Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation

Your most complete Disk Management Toolbox
Do you need to move or merge workstation partitions without data loss, minimize downtime for maintenance and deliver higher disk performance? Feature-rich Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Workstation provides the answer. It’s a disk management tool built on Acronis award-winning technologies that simplifies and speeds advanced disk layout operations. It inherits all the functionality of the previous version and adds exciting new capabilities like Windows 7 support, Dynamic Disk and GPT disk support, spanning a volume across multiple disks and much more.

Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation tools
Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Advanced Workstation provides you with powerful partition and hard disk management utilities to ensure your workstations are running efficiently. Acronis has a long history of supporting Microsoft operating systems and this version includes full support for Windows 7 as well as Windows Vista™ and Windows XP™. Dynamically split, merge, resize, copy and move partitions within Windows to minimize downtime. Perform advanced hard disk drive editing tasks, such as recovering important data areas of a hard drive and searching for and/or extracting information that was lost due to software and hardware failures or virus attack.

• Partition Manager
  Resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without data loss. Speeds creation of partition settings for new PCs.
• Partition Recovery
  Recover lost or accidentally deleted partitions.
• Disk Editor
  Allows users to perform advanced operations on your hard disk drive, such as restoration of boot records and hexadecimal editing.
  

• New! Create both basic and dynamic volumes
  The handy Create Volume wizard has been improved to support dynamic volumes creation. Now, in addition to basic volumes, you can easily create dynamic volumes in Acronis Disk Director to:
  - Increase the volume size beyond the capacity of a single disk, by using a spanned volume
  - Reduce access time to files, by using a striped volume
• New! Add, remove, or break mirrored volumes*
  Make your basic or simple volume fault-tolerant in just one action by adding a mirror. If you need extra unallocated space on a disk containing one of the mirrors—remove a mirror. Break a mirrored volume to get two independent simple volumes with initially identical content.
  New! Copy or move a volume of one type as a volume of another type
  Change the type of a volume when copying or moving it. For example, you can copy the contents of a mirrored volume to a spanned volume.
• New! Convert primary volumes to logical and vice versa
  Convert a primary volume to logical to create a fifth volume on a disk that currently has four primary volumes.
• New! Convert basic disks to dynamic and vice versa
  Convert the existing basic disks to dynamic to achieve additional disk reliability for data storage.
• New! Convert GPT disks to MBR and vice versa
  Change the partitioning scheme of your disk to the way you need it.
• New! Import foreign disks
  Make dynamic disks added from another machine accessible for the system.
• New! Changing a disk status: online to offline and vice versa*
  Change a disk status to offline in order to protect it from unintentional use.
• New! Disk cloning
  The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without reinstalling operating systems and applications. It transfers all of the source disk data to a target disk. The source disk volumes can be cloned to the target disk "as is", or resized automatically according to the target disk size.
• Disk and volume management operations
  Experience the vast array of disk and volume management operations:
  - Resize, move, copy, split and merge volumes without data loss or destruction
  - Format and label volumes, change file systems, clusters size, assign volume letters, and set volumes active
  - Delete volumes and clean up disks
  - Hide/unhide volumes
  - Specify i-node density
  - Initialize newly added hard disks
  - Explore volume data, even on Linux volumes, before performing operations
  - Preview changes made in disk and volume layout before applying them
  - Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, volumes, and file systems
• Acronis Recovery Expert
  Helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks.
• Acronis Bootable Media Builder
  Now, you can create bootable media based both on WinPE and Linux to use Acronis Disk Director on bare metal or outside of an operating system.
• Acronis Disk Editor
  A professional tool that performs a variety of actions on a hard disk.
• Log
  Examine information about disk and volume operations, including reasons for failure, if any.
  

Supported operating systems
Windows XP (all editions)
Windows Vista (all editions)
Windows 7 SP1 (all editions)
Supported File Systems
FAT16, FAT32, NTFS
Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS3, Linux SWAP
Special sector-by-sector support for copying and moving partitions of any other type

Recommended Hardware Requirements
1GHz 32-bit or 64-bit X86 processor
1GB or more system memory
1024x768 or higher screen Resolution
CD/DVD recording drive, or a flash drive, for bootable media creation