280
Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010
Running Acronis Disk Director Lite from a bootable media
You can run Acronis Disk Director Lite on a bare metal, on a machine that cannot boot or on a non-
Windows machine. To do so, boot the machine from a bootable media (p. 400) created with the
Acronis Bootable Media Builder; run the management console and then click
Disk Management
.
6.11.3
Choosing the operating system for disk management
On a machine with two or more operating systems, representation of disks and volumes depends on
which operating system is currently running.
A volume may have a different letter in different Windows operating systems. For example, volume
E: might appear as D: or L: when you boot another Windows operating system installed on the same
machine. (It is also possible that this volume will have the same letter E: under any Windows OS
installed on the machine.)
A dynamic disk created in one Windows operating system is considered as a
Foreign Disk
in another
Windows operating system or might be unsupported by this operating system.
When you need to perform a disk management operation on such machine, it is necessary to specify
for which operating system the disk layout will be displayed and the disk management operation will
be performed.
The name of the currently selected operating system is shown on the console toolbar after “
The
current disk layout is for:
”. Click the OS name to select another operating system in the
Operating
System Selection
window. Under bootable media, this window appears after clicking
Disk
management
. The disk layout will be displayed according to the operating system you select.
6.11.4
"Disk management" view
Acronis Disk Director Lite is controlled through the
Disk management
view of the console.
The top part of the view contains a disks and volumes table enabling data sorting and columns
customization and toolbar. The table presents the numbers of the disks, as well as assigned letter,
label, type, capacity, free space size, used space size, file system, and status for each volume. The
toolbar comprises of icons to launch the
Undo
,
Redo
and
Commit
actions intended for pending
operations (p. 293).
The graphic panel at the bottom of the view also graphically depicts all the disks and their volumes as
rectangles with basic data on them (label, letter, size, status, type and file system).
Both parts of the view also depict all unallocated disk space that can be used in volume creation.
Starting the operations
Any operation can be launched:
From the volume or disk context menu (both in the table and the graphic panel)
From the
Disk management
menu of the console
From the
Operations
bar on the
Actions and Tools
pane
Note that the list of available operations in the context menu, the
Disk management
menu, and the
Operations
bar depends on the selected volume or disk type. The same is true for unallocated space as well.
