Acronis Disk Director 9.0 - User Guide and FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions - Acronis Disk Director

1. What is Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0?
   Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 brings the most popular disk management functions in a single suite. As a partition manager, it allows you to create, delete, resize, copy and move partitions without losing your data. Its boot manager function allows you to multiboot among multiple operating systems installed on your computer. Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 also allows you to edit hard disk manually and recover lost or deleted partitions.
   
   
2. Does Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 work in RAID environments?
   Yes, Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 works with RAID. You can perform all available operations with partitions located on RAID disks without any special precautions.
   
   
3. Do I need to reboot my computer in order to perform an operation on my hard disk with Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0?
   Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 might require you to reboot your computer if the partition involved in the operation contains open files. In this case, Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 prompts you to reboot the computer after you commit the operation. Please note that the system partition (the partition the operating system files are stored on) always contains open files.
   
   
4. What happens after I reboot my computer for Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 to carry out an operation?
   After you reboot, your computer will boot into "native mode" with all the Windows drivers running, but with no applications other than Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0. You can see the progress of the program working on the screen and, after the operation is complete, the computer is booted into Windows as usual.
   
   
5. Can Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 resize a partition that contains bad blocks?
   We strongly recommend against resizing a partition that contains bad blocks, as this could lead to total data loss on this partition. Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 does not allow you to resize partitions with bad blocks. We recommend that you copy the partition to another hard disk and resize it there, where the data will be safe. This assumes, of course, that the second drive doesn't have any bad blocks.
   
   
6. Is Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 compatible with Norton GoBack?
   Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 is compatible with Norton GoBack, but you will need to disable Norton GoBack first if you want to resize a partition (running Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 either in Windows or from bootable rescue media), because Norton GoBack prohibits other applications from changing the partition table. NOTE: When you disable Norton GoBack, you will lose all past history backups and will not be able to undo the changes.
   
   
7. Does Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 allow the user to merge partitions?
   The current version of Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 does not allow the user to merge partitions. However, you can copy all the data from one partition to another, delete the first partition and increase the size of the second partition by using the free space created when you deleted the second partition. This will result in one large partition with all the data intact, as if you had merged the original partitions.
   
   
8. Does Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 allow you to change the type of a partition?
   Yes, Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 allows you to change the type of a partition. You can make a partition primary or logical, as well as active.