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I have many years of experience with both True Image and Disk Director and have done these exact operations hundreds of times on many various types of systems, so it’s not a user error issue.

Really need help with this one, thanks. Any help on this? I believe I may have tracked it down to Windows bitlocker on the affected drive but I’m not certain and am hesitant to disable it on this now configured system.

I’ve found cases showing a similar behavior and the resolution was to disable Bitlocker encryption prior starting operations with the drive. Please check if Bitlocker is enabled on your drives. I want to do some resizing but found out that this is unsupported by Disk Director I recently resized and moved some free space from my D drive and then added it to the end of my C drive.

However, in explorer my C drive still shows as only Gb not Gb. I was actually trying to free up 8Gb of space but the first time it didn’t work so I did it a 2nd time. Now I can see its munched up 2 x 8Gb of space on the end of the C drive that I don’t have access to. I’m doing some work migrating some old systems off XP and I have several systems that I am playing with.

For several days now, I’ve been getting the fatal error message: “Failed to obtain actual information about the disk sub system” from both Disk Director 11 Update 2 Home edition -and- Disk Director 11 Advanced Edition. I have a trial version of Disk Director 11 Home Update 2 build No functions are enabled, and all disks are greyed out and marked as Basic GPT unsupported.

I traced the problem to the Acronis Disk Management Service, which won’t start – it gives error message. Did you upgrade Acronis Disk Director 11 to If the version 11 is installed on Windows 10, it’s a compatibility issue, v11 does not support Win Authored on.

Forum Moderator. Posts: Thank you,. Dag Henrik. Comments: 2. Same problem here. George Pantazis. Hello All , So it turns out that the issue occurs on very specific environments only and there is no universal solution to fix it once and for all.

Thanks for hints panther. Hello panther , Thank you for your posting! The answer he gave was to go to ‘Disk Management’, make sure you move any files you want to keep first right click on the partition you want to merge to your main partition and click on ‘delete volume’.

After that it should be shown as ‘unallocated space’ with a black rectangle showing at the top of the box. Now go to your main partition, the one you want to merge the unallocated space to. Right click on it and choose ‘Extend Volume’. It will open a new window where you can do the merge.

That did it for me. Very simple. No messing with reboots. I have windows ’10 Home’ by the way. Hope this helps anyone stuck with this issue as I was. Authored on.

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Yep, all the problem is that the programmers are trying to confuse the enemy. That’s the catch. You have to be smart enough to understand that their program does not work the same way as before. Do not check the option for DI , but only for DD 12 and you will end with a little bootable disk for Disk Director If you would like to have a bootable disk for DI , you have to make it from the wizard from DI program. God bless America!

It is so easy. Why I spent a day of my life over such a stupidity Everybody knows that the programmers in Indonesian Jungle, who programmed DD do not have any way to communicate with the East Indian Kashmir programmers, who programmed Drive Image.

They call it Global Economy. That’s why we cannot have only one bootable disk, but we need two. Two is more than one! By using the media builder from TI, it includes both products, but DD12 shows as demo version!!!!! Any comment anyone?? D12 is indeed a license, I paid for it at the same time with my 3 licenses for TI Isn’t there anyone from Acronis to respon?

It’s pathetic. I think next time, I’ll look for some other software. I did have a problem with online backup a while back and once I got them on the case, they were very good, solved the problem and ended up treating me very fairly; I got to them via their online chat; if you go that way, do it while you have a product that’s still under warranty or else they’ll want your money;.

I tried using the Rescue Builder from both products, but I noticed outside of each folder on the menu there was also a 3rd Shortcut for Rescue Builder, and this worked. File Version: I am not sure how to download this file as a standalone, as it came bundled with one of my updates, to which product I am not sure.

I replaced the shortcuts in all the menu folders to point to this one. It works fine, I have created several boot media without issue. So that option also works, the previous version of the Rescue Builder would sometimes have problems pre-loading the MASS storage drivers. I used True Image with Disk Director This time it should work without error.

Apparently the DD Only install sets up the boot portion correctly which is not wiped out on the second run with TI included. Thank you for sharing your solution with the community! Authored on. Order Asc Desc. Date within – Any – 1 day 3 days 1 week 2 weeks 1 month 2 months 6 months 1 year.

Thread needs solution. Posts: 4. Comments: Good Day, Please Help. OS: Windows 8. Thank you Very Much, George. Mark Wharton. Forum Star. Posts: Sometimes the order of installation matters. Try reinstalling Disk Director Regular Poster. Posts: 3. To convert a primary volume to logical 1. Right-click the primary volume that you want to convert to logical, and then click Convert to logical. Click OK to add the pending primary volume to logical conversion operation.

It converts a logical volume on such disk to a primary volume. You need to convert a logical volume to primary if you want to restore the bootability of a machine whose system volume was accidentally converted to logical. If the disk contains more than one logical volume, you can convert a logical volume to primary only when there are two or less primary volumes on the disk.

You can later convert the volume back to logical—see Convert to logical p. To convert a logical volume to primary 1. Right-click the logical volume that you want to convert to primary, and then click Convert to primary.

Click OK to add the pending logical volume to primary conversion operation. For example, NTFS volumes have a partition type of 07h.

To change a partition type 1. Right-click the volume whose partition type you need to change, and then click Change partition type. Click OK to add the pending partition type changing operation. To specify the volume from which the machine will start, you need to set a volume to become active.

A disk can have only one active volume, so if you set a volume as active, the volume, which was previously active, will be automatically unset. To set a volume active 1. Right-click the primary volume you want to set as active, and then click Mark as active.

If there is no other active volume in the system, the pending volume setting active operation volume will be added. If another active volume is present in the system, you will receive a warning that the previous active volume will no longer be active. Click OK in the Warning window to add the pending volume setting active operation.

Even if you have the operating system on the new active volume, in some cases the machine will not be able to boot from it. You will have to confirm your decision to set the new volume active. Adding a mirror to a basic or simple volume means converting that volume to a mirrored volume, which involves copying the volume’s data to another disk. To add a mirror to a volume 1. Right-click the basic or simple volume to which you want to add a mirror, and then click Add mirror.

Select the disk on which you want to place the mirror. The disks that do not have enough unallocated space to create the mirror are not available for selection. If you are adding a mirror to a basic volume or are placing the mirror on a basic disk, you will receive a warning that the corresponding disk or disks will be converted to dynamic.

Click OK to add the pending addition of a mirror to the volume operation. Removing a mirror from a mirrored volume means converting that volume to a simple volume, thus losing fault tolerance. The space that was occupied by the removed mirror becomes unallocated space on the corresponding disk provided that that disk is not missing.

You cannot remove a mirror when both disks containing the mirrored volume are missing. To remove a mirror from a mirrored volume 1.

Right-click the mirrored volume from which you want to remove a mirror, and then click Remove mirror. Select the mirror that you want to remove. Note: If one of the mirrors is located on a missing disk, you can remove only that mirror. Click OK to add the pending mirror removal operation. Breaking a mirrored volume means converting its two mirrors into two independent simple volumes with initially identical content.

One of the two volumes will retain the drive letter and volume label of the mirrored volume. This operation differs from removing a mirror—see Remove mirror p. You can break a mirrored volume only when the disks containing both of its mirrors are online. To break a mirrored volume 1. Right-click the mirrored volume that you want to break, and then click Break mirror. To not assign a drive letter to the volume, click Do not assign the letter. The other mirror will be assigned the drive letter and volume label of the original mirrored volume.

Click OK to add the pending mirrored volume breaking operation. It can be especially useful in cases when a volume cannot be seen by Windows Explorer—for example, a volume with Linux file systems, or when running Acronis Disk Director from bootable media where there are no tools to view what is exactly stored on a volume.

To browse a volume’s content 1. Right-click the volume whose contents you need to browse, and then click Browse files. In the Browse window, expand the folder tree to explore files and folders on the selected volume. When you are finished with browsing, click OK. Note: The Browse window shows the real volume contents, read from the disk. If there are some operations pending, such as splitting a volume, you will not be able to explore the locked volumes until the operations are committed or canceled.

However, operations on folders in the Browse window are executed immediately. Hard disk volumes should be checked before configuring any operation on them—see Precautions p.

Acronis Disk Director does not perform the checking itself, rather it launches the Check Disk tool Chkdsk. To check a volume 1. Right-click the volume whose file system you need to check, and then click Check. To find and fix errors if any , select the Fix found errors check box. To locate bad sectors and recover readable information, select the Try to fix found bad sectors check box. Click OK to run the volume check. If the volume contains a very large number of files—for example, millions—the check can take a long time to complete.

The results of the operation will be displayed in a separate window. Note: If the volume is in use, the tool can only check it for errors, but cannot repair them. The checking and fixing of errors on this volume will be performed the next time you restart the system. Defragmentation increases the system performance by consolidating fragmented files on a volume. Fragmentation occurs when the operating system cannot allocate enough contiguous space to store a complete file as a unit and thus, writes different pieces of a file in gaps between other files.

The defragmentation rearranges pieces of each file as close together and contiguously as possible, minimizing the time required to access it. To defragment a volume 1. Right click the volume you need to defragment, and then click Defragment. In the Defragmentation window, click OK to start defragmenting the volume. Depending on the amount of fragmented files, the defragmentation may take a long time to complete.

The results will be displayed in a separate window. Smaller cluster sizes allow for more efficient storage of smaller files by reducing the amount of wasted disk space. Furthermore, larger files may become more fragmented across the volume, increasing the amount of time that is needed to access them. Bigger cluster sizes improve performance by decreasing the time to access to larger files. However, having a bigger cluster size wastes disk space if the typical size of the files stored on the volume is smaller than the cluster size.

To change cluster size 1. Right-click the volume whose cluster size you need to change, and then click Change cluster size. Select the required cluster size from the list. The default cluster size is marked in the list as default. The default cluster size depends on the volume size and the type of the file system.

Important: The program does not allow you to select a particular cluster size if, the free volume space will decrease to the point where the data will not fit on the volume. Acronis Disk Director displays warning messages, when you select such cluster sizes.

Click OK to add the pending cluster size changing operation. Right-click the volume whose file system you need to convert, and then click Change file system. Select the required file system. Click OK to add the pending file system changing operation. Hiding a volume means changing the volume type so that the operating system cannot “see” this volume.

You may want to hide a volume in order to protect information from unauthorized or casual access. Hiding a volume does not affect letters assigned to other volumes, but the hidden volume loses its letter and this letter becomes free for assignment.

Important: Hiding a volume that contains a swap file will prevent your machine from booting. Hiding a system volume or a boot volume with a currently running operating system is disabled in order to retain your machine bootability. To hide a volume 1. Right-click the volume you need to hide, and then click Hide volume. If the volume has mount points, they will be removed automatically. Click OK to add the pending volume hiding operation.

To unhide a volume 1. Right-click the hidden volume you need to unhide, and then click Unhide volume. The program automatically assigns the first vacant drive letter to this volume. Click OK to add the pending volume unhiding operation. All of a files information, with the exception of its actual name and data, is stored in the i-node.

Each file has its own i-node. Each i-node contains a file description, including number, file type, size, data block pointers, etc. Space for i-nodes is allocated when you install the operating system or when a new file system is created. The maximum number of i-nodes, and hence the maximum number of files, is set at file system creation. Running out of i-nodes prohibits the creation of additional files and directories on the volume even if there is sufficient disk space.

I-nodes themselves consume disk space, so specifying the i-node density lets you organize disk space in the optimal way. I-node density is determined by specifying the number of bytes per i-node. Usually, the default value is bytes per i-node. Important: If you change the i-node density of a boot volume the operating system will become unbootable. To restore the system bootability use a boot loader. To specify i-node density 1. In Bytes per i-node, specify the required value.

This will allocate more space for files and less for i-nodes. This will allocate more space for i-nodes and less for data. The more i-nodes there are in the file system, the less likely you will not run of i-nodes.

Click OK to add the pending i-node density changing operation. In this section Disk initialization The newly detected disks appear in the disks and volumes list as Not initialized. To initialize a disk or disks 1. Right-click the newly added disk or any of newly added disks , and then click Initialize.

In the Disk Initialization window, select the other not initialized disks if there are several , and set the disk partitioning scheme MBR or GPT and the disk type basic or dynamic for every selected disk. Click OK to add the pending disk initialization operation. After the initialization, all the disk space remains unallocated and so still impossible to be used for program installation or file storage. To be able to use it, you need to either create a new volume—see Creating a volume p.

If you decide to change the disk settings it can be done later using Acronis Disk Director The cloning operation transfers all the source disk data to a target disk. Otherwise, the machine might not be able to boot from the target disk. To clone a basic disk 1. The program displays a list of partitioned disks and asks you to select the source disk, from which data will be transferred to another disk.

In the Select a disk as target for the cloning operation window, select a basic disk as target for the cloning operation.

The program enables you to select a target disk if its size is sufficient to hold all the data from the source disk without any loss. If there is some data on the target disk, you will receive a warning stating that this data will be lost after the cloning.

So, if the target disk is the same size and even larger, it is possible to transfer all the information there exactly as it is stored at the source. When cloning to a larger target disk, the remaining space becomes unallocated.

The program will automatically increase or decrease if possible the size of the volumes with respect to the target disk size. Thus, no unallocated space appears on the target disk. Note for smaller target disks: the program analyzes the target disk to establish whether its size will be sufficient to hold all the data from the source disk without any loss. If such transfer with proportional resizing of the source disk volumes is possible, then you will be allowed to proceed.

If due to the size limitations safe transfer of all the source disk data to the target disk is impossible even with the proportional resizing of the volumes, then the Clone basic disk operation will be impossible and you will not be able to continue.

If you are about to clone a disk containing the system volume, pay attention to the Advanced options, described later in this section. Click Finish to add the pending disk cloning operation The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed. Using advanced options When cloning a disk containing the system volume, you need to retain operating system bootability on the target disk volume, by copying the original disk’s NT signature. For the operating system to remain bootable, the target disk must have the same NT signature as the source disk.

Important: Two disks with the same NT signature cannot work properly under one operating system. After cloning the disk and copying the NT signature, you should remove one of the disks from the machine. If you need to copy the NT signature: 1. Select the Copy NT signature check box. You receive the warning stating that you will have to remove one of the two hard disk drives from the machine. The Turn off the machine after the cloning operation check box is selected and disabled automatically.

Click Finish to add the pending operation. Click Commit on the toolbar and then click Proceed in the Pending Operations window. Wait until the task is finished.

Wait until the machine is turned off. Disconnect either the source or the target hard disk drive from the machine. Start up the machine. If you need to leave an NT signature: 1.

Click to clear the Copy NT signature check box, if necessary. Important: If you have a primary volume, belonging to an MBR disk, and convert the disk first to GPT and then back to MBR, the volume will be logical and will not be able to be used as a boot volume. You can convert this volume to primary, as described in Converting a logical volume to primary p.

Note: A GPT-partitioned disk reserves the space at the end of the partitioned area necessary for the backup area, which stores copies of the GPT header and the partition table. If the disk is full and the volume size cannot be automatically decreased, the conversion of the MBR disk to GPT will fail. If you plan to install an operating system that does not support GPT disks, the reverse conversion of the disk to MBR is also possible through the same menu items.

The name of the operation will be listed as Convert to MBR. However, you can perform the following conversions to reach the goal using the program: 1. MBR disk conversion: dynamic to basic using the Convert to basic operation. GPT disk conversion: basic to dynamic using the Convert to dynamic operation.

For example, if such conversion will stop the disk from being accessed by the system, the operating system will stop loading after such conversion or some volumes on the selected GPT disk will not be accessible with MBR e.

To convert a basic disk to dynamic 1. Right-click the basic disk you want to convert, and then click Convert to dynamic. You will receive a final warning about the basic disk being converted to dynamic. Click OK to add the pending basic to dynamic disk conversion operation. Note: A dynamic disk uses the last megabyte of the physical disk to store the database, including the four-level description Volume-Component-Partition-Disk for each dynamic volume.

If during the conversion to dynamic it turns out that the basic disk is full and the size of its volumes cannot be decreased automatically, the basic disk to dynamic conversion operation will fail. Should you decide to revert your dynamic disks back to basic ones—for example, if you want to start using an operating system on your machine that does not support dynamic disks—you can convert your disks using the same menu items, though the operation now will be named Convert to basic.

System disk conversion The program does not require an operating system reboot after conversion of a basic disk that contains one or more boot volumes to dynamic if: 1. The machine runs this operating system. Caution: The conversion of a disk containing boot volumes takes a certain amount of time. Any power loss, unintentional turning off of the machine or accidental pressing of the Reset button during the procedure could result in bootability loss.

For machines where more than one operating system is installed, the program ensures bootability of each of the operating systems. This operation is available only for a dynamic disk that is empty or contains only one or more simple volumes, with each simple volume occupying a single region on the disk.

These volumes will become basic volumes. To convert a dynamic disk to basic 1. Right-click the dynamic disk you need to convert, and then click Convert to basic.

You will receive a final warning about the dynamic disk being converted to basic. You will be advised about the changes that will happen to the system if the chosen disk is converted from dynamic to basic. Click OK to add the pending dynamic to basic disk conversion operation. After the conversion the last 8 MB of disk space is reserved for the future conversion of the disk from basic to dynamic.

In some cases the possible unallocated space and the proposed maximum volume size might differ for example, when the size of one mirror establishes the size of the other mirror, or the last 8 MB of disk space is reserved for the future conversion of the disk from basic to dynamic. Boot disk conversion The program does not require an operating system reboot after dynamic to basic conversion of the disk, if: 1.

The online status means that a basic or dynamic disk is accessible in the read-write mode. You may need to change an online disk to offline in order to protect it from unintentional use, for example a disk is corrupted or has bad sectors. To make a disk offline 1. Right click the online disk, and then click Change status to offline. In the appearing window, click OK to confirm the operation.

The disk you took offline also becomes Missing. To recover Mirrored volumes, you need to take the offline disk online, and then reactivate it. The offline status means that a dynamic disk is accessible in the read-only mode. You may need to change an offline disk to online to make the disk that you switched to offline previously fully accessed.

To make a disk online 1. Right click the offline disk, and then click Change status to online. If the dynamic disk has the offline status and the disk’s name is Missing, this means that the disk cannot be located or identified by the operating system. It may be corrupted, disconnected, or powered off. Normally, all dynamic disks created within the same machine and operating system are members of the same disk group. When moved to another machine, or added to another operating system on the same machine, a disk group is considered as foreign.

Foreign group disks cannot be used until they are imported into the existing disk group. A foreign group is imported as is will have the original name if no disk group exists on the machine. To access data on foreign disks, you have to add these disks to your machine’s system configuration using the Import foreign disks operation. All dynamic disks of the foreign disk group are imported at the same time, you cannot import just one dynamic disk.

To import foreign disks 1. Right-click one of the foreign disks, and then click Import foreign disks. The appearing window lists all foreign dynamic disks that were added to the machine, and displays information about volumes that will be imported.

Volume statuses lets you detect whether you are importing all the required disks of the disk group. When importing all the required disks, all their volumes have the Healthy status.

Statuses other than Healthy indicate that not all of the disks were imported. Click OK to add the pending foreign disks importing operation. The Logical Disk Manager LDM database keeps information about the missing disk because such disk might contain parts of dynamic volumes, such as mirrored volumes, that can be repaired.

If the disk can be reconnected or turned on, all you need to recover its functionality is to reactivate the disk. If the missing disk cannot be reactivated, or you would like to completely delete this disk from disk group, you can remove the disk from the LDM database. Before removing a missing disk you have to delete p. However, if the disk contains any mirrored volumes, you can save them using the Remove mirror p.

To remove a missing dynamic disk 1. Right-click the disk with the Missing status, and then click Remove missing disk. Click OK to add the pending disk removal operation. All volumes, even those spanning across other disks, are erased from the disks and the space that was occupied by these volumes becomes unallocated space. To be able to use the cleared up disk, you need to initialize it once again.

To clean up a disk 1. Right-click the disk you need to clean up, and then click Clean up disk. Click OK to add the pending disk clean up operation. Note: If you accidentally cleared an MBR disk with important data, it is still possible to recover the volumes on this disk by using Acronis Recovery Expert p.

But do not forget to initialize the disk and set MBR partitioning scheme first. After reading this section, you will have learned how to create bootable media in order to use Acronis Disk Director on bare metal or outside of an operating system, and how to recover deleted or lost volumes. In this section Acronis Bootable Media Builder You can create bootable media using Acronis Bootable Media Builder.

There are situations in which you might prefer to run Acronis Disk Director from bootable media. If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis True Image Home, installed on your machine, you can also include bootable versions of these programs on the same bootable media.

Linux-based bootable media Linux-based media contains bootable version of Acronis Disk Director based on Linux kernel. It can boot and perform operations on any PC-compatible hardware, including bare metal and machines with corrupted or non-supported file systems. Media based on WinPE allows for dynamic loading of the necessary device drivers. Bootable Media Builder can also create an ISO image of a bootable disk to burn it later on a blank disk.

In the Bootable media type, choose Linux-based. It provides access to dynamic LDM volumes. The wizard will guide you through the necessary operations. Please refer to Linux-based bootable media p. To create PE 4. Install the Microsoft. NET Framework v. Install Windows AIK from this kit. To install Windows ADK: 1.

Run the setup file and follow the wizard’s steps. Separate multiple parameters with spaces. The type of media to create. Path to the media ISO file. Kernel parameters This window lets you specify one or more parameters of the Linux kernel. They will be automatically applied when the bootable media starts. These parameters are typically used when experiencing problems while working with the bootable media.

Normally, you can leave this field empty. You can also specify any of these parameters by pressing F11 while in the boot menu. Parameters When specifying multiple parameters, separate them with spaces. You may want to use this parameter when experiencing problems with a particular hardware configuration. Without the vga parameter, the video mode is detected automatically. This parameter is implicitly specified when creating the bootable media, but you can remove this parameter while in the boot menu.

Without this parameter, all startup messages will be displayed, followed by a command prompt. USB 1. Prevents the kernel from freezing on some hardware. You may want to use this parameter if the machine has a non-standard PCI host bridge. You may want to use this parameter when the bootable media fails to start, which may be caused by the BIOS. You may want to use this parameter if the kernel is unable to allocate interrupt requests IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on the motherboard.

These calls might not work properly on some machines. But this may be the only way to get the interrupt routing table. This comes in handy when you have to add the plug-in to the previously configured PE ISO that is already in use. If you do not have such machine, prepare as described in How to create bootable media. These WnPE distributions can also work on x64 hardware. Select Bootable media type: Windows PE. Once you boot a machine into Windows PE, the drivers can help you access the device where the backup archive is located.

You will have to repeat this procedure for each driver you want to be included in the resulting WinPE boot media. Specify the full path to the resulting image file including the file name. Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed. Burn the. The difference is as follows: 1. The Check volume p. Specify the disk layout p. For bare metal, or if no Windows operating system is found, the disk layout will be used according to the bootable media environment Linux-based or Windows PE.

The Linux-based bootable media shows local disks and volumes as unmounted sda1, sda The log lifetime is limited to the current session. You can save the entire log or the filtered log entries to a file. If, for some reason, the video mode is detected incorrectly, do the following: 1. In the boot menu, press F From the list of supported video modes, choose the appropriate one by typing its number for example, , and then press ENTER.

In case your volumes are damaged and the machine fails to boot—for example, after a power outage or a system error—use the bootable version of Acronis Disk Director and run Acronis Recovery Expert. It will help you to recover boot sectors and partition tables on hard disks and make your system bootable again. The Recovery Expert first attempts to recover volumes “as is”, i. If the primary volume cannot be recovered as is, it will be recovered as logical.

Also, if the logical volume cannot be recovered as is, it will be recovered as primary. Recovering volumes in automatic mode The automatic mode is easy to use and requires minimal effort. The program will try to find and recover all the deleted volumes on all basic disks. In the Recovery mode window, choose Automatic.

In the Searching for deleted volumes window, Acronis Recovery Expert scans all the basic disks for deleted volumes. First, Acronis Recovery Expert checks your disks for unallocated space. If there is no unallocated space, you will be asked to close the Recovery Expert. If unallocated space is found, then the Recovery Expert starts searching for traces of deleted volumes. The Recovery Expert checks the beginning of each side of every cylinder of every disk for boot sectors.

A boot sector is the first sector of a volume that contains information about this volume, even after its deletion. Once a deleted volume is found, it will be displayed in the volume list. The search will, however, continue until all the remaining disks are scanned. Only after the search is completed, the Next button becomes enabled, and you can proceed to the next window. Note: you cannot select volumes to recover in the automatic mode. Acronis Recovery Expert will recover all the discovered deleted volumes.

If the search is completed with no result, you will be asked to either perform the search using the Complete method, or to finish searching and close the application. With the complete method, the program scans each sector on every hard disk. It is more thorough and may take a long time to perform. If there are no volumes found with the complete method, you will be asked to close the Recovery Expert.

The Recovered Volumes window displays the volumes to recover as a part of the hard disk volume structure. Make sure that all the required volumes are properly placed in the hard disk structure, and then click Next.

Click Proceed to start recovering the volumes. You will be able to specify the searching method, disks to search on, and volumes to recover. In the Recovery mode window, choose Manual. In the Unallocated Space Selection window, select unallocated space on basic disks where the deleted volumes used to be located. If you are not sure about the location of the deleted volumes, select all the unallocated spaces on all the basic disks.

It takes less time, and should find all deleted volumes in most cases. It is more thorough and requires much more time to perform than the Fast method.

In the Searching for deleted volumes window, Acronis Recovery Expert scans all the selected hard disk drives for deleted volumes. If no volumes are found, you will be asked to close the Recovery Expert. The program can even find and display intersected volumes, that is, volumes that were created and deleted on the disk at different times.

Moreover, every successive volume allocates space from the previously deleted volume, but not at the beginning of it. Only one of the intersected volumes can be recovered. Unlike the automatic recovery mode, you do not have to wait until the whole search is finished using the manual mode. As soon as a located volume or multiple volumes are added to the list, you can select them for immediate recovery. Selecting a volume changes its status to Undeleted and enables the Next button.

The Recovered Volumes window displays the volumes to recover as a part of the hard disk volume structure, marking them with an icon in the upper right corner of its rectangle. Make certain that all the selected volumes are properly placed in the hard disk structure, and then click Next. This program has much to offer to a computer novice as well. For example, it can be used as an educational tool.

Working with Acronis Disk Editor requires a thorough understanding of the hard disk structure, file systems, operating systems, partitioning schemes and principles of data storage organization. Complete instructions concerning the organization of data storage, and the interaction of hard disks with operating systems and applications, is not within the scope of these documentation. When editing disks and volumes, you should be certain of your actions. Also, your machine operability may be severely affected the operating system will stop loading, applications will stop running.

In this section Starting work with Acronis Disk Editor Connect the console to the machine where Acronis Disk Director Agent is installed. In the disk management area, right-click a disk or volume, and then click Edit. This will start Acronis Disk Editor, providing access to its operations. By default, the main window of the program displays the selected volume or disk in the hexadecimal Hex mode. Using controls While all the operations can be accessed from the menu, the most frequently used operations are available on the toolbar.

You can switch between various main window view modes. There are other available shortcut keys. The list of encodings is used to interpret the hard disk sector content. You can edit hard disk data directly in the fields of any view mode — see View p.

Let us consider the disk editing in the As Hex view mode. Selecting data Any view mode lets you select blocks of disk sectors with the mouse or with the keyboard. Place the mouse pointer at the necessary sector byte and drag it to create a block selection around the outside of all the bytes that you want to select. Place the cursor at the necessary sector byte. Press and hold the Shift key and use the arrow keys or Page Up and Page Down keys to create a selection.

Hint: Pressing the End key while holding the Shift selects the entire disk sector. Editing disk data Point the cursor to the block that you need to edit in the hexadecimal or character area in the main window. Then, enter the required value. In other view modes, you should edit values in the appropriate fields.

Use the Undo menu item to discard the last one or more changes. Undo all discards all the changes you made. Saving your changes The changes you made will not be applied to the given disk sector immediately. Be sure to click Save sector for changes to take effect.

Attention: After saving changes you will not be able to undo them. If you do not save your changes, you effectively reject them. If you have made changes in a hard disk sector and decide to exit the editor without saving them, you will see a warning prompting you to save your changes. Writing a block to a file Not available under Linux-based bootable media The Write to file menu item lets you to save the selected block to a file.

It is a good practice to save the selected blocks before you begin to edit them. This will help you to revert changes made to the given hard disk sectors and to restore the data. To save a disk sector block to a file 1. Select the block that you need to save, and then click Write to file. In the Write to file window, click Browse and specify the path and file name.

Click OK to save the file. Tip: You can create a selection right in the Write to file window: in the Size filed, specify the the number of bytes that will be selected from the current cursor position. To read a block from a file 1.

Place the cursor to the necessary sector byte, and click Read from file. In the Read from file window, click Browse and specify the file. The file content will be inserted to a sector from the current cursor position. You can select the appropriate view mode with the help of the View menu. Other modes that represent some kind of patterns for viewing data let you work with decoded values of bytes or groups of bytes.

You will be able to see the stages of disk data storage formation while the standard disk volume is being created and formatted and while files and folders are being created.

Additionally, in the View menu, you can hide or show the status bar and toolbar. A search line can be set both as char and as numeric hexadecimal values. During a search, you can ignore letter case as well as search for a given line at a given offset inside the sector.

The disk data is interpreted according to the encoding selected. If you selected a search mode without a matching case letter, both the case and elements above the characters will be ignored. After the search process is finished, the current position will be moved to where a line was found, or will remain the same if no lines were found. You can search for the next line by pressing the F3 key.

The transition is performed by entering an absolute sector offset, or by entering cylinder, head and sector numbers. The master boot record MBR is located in the first sector of the hard disk and stores information about the hard disk partitioning and code that is loaded with BIOS. Information stored in the MBR is crucial for the machine booting. If the MBR code is corrupted due to boot sector viruses or human error, the machine becomes unbootable and you cannot access the data stored on the hard disks.

By having the MBR code copy saved in a safe place, you will protect your machine against such disasters. Even if your machine fails to boot normally, you can boot it by using WinPE-based bootable media created with Acronis Bootable Media Builder. Thus, the machine bootability will be completely restored.

The following describes how you can save the MBR code copy and restore it in case failure. Step 1. Saving MBR 1. Place the cursor at the very beginning of the first sector byte Absolute sector 0, or in Hex. Then, hold down the Shift key and use the arrow keys to select the first bytes of the sector. This will select the MBR code and disk signature. The exact cursor position is displayed in the Position field on the status bar in the bottom-right corner of the window.

Select the Write to file item in the Edit menu. Step 2. Restoring MBR 1. Create a WinPE-based bootable media in order to be able to restore the system in case of failure. Bootable media is created with Acronis Bootable Media Builder as described in How to create bootable media. Boot the machine with the bootable media and run Acronis Disk Director. Right-click the disk whose MBR you need to restore and then click Edit.

Place the cursor at the very beginning of the first sector byte Absolute sector 0, or in Hex , and then click Read from file. The file content will be inserted into a sector from the current cursor position.

Reboot the machine. You need to copy the source disk’s MBR code, if you move the system volume from this disk to a target disk that does not have MBR or has a different loader. To copy the MBR to another disk 1. Often users forget that private information must be completely destroyed to avoid unauthorized access to it. Simply deleting an old file is not sufficient.

Windows tools do not guarantee data destruction. Deleted files can be restored easily. Formatting and even deleting a partition leaves hard disk sector contents the same. Acronis Disk Editor can be used as a simple and reliable tool for complete wiping hard disk data. To wipe disk data 1. In Acronis Disk Director, right-click the disk whose data you need to destroy, and then click Edit. Click Fill and enter the 0 zero fill value.

Click OK and then confirm the operation. Be careful! After you confirm the operation, all the disk data will be deleted completely and you will not be able to recover it unless you have backups of this disk made with Acronis disk backup and recovery solutions.

Restoring files with Acronis Disk Editor is a bit tricky and requires some hex editor working skills. To restore a file, you need to obtain some distinctive information about it from the Hex view. This information will help you to locate the file when searching for it in Hex view.

The following example describes how to restore a couple of. Prerequisites: 1. The files had been located on the volume My Data G: before it was formatted. These images were taken by the certain type of camera. Files were stored as units and they were not overwritten by another data. To restore files 1. In a file manager that supports Hex, open an existing. Our goal is to find some information that can be used to distinguish these.

Lets open a similar. As we can see in character area, this. Normally, when taking a picture the camera writes information about the manufacturer in every. This information is usually stored at the beginning of every file. Thus, by knowing how the file begins and ends plus having information about the manufacturer, we have enough information to distinguish our. In Acronis Disk Director, right-click the formatted volume G: that stored the file you need to restore, and then click Edit.

Then, select the Western Windows encoding on the toolbar. Then, enter JFIF in the search field. When this value is found, take a look at the lines below to see information about the camera manufacturer.

Once the required data is found, create a selection as follows. Select the beginning of the sector where the JFIF letter combination appears. Then hold down the Shift key and use the arrow keys or Page Up and Page Down keys to select the rest of sectors up to the end of the sector where the OLF letter combination is. Open this file in any image viewer. If you see the image, then you did everything right. If you do not see the image, make sure that you select the image data exactly as described in step 5.

To restore another. If no operating systems other than Windows are installed on your machine, the active volume is typically the same as the system volume p. If an operating system other than Windows, such as Linux, is installed on your machine, the active volume can be the volume where the program known as a boot loader, such as GRUB, is stored. The active volume is either a primary volume p. Only one volume on a disk can be active.

The active volume on a basic disk is also called the active partition. Allocation unit See Cluster p. B Bad cluster A cluster p. It is not possible to store data in or retrieve it from such cluster. Bad sector A sector p. Basic disk A disk that can be accessed by all versions of Windows, as well as by other operating systems. A basic disk can store one or more volumes p. A basic disk can be converted to a dynamic disk. Basic volume A volume on a basic disk p. A basic volume can be primary p.

Boot sector The first sector p. The boot sector must end with a hexadecimal signature of 0xAA Boot volume The volume which contains files that are necessary for a particular Windows operating system to start and work.

If only one Windows operating system is installed on your machine, the boot volume is usually the same as the system volume p. If more than one Windows operating system is installed on your machine, each of these operating systems normally has its own boot volume, whereas there is still only one system volume.

In terms of volume type, a boot volume can be a primary or logical volume on a basic disk, or a simple volume on a dynamic disk. See also system volume p. These servers with uploaded bootable components can also be thought of as a kind of bootable media.

Bootable media is most often used to create basic or dynamic volumes on bare metal. Booting The process of starting a machine when the machine is turned on or reset. When the machine boots, its hardware runs a program known as a boot loader, which in turn starts the selected operating system. A machine that cannot boot normally—for example, because a volume with the operating system is not available—is called unbootable.

Some operations, such as resizing the system volume in Windows, require rebooting the machine. C Cluster The unit of disk space allocation to store files in a file system. The typical size of a cluster is 4 KB. When formatting a volume, you can choose the cluster size for it. Smaller cluster sizes allow for more efficient storage of smaller files by reducing the amount of wasted disk space; but larger files may become more fragmented across the volume, which may increase the amount of time that is needed to access them.

A cluster is also known as an allocation unit. Physically, a cluster is one or more usually eight sectors on a disk. Cylinder A group of all tracks p. Access to the data inside one cylinder is much faster than moving the head from one cylinder to another. D Defragmentation The process of rearranging files on a volume to reduce fragmentation p. Disk A storage device, often a magnetic storage medium, which is attached to a machine. Examples of disks include hard disks and floppy disks.

Disk group A number of dynamic disks that store the common configuration data in their Logical Disk Manager LDM databases and therefore can be managed as a whole. Normally, all dynamic disks created within the same machine are members of the same disk group. The next created or imported disks are added to the same disk group. The group exists as long as at least one of its members exists. Once the last dynamic disk is disconnected or converted to basic, the group is discontinued, though its name is kept in the above registry key.

In case a dynamic disk is created or connected again, a disk group with an incremental name is created. When moved to another machine, a disk group is considered as foreign p. The import updates the configuration data on both the local and the foreign disks so that they form a single entity.

A disk has one of two types: basic disk p. Drive A physical device for accessing information on a disk p.

 

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