This all-in-one solution for disk management and partitioning combines a number of previous Acronis^® disk and partition management tools, such as Partition Manager for creating partitions of any type; plus, resizing, moving, copying, splitting and merging your volumes, while leaving your data intact.

With its superior power, flexibility and ease of use, Acronis Disk Director 11 Home is the right choice for anyone who needs to perform advanced operations over disk layouts in order to get the most out of their PC

• Home and Small Offices
• Advanced users
• Users looking for disk management and partition

Efficiency: Reorganize your PC for better performance and data safety

Flexibility: Resize, copy, move, split and merge partitions without losing your data

Powerful: Optimized to offer the best Windows^® 7 performance

Ease of Use: User friendly interface and wizards guide you to a new way of data management

• Full Windows 7 Support
• Dynamic Disk support (*): Dynamic Disks provide greater functionality - volumes can be spread over several disks
• GPT disk support: GPT disk allow you to create volumes over 2TB and get additional disk reliability against possible data damage
• Add or break mirrored volumes (*): 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 the mirror
• Span volume across multiple physical disks: Optimize your system by combining free space on different hard disk drives and get larger volumes
• Convert basic disk to dynamic and vice versa: Convert the existing basic disks to dynamic to achieve additional disk reliability for data storage
• Convert MBR disk to GPT and vice versa: Why you would need to convert MBR to GPT basic disk:
  • If you need to make a volume whose size is over 2 TB
  • If you need more than four primary volumes on one disk
• Clone disk to a replacement HDD: The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without reinstalling operating systems and applications

* For supported operating systems

Manage all your disks and volumes with extreme flexibility

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 volumes letters and set volumes active

Install Multiple operating systems on a PC

Try new operating systems without impacting your current system with Acronis OS Selector

Ease-of-use

User friendly interface and wizards guide you in order to get the most out of your PC

Recover lost or deleted partitions

Acronis^® Recovery Expert helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks

Boot from CD/DVD or USB stick

Boot your PC from CD or USB stick and manage all your volumes

Please refer to the Version Comparison page.

• English
• French
• German

The following languages will be available in an upcoming release:

• Czech
• Dutch
• Italian
• Japanese
• Polish
• Russian

• Windows 7 (all editions)
• Windows Vista (all editions)
• Windows XP (all editions)

Boot firmware - Bios-based**

Computer processor - Modern processor, 800Mhz or faster

System memory - 256MB

Screen resolution - 800x600 pixels

Installation disk space - 150MB

Other Hardware – Mouse

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

You are allowed to install and use Acronis Disk Director 11 Home on one PC

Register your Acronis Disk Director 11 Home is fast and simple. Once your copy is registered you can take advantage of the following benefits:

• Free post-sales technical support - Included for the first 30 days. Help is available via email and chat 24x7
• A secure place to archive your serial number
• Legal certainty about the software you have bought and are entitled to use
• Free product updates
• Information about the latest product updates and special offers

Yes, you can download a demo version from http://www.acronis.com.au/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/. This version has limited functionality.