Manual Partition Operations
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Merging an NTFS partition to a partition with file system not supporting security options
(for example, FAT32 partition), will result in loss of security settings (partition ownership
data and access permissions). With the opposite action (merging a non-secured partition
to the secured one), the target partition security settings will be assigned to the resulting
partition.
4.1.7 Exploring
partitions
You can explore and manage partition contents before configuring operations on that
partition directly from the Acronis Disk Director Suite.
If you need to explore a partition:
1.
Select a partition to be explored.
2. Select
Disk
Æ
Explore
or a similar item in the
Operations
sidebar list, or click
Explore
on the toolbar.
3.
The program displays a folder tree. Now you can explore or manage the partition
contents. You can copy, paste, rename and delete files and folders and create
folders on the selected partition. To do so, right-click on the file/folder or use icons
above the folder tree.
Exploring partition contents
You are also enabled to view or edit text files up to 64 kb in size. To do so, right-
click on the file and select Edit. To illustrate why it may be necessary, imagine that
your operating system failed to boot. You can run Acronis Disk Director Suite from
Acronis OS Selector main window (if the program is not installed, start it from
bootable disk), and change some critical files contents.
