Acronis Disk Director 12 - User Guide - Manual (Page 50)

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For information on how to bring a disk that is offline and missing back online, please refer to the
following Microsoft knowledge base article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732026.aspx .
6.8 Changing a disk status: offline to online
Effective for Windows Vista SP1, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 operating systems and applies
to the current disk layout (p. 21).
The offline status means that a dynamic disk is accessible in the read-only mode. You may need to
change an offline disk to online to make the disk that you switched to offline previously fully
accessed.
To make a disk online
1. Right click the offline disk, and then click Change status to online.
2. In the appearing window, click OK to confirm the operation.
If the dynamic disk has the offline status and the disk's name is Missing, this means that the disk cannot be
located or identified by the operating system. It may be corrupted, disconnected, or powered off. For
information on how to bring a disk that is offline and missing back online, please refer to the following
Microsoft knowledge base article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732026.aspx .
6.9 Importing foreign disks
On a machine with two or more operating systems, representation of disks and volumes depends on
which operating system is currently running.
Normally, all dynamic disks created within the same machine and operating system are members of
the same disk group. When moved to another machine, or added to another operating system on the
same machine, a disk group is considered as foreign. Foreign group disks cannot be used until they
are imported into the existing disk group. A foreign group is imported as is (will have the original
name) if no disk group exists on the machine.
To access data on foreign disks, you have to add these disks to your machine's system configuration
using the Import foreign disks operation.
All dynamic disks of the foreign disk group are imported at the same time, you cannot import just one dynamic
disk.
To import foreign disks
1. Right-click one of the foreign disks, and then click Import foreign disks.
The appearing window lists all foreign dynamic disks that were added to the machine, and
displays information about volumes that will be imported. Volume statuses lets you detect
whether you are importing all the required disks of the disk group. When importing all the
required disks, all their volumes have the Healthy status. Statuses other than Healthy indicate
that not all of the disks were imported.
For more information on volume statuses please refer to the following Microsoft article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771775.aspx
2. Click OK to add the pending foreign disks importing operation.
The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been
performed.