User manual ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SUITE 10.0

[. . . ] Acronis Disk Director Suite 10. 0 User's guide www. acronis. com Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2007. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] Note that the Advanced Hide sidebar item is changed to Advanced Unhide after you select a hidden partition from the list. Hiding a partition in Windows 98/Me can change the order of letters assigned to other partitions. In Windows NT/2000/XP, hiding a partition does not affect letters assigned to other partitions. A detailed discussion of partition letter assignment rules for various operating systems appears in 3. 1 «Creating A New Partition». 4. 2. 4 Unhiding a partition Unhiding a partition is performed so an operating system can "see" the partition, assign it a letter and provide access to its files. Select a disk and partition to unhide from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. Select Disk Advanced Unhide or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or Unhide the selected partition on the toolbar (or select it from partition or click the graphical representation context menu). 60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2007 Manual Partition Operations 3. By clicking OK in the Unhide Partition window, you'll add the pending operation to partition unhiding (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation, See 2. 4. 5 «Modifying pending operations»). Unhide partition window The partition Hid label will disappear from the Flags field. Note that the Advanced Unhide sidebar item is changed to Advanced Hide after you select a hidden partition from the list. If you unhide the only primary partition on a disk, it will be set active. Unhiding a partition in Windows 98/Me can change the order of letters assigned to other partitions. A detailed discussion of partition letter assignment rules for various operating systems appears in 3. 1 «Creating A New Partition». 4. 2. 5 Setting active partition If you have several primary partitions, you must specify one to be the boot partition. Select a primary partition to set to active from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. Select Disk Advanced Set Active or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, Set the selected partition as active on the toolbar (or select it from or click partition or the graphical representation context menu). Set Active Partition Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2007 61 Manual Partition Operations 3. By clicking OK in the Set Active Partition window, you'll add the pending operation of setting active partition (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation. See 2. 4. 5 «Modifying pending operations»). The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. The primary partition is also marked Pri, so the Flags field will contain Pri, Act. Before you make a partition active, you must make sure it is formatted and contains an operating system. If you set a partition to active and there was another active partition on a disk, it will be unset automatically. Setting an active partition in Windows 98/Me can change the order of letters assigned to other partitions. A detailed discussion of partition letter assignment rules for various operating systems appears in 3. 1 «Creating A New Partition». 4. 2. 6 Resizing a root Unlike all others, the FAT16 root is located in a special place and has a limited size (512 elements after standard formatting). Acronis Disk Director Suite lets you change the root size of existing partitions. Select a disk and FAT16 partition from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. Select Disk Advanced Resize Root or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar Change the number of files that can be located in the root of the list, or click selected partition on the toolbar (or select it from partition or the graphical representation context menu). If you select a partition with another file system, mentioned sidebar and context menu items will not be available. 3. Enter the new root size (a number of elements) in the Resize Root window. Resize FAT16 root window 62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2007 Manual Partition Operations FAT16 can contain a maximum of 65, 520 elements. 4. By clicking OK, you'll add the pending operation of FAT16 partition root resizing (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation. Changing cluster size 4. 2. 7 Smaller clusters (see Appendix C «Glossary» -- «Cluster») might significantly reduce disk space losses because any file occupies at least one cluster/block. Disk space losses, depending on cluster size, are shown in Appendix A (see A. 9. 2 «FAT16» -- Table 3). However, reducing FAT32 partition cluster size might increase the space occupied by the file allocation table (FAT) and slow down file access. Select a disk and partition from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. [. . . ] Some partition management software and boot managers allow for the hiding of partitions. Partitioning is usually done with programs such as FDISK -- a component of DOS and Windows. Disk Administrator completely replaces FDISK where functionality is concerned and allows performance of many additional useful operations. All the partitions on a hard disk make a tree with the root in the MBR partition table. [. . . ]