User manual ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SUITE 10

[. . . ] Acronis Disk Director Suite 10. 0 User's guide Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2010. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] Select Disk Advanced Set Active or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or click Set the selected partition as active on the toolbar (or select it from partition or the graphical representation context menu). 60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2010 Manual Partition Operations Set Active Partition 3. By clicking OK in the Set Active Partition window, you'll add the pending operation of setting active partition (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation. See 2. 4. 5 «Modifying pending operations»). The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. The primary partition is also marked Pri, so the Flags field will contain Pri, Act. Before you make a partition active, you must make sure it is formatted and contains an operating system. If you set a partition to active and there was another active partition on a disk, it will be unset automatically. Setting an active partition in Windows 98/Me can change the order of letters assigned to other partitions. A detailed discussion of partition letter assignment rules for various operating systems appears in 3. 1 «Creating A New Partition». 4. 2. 6 Resizing a root Unlike all others, the FAT16 root is located in a special place and has a limited size (512 elements after standard formatting). Acronis Disk Director Suite lets you change the root size of existing partitions. Select a disk and FAT16 partition from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. Select Disk Advanced Resize Root or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or click Change the number of files that can be located in the root of the selected partition on the toolbar (or select it from partition or the graphical representation context menu). If you select a partition with another file system, mentioned sidebar and context menu items will not be available. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2010 61 Manual Partition Operations 3. Enter the new root size (a number of elements) in the Resize Root window. Resize FAT16 root window FAT16 can contain a maximum of 65, 520 elements. 4. By clicking OK, you'll add the pending operation of FAT16 partition root resizing (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation. Changing cluster size 4. 2. 7 Smaller clusters (see Appendix C «Glossary» -- «Cluster») might significantly reduce disk space losses because any file occupies at least one cluster/block. Disk space losses, depending on cluster size, are shown in Appendix A (see A. 9. 2 «FAT16» -- Table 3). However, reducing FAT32 partition cluster size might increase the space occupied by the file allocation table (FAT) and slow down file access. Select a disk and partition from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. Select Disk Advanced Change cluster size or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or click Change the cluster size of the selected partition on the toolbar (or select it from partition or the graphical representation context menu). In the Cluster Size window, you can: (1) (2) see the current cluster size of the selected partition. see average statistics of disk space losses for the selected partition and different cluster size. Some cluster sizes might become unavailable for a partition because there will not be enough clusters to store the actual partition data. (3) set new cluster size in the New cluster size field. 62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2010 Manual Partition Operations Cluster size window 4. By entering a new cluster size and clicking OK in the Cluster Size window, you'll add the pending operation of cluster resizing (your actions may only undo or modify an existing operation, See 2. 4. 5 «Modifying pending operations»). Changing partition type 4. 2. 8 Each partition record includes the «partition type field». It is a hexadecimal value that defines the file and operating system suitable for a partition. This hexadecimal value is optional, as some operating systems use it and some do not. In particular, Windows 98/Me only uses the «partition type» field when determining if it can support a partition. Usually, partition type is set during its creation depending on the file system to be used. For example, if a partition is created without a file system or if a partition is meant for use with a specific OS, it must be assigned a corresponding type. Select a disk and partition from the list in the Acronis Disk Director Suite main window. Select Disk Advanced Change type or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or click Change the type of the selected partition on the toolbar (or select it from partition or the graphical representation context menu). [. . . ] Some partition management software and boot managers allow for the hiding of partitions. Partitioning is usually done with programs such as FDISK -- a component of DOS and Windows. Disk Administrator completely replaces FDISK where functionality is concerned and allows performance of many additional useful operations. All the partitions on a hard disk make a tree with the root in the MBR partition table. [. . . ]