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Displaying operation results
The results of any disk or volume operation, you have just planned, are immediately displayed in the
Disk management
view of the console. For example, if you create a volume, it will be immediately
shown in the table, as well as in graphical form at the bottom of the view. Any volume changes,
including changing the volume letter or label, are also immediately displayed in the view.
6.11.5
Disk operations
Acronis Disk Director Lite includes the following operations that can be performed on disks:
Disk Initialization (p. 281) - initializes the new hardware added to the system
Basic disk cloning (p. 282) - transfers complete data from the source basic MBR disk to the target
Disk conversion: MBR to GPT (p. 284) - converts an MBR partition table to GPT
Disk conversion: GPT to MBR (p. 284) - converts a GPT partition table to MBR
Disk conversion: Basic to Dynamic (p. 285) - converts a basic disk to dynamic
Disk conversion: Dynamic to Basic (p. 285) - converts a dynamic disk to basic
The full version of Acronis Disk Director will provide more tools and utilities for working with disks.
Acronis Disk Director Lite must obtain exclusive access to the target disk. This means no other disk management
utilities (like Windows Disk Management utility) can access it at that time. If you receive a message stating that
the disk cannot be blocked, close the disk management applications that use this disk and start again. If you
cannot determine which applications use the disk, close them all.
6.11.5.1
Disk initialization
If you add any new disk to your machine, Acronis Disk Director Lite will notice the configuration
change and scan the added disk to include it to the disk and volume list. If the disk is still not
initialized or, possibly, has a file structure unknown to the machine system, that means that no
programs can be installed on it and you will not be able to store any files there.
Acronis Disk Director Lite will detect that the disk is unusable by the system and needs to be
initialized. The
Disk management
view will show the newly detected hardware as a gray block with a
grayed icon, thus indicating that the disk is unusable by the system.
If you need to initialize a disk:
1.
Select a disk to initialize.
2.
Right-click on the selected volume, and then click
Initialize
in the context menu. You will be
forwarded to the
Disk Initialization
window, that will provide the basic hardware details such as
the disk’s number, capacity and state to aid you in the choice of your possible action.
3.
In the window, you will be able to set the disk partitioning scheme (MBR or GPT) and the disk
type (basic or dynamic). The new disk state will be graphically represented in the
Disk
Management
view of the console immediately.
4.
By clicking
OK
, you'll add a pending operation of the disk initialization.
(To finish the added operation you will have to commit (p. 293) it. Exiting the program without
committing the pending operations will effectively cancel them.)
After the initialization, all the disk space remains unallocated and so still impossible to be used for
program installation or file storage. To be able to use it, proceed normally to the
Create volume
operation.
