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Table of contents
1
Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced ...................................................................6
2
Acronis Disk Director components ..........................................................................................7
2.1
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Management Console ....................................................... 7
2.2
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Agent for Windows ........................................................... 7
2.3
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Bootable Media Builder .................................................... 7
3
Installation and upgrade ........................................................................................................8
3.1
Before installation ..................................................................................................................... 8
3.1.1
System requirements ...................................................................................................................................... 8
3.1.2
Supported operating systems ........................................................................................................................ 8
3.1.3
Supported file systems .................................................................................................................................... 9
3.1.4
Supported media ............................................................................................................................................. 9
3.1.5
Licensing policy ................................................................................................................................................ 9
3.2
Installation ................................................................................................................................. 9
3.2.1
Where to install the components ................................................................................................................ 10
3.2.2
Installation procedure ................................................................................................................................... 10
3.2.3
Specifying credentials for Acronis services .................................................................................................. 10
3.3
Upgrading Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................11
3.3.1
Upgrading from demo to full product version ............................................................................................ 11
3.3.2
Upgrading from previous product versions ................................................................................................ 11
3.4
Uninstalling Acronis Disk Director ...........................................................................................12
3.5
Technical Support ....................................................................................................................13
4
Basic concepts ..................................................................................................................... 14
4.1
Basic and dynamic disks ...........................................................................................................14
4.2
Types of basic volumes ............................................................................................................15
4.3
Types of dynamic volumes ......................................................................................................15
4.4
Active, system, and boot volumes ...........................................................................................16
4.5
Dynamic volume types support ...............................................................................................17
4.6
Volume alignment in disks with a 4-KB sector size ..................................................................17
5
Getting started .................................................................................................................... 20
5.1
Precautions ..............................................................................................................................20
5.2
User privileges .........................................................................................................................20
5.3
Running Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................20
5.4
Using the management console ..............................................................................................21
5.4.1
"Disk management" view ............................................................................................................................. 22
5.4.2
"Tasks" view ................................................................................................................................................... 26
5.4.3
"Log" view ...................................................................................................................................................... 28
5.4.4
Console options ............................................................................................................................................. 30
5.4.5
Machine options............................................................................................................................................ 31
5.4.6
Collecting system information ..................................................................................................................... 32
5.5
How to .....................................................................................................................................32
