ACRONIS Disk Director 11 Home Betriebsanweisung

Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home User's Guide

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 During the installation of Acronis OS Selector, the hidden system folder BOOTWIZ will be created on your ma

11 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Upgrading from the demo version of Acronis Disk Director 11 If you already have the demo version (p. 9) of

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

13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 By using Acronis Disk Director, you can convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk (p. 45). 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

15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 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 What is the cause of misalignment All Windows operating systems earlier than Vista use a factor of 512 byte

17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After the volumes are created, you can perform other operations with them (including changing their size) u

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

19 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. In the disk management area, examine the current layout of disks and volumes. 3. Add one or more manag

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

21 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 I/O errors are found on a dynamic disk. If a disk has errors, we recommended you to repair it as soon as po

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

23 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 view at the top, as well as in the graphical view at the bottom. Any volume changes, including changing the

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 can examine information about disk and volume operations, including reasons any for failures. Physically, a

25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Save all the filtered log entries to a file 1. Set filters (p. 22) to get a list of the log entries that s

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

27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Use the Clean up disk (p. 48) operation.

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

29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Specify the type that the new volume will have. Every volume type is provided with a brief description

Table of contents 1 Introducing Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home ...5 2 Insta

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Logical. Set the volume as Logical, if it is intended for data storage. 6. Click Finish to add the pend

31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 As a result you will get additional unallocated space, which will be adjacent to the volume that you are re

32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed. To p

33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 20). Exiting the program without committing

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 the opposite action (merging a non-secured volume to a secured one), the main volume security settings will

35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 NTFS file system. For example, these programs may incorrectly calculate the total and available space on su

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed. To p

37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.10 Changing a drive letter Windows operating systems assign drive letters, such as C, to volumes to loca

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 20). Exiting the program without committing

39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.14 Setting a volume active This operation applies to primary volumes on basic MBR disks. To specify the

5 Volume operations ... 25 5.1 Creating

40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.16 Removing a mirror Mirrored volumes provide fault tolerance by storing two exact copies of data—called

41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. For one of the two mirrors, specify the volume label and/or drive letter that the mirror will have when

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Note: If the volume is in use, the tool can only check it for errors, but cannot repair them. The checking

43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.22 Changing a file system This operation lets you change the volume file systems of the following type:

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 20). Exiting the program without committing

45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 more i-nodes there are in the file system, the less likely you will not run of i-nodes. But, the “file syst

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

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

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 20). Exiting the program without committing

49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To convert a basic MBR disk to basic GPT 1. Right-click the basic MBR disk you want to convert to GPT, and

7 Tools ... 49 7.1

50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 20). Exiting the program without committing

51 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To convert a dynamic disk to basic 1. Right-click the dynamic disk you need to convert, and then click Con

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When taking a dynamic disk whose volumes span across several disks offline, these volumes get statuses with

53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 For more information on volume statuses please refer to the following Microsoft article: http://technet.mic

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 20). Exiting the program without committing

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

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

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

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Parameters When specifying multiple parameters, separate them with spaces. acpi=off Disables Advanced Confi

59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Disables the module whose name is given by module_name. For example, to disable the use of the SATA module,

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

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Specify the path to the folder where the WinPE files are located. 4. [optional] Specify Windows drivers

61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you do not wish to follow this procedure every time you boot from media on a given hardware configuratio

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The Recovery Expert first attempts to recover volumes "as is", i.e. logical volumes will be recov

63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 volume list. The search will, however, continue until all the remaining disks are scanned. If no volumes ar

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

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

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.3.1 Booting operating systems You can boot any operating system with Acronis OS Selector:  From the

67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Click Set Password in the Operations section of the main window sidebar  Enter and confirm a password

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Changing the disk order for an operation system already installed may prevent that system from loading. Fo

69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.4 Editing operating systems This section provides the means of operating system and shortcut managemen

7 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Delete volumes  New! Change file systems  New! Clean up disks  New! Hide/unhide volumes  New! Spe

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.4.5 Copying operating systems Acronis OS Selector allows you to duplicate any installed operating sys

71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.6 Setting Acronis OS Selector options You can set Acronis OS Selector options by clicking Options in t

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Administrator password – required when a user tries to change any options and settings of Acronis OS Sel

73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.1.7.1 Reactivating the Acronis OS Selector boot menu Because operating systems can change the Master Boo

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Set the prepared volume active for the new operating system — see Setting a volume active (p. 35). When

75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 By setting the target disk to be the first, you will force the boot part of Windows to be installed on that

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 however, not all of them are willing to change operating systems completely or have a second machine on whi

77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.2 Acronis Disk Editor Acronis Disk Editor is a professional tool that performs a variety of actions on a

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Help – lets you get help concerning the editor window, the program’s manufacturer and version. Using con

79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you do not save your changes, you effectively reject them. If you have made changes in a hard disk secto

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

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.2.5 Search The Search menu lets you search a disk for a line and to go to a disk sector according to its

81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Place the cursor at the very beginning of the first sector byte (Absolute sector 0, or 0000 in Hex). Th

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 10. Place the cursor at the very beginning of the first sector byte (Absolute sector 0, or 0000 in Hex), an

83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To restore files 1. In a file manager that supports Hex, open an existing .jpeg file similar to the delete

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 9 Glossary A Active volume The volume from which a machine starts. If no operating systems other than Wind

85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Block See Sector (p. 90). Boot sector The first sector (p. 90) of a disk (p. 83) or a volume (p. 92) that

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 C Cluster The unit of disk space allocation to store files in a file system. Each non-empty file completely

87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 group is discontinued, though its name is kept in the above registry key. In case a dynamic disk is created

88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 LDM Metadata partition 1 MB A dynamic MBR disk (Disk 1) and a dynamic GPT disk (Disk 2). For more in

89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A file system tracks free and occupied space, supports folders (p. 86) and file names, and stores the physi

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

90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 G GPT disk A disk whose partitioning scheme (p. 89) is GUID partition table (GPT). GPT disks are typically

91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Logical volumes usually store user data and sometimes the files that are used by the installed operating sy

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Mirrored volume A fault-tolerant volume whose data is duplicated on two physical disks (p. 90). Each of the

93 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Physical disk A disk (p. 83) that is physically a separate device. Thus, floppy disks, hard disks and CD-RO

94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Spanned volume A volume that consists of disk space from two or more dynamic disks (p. 84), in portions tha

95 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If only one Windows operating system is installed on your machine, the system volume is usually the same as

96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A volume letter is usually assigned when you format the volume. It can be assigned, changed, or removed lat