Acronis^® Disk Director^® 11 Home

Partition Management

By dividing your hard drive into individual partitions for your operating system, programs, data files, music and images, you can do a better job of organizing your disk and, most importantly, achieve higher levels of data safety.

Acronis Disk Director 11 Home makes this task a breeze. A comprehensive array of expert-level features gives users the control they need to maximize disk use.

You can merge, split, resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data. It also lets you reorganize a hard drive's structure quickly to optimize disk space usage and more.

Key Features

• FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP partition support. Special sector-by-sector support for copying and moving partitions of any other type.
• Split one partition into two and leave your data intact
• Merge two partitions into one and leave your data untouched, even if file systems on the partitions are different
• Explore partition data before performing partitioning operations
• Troubleshoot issues and reasons for failure by viewing logs
• Resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data*
• Create and delete partitions of any type
• Format partitions*
• Automatically optimize hard disk space usage
• Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, partitions and file systems
• Hide or make visible partitions of any type
• Preview changes made in partition layout before applying them to disk
• Supports large disks: up to 2TB volumes on MBR and any size on GPT

* For supported file systems

Acronis Recovery Expert

Acronis is constantly optimizing the features and ease-of use of its products to keep you ahead of the curve. With Acronis Disk Director 11 Home we offer enhanced disk managing and partition recoveries with the inclusion of Acronis Recovery Expert. If you suffer a failed hard disk recovery or need to restore a deleted partition, you'll find that restoring it has never been easier!

Acronis Recovery Expert is a highly reliable data partition and disk recovery tool that prepares you to tackle and repair the results of a personal error, hardware or software failure, virus attack or hacker's intrusive destruction, fast. It recovers deleted or lost partitions quickly. And it gets you back to work in moments if your PC becomes unbootable after a power outage or a system error.

Key Features

• Recover deleted or lost partitions on your hard drive
• Boot from bootable CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives or USB hard disk drives. Enables you to recover partitions even if your operating system fails to boot.
• User-friendly interface for superior usability and ease-of-use

Note: Acronis Recovery Expert only works with basic MBR disks.

Acronis OS Selector

Acronis® Disk Director® 11 Home includes a boot manager called Acronis OS Selector that is powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use.

Running on Windows® XP systems and higher (including Windows 7), it allows you to install multiple operating systems on one computer. You can boot an operating system from any partition on any hard disk or have several multiboot systems on the same partition. It's easy to use and fast.

Protect your data with Acronis' advanced boot manager

Acronis OS Selector allows you to install different multi-boot systems for your children, your work and for software tests. You can also protect multi-boot operating systems with passwords.

Use older programs and your most modern software on the same computer!

Your favorite games and applications don't work with Windows 7 or other recent operating systems? Simply install both Windows 7 and the applicable older Windows version and reboot when necessary.

Try Linux or any other operating system

If you haven't tried Linux® before, Acronis OS Selector is for you. We keep the process simple so you can try Linux or any Windows operating system, and take advantage of Acronis' highly flexible interface.

Key Features

• Boot from an additional hard disk drive. Acronis OS Selector enables you to set the disk order so you can boot from any hard drive you select
• Insert a bootable CD/DVD and it will automatically be detected and displayed as a multiboot option by Acronis OS Selector
• Detect multiple operating systems that became unbootable due to some accidental reasons with Acronis OS Selector detection tool
• Protect multi-boot operating systems and setup with a password
• Boot virus protection included
• Repartition your system for a new operating system installation
• Exclusive! Install and boot an operating system from any partition of any hard disk
• Support 100 or more operating systems including Windows 7 and Linux on a single PC
• Install several versions of Windows on a single partition. Operating systems with the same folder names (e.g. C:\Program Files) on one partition are supported
• Clone an operating system installation as a back-up
• Hide operating systems and partitions

Note: Acronis OS Selector only works with basic MBR disks.

Usability

• Intuitive Windows-style interface with comprehensive on-line help and full mouse support
• Increased stability with respect to changes in partition and hard disk configurations
• You can power off the computer directly from the boot menu to save administrative steps
• Very flexible and fine adjustments of the boot menu

Boot Management

• Support operating systems both on primary and logical partitions of any hard disk drive.
• Support several Windows 98 / Windows NT® / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows Vista™ / Windows 7 operating systems on a single partition.
• Hide any partitions independently of any given operating system.
• Make full copies of Windows 98 / Windows NT / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7 operating systems.
• Update Windows 98 / Windows NT / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7 without losing a previous version.
• Boot Windows 98 / Windows Me / Windows 2000 / Windows Vista / Windows 7 from another hard disk.
• Automatically boot default operating system.

Operating system detection

• Automatically detect both known and unknown operating systems.
• Detect operating system update.
• Detect and turn off boot managers built into operating systems.
• Detect the version number and language of an operating system.
• Automatically recover MBR.
• Support unknown operating systems.

Supported operating systems *

• DOS
• Windows 3.1 + DOS
• Windows 95
• Windows 98
• Windows ME
• Windows NT 3.1
• Windows NT 3.5
• Windows NT 3.51
• Windows NT 4.0
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Linux (any distribution)
• FreeBSD
• Solaris
• SCO UNIX
• UNIXWARE
• OS/2
• BeOS
• QNX
• B-TRON
• Special support for unknown systems

* Acronis OS Selector supports all of these operating systems, but requires any Windows operating system from Windows XP onwards in order to run.

Installation

Acronis OS Selector is included with Acronis Disk Director 11 Home but requires a separate installation. First install Acronis Disk Director 11 Home. Then install Acronis OS Selector and reboot your system. Click here to learn more.