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5 Volume operations
This section describes all the operations that you can perform with volumes in Acronis Disk Director.
Acronis Disk Director must obtain exclusive access to the target disk/volume. This means no other
disk management utilities (such as the Windows Disk Management utility) can access it at that time.
If you receive a message stating that the disk/volume cannot be blocked, close the disk management
applications that use this disk/volume and start again. If you cannot determine which applications
use the disk/volume, close them all.
In this section
Creating a volume .................................................................................... 25
Resizing a volume ..................................................................................... 27
Copying a volume ..................................................................................... 28
Moving a volume...................................................................................... 28
Merging basic volumes ............................................................................ 30
Formatting a volume ................................................................................ 30
Deleting a volume .................................................................................... 31
Splitting a basic volume ........................................................................... 31
Changing a volume label .......................................................................... 32
Changing a drive letter ............................................................................. 33
Converting a primary volume to logical ................................................... 33
Converting a logical volume to primary ................................................... 34
Changing a partition type ......................................................................... 34
Setting a volume active ............................................................................ 35
Adding a mirror ........................................................................................ 35
Removing a mirror ................................................................................... 36
Breaking a mirrored volume .................................................................... 36
Browsing a volume's content ................................................................... 37
Checking a volume for errors ................................................................... 37
Defragmenting a volume ......................................................................... 37
Changing a cluster size ............................................................................. 38
Changing a file system ............................................................................. 38
Hiding a volume ....................................................................................... 39
Unhiding a volume ................................................................................... 39
Specifying i-node density ......................................................................... 40
5.1 Creating a volume
You might need a new volume to:
Store data—for example, a music collection, photo albums, or video files;
Store backups (images) of other volumes/disks (especially boot volumes) to be able to recover
the system in case of disaster;
Install a new operating system (or swap file).
To create a new volume
1. Run the Create Volume Wizard by right-clicking any unallocated space, and then click Create
volume.
