Acronis Disk Director 12 - User Guide - Manual (Page 26)

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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 .................................................................................... 26
Resizing a volume ..................................................................................... 28
Copying a volume ..................................................................................... 29
Moving a volume...................................................................................... 30
Merging basic volumes ............................................................................ 31
Formatting a volume ................................................................................ 32
Deleting a volume .................................................................................... 33
Splitting a basic volume ........................................................................... 33
Changing a volume label .......................................................................... 34
Changing a drive letter ............................................................................. 34
Converting a primary volume to logical ................................................... 35
Converting a logical volume to primary ................................................... 35
Changing a partition type ......................................................................... 36
Setting a volume active ............................................................................ 36
Adding a mirror ........................................................................................ 37
Removing a mirror ................................................................................... 37
Breaking a mirrored volume .................................................................... 38
Browsing a volume's content ................................................................... 39
Checking a volume for errors ................................................................... 39
Defragmenting a volume ......................................................................... 39
Changing a cluster size ............................................................................. 40
Changing a file system ............................................................................. 40
Hiding a volume ....................................................................................... 41
Unhiding a volume ................................................................................... 41
Specifying i-node density ......................................................................... 42
5.1 Creating a volume
You might need a new volume to:

Store data—for example, a music collection, photo albums, or video files;
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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.