All operations on disks and volumes involve a certain risk of data damage. Operations on system, bootable or
data volumes must be carried out very carefully to avoid potential problems with the booting process or hard
disk data storage.
Operations with hard disks and volumes take a certain amount of time, and any power loss, unintentional
turning off of the machine or accidental pressing of the Reset button during the procedure could result in
volume damage and data loss.
All operations on volumes of dynamic disks in Windows XP and Windows 2000 require Acronis Managed
Machine Service to be run under an account with administrator's rights.
Please take all necessary precautions to avoid possible data loss.
5.9.1
Supported file systems
Acronis Disk Director Lite supports the following file systems:
FAT 16/32
NTFS
5.9.2
Basic precautions
To avoid any possible disk and volume structure damage or data loss, please take all necessary
precautions and follow these simple rules:
1.
Create a disk image of the disk on which volumes will be created or managed. Having your most
important data backed up to another hard disk or CD will allow you to work on disk volumes
being reassured that your data is safe.
Acronis Backup & Recovery Server OEM is an extremely effective comprehensive data backup and recovery
solution. It creates a data or disk backup copy stored in a compressed archive file that can be restored in
case of any accident.
2.
Test your disk to make sure it is fully functional and does not contain bad sectors or file system
errors.
3.
Do not perform any disk/volume operations while running other software that has low-level disk
access. Close these programs before running Acronis Disk Director Lite.
With these simple precautions, you will protect yourself against accidental data loss.
5.9.3
Running Acronis Disk Director Lite
You can run Acronis Disk Director Lite under Windows or start it from a bootable media.
Running Acronis Disk Director Lite under Windows
If you run Acronis Backup & Recovery Server OEM Management Console, and connect it to a
managed machine, the
Disk management
view will be available in the
Navigation
tree of the
console, with which you can start Acronis Disk Director Lite.
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 created with the Acronis
Bootable Media Builder; run the management console and then click
Disk Management
.
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