Acronis Disk Director Suite brings together the most popular disk management
functions in a single suite.
- Automatically or manually resize, copy, and move partitions without losing
data
- Reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize disk space usage
- Install
multiple operating systems (OSes) on a single computer, boot an OS from
any partition on any hard disk, or have several operating systems
on the
same partition
- Edit the hard disk at the sector level manually
- Protect your data recovering
deleted or lost partitions
Partition manager: Resize, copy, and move partitions without losing your data;
Boot manager: Create dual boot and multiboot environments;
Disk editor: Edit hard disk manually;
Partition recovery: Recover lost or deleted partition.
Supported operating systems:
Windows 98 / Me / NT (including
Server) / 2000 (including Server and Advanced Server) / XP / 2003 Server. See
here the list of supported operating systems
for multibooting.
After installation Acronis Disk Director Suite lets you create a bootable
diskette or CD to manage partitions on a computer with any operating system.
Partition Manager
Dividing your hard
drive into individual partitions for your operating system, programs, data
files, music, and images provides better organization and,
most important, much better data safety in the event of a drive crash.
Acronis Disk Director Suite is the only partition manager that allows
you to automatically or manually resize, copy, and move partitions without
losing data. It also lets you reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize
disk space usage and much more.
The easiest partition software for all users
Acronis sets a new partitioning and design standards. Now non-technical PC
users can be insulated from the task using goal-oriented wizards, but experienced
users can access a wide array of advanced functions. Our exclusive product
design includes:
- Automatic and Manual operating modes for both novices and experts
- Goal-oriented,
wizard-driven automatic partitioning for non-technical users
- Fully featured
with all manual controls for the experienced user
Acronis exclusive
- Dual operating mode design
- FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS,
and Linux SWAP partition support. Special sector-by-sector support for
copying and moving partitions of any other
type.
Key features
- Resize, copy, and move partitions without losing
data*
- Create and delete partitions of any type
- Format partitions*
- Automatically optimize hard disk space usage
- Convert FAT16 <=> FAT32,
Linux Ext2 <=> Ext3 partitions without
losing data
- Change cluster size, automatically or manually
- Browse through the detailed
information about all hard disks, partitions and file systems
- Hide or make
visible partitions of any type
- Previewing changes made in partition layout
before applying them to disk
- Supports large disks
Boot Manager
Acronis Disk Director Suite includes new Acronis OS Selector,
a powerful,
reliable, and easy-to-use boot manager.
It allows you to install 100 or more operating systems (OSs) on one computer.
You can boot an OS from any partition on any hard disk or have several operating
systems on the same partition. This completely redesigned solution is now even
easier to use and faster.
Protect your data
Acronis OS Selector allows you to install separate operating systems for your
children, your work and for software tests. You can also protect OS booting
by a password.
Use your favorite old programs as well as modern environment
Your favorite games and applications don't work with Windows XP? Simply install
both XP and your old Windows version and reboot when necessary.
Try Linux or any other new OS
You have probably heard and read much about Linux, but never tried it before?
Acronis OS Selector will help you to resize your partitions, including NTFS,
and make room for Linux.
Acronis Disk Director Suite is THE BEST CHOICE if you are looking for
the fastest, easiest, most intuitive boot manager!
Disk Editor
Quite often problems can arise with hard disk drives that cannot
be solved without a technically advanced disk editor. Such problems include:
back up,
copying, and/or recovery important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or
extraction of information that was removed by accident or lost due to different
soft- and hardware failures or virus attack.
Acronis Disk Editor included into Acronis Disk Director Suite with a capability
of booting up from a diskette, and now CD and DVD, irrespective of any operating
system may become only means that can help.
Acronis Disk Director Suite allows you to back up and restore critical
hard drive sectors, edit contents of hard disk sectors, representing them in
the most convenient way. It has simple and effective user interface by means
of disk navigation and searching, saving sectors contents to files and reading
them from files.
Key features
- Allows you to edit hard disk and it's partitions
- Supports IDE, SCSI, USB,
IEEE 1394 hard disk drives.
- Works from a bootable media if PC failed to
boot.
- Hexadecimal mode of hard disk partition contents viewing as Acronis
Disk Editor's universal operating mode.
- Supports additional viewing modes
that allows you to work effectively with all disk data storage structures
like Partition tables, FAT and
NTFS partition
bootsectors, root and other FAT folders.
- Pending execution: first,
you edit sector contents and then make a decision about saving disk changes
or discarding them.
- Multiwindow operating mode: an opportunity of working
with contents of one or several disk sectors in different windows.
- Unified
Windows XP-styled graphic user interface with full mouse support.
Hard disk editing
- Supports a long list of encodings that allows you to interpret contents
of hard disk sectors correctly.
- Automatic transitions from Partition tables
to necessary disk partitions.
- Transition to necessary disk sectors according
to their absolute numbers.
- Searches disks for char or hexadecimal lines
according considering the encoding selected.
- Works with information blocks
of disk sectors.
- Saves selected blocks to files and reads an information
from files and its inserting to disk sectors.
- Provides detailed information
about computer's hard disks and their partitions.
Partition Recovery
Acronis Recovery Expert included into Acronis Disk Director
Suite completely protects your data, allowing you to recover deleted
or lost partitions. This
is the software program you must have at any time if you care about your
data safety and wish to be fully armed and ready for any personal, hard-
or software failure, virus attack or hacker's intrusive destruction.
If your PC becomes unbootable after a power outage or a system error, you
can be back up and running instantly with Acronis Recovery Expert.
Key Features
- Supported file systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Linux Ext2,
Ext3, ReiserFS, Linux Swap
- Automatic and Manual recovery mode selections
- Independent work from bootable
CDs or diskettes, enables you to recover partitions even if your operating
system fails to boot
- Supports large disks
- Windows XP-like wizard styled interface
for superior usability and ease of use
