ACRONIS Disk Director 11 Home Guide de l'utilisateur

Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home User's Guide

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 you will be able to access the Acronis OS Selector boot menu even if the system volume is unavailable. 2.6

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 11  All volume operations can be performed on volumes whose initial and resulting size is not larger than 10

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 12 3 Basic concepts This section gives you a clear understanding of basic and dynamic disks and volume types.

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 13 By using Acronis Disk Director, you can convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk (p. 44). You may need to do

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Striped volume A volume that resides on two or more dynamic disks and whose data is evenly distributed acro

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 15 System volume This is the volume from which any of the installed Windows operating systems starts—even if m

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 (If you are running Acronis Disk Director from one of those operating systems, the proper disk layout is al

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 17 4 Getting started After reading this section, you will know how to run and use Acronis Disk Director, what

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.3 Running Acronis Disk Director Running Acronis Disk Director in Windows 1. Select Start -> All Prog

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 19 1. Menu The menu provides access to all the actions, tools and settings of Acronis Disk Director. 2. Toolba

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. "Acronis", "Acronis Compute with Confidence", "Acronis Recovery

20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Online (Errors) I/O errors are found on a dynamic disk. If a disk has errors, we recommended you to repa

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 21 To find out more information about disk statuses, please refer to the Volume status descriptions article on

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 While an operation is pending it can be easily undone and redone—see Undoing pending operations (p. 22). 4

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 23 Operations performed using bootable media are logged as well, but the log’s lifetime is limited to a curren

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Delete all the log entries Click Clear Log. All the log entries will be deleted from the log, and a new lo

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 25 4.10 How to How to create a volume that spans across several disks? Create a dynamic volume (spanned or s

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 26 5 Volume operations This section describes all the operations that you can perform with volumes in Acronis

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 27 3. Depending on the type of the new volume, specify one or more disks where you want to create the new vol

28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.2 Resizing a volume This operation extends a volume—whether basic or dynamic—by taking unallocated space

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 29 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit (p. 22) it. Exiting the program without committing

Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 ...6 2

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The original and new volumes can have different types. For example, you can move a striped volume as a larg

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 31 A reboot is required when you move the boot volume of the currently running Windows operating system, the s

32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Note: The FAT16 and FAT32 file systems can be created on a volume of up to 2 GB and up to 2 TB in size, res

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 33 5.8 Splitting a basic volume This operation splits a basic volume in two by using a portion of the volume’

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Note: Some file systems—for example, FAT16 and FAT32 (see below)—do not allow certain characters in the vol

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 35 5.11 Converting a primary volume to logical This operation applies to basic disks whose partitioning sche

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.13 Changing a partition type This operation changes the partition type of a volume—a hexadecimal number

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 37 To add a mirror to a volume 1. Right-click the basic or simple volume to which you want to add a mirror, a

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Breaking a mirrored volume means converting its two mirrors into two independent simple volumes with initia

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 39 To check a volume 1. Right-click the volume whose file system you need to check, and then click Check. 2.

5.2 Resizing a volume ...28 5.3 C

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 40 6 Disk operations This section describes all the operations that you can perform with disks using Acronis

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 41 6.2 Basic disk cloning This operation is available for basic MBR disks. The cloning operation transfers al

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Using advanced options When cloning a disk containing the system volume, you need to retain operating syste

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 43 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit (p. 22) it. Exiting the program without committing

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To convert a basic disk to dynamic 1. Right-click the basic disk you want to convert, and then click Conve

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 45 After the conversion the last 8 MB of disk space is reserved for the future conversion of the disk from bas

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The offline status means that a dynamic disk is accessible in the read-only mode. You may need to change an

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 47 If the disk can be reconnected or turned on, all you need to recover its functionality is to reactivate the

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 48 7 Tools This section describes Acronis Bootable Media Builder and Acronis Recovery Expert tools. After rea

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 49 WinPE proved to be the most convenient bootable solution in large environments with heterogeneous hardware.

8.3.2 Setting an operating system as the default ...

50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94bb6e34-d890-4932-81a5-5b50c657de08&DisplayLa

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 51 These parameters are typically used when experiencing problems while working with the bootable media. Norma

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 nomouse Disables mouse support. module_name=off Disables the module whose name is given by module_name. For

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 53  The software runs the appropriate script and proceeds to the next window. When adding the plug-in to the

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. From the list of supported video modes, choose the appropriate one by typing its number (for example, 3

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 55 7.2 Acronis Recovery Expert Acronis Recovery Expert is an easy-to use tool that lets you recover volumes

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. In the Unallocated Space Selection window, select unallocated space on basic disks where the deleted vo

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 57 8 Acronis OS Selector Acronis OS Selector is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use boot manager that allows

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Operations This section includes actions available for selected operating systems or their shortcuts — see

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 59 8.3.1 Booting operating systems You can boot any operating system with Acronis OS Selector:  From the bo

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Acronis® Disk Director® 11 is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Enter and confirm a password in the Set Operating System Password dialog and click OK. An operating sys

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 61 8.3.4.5 Folders Acronis OS Selector automatically determines system folders for all Windows operating syst

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.4.1 Hiding operating systems If needed, you can hide any operating system installed so it will not be sh

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 63 8.4.5 Copying operating systems Acronis OS Selector allows you to duplicate any installed operating system

64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.6 Setting Acronis OS Selector options You can set Acronis OS Selector options by clicking Options in the

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 65 To disable global passwords, leave both input fields blank. When the default operating system is booted wit

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.7.1 Reactivating the Acronis OS Selector boot menu Because operating systems can change the Master Boot

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 67 Acronis Disk Director allows conversion of free logical volumes into primary — see Converting a logical vol

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Having inserted the disk with the operating system distribution, reboot and select your CD/DVD or flopp

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 69 8.7.3 Installing Linux and Windows on the same machine The Linux operating system is a modern, reliable an

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7  Explore volume data, even on Linux volumes before performing operations  Preview changes made in disk a

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 until it is reactivated from a bootable media — see Reactivating the Acronis OS Selector boot menu (p. 66).

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 71 Glossary A Active volume The volume from which a machine starts. If no operating systems other than Windows

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Block See Sector (p. 80). Boot sector The first sector (p. 80) of a disk (p. 73) or a volume (p. 82) that

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 73 Each non-empty file completely occupies one or more clusters. The typical size of a cluster is 4 KB. When f

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 For more information about disk groups please refer to the following Microsoft knowledge base article: 2221

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 75 Disk Management (Windows XP Professional Resource Kit) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457110.

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Folder A named container for files that are stored on a volume. A folder can contain other folders (sometim

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 77 H Hard disk A fixed storage media along with integrated electronics that consists of several magnetic platt

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After the two volumes are merged into one, the resulting volume has the drive letter and volume label of th

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 79 By assigning a particular partition type to a volume, you can mark the volume as a hidden volume (p. 77). F

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8 2 Installation and upgrade This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 R Root folder The folder (p. 75) where the folder tree of a file system (p. 75) begins. Starting from the r

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 81 Access to data on striped volumes is usually faster than on other types of dynamic volumes, because it can

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 U Unallocated space Space on a disk that is available for creating a new volume or a part of it, or for ext

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 83  Spanned volume (p. 80): Occupies two or more disks in arbitrarily-sized portions.  Striped volume (p.

Index A Acronis Bootable Media Builder • 18, 49, 67, 70 Acronis Disk Director main window • 18, 67 Acronis OS Selector • 58 Acronis Recovery Expert

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 85 Disks • 61 Display properties • 65 Drive • 75 Drive letter • 75 Dynamic disk • 13, 75, 81 Dynamic volume •

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Main volume • 78 Master boot record (partitioning scheme) • 79 Master boot record (sector) • 79 MBR disk •

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 87 Updating Acronis Disk Director • 10 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director • 10 User privileges • 17 Using shortcu

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 9 2.3 Supported file systems Acronis Disk Director supports the following file systems for performing operati