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10 Disk management
Acronis Disk Director Lite is a tool for preparing a machine disk/volume configuration for recovering
the volume images saved by the Acronis Backup software.
Sometimes after the volume has been backed up and its image placed into a safe storage, the
machine disk configuration might change due to a HDD replacement or hardware loss. In such case
with the help of Acronis Disk Director Lite, the user has the possibility to recreate the necessary disk
configuration so that the volume image can be recovered exactly “as it was” or with any alteration of
the disk or volume structure the user might consider necessary.
All operations on disks and volumes involve a certain risk of data damage. Operations on system, bootable or
data volumes must be carried out very carefully to avoid potential problems with the booting process or hard
disk data storage.
Operations with hard disks and volumes take a certain amount of time, and any power loss, unintentional
turning off of the machine or accidental pressing of the Reset button during the procedure could result in
volume damage and data loss.
All operations on volumes of dynamic disks in Windows XP require Acronis Managed Machine Service to be run
under an account with administrator's rights.
Please take all necessary precautions (p. 177) to avoid possible data loss.
10.1 Supported file systems
Acronis Disk Director Lite supports the following file systems:
 FAT 16/32
 NTFS
If it is necessary to perform an operation on a volume with a different file system, use the full version
of Acronis Disk Director. It provides more tools and utilities to manage disks and volumes with the
following file systems:
 FAT 16/32
 NTFS
 Ext2
 Ext3
 HFS+
 HFSX
 ReiserFS
 JFS
 Linux SWAP
10.2 Basic precautions
To avoid any possible disk and volume structure damage or data loss, please take all necessary
precautions and follow these simple rules: