Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server - User Guide - Manual (Page 7)

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Disk and volume management operations
Experience the vast array of disk and volume management operations:
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Resize, move, copy, split and merge volumes without data loss or destruction
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Format and label volumes, change file systems, clusters size, assign volume letters, and set
volumes active
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Delete volumes and clean up disks
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Hide/unhide volumes
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Specify i-node density
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Initialize newly added hard disks
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Explore volume data, even on Linux volumes, before performing operations
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Preview changes made in disk and volume layout before applying them
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Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, volumes, and file systems
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Acronis Recovery Expert
Helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks.
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Acronis Bootable Media Builder
Now, you can create bootable media based both on WinPE and Linux to use Acronis Disk Director
on bare metal or outside of an operating system.
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Acronis Disk Editor
A professional tool that performs a variety of actions on a hard disk.
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Log
Examine information about disk and volume operations, including reasons for failure, if any.
* For the operating systems that support such functionality.
2 Acronis Disk Director components
2.1 Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Management
Console
The management console is an administrative tool for remote or local access to Acronis agents.
2.2 Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Agent for
Windows
The agent provides disk management functionality such as, creating, resizing and merging volumes,
cloning disks, converting disks, changing a disk partitioning style between MBR and GPT or changing a
disk label, etc. These operations can be performed either in the operating system or using bootable
media.