Operation Manual

Installation And Use

Chapter 1. Installation And Use

1.1 What’s Included

The Acronis Disk Director Suite package includes:

• Installation CD-ROM

• This guide

• License Agreement

• Registration card

• Advertising information

1.2 System Requirements

To take full advantage of Acronis Disk Director Suite you should have:

• A PC-compatible computer with a Pentium or similar CPU

• 32 MB RAM

• A floppy or a CD-RW drive

• A mouse (recommended)

• Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP; Microsoft Windows NT Server / 2000

Server / 2000 Advanced Server / 2003 Server.

1.3 Installation Process

1.3.1 Acronis Disk Director Suite installation

To install Acronis Disk Director Suite:

1. Insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive and run the installer.

2. Follow all instructions.

3. During installation, you can specify if you need to install Acronis OS

Selector with Acronis Disk Director Suite.

4. In the end of installation process you'll be prompted to create

bootable

media

5. There are two situation in which you might have to run the software from

bootable diskettes or CD:

• After a serious Windows failure, you may be required to reinstall this software

and reconfigure partitions.

• You will require bootable media in order to use Acronis Disk Director Suite on

a non-Windows system, for example, a Linux-based, PC.