Acronis Disk Director Suite V. 9.0.553

Acronis Disk Director SuiteV.9.0.553



Contents
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1. About Acronis Disk Director Suite
2. Supported operating systems
3. System requirements
4. Key features


1. About Acronis Disk Director Suite
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Acronis Disk Director Suite is a complex software
product that includes partition and boot managers
and hard disk data editing tools. With Acronis Disk
Director Suite you can:
- Create hard disk partitions,
- Resize and move them without data loss and destruc-
tion,
- 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 soft-
ware error.
- Format, label, assign letters, hide and unhide
partitions, set active partitions and perform
rarely used operations.
- Install several different operating systems on a
single PC;
- Boot installed operating systems from any hard disk
partition;
- Boot installed operating systems directly from
Windows;
- Install several operating systems on a single par-
tition;
- Hide or protect with a password any operating sys-
tem 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.

2. Supported operating systems
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Acronis Disk Director Suite supports all PC ope-
rating systems, including:

All DOS versions
Windows 3.1 + DOS
Windows 95 / 98 / ME
Windows NT / 2000 / XP
Linux (any distribution)
FreeBSD
Solaris
SCO UNIX
UNIXWARE
OS/2
BeOS
QNX
etc.


3. System requirements
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- PC-compatible computer with a Pentium or similar
processor
- 32MB RAM
- Floppy or CD-ROM drive
- VGA monitor
- Mouse (recommended)
- A mouse (recommended)
- Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP; Microsoft Win-
dows NT Server/2000 Server/2000 Advanced Server/
2003 Server.


4. Key features
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Key features and capabilities
- Working with Acronis Disk Director Suite you can
select between "Automatic operations" and "Manual
operations". "Automatic operations" provides enough
features to create almost any partition layout on
your PC hard disks. Nevertheless, if you need a
detailed description of hard disk partitions and
fully-fledged partition operations, select the
Manual Mode. You can switch between the work modes
anytime.
- In the "Manual operations" mode user has full cont-
rol over hard disk partitions.
- You are offered unified user-friendly Windows XP GUI
with full mouse support.
- You can create backup bootable media of any type
(diskettes, CDs, Flash storage, etc.)

Partition management features
- Delayed operations: create an operation queue first
execute it when ready;
- Detailed PC hard disks and partitions information;
- Partition copying and movement with resizing,
changing type or file system;
- Primary partitions and logical disks hiding and
unhiding;

Operating systems management features
- Several operating systems on a single PC;
- Boot any operating system from any hard disk
partition;
- Boot, change settings of any operating system from
under Windows;
- Automatically set operating system boot properties
or edit them manually;
- Create backup bootable media of any type (disket-
tes, CDs, Flash storage, etc.)

Hard disk data editing features:
- Recover boot records, files and folders structure,
find lost clusters, remove viruses, etc.

Other features
- Support of widely used FAT16, FAT32, NTFS file sys-
tems as well as Linux's Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, Swap;
- Reliable data destruction on hard disks and par-
titions;
- Data destruction on unallocated hard disk space;
- Partitions changing and movement with both mouse or
keyboard.

Acronis Disk Director Suite installation
- To install Acronis Disk Director Suite insert the
installer CD to the CD-ROM drive and thoroughly
follow all instructions. Having answered all
prompts of installation wizard and copied Disk
Director Suite files onto hard disk, reboot your PC.