Acronis Disk Director 12 - User Guide - Manual (Page 9)

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014
2.3 Supported file systems
Acronis Disk Director supports the following file systems for performing operations:

FAT16

FAT32

NTFS

Ext2

Ext3

Reiser3

Linux SWAP
The operations resulting in a change of volume size—that is: Create (p. 26), Resize (p. 28), Copy (p.
29), Move (p. 30), Merge, Split—are not available for the XFS, Reiser4, and HPFS file systems.
JFS file system is not supported in the current edition of Acronis Disk Director.
2.4 Supported media

Hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state drives (SSD)

Support for IDE, SCSI and SATA interfaces

CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, BD-RE
for bootable media creation*

USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0**, FireWire (IEEE-1394) hard disk drives

PC card storage devices
* Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without a kernel patch.
** Reboot is required if you perform any of the following volume operations on a USB flash drive:
resizing, splitting, moving, deleting, converting, changing a cluster size.
2.5 Installing Acronis Disk Director
To install Acronis Disk Director 12
1. If you have the previous version of Acronis Disk Director, remove it before proceeding with the
installation of Acronis Disk Director 12.
2. Run the setup file of Acronis Disk Director 12.
3. Click Install Acronis Disk Director.
4. Accept the terms of the license agreement.
5. Type in your license key. Skip this step if you want to evaluate the demo product version (p. 10).
6. Select whether you want to install the program for all users on this machine, or for the current
user only.
7. Proceed with installation.
2.6 Updating Acronis Disk Director
To update Acronis Disk Director 12
1. Download the latest product update from the official Acronis web site.