Operation Manual

Introduction

What is Acronis Disk Director Suite?

Acronis Disk Director Suite is a complex program that includes partition and boot

managers and hard disk data editing tools. With it, you can:

• Create hard disk partitions

• Resize and move them without data loss and destruction

• Convert partitions to other file systems without data loss

• Copy (move) partition contents

• Delete partitions

• Recover hard disk partitions that were accidentally deleted or damaged

• due to a hardware or software error

• Format, label, assign letters, hide and unhide partitions, set active

• partitions and perform additional disk management operations

• Install multiple operating systems on a single PC

• Boot installed operating systems from any hard disk partition

• Boot installed operating systems from under Windows

• Install several operating systems on a single partition

• Hide or protect with a password any operating system on your PC

• Duplicate installed operating systems and define different configurations for each

copy

• Recover boot records, files and folders structure, find lost clusters, remove viruses, etc.

Some terms of this Guide might seem unfamiliar. Appendix A «Hard Disk And Operatin

System» and Appendix C «Glossary» provide descriptions of some hard disk data stora

components and used terms.

What’s new in Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0?

Acronis Disk Director Suite has many new features that make it an

integrated

software suite

. In addition to the traditional Acronis Partition Expert capabilities,

this new version includes the functionality of Acronis Recovery Expert, Acronis

Disk Editor and the multipurpose boot manager Acronis OS Selector. New

features of this integrated software suite include:

• Recovering hard disk partitions that were accidentally deleted or damaged due

to a hardware or software error

• Installation of several different operating systems on a single PC

• Booting installed operating systems from any hard disk partition