11584: Acronis Disk Director 11 Home: Acronis OS Selector Does Not Support Dynamic Disks

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Last update: 01-07-2010

Acronis OS Selector does not support dynamic disks

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  • Acronis Disk Director 11 Home: Acronis OS Selector

Description

Acronis OS Selector does not support dynamic disks.

An attempt to install Acronis OS Selector on a dynamic disk will result in the following message:

W000101F4: Acronis OS Selector has detected unsupported hard disk
drives. Acronis OS Selector does not support Windows Dynamic DIsks,
EZ-Drives, etc

Acronis OS Selector can only be installed on a basic disk.

More information

Acronis OS Selector support for dynamic disks will not be implemented in Acronis Disk Director 11 Home.

See also Acronis Disk Director 11 Home: Installation of Acronis OS Selector.

You can read more about dynamic disks in Microsoft TechNet Article: Dynamic disks and volume.

You can use Windows Disk Management to see if you have basic or dynamic disks:

  1. Hit Start-Run and type in diskmgmt.msc

  2. Check whether the disk type is basic or dynamic:

       

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