User Guide

Installation And Use

creating bootable media (see Chapter 9 “Bootable Media Builder”). You might not need

this tool if you purchased a boxed product that contains a bootable CD.

If you have another Acronis product with its own Bootable Media Builder, such as Acronis

True Image, installed on your computer, the installation program will automatically detect

it and will not install another Bootable Media Builder regardless of your setting. You can

create bootable media for all Acronis products using either product.

4. After installation, reboot your PC.

2.4 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director Server

If you already have Acronis Disk Director Server installed on your PC, the installation

program will automatically find it and prompt you on its replacement with the new

version.

Software upgrades (with certain bug fixes) may be downloaded free from the Acronis

Web site:

http://www.acronis.com/support/updates/.

2.5 Removing Software

To remove Acronis Disk Director Server, select Start → Settings → Control Panel →

Add or Remove Programs

→ Acronis Disk Director Server → Remove. You will

see a dialog to confirm removal. Click Yes to confirm and Acronis Disk Director Server will

be completely removed.

2.6 User Interface

When Acronis Disk Director Server software is installed, it has a graphical user interface

that is controlled by the mouse or by Tab, Shift+Tab,

Left, Right, Up, Down, Space,

Enter and Escape keys.

If you regularly work with Windows or X Window applications, you should not encounter

any problems with the Acronis Disk Director Server interface.

Acronis Disk Director Server uses a series of dialogs requiring the user to choose among

several actions or to mark partitions or disks to be manipulated.

2.7 Before You Run Acronis Disk Director Server

PLEASE NOTE: Operations on system, application or data partitions must be done very

carefully to avoid potential hard disk booting or data storage problems.

Acronis Disk Director Server has been thoroughly tested to work with numerous hard

disks, so if problems arise, they are likely caused by improper use, not the software.