9 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010
2.3 Supported file systems
Acronis Disk Director supports the following file systems for performing operations:
FAT16
FAT32
NTFS
Ext2
Ext3
Reiser3
Linux SWAP
The operations resulting in a change of volume size—that is: Create (p. 25), Resize (p. 27), Copy (p.
28), Move (p. 28), Merge (p. 30), Split (p. 31)—are not available for the XFS, Reiser4, HPFS and JFS file
systems.
2.4 Supported media
Hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state drives (SSD)
Support for IDE, SCSI and SATA interfaces
CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, BD-RE
for bootable media creation*
USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, FireWire (IEEE-1394) hard disk drives
PC card storage devices
* Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without a kernel patch.
2.5 Installing Acronis Disk Director
To install Acronis Disk Director 11
1. If you have the previous version of Acronis Disk Director, remove it before proceeding with the
installation of Acronis Disk Director 11.
2. Run the setup file of Acronis Disk Director 11.
3. Click Install Acronis Disk Director.
4. Accept the terms of the license agreement.
5. Type in your license key. Skip this step if you want to evaluate the demo product version (p. 9).
6. Select whether you want to install the program for all users on this machine, or for the current
user only.
7. Proceed with installation.
2.6 Installing Acronis OS Selector
To install Acronis OS Selector, you need to first install Acronis Disk Director (p. 8). Then select Start ->
All Programs -> Acronis -> Disk Director -> Install Acronis OS Selector and follow the setup program
instructions. If you already have Acronis OS Selector installed on your machine, it will be replaced by
the new version.
Acronis OS Selector can be installed on volumes of basic MBR disks only.
