Operation Manual

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6 Vol ume opera tions
This section describes all the operations that you can perform with volumes in Acronis Disk Director.
Acronis Disk Director must obtain exclusive access to the target disk/volume. This means no other
disk management utilities (such as the Windows Disk Management utility) can access it at that time.
If you receive a message stating that the disk/volume cannot be blocked, close the disk management
applications that use this disk/volume and start again. If you cannot determine which applications
use the disk/volume, close them all.
In this section
Creating a volume .................................................................................... 35
Resizing a volume ..................................................................................... 37
Copying a volume ..................................................................................... 38
Moving a volume ...................................................................................... 39
Merging basic volumes ............................................................................ 40
Formatting a volume ................................................................................ 41
Deleting a volume .................................................................................... 42
Splitting a volume .................................................................................... 42
Changing a volume label .......................................................................... 43
Changing a drive letter ............................................................................. 44
Converting a primary volume to logical ................................................... 44
Converting a logical volume to primary ................................................... 45
Changing a partition type ......................................................................... 45
Setting a volume active ............................................................................ 46
Adding a mirror ........................................................................................ 46
Removing a mirror ................................................................................... 47
Breaking a mirrored volume .................................................................... 47
Browsing a volume's content ................................................................... 48
Checking a volume for errors ................................................................... 48
Defragmenting a volume ......................................................................... 49
Changing a cluster size ............................................................................. 49
Hiding a volume ....................................................................................... 50
Unhiding a volume ...................................................................................
50
Changing a file system ............................................................................. 51
Specifying i-node density ......................................................................... 51
6.1 Creating a volume
You might need a new volume to:
 Store data—for example, a music collection, photo albums, or video files;
 Store backups (images) of other volumes/disks (especially boot volumes) to be able to recover
the system in case of disaster;
 Install a new operating system (or swap file).
To create a new volume
1. Run the Create Volume Wizard by right-clicking any unallocated space, and then click Create
volume.