User`s guide

3. In the window, you will be able to set the disk partitioning scheme (MBR or GPT) and the disk

type (basic or dynamic). The new disk state will be graphically represented in the Disk

Management view of the console immediately.

4. By clicking OK, you'll add a pending operation of the disk initialization.

(To finish the added operation you will have to commit (p. 303) it. Exiting the program without

committing the pending operations will effectively cancel them.)

After the initialization, all the disk space remains unallocated and so still impossible to be used for

program installation or file storage. To be able to use it, proceed normally to the Create volume

operation.

If you decide to change the disk settings it can be done later using the standard Acronis Disk Director Lite disk

tools.

6.11.5.2. Basic disk cloning

Sometimes it is necessary to transfer all the disk data onto a new disk. It can be a case of expanding

the system volume, starting a new system layout or disk evacuation due to a hardware fault. In any

case, the reason for the Clone basic disk operation can be summed up as the necessity to transfer all

the source disk data to a target disk exactly as it is.

Acronis Disk Director Lite allows the operation to be carried out to basic MBR disks only.

To plan the Clone basic disk operation:

1. Select a disk you want to clone.

2. Select a disk as target for the cloning operation.

3. Select a cloning method and specify advanced options.

The new volume structure will be graphically represented in the Disk management view immediately.

It is advisable that you deactivate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (p. 387) (ASRM), if it is active, before

cloning a system disk. Otherwise the cloned operating system might not boot. You can activate the ASRM again

after the cloning is completed. If deactivation is not possible, choose the As is method to clone the disk.

Selecting source and target disks

The program displays a list of partitioned disks and asks the user to select the source disk, from which

data will be transferred to another disk.

The next step is selection of a disk as target for the cloning operation. The program enables the user

to select a disk if its size will be sufficient to hold all the data from the source disk without any loss.

If there is some data on the disk that was chosen as the target, the user will receive a warning: “The

selected target disk is not empty. The data on its volumes will be overwritten.”, meaning that all the

data currently located on the chosen target disk will be lost irrevocably.

Cloning method and advanced options

The Clone basic disk operation usually means that the information from the source disk is transferred

to the target “As is”. So, if the destination disk is the same size and even if it is larger, it is possible to

transfer all the information there exactly as it is stored at the source.