Operation Manual

Manual Partition Operations

1. Select a hard disk and a partition to be deleted.

2. Execute partition deletion by selecting Disk  Delete or a similar item in

the Operations sidebar list, or by clicking

Delete the selected partition on

the toolbar.

3. Select the deletion method in the Delete Partition window; you can:

(1) just delete a hard disk partition (without wiping disk sectors) — set

the switch to Delete partition.

(2) delete a hard disk partition and fully wipe partition sectors — set the

switch to Delete partition and destroy data.

Delete Partition window

Having set the switch to Delete partition and destroy data, enter a number

of passes for wiping.

Wipin

unallocated disk space means multiple writin

of special data to hard disk

sectors. Acronis Disk Director Suite features a rather simple wiping algorithm. During

each pass, a symbol sequence or lo

ical zeroes (0x00) or ones (0xFF) is written to

unallocated space sectors. Only logical zeroes are written during the last pass.

The

more passes

performed, the more complete the wiping will be.

Acronis offers extremely powerful hard disk/partition wiping software — Acronis

Privacy Expert Suite, featuring strict algorithms for guaranteed confidential

information wiping and destruction

4. Confirm partition deletion by clicking OK in the Delete Partition window.

5. By clicking

OK in the Delete Partition window, you'll add the pending

operation of partition deletion (your actions may only undo an existing

operation depending on the situation selected see 2.4.5 «Modifying pending

operations»).

The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis

Disk Director Suite main window.

Attention! Deletin

a partition destroys all its data, includin

files and folders!

Deletin

a system partition will make a PC inoperable. Take special care when

performing this operation.