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Table of contents
1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 12 .............................................................................6
1.1 New in this version .................................................................................................................... 7
2 Installation and upgrade ..................................................................................................8
2.1 Hardware requirements ............................................................................................................ 8
2.2 Supported operating systems .................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Supported file systems .............................................................................................................. 9
2.4 Supported media ....................................................................................................................... 9
2.5 Installing Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................. 9
2.6 Updating Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................. 9
2.7 Removing Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................10
2.8 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................10
2.9 Demo version information .......................................................................................................10
3 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................... 11
3.1 Basic and dynamic disks ...........................................................................................................11
3.2 Types of basic volumes ............................................................................................................12
3.3 Types of dynamic volumes.......................................................................................................12
3.4 Active, system, and boot volumes ...........................................................................................13
3.5 Dynamic volume types support ...............................................................................................14
3.6 Volume alignment in disks with a 4-KB sector size ..................................................................14
4 Getting started .............................................................................................................. 17
4.1 Precautions ..............................................................................................................................17
4.2 User privileges .........................................................................................................................17
4.3 Running Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................17
4.4 Acronis Disk Director main window .........................................................................................18
4.5 Disk and volume information ..................................................................................................19
4.5.1 Disk statuses .................................................................................................................................................. 19
4.5.2 Volume statuses ............................................................................................................................................ 20
4.6 Disk layout ...............................................................................................................................21
4.7 Performing operations .............................................................................................................21
4.7.1 Pending operations ....................................................................................................................................... 22
4.7.2 Undoing pending operations ........................................................................................................................ 22
4.8 Log ............................................................................................................................................22
4.8.1 Actions on log entries.................................................................................................................................... 23
4.8.2 Filtering and sorting log entries .................................................................................................................... 24
4.9 Collecting system information .................................................................................................24
4.10 How to .....................................................................................................................................24
5 Volume operations ........................................................................................................ 26
5.1 Creating a volume ....................................................................................................................26
