Acronis Disk Director 12 - User Guide - Manual (Page 18)

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2. In the disk management area, examine the current layout of disks and volumes.
3. Add one or more management operations on disks and volumes to the queue of pending
operations. These operations will take effect only after you commit them.
4. In the disk management area, examine how the layout of disks and volumes will look when the
pending operations are completed.
5. Commit the pending operations.
Some operations, such as changing the size of a volume from which Windows starts, may require
restarting the machine.
Running Acronis Disk Director from a bootable media
Acronis Disk Director has a bootable version that can be run on a bare metal system, or on a crashed
machine that cannot boot normally, or even on a non-Windows system, like Linux. A bootable
version of Acronis Disk Director is created with Acronis Bootable Media Builder.
To run Acronis Disk Director, boot the machine from a bootable media, and then select Acronis Disk
Director.
While working under bootable media (p. 57), Acronis Disk Director can perform almost all the
operations on any disks and volumes that can be performed under Windows.
4.4 Acronis Disk Director main window
The main window of Acronis Disk Director is your main working place with the product.
The main window of Acronis Disk Director