User`s guide

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3 Installation and upgrade
This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation and guides you
through the installation and upgrade of Acronis Disk Director.
In this section
Before installation ...................................................................................... 9
Installation ............................................................................................... 11
Upgrading Acronis Disk Director .............................................................. 12
Uninstalling Acronis Disk Director ............................................................ 13
Technical Support .................................................................................... 14
3.1 Before installation
This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation.
3.1.1 System requirements
System requirements
Component Memory (above the
OS and running
applications)
Disk space required
during installation or
update
Disk space occupied
by the
component(s)
Additional
Complete installation 300 MB 2 GB 1.01 GB
Agent for Windows 120 MB 500 MB 260 MB BIOS-based*
Bootable Media Builder 80 MB 700 MB 350 MB CD-RW or
DVD-RW
drive
Management Console 30 MB 700 MB 400 MB Screen
resolution
1024*768
pixels or
higher
* Machines that are based on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) are not supported.
Bootable media
Media type Memory ISO image size
Based on Windows PE 512 MB 300 MB
Linux-based 256 MB 130 MB
3.1.2 Supported operating systems
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Agent for Windows
 Windows XP Professional SP2+
 Windows Server 2003/Server 2008