Datasheet

Manual Partition Operations

Entering moved partition parameters

The size and location of a partition copy can be provided with a mouse click or by

entering data into the Unallocated space before, Partition size (and Unallocated space

after) fields.

6. By clicking OK in the Move partition window, you'll add a pending operation to

partition moving (your actions may only undo or modify already existing operation; see

2.4.5 «Modifying pending operations»).

The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis Disk Director

Suite main window.

Moving a partition to unallocated disk space in Windows 98/Me can chan

e the order of

letters assi

ned to other partitions. As a result, some shortcuts mi

ht stop workin

. A

detailed discussion of partition letter assignment rules for various operatin

systems

appears in 3.1 «Creating A New Partition».

Take special care when moving an operating system partition and its boot code location.

he OS mi

ht stop bootin

. For example, Windows NT 4.0 and earlier versions limit boot

code location to the first 2016 MB.

4.1.4 Resizing and/or moving a partition

You may find that there is not enough free space on a certain partition. For example, maybe

it is almost filled with MP3 files. Acronis Disk Director Suite lets you enlarge a partition easily.

Reasons for moving a partition were discussed above (see 4.1.3 «Moving a partition to

unallocated disk space»).

If you need to resize and/or move a partition:

1. Select the hard disk and a partition to be resized.