Acronis Disk Director 12 - User Guide - Manual (Page 19)

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1. Menu
The menu provides access to all the actions, tools and settings of Acronis Disk Director.
2. Toolbar
The toolbar displays the current disk layout (p. 21) and lets you perform the following actions on
pending operations: Commit (p. 22), Undo and Redo (p. 22).
Disk Management view
The disk management area contains the table of disks and volumes and the graphical panel.
3. Table
The table lists all the disks and their volumes and lets you select any of them to perform operations.
You can sort volumes by columns. Click the column's header to sort the volumes in ascending order.
Click it once again to sort the volumes in descending order.
If required, you can hide the shown columns and show the hidden ones.
To show or hide columns
1. Right-click any column header to open the context menu. The menu items that are ticked off
correspond to the column headers presented in the table.
2. Click the items you want to be displayed/hidden.
4. Graphical panel
The graphical panel provides visual information about all the disks and their volumes for better
understanding of the volume configuration. The graphical panel also lets you select both the volumes
and disks to perform operations on them.
5. Actions and tools pane
Provides quick access to the operations that can be performed on the selected disk or volume (see
Volume operations (p. 26) and Disk operations (p. 44)) and Acronis tools (see Tools (p. 52)).
4.5 Disk and volume information
In the table and graphical panel—along with the type, size, letter, partitioning scheme, and other
information about disks and volumes—you can also check their status. The status helps you to
estimate the condition of a disk or volume.
4.5.1 Disk statuses
Check the disk status to estimate whether the disk is functioning without problems. Disk statuses are
displayed in the graphical panel below their capacity.
Here are brief descriptions of the most common disk statuses:

Online
A basic or dynamic disk is accessible and functioning correctly. This is the normal disk status. You
can change an online disk to offline—see Changing a disk status: online to offline.

Online (Errors)