User manual ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SUITE 9.0

[. . . ] Acronis Disk Director Suite 9. 0 User's guide Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2005. 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. [. . . ] Hiding a swap file partition in Windows NT/2000/XP will produce a similar result. If you have several primary partitions with different operating systems, hiding an active system partition will automatically make another partition active. 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 95/98/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 partition files. If you need to unhide a partition: 58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2005 Manual Partition Operations 1. 2. Select a disk and partition to unhide from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. Execute operation of partition unhiding by selecting Disk Advanced Unhide or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or by clicking Unhide the selected partition on the toolbar (or selecting it from partition or the graphical representation context menu). 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. Hiding a partition in Windows 95/98/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. Execute operation of setting active partition by selecting Disk Advanced Set Active or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or by clicking Set the selected partition as active on the toolbar (or selecting it from partition or the graphical representation context menu). Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2005 59 Manual Partition Operations Set Active Partition 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. 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 95/98/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. Execute operation of FAT16 partition root resizing by selecting Disk Advanced Resize Root or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or Change the number of files that can be located in the root of by clicking the selected partition on the toolbar (or selecting 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. 60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2005 Manual Partition Operations 3. Enter the new root size (a number of elements) in the Resize Root window. Resize FAT16 root window 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 related to the fact that any file occupies at least one cluster/block. [. . . ] A partition can be either primary or logical, depending on its position in the partition structure. 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. [. . . ]