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Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Workstation User's Guide

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.2.1 Where to install the components The minimum configuration that enables you to perform disk managemen

11 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The newly created account is given the following privileges:  The account is assigned the Log on as a ser

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director 10 Suite to Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation Before proceeding

13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.5 Technical Support Maintenance and Support Program If you need assistance with your Acronis product, pl

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4 Basic concepts This section gives you a clear understanding of basic and dynamic disks and volume types.

15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 By using Acronis Disk Director, you can convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk (p. 56). You may need to do

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Striped volume A volume that resides on two or more dynamic disks and whose data is evenly distributed acro

17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 System volume This is the volume from which any of the installed Windows operating systems starts—even if m

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 What is the cause of misalignment All Windows operating systems earlier than Vista use a factor of 512 byte

19 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After the volumes are created, you can perform other operations with them (including changing their size) u

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acro

20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5 Getting started After reading this section, you will know how to run and use Acronis Disk Director, what

21 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. In the Disk management view, examine how the layout of disks and volumes will look when the pending ope

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The Navigation tree lets you navigate across the following product views:  Disk management (p. 22)  Tas

23 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Graphical panel The graphical panel at the bottom of the view provides visual information about all the dis

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Click Proceed to execute the operations. You will not be able to undo any operations after you choose t

25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.4.1.3 Disk and volume information In the table and graphical panel—along with the type, size, letter, pa

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A basic or dynamic volume is accessible and functioning correctly. This is the normal volume status. The He

27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Stop a task Click Stop. Stopping the task aborts the running operation. The task enters the "Stoppin

28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 (if the user chooses to stop the task) or Running (on selecting Ignore/Retry or another action, such as Reb

29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To Do Select a single log entry Click on it. Select multiple log entries  non-contiguous: hold down CTRL

Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced ...6 2 Acronis

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 to filter information messages Sort log entries by date and time; type; message Click the column's he

31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.4.4.2 Fonts This option is effective when the console is connected to a managed machine. The option defi

32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.4.6 Collecting system information The system information collection tool gathers system information abou

33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 How to work with hard disk drives that use 4-KB sector size? Follow the guidelines described in the Volume

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6 Volume operations This section describes all the operations that you can perform with volumes in Acronis

35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Specify the type that the new volume will have. Every volume type is provided with a brief description

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Logical. Set the volume as Logical, if it is intended for data storage. 6. Click Finish to add the pend

37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 As a result you will get additional unallocated space, which will be adjacent to the volume that you are re

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed. To p

39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 23). Exiting the program without committing

6 Volume operations ... 34 6.1 Creating

40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 the opposite action (merging a non-secured volume to a secured one), the main volume security settings will

41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 NTFS file system. For example, these programs may incorrectly calculate the total and available space on su

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Caution: When splitting a boot volume, avoid moving system folders, such as Windows or Program Files. Other

43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If an Acronis backup product, such as Acronis True Image Home, is installed on your machine, you may have a

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed. To p

45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.14 Setting a volume active This operation applies to primary volumes on basic MBR disks. To specify the

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 dynamic volume, reactivate the underlying disks by using Windows Disk Management functionality – see the Tr

47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To break a mirrored volume 1. Right-click the mirrored volume that you want to break, and then click Break

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Click OK to run the volume check. If the volume contains a very large number of files—for example, mill

49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed. To p

8 Tools ... 61 8.1

50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.24 Changing a file system This operation lets you change the volume file systems of the following type:

51 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Use lower i-node density (that is, increased Bytes per i-node value) for a volume that contains just a f

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7 Disk operations This section describes all the operations that you can perform with disks using Acronis

53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.2 Basic disk cloning This operation is available for basic MBR disks. The cloning operation transfers al

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 23). Exiting the program without committing

55 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To convert a basic MBR disk to basic GPT 1. Right-click the basic MBR disk you want to convert to GPT, and

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 23). Exiting the program without committing

57 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To convert a dynamic disk to basic 1. Right-click the dynamic disk you need to convert, and then click Con

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When taking a dynamic disk whose volumes span across several disks offline, these volumes get statuses with

59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 For more information on volume statuses please refer to the following Microsoft article: http://technet.mic

6 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced is a powerful and eas

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 23). Exiting the program without committing

61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8 Tools This section describes Acronis Bootable Media Builder and Acronis Recovery Expert tools. After rea

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 PE-based bootable media PE-based bootable media contains a minimal Windows system called Windows Preinstall

63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista (PE 2.0): http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.asp

64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Kernel parameters This window lets you specify one or more parameters of the Linux kernel. They will be aut

65 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Disables the FireWire (IEEE1394) interface support. nopcmcia Disables detection of PCMCIA hardware. nomouse

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Start the Bootable Media Builder either by selecting Tools > Create Bootable Media or, as a separate

67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.2.1 Setting up a display mode For a machine booted from media, a display video mode is detected automa

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 fsck ln pktsetup sshd 8.2 Acronis Recovery Expert Acronis Recovery Expert is an easy-to use tool that le

69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. In the Recovery mode window, choose Manual. 2. In the Unallocated Space Selection window, select unal

7 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Delete volumes and clean up disks  Hide/unhide volumes  Specify i-node density  Initialize newly ad

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Usage examples ... 73

71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Let us consider the disk editing in the As Hex view mode. Selecting data Any view mode lets you select bloc

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The Read from file menu item lets you read the block from a previously saved file and insert it into a disk

73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 where CYL, HD and SEC are cylinder, head and sector numbers in the CHS coordinates (Cylinder – Head – Secto

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6. In the Read from file window, click Browse and specify the file storing the MBR code. 7. Click OK. The

75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Place the cursor at the very beginning of the first sector byte (Absolute sector 0, or 0000 in Hex). Th

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 contain the information that we are looking for, we should search for the next JFIF entry until we find the

77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 9 Working in the command-line mode Acronis Disk Director supports the command-line mode for the most impor

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Specifies the volume cluster size (in bytes). If not specified, the default value for the selected file sys

79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Options [/os:<id>] Specifies the ID of the operating system layout under which the operation will be

8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3 Installation and upgrade This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 10 Glossary A Active volume The volume from which a machine starts. If no operating systems other than Wind

81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Block See Sector (p. 89). Boot sector The first sector (p. 89) of a disk (p. 82) or a volume (p. 91) that

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 C Cluster The unit of disk space allocation to store files in a file system. Each non-empty file completely

83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 group is discontinued, though its name is kept in the above registry key. In case a dynamic disk is created

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 LDM Metadata partition 1 MB A dynamic MBR disk (Disk 1) and a dynamic GPT disk (Disk 2). For more in

85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A file system tracks free and occupied space, supports folders (p. 85) and file names, and stores the physi

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 G GPT disk A disk whose partitioning scheme (p. 88) is GUID partition table (GPT). GPT disks are typically

87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Logical volumes usually store user data and sometimes the files that are used by the installed operating sy

88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Mirrored volume A fault-tolerant volume whose data is duplicated on two physical disks (p. 88). Each of the

89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Physical disk A disk (p. 82) that is physically a separate device. Thus, floppy disks, hard disks and CD-RO

9 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Windows Vista - all editions  Windows 7 - all editions Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Management Con

90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Spanned volume A volume that consists of disk space from two or more dynamic disks (p. 83), in portions tha

91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If only one Windows operating system is installed on your machine, the system volume is usually the same as

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A volume letter is usually assigned when you format the volume. It can be assigned, changed, or removed lat