Beginning the Work

• Acronis Disk Director Suite Logical Organization
• Acronis Disk Director Suite Main Window
• Calling Partition Operations
• Partition Operation Properties
• Protecting Acronis Disk Director Suite With A Password
• Log view

• Choose details

Automatic partition operations

• Creating A New Partition

• Create partition method
• Hard disk drive selection
• Select unallocated space
• Partition selection
• Partition size
• Partition type
• File system
• Logical drive letter
• Partition label
• Hard disk drive structure

• Increasing partition free space

• Select partition to increase free space
• Select partitions to take free space from
• Partition size
• Hard disk drive structure

• Copying partition

• Select partition to copy
• Partition location
• Select partitions to take free space from
• Partition size
• Partition type
• File system
• Logical drive letter
• Partition label
• Hard disk drive structure

Manual partition operations

• Creating partition
• Copying a partition to unallocated disk space
• Moving a partition to unallocated disk space
• Resizing and/or moving a partition
• Splitting partitions
• Changing partition labels
• Merging partitions
• Explore partitions
• Formatting a partition
• Delete partition
• Checking hard disk partitions for errors
• Defragmenting a partition
• Wiping unallocated hard disk space
• Clearing a hard disk
• Changing partition letter
• Converting partition file system
• Copying Master Boot Record
• Hiding a partition
• Unhiding a partition
• Changing cluster size
• Changing partition type
• Setting active partition
• Resizing a root
• Resizing i-node table in Linux Ext2/Ext3

Recovering partitions

• Automatic recovery
• Manual recovery

Working with Acronis DiskEditor

• General information

• Files and partitions
• Connecting a hard disk to the computer
• Setting BIOS
• User interface
• Technical support

• Working with Acronis DiskEditor

• Partition or disk selection window
• Main window of the program
• Disk
• Edit

• Write to file
• Read from file

• Fill block window
• View
• Search
• Go to sector

• Main window view modes

• Selecting partitions (disks) for working
• Master Boot Record (MBR)
• Creating primary partition
• Formatting a partition
• Creating a logical partition
• File Allocation Table (FAT) and Root folder (Root)
• A file as a chain of clusters
• A folder in DiskEditor main window
• Files with short names
• Files with long names
• Folders and subfolders

• Appendix A. Hard disks

• Hard Disk Organization
• Installing Hard Disks on Computers
• BIOS

• Appendix B. Operating System and Hard Disks

• Hard Disk Partitions
• Creating partitions for other OSes
• Primary and Logical Partitions
• Formatting Hard Disks
• File Systems

• Appendix C. File Systems

• FAT16
• FAT32
• NTFS

• Appendix D. Glossary