User`s guide

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Offline
The offline status means that a disk is accessible in the read-only mode. To bring the selected
offline disk back to online, select Change disk status to online from the Operations menu.
If the disk has the offline status and the disk's name is Missing, this means that the disk cannot be
located or identified by the operating system. It may be corrupted, disconnected, or powered off.
For information on how to bring a disk that is offline and missing back online, please refer to the
following Microsoft knowledge base article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc732026.aspx.
6.11.6. Volume operations
Acronis Disk Director Lite includes the following operations that can be performed on volumes:
Create Volume (p. 291) - Creates a new volume with the help of the Create Volume Wizard.
Delete Volume (p. 295) - Deletes the selected volume.
Set Active (p. 295) - Sets the selected volume Active so that the machine will be able to boot with
the OS installed there.
Change Letter (p. 296) - Changes the selected volume letter
Change Label (p. 296) - Changes the selected volume label
Format Volume (p. 297) - Formats a volume giving it the necessary file system
The full version of Acronis Disk Director will provide more tools and utilities for working with
volumes.
Acronis Disk Director Lite must obtain exclusive access to the target volume. This means no other disk
management utilities (like Windows Disk Management utility) can access it at that time. If you receive a
message stating that the volume cannot be blocked, close the disk management applications that use this
volume and start again. If you can not determine which applications use the volume, close them all.
6.11.6.1. Creating a volume
You might need a new volume to:
Recover a previously saved backup copy in the “exactly as was” configuration;
Store collections of similar files separately for example, an MP3 collection or video files on a
separate volume;
Store backups (images) of other volumes/disks on a special volume;
Install a new operating system (or swap file) on a new volume;
Add new hardware to a machine.
In Acronis Disk Director Lite the tool for creating volumes is the Create volume Wizard.
Types of dynamic volumes
Simple Volume
A volume created from free space on a single physical disk. It can consist of one region on the disk
or several regions, virtually united by the Logical Disk Manager (LDM). It provides no additional
reliability, no speed improvement, nor extra size.
Spanned Volume