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Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced is a powerful tool for managing disks and volumes on local and remote machines

This article applies to:

• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced

Description

With Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced you can:

• Create both basic and dynamic volumes;
• Add, remove, or break mirrored volumes. See also See also Dynamic Disk Types Support in Windows Editions;
• Copy or move a volume of one type as a volume of another type;
• Convert primary volumes to logical and vice versa;
• Repair RAID-5 volumes. See also Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server: Repairing RAID 5 Column;
• Convert basic disks to dynamic and vice versa. See Acronis Disk Director 11: Converting Basic to Dynamic Disks and Vice Versa;
• Convert GPT disks to MBR and vice versa;
• Import foreign disks - Make dynamic disks added from another machine accessible for the system;
• Changing a disk status: online to offline and vice versa;
• Disk cloning. See also Acronis Disk Director 11: Cloning Basic Disks;
• 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 - Recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks;
• Acronis Bootable Media Builder - 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 - Edit hard disk data at the sector level;
• Log - Examine information about disk and volume operations, including reasons for failure, if any.

More information

See also:

• Acronis Disk Director 11 Editions
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced: New Features
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced: System Requirements
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced: Installation
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced: Installation of a Demo Version
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced: Changing from Demo to Full Version
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation: Supported Operating Systems
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server: Supported Operating Systems
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server: Repairing RAID 5 Column
• Acronis Disk Director 11: Cloning Basic Disks
• Acronis Disk Director product line version comparison

List of known issues:

• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced: "Collect system information" Does Not Work on Windows Server 2003 x64 and Windows XP x64
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced: "Change cluster size" Is Available Only for Free Space
• Acronis Disk Director 11: Attempt to Save Log from Acronis Bootable Media with Linux-like Representation Fails
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced: Changing Drive Letter to an Existing One from Acronis Bootable Media Produces No Result
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Cannot Move a Partition if There Are Four Primary Partitions
• Acronis Disk Director 11: Newly Created Volume Displays No Label in Windows XP
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Creates New NTFS Volumes with "Full control" Security Permission
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server: Mirrored RAID Is in "Failed redundancy" in Windows Server 2003
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Throws Errors in Application Event Log (Source: SideBySide, Event ID: 33) on Windows 7/2008 R2
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced: Installation Fails on Read-Only Domain Controller