Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0
User's guide
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Table of contents
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 6 1.1 WHAT IS ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER? ...................................................................................... 6 1.2 WHAT'S NEW IN ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER 10.0?................................................................... 6 1.3 SOFTWARE USE CONDITIONS ................................................................................................................ 7 1.4 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ........................................................................................................................... 7 CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION AND USE ............................................................................................. 8 2.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS...................................................................................................................... 8 2.2 INSTALLATION PROCESS ...................................................................................................................... 8 2.3 UPGRADING ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER .................................................................................. 9 2.4 REMOVING SOFTWARE ........................................................................................................................ 9 2.5 USER INTERFACE ................................................................................................................................. 9 2.6 BEFORE YOU RUN ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER......................................................................... 9 2.7 RUNNING ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER..................................................................................... 10 CHAPTER 3. BEGINNING THE WORK.............................................................................................. 12 3.1 ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER LOGICAL ORGANIZATION............................................................ 12 3.2 ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER MAIN WINDOW ........................................................................... 13 3.3 CALLING PARTITION OPERATIONS ..................................................................................................... 14 3.4 PARTITION OPERATION PROPERTIES .................................................................................................. 15 3.5 PROTECTING ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER WITH A PASSWORD................................................ 19 3.6 VIEWING LOGS ................................................................................................................................... 20 CHAPTER 4. AUTOMATIC PARTITION OPERATIONS ................................................................ 21 4.1 CREATING A NEW PARTITION............................................................................................................ 21 4.2 INCREASING PARTITION FREE SPACE................................................................................................. 30 4.3 COPYING PARTITIONS ........................................................................................................................ 32 CHAPTER 5. MANUAL PARTITION OPERATIONS........................................................................ 37 5.1 MAIN PARTITION OPERATIONS .......................................................................................................... 37 5.2 ADDITIONAL PARTITION OPERATIONS ............................................................................................... 56 CHAPTER 6. WORKING IN THE COMMAND-LINE MODE.......................................................... 66 6.1 SUPPORTED COMMANDS .................................................................................................................... 66 6.2 DISKDIRECTORCMD.EXE USAGE EXAMPLES ........................................................................................ 67 CHAPTER 7. WORKING WITH ACRONIS RECOVERY EXPERT ............................................... 68 7.1 AUTOMATIC RECOVERY .................................................................................................................... 69 7.2 MANUAL RECOVERY ......................................................................................................................... 72 CHAPTER 8. WORKING WITH ACRONIS DISK EDITOR............................................................. 75 8.1 GENERAL INFORMATION .................................................................................................................... 75 8.2 THE SELECTION OF THE PARTITION OR A DISK FOR EDITING ............................................................... 75 8.3 MAIN WINDOW OF THE PROGRAM ..................................................................................................... 76 8.4 EDIT HARD DISKS.............................................................................................................................. 77 8.5 WRITE BLOCK TO A FILE AND READ FROM A FILE ............................................................................. 78 8.6 VIEW.................................................................................................................................................. 79 8.7 SEARCH ............................................................................................................................................. 80 8.8 WORKING WITH DIFFERENT ENCODINGS ........................................................................................... 82 CHAPTER 9. BOOTABLE MEDIA BUILDER .................................................................................... 83 9.1 GENERAL INFORMATION .................................................................................................................... 83 9.2 CREATING BOOTABLE MEDIA ............................................................................................................. 83 CHAPTER 7. HARD DISK AND FILE SYSTEMS .............................................................................. 86 A.1 HARD DISK ORGANIZATION............................................................................................................... 86 A.2 HARD DISK PARTITION ...................................................................................................................... 87 A.3 PARTITION TYPES .............................................................................................................................. 87 A.4 PRIMARY PARTITIONS........................................................................................................................ 89 A.5 EXTENDED PARTITIONS ..................................................................................................................... 89 A.6 LOGICAL PARTITIONS ........................................................................................................................ 89 4
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A.7 FORMATTING HARD DISKS ................................................................................................................ 90 A.8 FILE SYSTEMS.................................................................................................................................... 90 A.9 FILE SYSTEM MAIN SPECIFICATIONS ................................................................................................. 91 APPENDIX B. GLOSSARY ..................................................................................................................... 95
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Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 What is Acronis Disk Director Server?
Acronis Disk Director Server is a complex program that includes partition manager and hard disk data editing tools. With it, you can:
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Create hard disk partitions Resize, move, split and merge partitions without data loss or destruction Convert partitions to other file systems without data loss Copy (move) partition contents Delete partitions Create, delete and resize hard disk partitions using the command-line mode Recover hard disk partitions that were accidentally deleted or damaged due to a hardware or software error Format, label, assign letters, hide and unhide partitions, set active partitions and perform additional disk management operations Recover boot records, files and folders structure, find lost clusters, remove viruses, etc.
Some terms of this guide might be unfamiliar. Chapter 7 «Hard Disk And File Systems» and Appendix B «Glossary» provide descriptions of some hard disk data storage components and used terms.
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What's new in Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0?
Splitting/merging partitions You can split a partition in two, moving the selected folders to the new partition and leaving the rest of the data on the old one. This operation can also be used for creating an empty partition from another partition's free space. You can merge two partitions, as well, even if their file systems are different. All data will stay intact and reside on the resulting partition.
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Exploring and managing partitions contents You can explore or manage partition contents before configuring operations on that pa ...
