Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is the easiest and most convenient partition manager and hard disk toolkit. It brings together the most popular disk management functions, partition recovery tools, and boot disk manager.
Disk Editor
There are some problems that appear quite often, but can't be solved without a technically advanced disk editor. These are such problems as: backing up, copying, and/or recovering important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or extraction of information that was removed by accident or lost due to different soft- and hardware failures or virus attacks.
Acronis Disk Editor included into Acronis Disk Director® Suite 10.0 with its capability of booting up from a diskette, and now from CDs and DVDs, irrespective of operating system, may become the only program that can help you.
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 allows you to back up and restore critical hard drive sectors, edit contents of hard disk sectors, representing them in the most convenient way. It allows users to search through a hard disk, save contents of sectors to files and load information from files directly into sectors. The program has a very simple, user-friendly interface.
Partition Expert
Dividing your hard drive into individual partitions for your operating system, programs, data files, music, and images provides better organization and, most important, much better data safety in the event of a drive crash.
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 makes this task a breeze! The suite includes Acronis Partition Expert product which allows you to automatically or manually merge, split, resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data. It also lets you reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize disk space usage and much more.
The most comprehensible partition software
Acronis sets new partitioning and design standards. Now non-technical PC users can be insulated from the task using targeted wizards, but experienced users can access a wide array of advanced functions. Our exclusive product design includes:
* Automatic mode for non-experienced users and manual mode for advanced users.
* Targeted wizard-driven automatic partitioning for non-technical users.
* A big number of features with complete manual control for experienced users.
An ideal companion product for Acronis True Image.
Together Acronis True Image and Acronis Partition Expert provide comprehensive partition management and system protection. You can create two partitions on your system, one for data and one for applications, using Acronis Partition Expert. Then you can regularly back up your data partition using Acronis True Image scheduler being sure that you capture changes to your data.You can also back up your system partition whenever you install new applications or apply new patches.
Acronis exclusive
* Dual operating mode design (Automatic mode for non-experienced users and Manual Mode for advanced users).
* FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP partition support. Special sector-by-sector support for copying and moving partitions of any other type.
Key features
* New! Split one partition into two and leave your data intact.
* New! Merge two partitions into one and leave your data untouched, even if file systems on the partitions are different.
* New! Explore partition data before performing partitioning operations.
* New! Troubleshoot issues and reasons for failure by viewing logs:
o Resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data;*
o Create and delete partitions of any type;
o Format partitions;*
o Automatically optimize hard disk space usage;
o Convert FAT16 <=> FAT32, Linux Ext2 <=> Ext3 partitions without losing data;
o Change cluster size automatically or manually;
o Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, partitions and file systems;
o Hide or make visible partitions of any type;
o Preview changes made in partition layout before applying them to disk;
o Supports large disks over 180 GB.
OS Selector
Acronis Disk Director® Suite 10.0 includes new Acronis OS Selector — a powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use boot manager.
It allows you to install 100 or more multiple operating systems (OSes) on one computer. You can boot an OS from any partition on any hard disk or have several multiboot systems on the same partition. This completely redesigned solution is now easier to use and faster.
Protect your data with Acronis 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 OSes with passwords.
Use your favorite old programs as well as modern environment
Your favorite games and applications don't work with Windows XP? Simply install both XP and your old Windows version and reboot when necessary.
Try Linux or any other new OS
You have probably heard and read much about Linux, but never tried it before? Acronis OS Selector will help you to resize your partitions, including NTFS, and provide room for Linux.
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is THE BEST CHOICE if you are looking for the fastest, easiest, most intuitive boot manager!
Key features
* New! 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
* New! Insert a bootable CD/DVD and it will automatically be detected and displayed as a multiboot option by Acronis OS Selector
* New! Detect multiple operating systems that became unbootable due to some accidental reasons with Acronis OS Selector detection tool
* Support up to 100 of any known operating systems including Windows XP 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.
* Exclusive! Install and boot an operating system from any partition of any hard disk.
* Protect multi-boot OSes and setup with a password.
* Hide operating systems and partitions.
* Clone OS installation as a back-up.
* Repartition your system for a new OS installation.
* Boot viruses protection included.
Usability
* Intuitive Windows XP-styled interface with comprehensive on-line help and full mouse support.
* Very flexible and fine adjustments of the boot menu.
* Increased stability with respect to changes in partition and hard disk configurations.
* Turn off power and clock available for your comfort.
Boot management
* Support operating systems both on primary and logical partitions of any hard disk drive.
* Support several Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / XP OSes on a single partition.
* Make full copies of Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / XP operating systems.
* Update Windows 98 / NT / 2000 / XP without losing a previous version.
* Hide any partitions independently of any given operating system.
* Special partitions hidden from Windows NT / 2000 / XP operating systems.
* Boot Windows 98 / ME from a logical partition.
* Boot Windows 98 / ME from another hard disk.
* Automatically boot default operating system.
* Edit configuration files without booting an 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 create basic Windows 98 configurations.
* Automatically recover MBR.
* Support unknown operating systems.
Recovery Expert
Acronis constantly works on optimizing the functionality and ease-of use of its products. Version 10 released, Acronis Disk Director Suite now represents thorough disk managing, multiboot and partition recovery software. With major Acronis disk and partition recovery tools integrated into Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0, this one can be called a really comprehensive hard disk recovery solution. For instance, earlier, to restore a deleted partition, you had to purchase a separate copy of Acronis Recovery Expert. Now all you need to recover partitions is buy version 10.0 of Acronis Disk Director Suite. Failed hard disk recovery or deleted partition restore has never been easier!
Acronis Recovery Expert included into Acronis Disk Director® Suite 10.0 completely protects your data, allowing you to recover deleted or lost partitions. You must have this partition restore software if you care for safety of your data and wish to be fully armed and ready for any personal, hard- or software failure, virus attack, or hacker's intrusive destruction.
If your PC becomes unbootable after a power outage or a system error, you can recover it instantly with Acronis Recovery Expert — a reliable data, partition and disk recovery tool.
Key Features
* Supported file systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, Linux Swap
* Automatic and Manual recovery mode selections
* Independent work from bootable CDs or diskettes enables you to recover partitions even if your operating system fails to boot
* Supports large disks over 180 Gb
* A Windows XP-like wizard styled interface for superior usability and ease of use