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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. 282) 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.
If you decide to change the disk settings it can be done later using the standard Acronis Disk Director Lite disk
tools.
6.11.5.2
Basic disk cloning
Sometimes it is necessary to transfer all the disk data onto a new disk. It can be a case of expanding
the system volume, starting a new system layout or disk evacuation due to a hardware fault. In any
case, the reason for the
Clone basic disk
operation can be summed up as the necessity to transfer all
the source disk data to a target disk exactly as it is.
Acronis Disk Director Lite allows the operation to be carried out to basic MBR disks only.
To plan the
Clone basic disk
operation:
1.
Select a disk you want to clone.
2.
Select a disk as target for the cloning operation.
3.
Select a cloning method and specify advanced options.
The new volume structure will be graphically represented in the
Disk management
view
immediately.
It is advisable that you deactivate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (p. 386) (ASRM), if it is active, before
cloning a system disk. Otherwise the cloned operating system might not boot. You can activate the ASRM again
after the cloning is completed. If deactivation is not possible, choose the As is method to clone the disk.
Selecting source and target disks
The program displays a list of partitioned disks and asks the user to select the source disk, from
which data will be transferred to another disk.
The next step is selection of a disk as target for the cloning operation. The program enables the user
to select a disk if its size will be sufficient to hold all the data from the source disk without any loss.
