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Note: The active volume of the target disk will remain active. Even if you deploy an active volume side by
side with an already present active volume, the newly deployed volume will not become active. Therefore,
you need to deploy an active volume to an active volume if you want to boot from the deployed volume.
Tip: To deploy a single volume to unallocated space or bare metal, first create a target volume of a desired
size by using a third-party partitioning tool, such as Microsoft Disk Management or Acronis Disk Director.
In either case, the size of the deployed volume will depend on the setting in Disk space utilization (p.
90).
The When deploying a single volume setting is not effective when you deploy multiple volumes. In
this case, all existing volumes on the target disk are always deleted, and the entire disk space is
available for the volumes.
Converting the target disk to GPT
This setting determines whether a target disk larger than 2 TB should be converted to GPT.
This setting is available only when the operating system stored in the image allows changing the boot
mode from BIOS to UEFI. These are the following:
 64-bit versions of all Windows operating systems starting with Windows Vista x64 SP1
 64-bit versions of all Windows Server operating systems starting with Windows Server 2008 x64
SP1
The preset is: Convert disk to GPT if target disk is larger than 2 TB
MBR disks have a size limitation of 2 TB. If an image of an MBR disk is deployed to a target disk that is
larger than 2 TB, only 2 TB of the disk capacity will be used. To get around this issue, Acronis Snap
Deploy 5 can automatically change the target disk partitioning style to GPT. However, in order to
boot from a GPT disk, the target machine must support the UEFI boot loader. If the target machine
does not support UEFI, clear this check box.
Disk space utilization
This setting determines whether to change the size of the volumes you are deploying according to
the available space on the target disk. The available space depends on the size of the target disk and
on whether you selected to replace all volumes or only a particular volume (see the Target disk
layout (p. 89) setting).
The preset is: Resize volumes to fit target disk
The settings are the following:
 Resize volumes to fit target disk: The software will proportionally extend or reduce each of the
deployed volumes according to the available space on the target disk.
The following examples assume that you have a 300-GB target disk that already contains two
volumes: the first volume is 50 GB in size, and the second volume is 250 GB in size.
Example 1. You are deploying a single 100-GB volume. In Target disk layout, you selected to
replace all volumes on the target disk. In this case, the size of the deployed volume will be
300 GB.
Example 2. You are deploying a single 100-GB volume. In Target disk layout, you selected to
replace the second (250-GB) volume on the target disk. In this case, the size of the deployed
volume will be 250 GB. The first volume on the target disk will remain intact.