Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home Quick Start Guide
Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. "Acronis", "Acronis Compute with Confidence", "Acronis Recovery Manager", "Acronis Secure Zone", Acronis Try&Decide, and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. VMware and VMware Ready are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home Acronis® Disk Director® 11 is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for managing disks and volumes. With a comprehensive set of operations, you can organize your hard disk and volume configuration for optimal performance, while keeping your data safe. Key features Acronis Disk Director offers many features including: Create both basic and dynamic volumes The handy Create Volume wizard has been improved to support dynamic volumes creation.
Delete volumes New! Change file systems New! Clean up disks New! Hide/unhide volumes New! Specify i-node density New! Change a cluster size Explore volume data, even on Linux volumes before performing operations Preview changes made in disk and volume layout before applying them Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, volumes and file systems Acronis Recovery Expert Helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks.
Other hardware A mouse A CD/DVD recording drive, or a flash drive for bootable media creation * Machines that are based on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) are not supported. 2.2 Supported operating systems The following operating systems are supported by Acronis Disk Director: Windows XP - all editions Windows Vista - all editions Windows 7 - all editions 2.
5. Type in your license key. Skip this step if you want to evaluate the demo product version. 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 Installing Acronis OS Selector To install Acronis OS Selector, you need to first install Acronis Disk Director (p. 5). Then select Start -> All Programs -> Acronis -> Disk Director -> Install Acronis OS Selector and follow the setup program instructions.
2.8 User privileges In order to perform any operation using Acronis Disk Director, you must be logged on as a member of the Administrators group. 2.9 Running Acronis Disk Director Running Acronis Disk Director in Windows 1. Select Start -> All Programs -> Acronis -> Disk Director -> Acronis Disk Director. 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.
3 Technical Support Maintenance and Support Program If you need assistance with your Acronis product, please go to http://www.acronis.com/support/ Product Updates You can download the latest updates for all your registered Acronis software products from our website at any time after logging into your Account (https://www.acronis.com/my) and registering the product. See Registering Acronis Products at the Website (http://kb.acronis.com/content/4834) and Acronis Website User Guide (http://kb.acronis.
