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Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation - User Guide User Manual

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Table of contents

1

Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced .................................................................... 6

2

Acronis Disk Director components ........................................................................................... 8

2.1

Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Management Console ....................................................... 8

2.2

Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Agent for Windows ........................................................... 8

2.3

Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Bootable Media Builder .................................................... 8

3

Installation and upgrade .......................................................................................................... 9

3.1

Before installation ..................................................................................................................... 9

3.1.1

System requirements ................................................................................................................................... 9

3.1.2

Supported operating systems ...................................................................................................................... 9

3.1.3

Supported file systems ...............................................................................................................................10

3.1.4

Supported media ........................................................................................................................................10

3.1.5

Licensing policy ...........................................................................................................................................10

3.2

Installation ...............................................................................................................................10

3.2.1

Where to install the components ..............................................................................................................11

3.2.2

Installation procedure ................................................................................................................................11

3.2.3

Specifying credentials for Acronis services ................................................................................................11

3.3

Upgrading Acronis Disk Director ..............................................................................................12

3.3.1

Upgrading from demo to full product version ..........................................................................................12

3.3.2

Upgrading from previous product versions ...............................................................................................12

3.4

Uninstalling Acronis Disk Director ...........................................................................................13

3.5

Technical Support ....................................................................................................................14

4

Basic concepts ....................................................................................................................... 15

4.1

Basic and dynamic disks ...........................................................................................................15

4.2

Types of basic volumes ............................................................................................................16

4.3

Types of dynamic volumes ......................................................................................................16

4.4

Active, system, and boot volumes ...........................................................................................17

4.5

Dynamic volume types support ...............................................................................................18

4.6

Volume alignment in disks with a 4-KB sector size ..................................................................18

5

Getting started ...................................................................................................................... 21

5.1

Precautions ..............................................................................................................................21

5.2

User privileges .........................................................................................................................21

5.3

Running Acronis Disk Director .................................................................................................21

5.4

Using the management console ..............................................................................................22

5.4.1

"Disk management" view ...........................................................................................................................23

5.4.2

"Tasks" view ................................................................................................................................................27

5.4.3

"Log" view ...................................................................................................................................................29

5.4.4

Console options ..........................................................................................................................................31

5.4.5

Machine options .........................................................................................................................................32

5.4.6

Collecting system information ...................................................................................................................33

5.5

How to .....................................................................................................................................33