  • 5.5 Merging basic volumes
  • 5.6 Formatting a volume
  • 5.7 Deleting a volume
  • 5.8 Splitting a basic volume
  • 5.9 Changing a volume label
  • 5.10 Changing a drive letter
  • 5.11 Converting a primary volume to logical
  • 5.12 Converting a logical volume to primary
  • 5.13 Changing a partition type
  • 5.14 Setting a volume active
  • 5.15 Adding a mirror
  • 5.16 Removing a mirror
  • 5.17 Breaking a mirrored volume
  • 5.18 Browsing a volume's content
  • 5.19 Checking a volume for errors
  • 5.20 Defragmenting a volume
  • 5.21 Changing a cluster size
  • 5.22 Changing a file system
  • 5.23 Hiding a volume
  • 5.24 Unhiding a volume
  • 5.25 Specifying i-node density
• 6 Disk operations
  • 6.1 Disk initialization
  • 6.2 Basic disk cloning
  • 6.3 Disk conversion: MBR to GPT
  • 6.4 Disk conversion: GPT to MBR
  • 6.5 Disk conversion: basic to dynamic
  • 6.6 Disk conversion: dynamic to basic
  • 6.7 Changing a disk status: online to offline
  • 6.8 Changing a disk status: offline to online
  • 6.9 Importing foreign disks
  • 6.10 Removing a missing disk
  • 6.11 Cleaning up a disk
• 7 Tools
  • 7.1 Acronis Bootable Media Builder
    • 7.1.1 How to create bootable media
      • 7.1.1.1 Linux-based bootable media
        • Kernel parameters
      • 7.1.1.2 Adding the Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.0
    • 7.1.2 Working under bootable media
      • 7.1.2.1 Setting up a display mode
      • 7.1.2.2 List of commands and utilities available in Linux-based bootable media
  • 7.2 Acronis Recovery Expert
  • 7.3 Acronis Disk Editor
    • 7.3.1 Starting work with Acronis Disk Editor
    • 7.3.2 Main window, menu and controls
    • 7.3.3 Editing disks
    • 7.3.4 View
    • 7.3.5 Search
    • 7.3.6 Usage examples
      • 7.3.6.1 Protecting and restoring MBR
      • 7.3.6.2 Copying the MBR to another disk
      • 7.3.6.3 Wiping disk data
      • 7.3.6.4 Restoring deleted files
• 8 Glossary
  • Active volume
  • Allocation unit
  • Bad cluster
  • Bad sector
  • Basic disk
  • Basic volume
  • Block
  • Boot sector
  • Boot volume
  • Bootable media
  • Booting
  • Cluster
  • Cylinder
  • Defragmentation
  • Disk
  • Disk group
  • Disk type
  • Drive
  • Drive letter
  • Dynamic disk
  • Dynamic volume
  • Fault tolerance
  • File
  • File system
  • Folder
  • Foreign disk
  • Foreign dynamic disk group
  • Formatting
  • Fragmentation
  • Free space
  • GPT disk
  • GUID partition table (GPT)
  • Hard disk
  • Hidden volume
  • Initialization
  • Logical drive
  • Logical volume
  • Machine
  • Main volume
  • Master boot record (partitioning scheme)
  • Master boot record (sector)
  • MBR disk
  • Media builder
  • Mirror
  • Mirrored volume
  • Partition type
  • Partitioning
  • Partitioning scheme
  • Physical disk
  • Primary partition
  • Primary volume
  • Root folder
  • Sector
  • Simple volume
  • Spanned volume
  • Stripe
  • Striped volume
  • Swap file
  • System folder
  • System volume
  • Track
  • Unallocated space
  • Volume
  • Volume label
  • Volume letter
  • Volume type