Operation Manual

Manual Partition Operations

The size and location of 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 95/98/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 assi

nment rules for various

operating systems appears in 3.1 «Creating A New Partition».

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

location. The 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.

2. Execute operation of partition resizing by selecting Disk  Resize or a

similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or by clicking

Resize/move

the selected partition on the toolbar.

3. Resize the partition in the Resize Partition window:

(1) Hold the mouse button and drag a corresponding partition rectangle

side until you get the proper size in the Partition size field.

(2) Specify the partition size in the Partition size field.