User Guide

Manual Partition Operations

5.1.10 Deleting a partition

After a partition is deleted, its space is added to unallocated disk space. It can be used for

a new partition or to resize an existing partition.

If you need to delete a partition:

1. Select a hard disk and a partition to be deleted.

2. Select Disk  Delete or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or click

Delete the selected partition on the toolbar.

3. Select the deletion method in the Delete Partition window; you can:

(1) just delete a hard disk partition (without wiping disk sectors) — set

the switch to Delete partition.

(2) delete a hard disk partition and fully wipe partition sectors — set the

switch to Delete partition and destroy data.

Delete Partition window

Having set the switch to Delete partition and destroy data, enter a number of passes for

wiping.

Wiping unallocated disk space means multiple writing of special data to hard disk sectors.

Acronis Disk Director Server features a rather simple wiping algorithm. During each pass, a

symbol sequence or logical zeroes (0x00) or ones (0xFF) is written to unallocated space

sectors. Only logical zeroes are written during the last pass. The more passes performed,

the more complete the wiping will be.

Acronis offers extremely powerful hard disk/partition wiping software — Acronis Privacy

Expert Suite, featuring strict algorithms for guaranteed confidential information wiping and

destruction.

4. Confirm partition deletion by clicking OK in the Delete Partition window.

5. By clicking

OK in the Delete Partition window, you'll add the pending operation of

partition deletion (your actions may only undo an existing operation depending on the

situation selected see

3.4.5 «Modifying pending operations»).

The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis Disk Director

Server main window.