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6 Volume operations
This section describes all the operations that you can perform with volumes in Acronis Disk Director.
Acronis Disk Director must obtain exclusive access to the target disk/volume. This means no other
disk management utilities (such as the Windows Disk Management utility) can access it at that time.
If you receive a message stating that the disk/volume cannot be blocked, close the disk management
applications that use this disk/volume and start again. If you cannot determine which applications
use the disk/volume, close them all.
In this section
Creating a volume .................................................................................... 35
Resizing a volume ..................................................................................... 37
Copying a volume ..................................................................................... 38
Moving a volume ...................................................................................... 39
Merging basic volumes ............................................................................ 40
Formatting a volume ................................................................................ 41
Deleting a volume .................................................................................... 42
Splitting a volume .................................................................................... 42
Changing a volume label .......................................................................... 43
Changing a drive letter ............................................................................. 44
Converting a primary volume to logical ................................................... 44
Converting a logical volume to primary ................................................... 45
Changing a partition type ......................................................................... 45
Setting a volume active ............................................................................ 46
Adding a mirror ........................................................................................ 46
Removing a mirror ................................................................................... 47
Breaking a mirrored volume .................................................................... 48
Browsing a volume's content ................................................................... 48
Checking a volume for errors ................................................................... 48
Defragmenting a volume ......................................................................... 49
Changing a cluster size ............................................................................. 49
Changing a file system ............................................................................. 50
Hiding a volume .......................................................................................
51
Unhiding a volume ................................................................................... 51
Repairing a RAID-5 volume ...................................................................... 51
Specifying i-node density ......................................................................... 52
6.1 Creating a volume
You might need a new volume to:
 Store data—for example, a music collection, photo albums, or video files;
 Store backups (images) of other volumes/disks (especially boot volumes) to be able to recover
the system in case of disaster;
 Install a new operating system (or swap file).