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Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation Advanced Server
Maximize the performance of your servers or workstations with powerful partition and hard disk drive management utilities.
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server and Advanced Workstation provide powerful partition and hard disk drive management utilities to ensure your systems are running efficiently. Built upon award-winning technologies from Acronis, the products minimize downtime for maintenance and provide maximum server performance of your mission critical applications. Dynamically split, merge, resize, copy and move partitions within Windows, minimizing downtime. Perform advanced hard disk drive editing tasks, such as recovering important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or extract information that was lost due to different soft- and hardware failures or virus attack. All actions are put in a pending state until the servers are rebooted. Thus, you can make changes to servers during business hours and wait until after-hours to commit changes, minimizing user disruption. Moreover, these products are ideal companions to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10. Use Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server and Advanced Workstation to manage volumes and maximize system performance, such as freeing up unused free space from one partition and transferring to another. Then, use Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 to backup an entire server or workstation, enabling recovery in minutes without any reinstallation of the applications, operating systems and server or workstation configurations. Main Features
New! Windows 7 and Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 support Resize, move, copy, split, and merge volumes without losing your data Create, convert, copy and move volumes New! Dynamic Disk Support* New! GPT disk support New! Add or break mirrored volumes* New! Span volume across multiple physical disks New! Convert basic disk to GPT and vice versa Boot from CD/DVD or USB stick New! Clone disk to a replacement HDD Recover lost or deleted partitions No reboot during installation Works with Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 New! Repair RAID-5 column New! Remote management New! WinPE media
(*) for supported operating systems
View and manage disk properties

Feature

New! Manage all disks and volumes with extreme flexibility New! Dynamic Disk Support* New! GPT disk support New! Add, remove or break mirrored volumes* New! Span volume across multiple physical disks Ease of Use Command Line Interface Remote Management New! Convert basic disks to Dynamic Disks and vice versa New! Convert MBR disks to GPT and vice versa Boot from CD/DVD or USB stick New! Clone disks to a replacement HDD Disk Editor Recover lost or deleted partitions * For operating systems that support this feature

Description

Carry out a vast array of disk and volume management operations: Resize, move, copy, split and merge volumes without data loss or destruction Format and label volumes, assign volume letters and set volumes active Spread volumes over several disks Use with GPT disks to create volumes over 2TB and get additional disk reliability against possible data damage Make your basic or simple volume fault-tolerant in just one action by adding a mirror. If you need extra unallocated space on a disk containing one of the mirrors, remove a mirror Optimize your system by combining free space on different hard disk drives and get larger volume Intuitive interface and wizards guide you to get the most out of your system Create scripts for application tasks Powerful and easy-to-use tool for managing disks and volumes on local and remote machines Convert existing basic disks to Dynamic Disks to achieve additional disk reliability for data storage Why would you need to convert an MBR disk to a GPT basic disk? If you need to make a volume who size is over 2TB If you need more than four primary volumes on one disk Boot from a CD/DVD or USB stick and manage all your volumes The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without reinstalling operating systems and applications Edit disk at the sector level Acronis Recovery Expert helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks

Supported Operating Systems
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 (all editions, including SBS) Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 (all editions, including SBS)

Supported File Systems

FAT16, FAT32, NTFS Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS3, Linux SWAP Special sector-by-sector support for copying and moving partitions of any other type
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation Windows XP (all editions) Windows Vista (all editions) Windows 7 (all editions)

Hardware Requirements

Boot Firmware Computer Processor System memory Screen Resolution Installation Disk Space Other hardware

Minimum Requirements

Bios-based** Modern processor, 800MHz or faster 512MB 800x600 pixels 2GB Mouse

Recommended

1GHz 32-bit or 64-bit X86 processor 1GB or more 1024x768 or higher
CD/DVD recording drive, or a flash drive, for bootable media creation
** Machines that are based on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) are not supported
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* For the operating systems that support such functionality.
Acronis Disk Director components
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Management Console Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Agent for Windows
The management console is an administrative tool for remote or local access to Acronis agents.
The agent provides disk management functionality such as, creating, resizing and merging volumes, cloning disks, converting disks, changing a disk partitioning style between MBR and GPT or changing a disk label, etc. These operations can be performed either in the operating system or using bootable media.
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Bootable Media Builder
The Bootable Media Builder is a dedicated tool for creating bootable media (p. 82). The media builder can create bootable media based on either Windows Preinstallation Environment, or Linux kernel.

Installation and upgrade

This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation and guides you through the installation and upgrade of Acronis Disk Director.
Before installation... 9 Installation.... 10 Upgrading Acronis Disk Director.. 12 Uninstalling Acronis Disk Director.. 13 Technical Support... 14

In this section

Before installation

System requirements

Memory (above the OS and running applications) 300 MB 120 MB 80 MB Disk space required during installation or update 2 GB 500 MB 700 MB Disk space occupied Additional by the component(s) 1.01 GB 260 MB 350 MB BIOS-based* CD-RW or DVD-RW drive Screen resolution 1024*768 pixels or higher
This section answers questions that might arise before the product installation.

Component

Complete installation Agent for Windows Bootable Media Builder

Management Console

700 MB

400 MB

* Machines that are based on Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) are not supported.

Bootable media

Media type Based on Windows PE Linux-based Memory 512 MB 256 MB ISO image size 300 MB 130 MB
Supported operating systems
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Agent for Windows
Windows XP Home Editions/XP Professional SP2+ Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Windows Vista - all editions Windows 7 - all editions Windows XP Home Editions/XP Professional SP2+ Windows Server 2003/Server 2008 Windows SBS 2003/SBS 2008 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Server 2003/2008 x64 Editions Windows Vista - all editions Windows 7 - all editions
Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Management Console
FAT16 FAT32 NTFS Ext2 Ext3 Reiser3

To upgrade from the demo version to the full product, you do not need to re-download the software.
To upgrade from demo to full product version
1. Connect the console to the machine and click Help > Change license. 2. Enter the full license key.
Upgrading from previous product versions

Preparation

If the languages of the two products are different, uninstall Acronis Disk Director 10 before installing Acronis Disk Director 11. Otherwise, the installation will fail.
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The procedures below assume that you have an upgrade license key, but you can also use these procedures if you have a full license key.
Upgrading Acronis Disk Director 10 Suite to Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation
Before proceeding with the upgrade, make sure that:
You have the license key for Acronis Disk Director 10 Suite. You have a full or upgrade license key for Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation. The upgrade procedure
1. 2. 3. 4. Log on as an administrator to the machine where Acronis Disk Director 10 Suite is installed. Start the Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced setup program. Click Install Acronis Disk Director. For the upgrade license key: Specify the upgrade license key and the license key for Acronis Disk Director 10 Suite. For the full license key: specify only the key for Acronis Disk Director 11 Workstation. 5. Follow the on-screen instructions as described in Installation procedure (p. 11). Result: Acronis Disk Director 10 Suite is replaced with Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation.
Uninstalling Acronis Disk Director
The uninstallation removes Acronis Disk Director 11 components from the machine. You can remove the components in using any of the following ways: From the Start menu. In this case, all the components of Acronis Disk Director will be uninstalled at once.
Acronis Disk Director setup program - lets you uninstall individual components. To uninstall all components of Acronis Disk Director
1. Log on as an administrator to the machine, where Acronis Disk Director components are installed. 2. Select Start -> All Programs -> Acronis -> Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced -> Uninstall Disk Director 11 Advanced. 3. Click Remove. 4. Proceed with uninstallation. Result: All the installed components of Acronis Disk Director will be removed from the machine.

To uninstall individual components of Acronis Disk Director
1. Log on as an administrator to the machine, where Acronis Disk Director components are installed. 2. Start the Acronis Disk Director setup program. 3. Click Install Acronis Disk Director. 4. Click Modify. 5. Clear the check boxes next to the names of the components that you want to uninstall. 6. Proceed with uninstallation.
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Result: The individual components of Acronis Disk Director will be removed from the machine.

Technical Support

Maintenance and Support Program
If you need assistance with your Acronis product, please go to http://www.acronis.eu/support/

Product Updates

You can download the latest updates for all your registered Acronis software products from our website at any time after logging into your Account (https://www.acronis.eu/my) and registering the product. See Registering Acronis Products at the Website (http://kb.acronis.com/content/4834) and Acronis Website User Guide (http://kb.acronis.com/content/8128).

Basic concepts

This section gives you a clear understanding of basic and dynamic disks and volume types. After reading this section, you will know the advantages and limitations of each possible volume configuration. In addition, you will be able to decide what types of disks and volumes best suit your needs for organizing data storage.
Basic and dynamic disks... 15 Types of basic volumes... 16 Types of dynamic volumes... 16 Active, system, and boot volumes... 17 Dynamic volume types support... 18 Volume alignment in disks with a 4-KB sector size.. 18

Basic and dynamic disks

Each disk on your machine can be one of two types: basic or dynamic.

Basic disks

This is the type of disk that most computers originally have. Basic disks can normally be used by any operating system, including any version of Windows. A basic disk can store one or more volumescalled basic volumes. A basic volume cannot occupy more than one disk. When to use basic disks:

To find out more information about disk statuses, please refer to the Volume status descriptions article on the Microsoft website.
Important! For instructions explaining how to repair volumes with erroneous statuses, please refer to the Troubleshooting Disk Management article on the Microsoft website.

"Tasks" view

The Tasks view lets you monitor the currently running operation progress and examine operations existing on the machine. To find out what an operation is currently doing on a machine, check the task execution state (p. 28). The status (p. 29) of a task helps you to estimate whether the operation is successfully accomplished. To learn more about task states and statuses, see the Task states (p. 28) and Task statuses (p. 29) sections.
Way of working with tasks
Use the filtering and sorting capabilities to display the desired tasks in the table. Select a task to take an action on it.

Actions on tasks

The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with tasks.
To View a task's log Do Click View log.
The Log view will display a list of the log entries related to the selected task. View details of a task Click View details. In the Tasks details window, examine all information related to the selected task.

Stop a task

Stopping the task aborts the running operation. The task enters the "Stopping" state first, then becomes "Idle". Attention: Stopping the partitioning operation can easily violate a disks information integrity by making data inaccessible. Also, your machine operability may be severely affected (the operating system will stop loading, applications will stop running). Delete a task Refresh tasks table Click Click Delete. Refresh.
The management console will update the list of tasks existing on the machine with the most recent information. The data may not be retrieved immediately from the managed machine due to some latency. Manual refresh guarantees that the most recent data is displayed.
Filtering and sorting tasks
Use the filtering and sorting capabilities to display the desired tasks in the table. The following is a guideline for you to filter and sort tasks.

To Sort tasks by column Do Click the column's header to sort the tasks in ascending order. Click it once again to sort the tasks in descending order. Filter tasks by name, or owner. Type the task's name (owner name) in the field below the corresponding column header. As a result you will see the list of tasks, whose names (owner names) fully or just partly coincide with the entered value. Filter tasks by execution state, status, last result. In a field below the corresponding header, select the required value from the list.

Configuring tasks table

If required, you can hide the shown columns and show the hidden ones.

To show or hide columns

1. Right-click any column header to open the context menu. The menu items that are ticked off correspond to the column headers presented in the table. 2. Click the items you want to be displayed/hidden.

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Task states
A task can be in one of the following states: Idle, Running, Need interaction, Stopping. Idle. The initial task state. Running. Once the operation is committed the task enters either the Running state. Need interaction. Any running task can put itself into the Need interaction state when it needs human interaction such as changing media or ignoring a read error. The next state may be Stopping
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(if the user chooses to stop the task) or Running (on selecting Ignore/Retry or another action, such as Reboot, that can put the task to the Running state.) Stopping. The user can stop a running task or a task that needs interaction. The task changes to the Stopping state and then to the Idle state.

5.4.2.2

Task statuses
A task can have one of the following statuses: Error; Warning; OK. A task status is derived from the result of the last run of the task.
Status Error How it is determined Last result is "Failed" How to handle Identify the failed task -> Check the task log to find out the reason of the failure and then remove the reason > [optionally] Create another disk management operation. View the log to read the warnings -> [optionally] Perform actions to prevent the future warnings or failure. No action is required. The "-" state means that the task has never been started or has been started, but has not finished yet and so its result is not available.

Warning

Last result is "Succeeded with warning" Last result is "Succeeded", "-", or "Stopped"

"Log" view

The Log stores the history of operations performed on the machine using Acronis Disk Director. For instance, when you create a new volume, the respective entry is added to the log. With the log, you can examine information about disk and volume operations, including reasons any for failures. Physically, a log is a collection of XML files stored on the machine. Operations performed using bootable media are logged as well, but the logs lifetime is limited to a current session. Rebooting eliminates the log, but you can save the log to a file while the machine is booted with the media.

Collecting system information
The system information collection tool gathers system information about the machine and saves it to a file. You may want to provide this file when contacting Acronis technical support.
To collect system information
1. Select Help -> About -> Collect system information from the top menu. 2. Specify where to save the file with system information.

How to

How to create a volume that spans across several disks? Create a dynamic volume (spanned or striped) by using the Create volume (p. 35) wizard. How to increase a volume size at the expense of other volumes' unallocated space? Resize (p. 37) the volume. How to merge two volumes without losing your data? Use the Merge (p. 40) operation. How to make the existing volume fault-tolerant? Add a mirror (p. 46) to this volume. How to recover an accidentally deleted basic volume that has important data? Use the Recovery Expert (p. 69) tool. How to replace a hard disk without reinstalling the operating system and applications? Use the Clone (p. 54) operation. How to move dynamic disks from one system to another? Use the Import foreign disks (p. 59) operation. How to get quick access to the data stored on a Linux volume under Windows? Use the Browse files (p. 48) operation. How to place files from a Linux volume into a folder on a Windows volume? Use the Merge (p. 40) operation, selecting the Windows volume as the main volume. How to erase all information on the volume? Use the Format (p. 41) operation. How to increase the system performance? Use the Defragmentation (p. 49) operation. How to verify the logical integrity of a file system on a volume and repair any errors found? Use the Check (p. 48) operation. How to explore data stored on a volume before performing any operation? Use the Browse files (p. 48) operation. How to hide the volume in order to protect its information from unauthorized or casual access? Use the Hide volume (p. 50) operation.
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How to work with hard disk drives that use 4-KB sector size? Follow the guidelines described in the Volume alignment in disks having a 4-KB sector size (p. 18) section. How to save, copy and restore the MBR? Read the Usage examples (p. 74) section of Acronis Disk Editor. How to change the volume's cluster size? Use the Change cluster size (p. 49) operation. How clean up the disk? Use the Clean up disk (p. 60) operation.

Note: You cannot create a basic volume on a disk that already has four primary volumes; you first need to convert one of those volumes to logicalsee Converting a primary volume to logical (p. 44). This restriction does not apply to GPT disks.
If the new volume is simple or spanned, select one or more disks. If the new volume is striped, select two or more disks. If the new volume is mirrored, select two disks. If the new volume is RAID-5, select three disks.
Note for striped, mirrored, and RAID-5 volumes: Because these volumes occupy space on their disks in equal parts, the maximum size of such volume will depend on the selected disk with the least amount of unallocated space.
When creating a dynamic volume and selecting one or several basic disks as its destination, the selected disks will be converted to dynamic automatically. 4. Specify the size of the new volume. By default, the volume size is set to maximum. To specify a different size, move the slider or enter the required value into the Volume size field. If the disk still has unallocated space after you have set the size of the volume, you can set the amount of unallocated space before and after the basic volume. To do this, drag the volume within the unallocated space, or type the required amount of space before and after the volume in the respective fields. In the volume layout diagram at the bottom of the window, you can specify the space that the volume will occupy on each of the selected disks, by typing the amounts or by dragging the sliders. 5. Specify the following options of the new volume:
File system (by default, NTFS). Some of the supported file systems (p. 10) will be disabled depending on the chosen volume type and sizefor example, FAT32 will be disabled if the volume size has been set at more than 2 TB. Cluster size. Select the cluster sizethe smallest amount of disk space which will be allocated to store a file. We recommend leaving the default size, which is marked in the list as (default). The default cluster size depends on the volume size and the type of the file systemfor example, the default cluster size for up to 2-TB NTFS volumes is 4 KB. Volume label (by default, NONE). A short name that you can assign to a volume to better differentiate it from other volumes. The maximum length of a volume label depends on the volumes file systemsee Changing a volume label (p. 43).

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.
Note: By setting the new volume active, the former active volume letter might be changed and some of the installed programs might stop running.
2. 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.

6.15 Adding a mirror

Mirrored volumes provide fault tolerance by storing two exact copies of datacalled mirrorson two different disks. 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. 2. 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. 3. Click OK to add the pending addition of a mirror to the volume operation. The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed.
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Important! If this operation was performed with machine rebooting or by using bootable media, the dynamic volume will get the Failed redundancy status after booting into any edition of Windows 2003. To repair the dynamic volume, reactivate the underlying disks by using Windows Disk Management functionality see the Troubleshooting Disk Management article on the Microsoft Web site.

6.16 Removing a mirror

Mirrored volumes provide fault tolerance by storing two exact copies of datacalled mirrorson two different disks. 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 may want to remove a mirror in the following cases:
When you need extra unallocated space on a disk containing one of the mirrors, at the expense of losing fault tolerance When a disk containing one of the mirrors becomes missingfor example, after you replaced a failed hard disk drive with a new one

All volumes of the disk will be logical Boot volumes (if any) will be unbootable until you convert them to primary volumessee Converting a logical volume to primary (p. 45)
Volumes that allocate more than 2 TB from the beginning of the disk become inaccessible To convert a GPT disk to MBR
1. Right-click the GPT disk you need to convert to MBR, and then click Convert to MBR. A warning window will pop up, stating that you are about to convert GPT into MBR. You will be explained the changes that will happen to the system after the chosen disk is converted from GPT to MBR. 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.g. volumes that allocate more than 2 TB), you will be warned here about such implications. 2. Click OK to add the pending GPT to MBR disk conversion operation. The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed.
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Disk conversion: basic to dynamic
You would want to convert a basic disk to dynamic in the following cases:
If you plan to use the disk as part of a dynamic disk group If you want to achieve additional disk reliability for data storage. 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. 2. 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.
The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed. To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 24). Exiting the program without committing the pending operations will effectively cancel them. Should you decide to revert your dynamic disks back to basic onesfor example, if you want to start using an operating system on your machine that does not support dynamic disksyou can convert your disks using the same menu items, though the operation now will be named Convert to basic.

Before removing a missing disk you have to delete (p. 42) all the volumes on the disk. However, if the disk contains any mirrored volumes, you can save them using the Remove mirror (p. 47) operation, instead of deleting the entire volume.
To remove a missing dynamic disk
1. Right-click the disk with the Missing status, and then click Remove missing disk. 2. Click OK to add the pending disk removal operation. The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed. To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 24). Exiting the program without committing the pending operations will effectively cancel them.

7.11 Cleaning up a disk

This operation erases all volumes and data on a disk, making it not initialized. 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 (p. 53) it once again.

To clean up a disk

1. Right-click the disk you need to clean up, and then click Clean up disk. 2. Click OK to add the pending disk clean up operation. The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been performed.
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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. 69). But do not forget to initialize the disk and set MBR partitioning scheme first.
This section describes Acronis Bootable Media Builder and Acronis Recovery Expert tools. 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.
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Start the Bootable Media Builder either from the management console, by selecting Tools > Create Bootable Media or, as a separate component. 1. In the Bootable media type, choose Linux-based. 2. Select the way volumes and network resources will be handledcalled the media style:
A media with Linux-like style volume handling displays the volumes as, for example, hda1 and sdb2. It tries to reconstruct MD devices and logical (LVM) volumes before starting a recovery.
A media with Windows-like style volume handling displays the volumes as, for example, C: and D:. It provides access to dynamic (LDM) volumes. 3. The wizard will guide you through the necessary operations. Please refer to Linux-based bootable media (p. 64) for details.
Acronis Plug-in for WinPE can be added to WinPE distributions based on any of the following kernels:
Windows Vista (PE 2.0) Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (PE 2.1) Windows 7 (PE 3.0)
To be able to create or modify PE 2.x or 3.0 images, install Bootable Media Builder on a machine where Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) is installed. The remaining operations are described in the Adding the Acronis Plug-in to WinPE 2.x or 3.0 (p. 66) section. If you do not have a machine with WAIK, prepare as follows: 1. Download and install Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK).
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2. 3. 4. 5.

Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista (PE 2.0): http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C7D4BC6D-15F3-4284-9123679830D629F2&displaylang=en Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (PE 2.1): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=94bb6e34-d890-4932-81a55b50c657de08&DisplayLang=en Automated Installation Kit (AIK) for Windows 7 (PE 3.0): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=696DD665-9F76-4177-A81139C26D3B3B34&displaylang=en [optional] Burn the WAIK to DVD or copy to a flash drive. Install the Microsoft.NET Framework v.2.0 from this kit (NETFXx86 or NETFXx64, depending on your hardware.) Install Microsoft Core XML (MSXML) 5.0 or 6.0 Parser from this kit. Install Windows AIK from this kit.
It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the help documentation supplied with Windows AIK. To access the documentation, select Microsoft Windows AIK > Documentation from the start menu.

8.1.1.1

When using the media builder, you have to specify:
[optional] The parameters of the Linux kernel. Separate multiple parameters with spaces. For example, to be able to select a display mode for the bootable Acronis Disk Director each time the media starts, type: vga=ask For a list of parameters, see Kernel parameters (p. 65). 2. The Acronis bootable components to be placed on the media: Acronis Disk Director Bootable version of the product that has almost the same functionality as in the Acronis Disk Director for Windows operating systems see Working under bootable media (p. 67) for details. 3. [optional] The timeout interval for the boot menu plus the component that will automatically start on timeout.

Specifies the hard disk IDs on which the operation will be executed (separated by commas).
[/type:"<Primary|Logical|Simple|Spanned|Stripe|Mirror|RAID5|Active>"]
Specifies the type of the volume. If not specified, an active volume is created on the first hard disk and logic partitions on other disks.
[/start:<megabytes>]
Specifies the volume offset, i.e. the amount of disk space before the volume from the beginning of the disk (in megabytes). If not specified, the volume is created without offset.
[/size:<megabytes>]
Specifies the volume size (in megabytes). If not specified, the volume occupies all the specified disks.
[/fs:"<None|NTFS|FAT16|FAT32|EXT2|EXT3|ReiserFS|Linux Swap>"]
Specifies the file system type for the volume. If not specified, the volume is not formatted.
[/clustersize:<bytes>]
Specifies the volume cluster size (in bytes). If not specified, the default value for the selected file system type is used.
[/label:"<string>"]
Specifies the volume label. The maximum length of a volume label depends on the volumes file system. For example, it is 32 characters for the NTFS file system, 11 characters for the FAT16 and FAT32 file systems, and 16 characters for the ext2 and ext3 file systems. If not specified, the volume will have no label.
[/letter:"<char>"]
Specifies the volume drive letter. If not specified, the volume will have no drive letter.

[/reboot]

Reboots the machine. If not used, the machine will not be rebooted.

resize

Resizes the existing volume. Options
Specifies the ID of the operating system layout under which the operation will be executed. If not specified, the operation will be executing under the currently running operating system.

/volume:<id>

Specifies the volume ID.
Specifies the volume offset, i.e. the amount of unallocated space before the volume (in megabytes). If not specified, the volume is resized without offset.

delete

Deletes the existing volume. Options
Specifies the ID of the operating system layout under which the operation will be executed. If not specified, the operation is executed under the currently running operating system.

initialize

Initializes not initialized disks.
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Options

Specifies the hard disk IDs, on which the operation will be executed (separated by commas).
[/ps:"<MBR|GPT>"]
Specifies the disk partitioning scheme MBR or GPT. If not specified, the MBR partitioning scheme is used.

Volume label

An optional name that can be assigned to a volume (p. 92) to simplify its identification by the user. The length of a volume label depends on the volumes file system (p. 86). For example, the NTFS file system allows volume labels of up to 32 characters. Some file systems, such as FAT16 and FAT32, do not allow certain characters in a volume labelfor example, a colon (:) or a quotation mark (").

Volume letter

A letter, such as C, that a Windows operating system assigns to a volume to locate files and folders that are stored on it.
A volume letter is usually assigned when you format the volume. It can be assigned, changed, or removed later without affecting the volumes data. A volume letter is also called a drive letter.

Volume type

The type of volume, which is determined by the volume structure and by the type of disk on which the volume resides. The following is the list of volume types with short descriptions:
Basic volume (p. 81): A volume on a basic disk. Can be one of the following types:
Primary volume (p. 90): Can store information needed to start the machine or an operating system Logical volume (p. 87): Usually stores user files and operation system data
Dynamic volume (p. 85): A volume on one or more dynamic disks. Can be one of the following types:
Simple volume (p. 90): Occupies a single disk. Spanned volume (p. 90): Occupies two or more disks in arbitrarily-sized portions. Striped volume (p. 91): Occupies two or more disks in equally-sized portions. Can provide faster data access. Mirrored volume (p. 89): Occupies two disks in two identical portions (mirrors). Faulttolerant. RAID-5 volume: Occupies three or more disks in equally-sized portions. Fault-tolerant.