Acronis Disk Director 12 - User Guide Manuel d'utilisateur

User Guide

10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. Run the Acronis Disk Director setup file. 3. Click Update/Remove Acronis Disk Director. 4.

11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3 Basic concepts This section gives you a clear understanding of basic and dynamic disks and v

12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 By using Acronis Disk Director, you can convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk. You may need to

13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Striped volume A volume that resides on two or more dynamic disks and whose data is evenly dist

14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 System volume This is the volume from which any of the installed Windows operating systems star

15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 What is the cause of misalignment All Windows operating systems earlier than Vista use a factor

16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 How to fix volume misalignment using Acronis Disk Director Suppose that you have already create

17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4 Getting started After reading this section, you will know how to run and use Acronis Disk Di

18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. In the disk management area, examine the current layout of disks and volumes. 3. Add one o

19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1. Menu The menu provides access to all the actions, tools and settings of Acronis Disk Directo

2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014. All rights reserved. &quo

20 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 I/O errors are found on a dynamic disk. If a disk has errors, we recommended you to repair it a

21 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.6 Disk layout On a machine with two or more operating systems, representation of disks and

22 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.7.1 Pending operations Almost all the operations are considered pending before you commit th

23 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To browse the Log Select View -> View log from the menu. Way of working with the log  Us

24 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.8.2 Filtering and sorting log entries The following is a guideline for you to filter and sor

25 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Add a mirror to this volume. How to recover an accidentally deleted basic volume that has impor

26 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5 Volume operations This section describes all the operations that you can perform with volume

27 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. Specify the type that the new volume will have. Every volume type is provided with a brief

28 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6. Click Finish to add the pending volume creation operation. The results of the pending opera

29 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 By default, this option does not apply to the boot volumes on the disk. To include these volume

3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 12 ...

30 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 22). Exiting the program withou

31 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Moving system, boot, and active volumes Important: Do not move any of these volumes unless you

32 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5.6 Formatting a volume The formatting operation prepares a volume to store files and folder

33 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5.7 Deleting a volume This operation deletes a selected volume. The space that was occupied by

34 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5.9 Changing a volume label The volume label is a short name that you can assign to a volume

35 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The change will affect only the Windows operating system whose disk layout is currently selecte

36 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Each basic MBR disk can have either up to four primary volumes, or up to three primary volumes

37 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Note: By setting the new volume active, the former active volume letter might be changed and so

38 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  When a disk containing one of the mirrors becomes missing—for example, after you replaced a

39 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5.18 Browsing a volume's content Before configuring any operations on a volume—we recomme

4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5.2 Resizing a volume ...

40 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Acronis Disk Director does not perform defragmentation itself, rather it launches the Disk Defr

41 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Maximum volume size 2 GB (4-KB Cluster Size) or 4 GB (64-KB Cluster Size) 2 TB (4-KB Cluster Si

42 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Unhiding a hidden a volume means changing the volume type so that it will be visible by the ope

43 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 22). Exiting the program withou

44 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6 Disk operations This section describes all the operations that you can perform with disks us

45 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6.2 Basic disk cloning This operation is available for basic MBR disks. The cloning operation

46 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 22). Exiting the program withou

47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 An information window will pop up, stating that you are about to convert MBR to GPT. 2. Click

48 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6.5 Disk conversion: basic to dynamic You would want to convert a basic disk to dynamic in the

49 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 any volumes that are only supported by dynamic disks (all volume types except Simple volumes),

5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7.2 Acronis Recovery Expert ...

50 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 For information on how to bring a disk that is offline and missing back online, please refer to

51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 22). Exiting the program withou

52 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7 Tools This section describes Acronis Bootable Media Builder and Acronis Recovery Expert tool

53 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 WinPE proved to be the most convenient bootable solution in large environments with heterogeneo

54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To install Windows AIK: 1. Depending on your operating system, download and install one of the

55 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  If not configured, the Acronis loader waits for someone to select whether to boot the operat

56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Disables loading of the USB (Universal Serial Bus) subsystem. nousb2 Disables USB 2.0 support.

57 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Bootable Media Builder supports only x86 WinPE 2.x, WinPE 3.0, WinPE 4.0, and WinPE 5.0. These

58 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 system will be used. For bare metal, or if no Windows operating system is found, the disk layou

59 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 echo iscsiadm parted sh zcat egrep kill pccardctl sleep fdisk kpartx ping ssh fsck ln pktsetu

6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 12 Acronis® Disk Director® 12 is a powerful and easy-to-u

60 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Recovering volumes in manual mode The manual recovery mode lets you take full advantage of the

61 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Editing disks...

62 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7.3.3 Editing disks The Edit menu lets you access the main operations with blocks of given har

63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Reading a block from a file Not available under Linux-based bootable media The Read from file m

64 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 (CYL x HDS + HD) x SPT + SEC – 1, where CYL, HD and SEC are cylinder, head and sector numbers i

65 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5. Place the cursor at the very beginning of the first sector byte (Absolute sector 0, or 0000

66 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. In Acronis Disk Editor, press the F2 key to switch to the Hex view mode. 3. Place the curs

67 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 contain the information that we are looking for, we should search for the next JFIF entry until

68 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 8 Glossary A Active volume The volume from which a machine starts. If no operating systems oth

69 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Block See Sector (p. 77). Boot sector The first sector (p. 77) of a disk (p. 70) or a volume (

7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Change file systems  Clean up disks  Hide/unhide volumes  Specify i-node density  Cha

70 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Each non-empty file completely occupies one or more clusters. The typical size of a cluster is

71 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 For more information about disk groups please refer to the following Microsoft knowledge base a

72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Disk Management (Windows XP Professional Resource Kit) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libra

73 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Folder A named container for files that are stored on a volume. A folder can contain other fold

74 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 H Hard disk A fixed storage media along with integrated electronics that consists of several ma

75 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 After the two volumes are merged into one, the resulting volume has the drive letter and volume

76 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 By assigning a particular partition type to a volume, you can mark the volume as a hidden volum

77 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 R Root folder The folder (p. 72) where the folder tree of a file system (p. 72) begins. Startin

78 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Access to data on striped volumes is usually faster than on other types of dynamic volumes, bec

79 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 U Unallocated space Space on a disk that is available for creating a new volume or a part of it

8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2 Installation and upgrade This section answers questions that might arise before the product i

80 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Spanned volume (p. 77): Occupies two or more disks in arbitrarily-sized portions.  Striped

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2.3 Supported file systems Acronis Disk Director supports the following file systems for perfor