3 upgrading acronis disk director, 1 upgrading from demo to full product version, 2 upgrading from previous product versions – Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation - User Guide User Manual

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The newly created account is given the following privileges:

The account is assigned the Log on as a service, Adjust memory quotas for a process, and
Replace a process level token user rights.

The account is included in the Backup Operators group.

If you choose to specify an existing local or domain user account—for example, .\LocalUser or
DomainName\DomainUser—make sure that the account is a member of the Administrators group,
before proceeding with the installation. The setup program will assign the above listed user rights to
the account.

If the machine is part of an Active Directory domain, make sure that the domain's security policies do
not prevent the account from having the above listed user rights.

Important: After the installation, do not specify a different user account for the agent service. Otherwise, the
agent may stop working.

3.3 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director

This section describes how to upgrade Acronis Disk Director.

3.3.1 Upgrading from demo to full product version

The demo key required at installation can be obtained on the Acronis Web site.

The demo version of Acronis Disk Director is fully functional, except for the following limitations:

All volume operations can be performed on volumes whose initial and resulting size is not larger
than 100 MB. Operations on volumes whose size is larger than 100 MB cannot be committed.

The following disk operations can be committed only if the total size of all volumes on the disk is
not larger than 100 MB:

MBR to GPT (p. 54) and vice versa (p. 55) disk conversion.

Basic to dynamic (p. 56) and vice versa (p. 56) disk conversion.

Clone basic disk (p. 53).

Clean up disk (p. 59).

To upgrade from the demo version to the full product, you do not need to re-download the software.

To upgrade from demo to full product version

1. Connect the console to the machine and click Help > Switch to full license.
2. Enter the full license key.

3.3.2 Upgrading from previous product versions

Preparation

If the languages of the two products are different, uninstall Acronis Disk Director 10 before installing
Acronis Disk Director 11. Otherwise, the installation will fail.

The procedures below assume that you have an upgrade license key, but you can also use these
procedures if you have a full license key.

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