User Guide

DATA SHEET
Supported Operating Systems Supported File Systems
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server
• Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 (all editions, including SBS)
• Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (all editions, including SBS)
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation
• Windows XP (all editions)
• Windows Vista (all editions)
• Windows 7 (all editions)
• FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
• Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS3, Linux SWAP
• Special sector-by-sector support for copying and
moving partitions of any other type
Feature Description
New! Manage all disks and volumes with
extreme flexibility
Carry out a vast array of disk and volume management operations:
• Resize, move, copy, split and merge volumes without data loss or destruction
• Format and label volumes, assign volume letters and set volumes active
New! Dynamic Disk Support* Spread volumes over several disks
New! GPT disk support Use with GPT disks to create volumes over 2TB and get additional disk reliability against possible data damage
New! Add, remove or break mirrored
volumes*
Make your basic or simple volume fault-tolerant in just one action by adding a mirror. If you need extra unallocated space
on a disk containing one of the mirrors, remove a mirror
New! Span volume across multiple
physical disks
Optimize your system by combining free space on different hard disk drives and get larger volume
Ease of Use Intuitive interface and wizards guide you to get the most out of your system
Command Line Interface Create scripts for application tasks
Remote Management Powerful and easy-to-use tool for managing disks and volumes on local and remote machines
New! Convert basic disks to Dynamic Disks
and vice versa
Convert existing basic disks to Dynamic Disks to achieve additional disk reliability
for data storage
New! Convert MBR disks to GPT
and vice versa
Why would you need to convert an MBR disk to a GPT basic disk?
• If you need to make a volume who size is over 2TB
• If you need more than four primary volumes on one disk
Boot from CD/DVD or USB stick Boot from a CD/DVD or USB stick and manage all your volumes
New! Clone disks to a replacement HDD
The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without reinstalling operating systems
and applications
Disk Editor Edit disk at the sector level
Recover lost or deleted partitions Acronis Recovery Expert helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks
Hardware Requirements Minimum Requirements Recommended
Boot Firmware Bios-based**
Computer Processor Modern processor, 800MHz or faster 1GHz 32-bit or 64-bit X86 processor
System memory 512MB 1GB or more
Screen Resolution 800x600 pixels 1024x768 or higher
Installation Disk Space 2GB
Other hardware Mouse CD/DVD recording drive, or a flash drive, for bootable media creation
** Machines that are based on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) are not supported
* For operating systems that support this feature
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