Operation Manual

Automatic Partition Operations

Note that this wizard page represents physical disks actually connected to your PC. The

next page shows

logical disks (or partitions) on the selected physical disk. See also

Appendix C «Glossary» — «Physical disk», «Logical disk».

3. On the next Select Partitions wizard page, select the disk partition(s) whose space

you want to use to create a new partition.

This means that if these partitions have free space, their size can be

reduced. As a result, the freed space will be automatically considered as

unallocated (not used by any partitions). A new partition can be created in

this space.

The window of existing partition selection to create a new partition

By creating a partition using the free space of other partitions, Acronis Disk

Director Suite can collect it in such a way that the final partition size is not

smaller than 110% of data-occupied space.

When creating a partition with the switch set to

Free space of the existing

partitions,

you provide a small partition size. If it is possible to create it usin

unallocated disk space, the partition will be created this way; the existin

partitions will not be resized. If a partition cannot be created using unallocated

space only, then the deficient space will be taken from existing partitions.

If you do not select a partition to take space from on the Select Partitions

wizard page and there is no unallocated disk space, you will see an error

message: