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With a comprehensive set of operations, you can organize your hard disk and volume configuration for optimal performance, while keeping your data safe. Acronis Disk Director 11 Home brings together the most valuable disk management functions and partition recovery tools in a single powerful package. Mostrar o original. Acronis Disk Director Suite is a comprehensive disk management tool. Acronis Disk Director Suite allows you to perform basic as well as advanced disk management operations. With this tool you can resize, move, copy, split, merge, restore and explore partitions without losing your data. Disk Director 11 can create 1 MB offset partitions under certain circumstances: 1. It detects an installation of Windows Vista or Windows 7 on the PC, and the user chooses one of these operating systems as the Disk Layout, or 2. DD 11 is run from its recovery CD and the user selects the 'Bootable Media Environment' Disk Layout. Acronis International GmbH, simply referred to as Acronis, is a global technology company with its corporate headquarters in Schaffhausen, Switzerland and international headquarters in Singapore.Acronis develops on-premises and cloud software for backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sync and share and data access. Acronis has 18 offices worldwide.

If you have Boot Camp installed on your hard drive to use Windows in addition to MacOS, you can back up and recover the entire disk, including Boot Camp. Bootability of both operating systems will be kept.

You need to back up the hard drive where Boot Camp is installed by using Entire Mac or My Disks backup source. The backup will contain all the data stored on the drive, including the Boot Camp partition.

If you use third-party drivers to write to the NTFS file system, stable operation of such drivers is not guaranteed when a backup is in progress.

If you use Parallels Desktop software to run Windows from Boot Camp, you need to shut down the corresponding Windows virtual machine before taking the backup with Acronis. Otherwise the backup may fail or will include Boot Camp in an inconsistent, unbootable state. The reason is that Parallels Desktop does not support snapshotting of Windows running from Boot Camp: http://kb.parallels.com/en/112941

Recovery

Although it is not possible to backup just the Boot Camp disk volume, it is possible to mark only Boot Camp for restoration.

When performing a recovery from an Entire Mac or a Disk backup, Boot Camp will also be restored.

Cloning

If you clone a disk with Boot Camp, Boot Camp will be cloned along with other disk contents and bootability will be kept.

See Acronis True Image: How to clone a disk on Mac

Incompatibility with Windows (PC) version of Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image PC version is not compatible with Bootcamp partition. Use Acronis True Image Mac version to backup your entire Mac including the Bootcamp partition.

Searched but I haven't been able to figure out clearly what is the situation with Disk Director Suite (10 & 11) and alignment . I would appreciate some simplified explanations, if possible :)

1. Does Director create (automatically) properly aligned partitions ? (for SSDs and AF HDDs) ?
2. Does it retain alignment when editing aligned partitions ?

3. If it does 1&2 , which versions do and with what operating systems ? (eg maybe 11 does 1&2 but it would not perform those functions if installed in XP lets say?)

Thanks

Anatoli:

Disk Director 10 does not create 'aligned' (1 MB or 2048-sector offset) partitions; it follows the old partitioning rules from the XP days (31.5 kB or 63-sector offset).

Disk Director 11 can create 1 MB offset partitions under certain circumstances:

1. It detects an installation of Windows Vista or Windows 7 on the PC, and the user chooses one of these operating systems as the Disk Layout, or
2. DD 11 is run from its recovery CD and the user selects the 'Bootable Media Environment' Disk Layout. This applies regardless of the operating system(s) detected, or on blank disks with no operating system.

Otherwise, DD 11 will use the old 31.5 kB rules. The screen shot below is from the DD 11 boot CD running on a virtual machine with an XP operating system installed on the virtual disk:

Under 'Detected OSs' the first choice 'Bootable Media Environment' will result in 1 MB offset partitions and the second choice 'Microsoft Windows XP SP3' will result in 31.5 kB offset partitions.

As for retaining alignment when editing partitions, I have not experimented enough with this to be confident that it does. However, based on the older DD 10 behavior, if you don't move the starting sector of the partition then alignment should be preserved. If you do, the results (again, based on experience with DD 10) can be unpredictable. DD has never been very strict about keeping the size or the ending sector of a partition aligned to anything in particular, and I never had confidence that it would. Windows 7 Diskpart or Disk Management is very strict about this and the results are predictable partitions with 1 MB offsets and sizes that are multiples of 1 MB.

If you want predictability, back up the contents of your partitions with True Image 2011. Then use Windows 7 Diskpart to delete and create partitions of the desired size. Then restore their contents with True Image 2011. This will always work correctly because TI 2011 will use an existing partition table entry if you restore to an existing partition and don't resize during the restore.

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1. By diskpart you mean the default windows 7 disk management tools from administrative tools ? ('computer management i think its called?)
2. Can TI 2010 work this same way as TI 2011 ?

Thank you

Anatoli:

1. You can use Windows 7 Disk Management to perform some operations, but if you are going to delete and re-create partitions from scratch, then you need to use the DiskPart utility. DiskPart is a command-line utility that is included with Windows 7 and is also available in the Windows Recovery Environment ('Repair Your PC') on a Windows 7 DVD. Instructions are here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770877(WS.10).aspx

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2. I'm not sure, but I think that TI 2010 worked in the same way. Perhaps someone else on the forum can comment.

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