Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation - Quick Start Guide - Manual (Page 8)

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5. In the Disk management view, examine how the layout of disks and volumes will look when the
pending operations are completed.
6. Commit the pending operations. Monitor the operation progress in the Tasks view. Use the Log
view to examine the history of operations performed on the machine.
Some operations, such as changing the size of a volume from which Windows starts, may require
restarting the machine.
Running Acronis Disk Director from a bootable media
Acronis Disk Director has a bootable version that can be run on a bare metal system, or on a crashed
machine that cannot boot normally, or even on a non-Windows system, like Linux. A bootable
version of Acronis Disk Director is created with Acronis Bootable Media Builder.
To run Acronis Disk Director, boot the machine from a bootable media, and then select Acronis Disk
Director.
While working under bootable media, Acronis Disk Director can perform almost all the operations on
any disks and volumes that can be performed under Windows.
3.10 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director
This section describes how to upgrade Acronis Disk Director.
3.10.1 Upgrading from demo to full product version
The demo key required at installation can be obtained on the Acronis Web site.
The demo version of Acronis Disk Director is fully functional, except for the following limitations:
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All volume operations can be performed on volumes whose initial and resulting size is not larger
than 100 MB. Operations on volumes whose size is larger than 100 MB cannot be committed.
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The following disk operations can be committed only if the total size of all volumes on the disk is
not larger than 100 MB:
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MBR to GPT and vice versa disk conversion.
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Basic to dynamic and vice versa disk conversion.
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Clone basic disk.
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Clean up disk.
To upgrade from the demo version to the full product, you do not need to re-download the software.
To upgrade from demo to full product version
1. Connect the console to the machine and click Help > Switch to full license.
2. Enter the full license key.
3.10.2 Upgrading from previous product versions
Preparation
If the languages of the two products are different, uninstall Acronis Disk Director 10 before installing
Acronis Disk Director 11. Otherwise, the installation will fail.