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1. Back up the disk on which volumes will be created or managed. Having your most important data
backed up to another hard disk, network share or removable media will allow you to work on
disk volumes being reassured that your data is safe.
2. Test your disk to make sure it is fully functional and does not contain bad sectors or file system
errors.
3. Do not perform any disk/volume operations while running other software that has low-level disk
access. Close these programs before running Acronis Disk Director Lite.
With these simple precautions, you will protect yourself against accidental data loss.
10.3 Running Acronis Disk Director Lite
You can run Acronis Disk Director Lite in Windows or under bootable media.
Limitations.
 Acronis Disk Director Lite is not available under Windows 8/8.1, Windows Server 2012/2012 R2,
Windows 10, and Windows Server 2016.
 Disk management operations under bootable media may work incorrectly if storage spaces are
configured on the machine.
Running Acronis Disk Director Lite under Windows
If you run Acronis Backup Management Console, and connect it to a managed machine, the Disk
management view will be available in the Navigation tree of the console, with which you can start
Acronis Disk Director Lite.
Running Acronis Disk Director Lite from a bootable media
You can run Acronis Disk Director Lite on a bare metal, on a machine that cannot boot or on a
non-Windows machine. To do so, boot the machine from a bootable media (p. 259) created with the
Acronis Bootable Media Builder; run the management console and then click Disk management.
10.4 Choosing the operating system for disk management
On a machine with two or more operating systems, representation of disks and volumes depends on
which operating system is currently running.
A volume may have a different letter in different Windows operating systems. For example, volume
E: might appear as D: or L: when you boot another Windows operating system installed on the same
machine. (It is also possible that this volume will have the same letter E: under any Windows OS
installed on the machine.)
A dynamic disk created in one Windows operating system is considered as a Foreign Disk in another
Windows operating system or might be unsupported by this operating system.
When you need to perform a disk management operation on such machine, it is necessary to specify
for which operating system the disk layout will be displayed and the disk management operation will
be performed.
The name of the currently selected operating system is shown on the console toolbar after “The
current disk layout is for:”. Click the OS name to select another operating system in the Operating
System Selection window. Under bootable media, this window appears after clicking Disk
management. The disk layout will be displayed according to the operating system you select.