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What is Acronis Disk Director® Server?Acronis Disk Director® Server is a comprehensive partition and disk management suite that combines a number of previous Acronis products into one tool: - Partition Manager (Acronis Partition Expert) — Split, merge, resize, move, copy, fix partitions without losing your data
- Acronis Disk Editor — Disk drive repair tool that allows you to perform advanced operations on your hard disk drive, such as viewing and changing boot records and hexadecimal editing
- Acronis Recovery Expert — Recover accidentally lost or deleted partitions.
It also supports command line mode for administrators who want to be able to create/resize/fix partitions manually.
It also supports command line mode for administrators who want to be able to create/resize partitions manually. Top 
What are the Acronis Disk Editor and Acronis Recovery Expert programs installed along with Acronis Disk Director® Server?Formerly standalone programs, Acronis Disk Editor and Acronis Recovery Expert are now included into Acronis Disk Director® Server. Acronis Recovery Expert is an easy-to-use partition management tool that automatically searches for lost and deleted partitions and restores them, if possible. Acronis Disk Editor is an advanced hard disk editor. This hdd commander is intended for experienced administrators familiar with information storage structure of hard disks. It can also be used for educational purposes to provide different views of data storage structures of hard disks. You can access them either through the Start menu or by selecting Recover or Edit options in Acronis Disk Director® Server graphical interface. Top
What operating systems does Acronis Disk Director® Server run on?The program can be installed and run on the following operating systems: - Windows NT 4.0 Server Service Pack 6
- Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server Service Pack 4
- Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
After installing Acronis Disk Director® Server in Windows, you can create a bootable media with a standalone version of Acronis Disk Director® Server a comprehensive partition manager. You can work with hard disks containing any operating system by booting from the media you created. Top
What file systems does Acronis Disk Director® Server support?Acronis Disk Director® Server, acting as a perfect partition splitter, merger and resizer, supports all the most widely used file systems: - FAT16/FAT32 (File Allocation Table) — is used in DOS and Windows and supported by almost every operating system
- NTFS (New Technology File System) — has been introduced in Windows NT and is used by Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
- Ext2 — is used by Linux operating systems
- Ext3 — is the next generation of the Ext2 file system
- LinuxSwap — is used for Linux swap partitions
- ReiserFS — one of the most secure file system that is used on data servers
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What disk capacity does Acronis Disk Director® Server support?Running under Windows operating system Acronis Disk Director® Server works with disks supported by your version of Windows. If you use a standalone version of Acronis Disk Director® Server (started from bootable media) then you will be able to work with disks of any capacity that are present on the market. Top
Does Acronis Disk Director® Server allow one to change the type of a partition?Yes, Acronis Disk Director® Server allows you to change the type of a partition. You can make a partition primary or logical, as well as set it active. Top
Does Acronis Disk Director® Server allow one to convert one file system to another?The current version of Acronis Disk Director® Server allows you to convert a FAT16 partition to FAT32, Ext3 to Ext3, and vice versa. The future versions of Acronis Disk Director® Server will allow you more options to convert file systems. Top
Do I need to reboot my server in order to perform an operation on my hard disk with Acronis Disk Director® Server?Acronis Disk Director® Server might require you to reboot your server if the partition involved in the operation cannot be locked (for instance, contains open files). In this case, Acronis Disk Director® Server prompts you to reboot the server after you commit the operation. Please note that the system partition (the partition the operating system files are stored on) always contains open files. Top
What happens after I reboot my server for Acronis Disk Director® Server to carry out an operation?After you reboot, your server boots into "native mode" with all the Windows drivers running, but with no applications other than Acronis Disk Director® Server. You can see the progress of the program work on the screen and, after the operation is complete, the server is booted into Windows as usual. Top
Can Acronis Disk Director® Server resize a hard drive partition that contains bad blocks?We strongly recommend against resizing or formatting a hard drive partition that contains bad blocks, as this could lead to a total data loss on this partition. Acronis Disk Director® Server does not allow you to resize hard drive partitions with bad blocks. We recommend that you create an image of this partition using Acronis® True Image Server for Windows, reformat the hard disk so the bad blocks are recovered and then restore the created image resizing the partition. Top
Does Acronis Disk Director® Server work with RAIDs?Yes, Acronis Disk Director® Server supports RAID arrays. You can perform all available operations with partitions located on RAID volumes without any special precautions. Top
Why automatic hard disk utilities are not enough?In many cases automatic utilities are not enough, and even cannot be used. For example, in case of damage of important hard disk areas by boot viruses or viruses that damage hard disks sectorwise. Such damages often result in impossibility to boot the server up. Acronis Disk Editor may become the only way out of this situation with its independent mode of booting from a diskette or CD disc. To simplify the task of restoration we recommend you always have backup copies of important hard disk areas that you can also create with Acronis Disk Editor at hand. Top
What is the main advantage of Acronis Disk Editor?The main advantage of the hard disk manager Acronis Disk Editor is the opportunity to resolve issues that cannot be resolved by automatic utilities. Additional advantages of our utility include the following: - Ability to work in both universal hexadecimal mode of data representation and in special modes for editing Partition tables, FAT 16/32 and NTFS boot sectors, and folders. Special operating modes are provided for many disk data storage structures
- Simple navigation and user-friendly interface
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Is it possible to unintentionally spoil data on a hard disk during training to work with Acronis Disk Editor?The developers tried their best to reduce the probability of accidental hard disk data damages. Safety of work with Acronis Disk Editor is provided by committing all changes of hard disk sectors contents in computer memory first. It is only when you save changes to the hard disk that changes are permanent. Top
Does Acronis Recovery Expert allow the user to restore separate files or folders deleted by accident?Acronis Recovery Expert works with hard disk partitions only and does not restore individual files or folders. Please note that the most effective way to protect your data is to back up your hard disk with Acronis® True Image Server for Windows, which allows you to restore either the entire partition or individual files or folders once you created a backup. Top
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