Acronis^® Disk Director^® 11 Advanced Workstation

Your most complete Disk Management Toolbox

Do you need to move or merge workstation partitions without data loss, minimize downtime for maintenance and deliver higher disk performance? Feature-rich Acronis^® Disk Director^® 11 Advanced Workstation provides the answer. It’s a disk management tool built on Acronis award-winning technologies that simplifies and speeds advanced disk layout operations. It inherits all the functionality of the previous version and adds exciting new capabilities like Windows 7 support, Dynamic Disk and GPT disk support, spanning a volume across multiple disks and much more.

Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation tools

Acronis^® Disk Director^® 11 Advanced Workstation provides you with powerful partition and hard disk management utilities to ensure your workstations are running efficiently. Acronis has a long history of supporting Microsoft operating systems and this version includes full support for Windows 7 as well as Windows Vista^™ and Windows XP^™. Dynamically split, merge, resize, copy and move partitions within Windows to minimize downtime. Perform advanced hard disk drive editing tasks, such as recovering important data areas of a hard drive and searching for and/or extracting information that was lost due to software and hardware failures or virus attack.

Partition Manager

Resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without data loss. Speeds creation of partition settings for new PCs.

Acronis Recovery Expert

Recover lost or accidentally deleted partitions.

Disk Editor

Allows users to perform advanced operations on your hard disk drive, such as restoration of boot records and hexadecimal editing.

Some other new features:

• Dynamic Disk and GPT disk Support - Take advantage of built-in Microsoft functions.
• Remote Management - Manage any disk from a central console.
• Span volume across multiple physical disks - Big volumes are no longer a problem.
• Aids in Windows 7 migration from earlier Windows operating systems - Easily repartition your drive to create additional disk space for this larger operating system.

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Take Advantage

Enhance Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation’s capabilities with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 backup software.

Here's how you can take advantage of Acronis’ hard drive manager and disaster recovery software together:

• Create two partitions on your system: one for your system files and one for your data files.
• Image your system partition using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 backup before applying system changes, such as installing a new application or patch.
• Create daily (or as often as you need) backups of your data partition.

Using two great Acronis products you will always have an image of your server and a backup of your data. This will save you valuable time in recoveries and reduce your storage requirements.

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Acronis^® Disk Director^® 11 Advanced Workstation brings together the most popular disk management functions in a single suite.

• New! Support for Windows^® 7
• New! Clone MBR disks to a replacement hard drive without reinstalling operating systems and applications
• New! Dynamic Disk and GPT disk support
• Resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data
• Reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize disk space usage
• Edit the hard disk at the sector level manually
• New! Span volume across multiple physical disks
• New! Add or break mirrored volumes*
• New! Manage remote machines from a central console
• Recover lost or deleted partitions on basic MBR disks

*For operating systems that support this feature

New! Create both basic and dynamic volumes

The handy Create Volume wizard has been improved to support dynamic volumes creation. Now, in addition to basic volumes, you can easily create dynamic volumes in Acronis Disk Director to:

• - Increase the volume size beyond the capacity of a single disk, by using a spanned volume
• - Reduce access time to files, by using a striped volume

New! Add, remove, or break mirrored volumes*

Make your basic or simple volume fault-tolerant in just one action by adding a mirror. If you need extra unallocated space on a disk containing one of the mirrors—remove a mirror. Break a mirrored volume to get two independent simple volumes with initially identical content.

New! Copy or move a volume of one type as a volume of another type

Change the type of a volume when copying or moving it. For example, you can copy the contents of a mirrored volume to a spanned volume.

New! Convert primary volumes to logical and vice versa

Convert a primary volume to logical to create a fifth volume on a disk that currently has four primary volumes.

New! Convert basic disks to dynamic and vice versa

Convert the existing basic disks to dynamic to achieve additional disk reliability for data storage.

New! Convert GPT disks to MBR and vice versa

Change the partitioning scheme of your disk to the way you need it.

New! Import foreign disks

Make dynamic disks added from another machine accessible for the system.

New! Changing a disk status: online to offline and vice versa*

Change a disk status to offline in order to protect it from unintentional use.

New! Disk cloning

The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without reinstalling operating systems and applications. It transfers all of the source disk data to a target disk. The source disk volumes can be cloned to the target disk "as is", or resized automatically according to the target disk size.

Disk and volume management operations

Experience the vast array of disk and volume management operations:

• - Resize, move, copy, split and merge volumes without data loss or destruction
• - Format and label volumes, change file systems, clusters size, assign volume letters, and set volumes active
• - Delete volumes and clean up disks
• - Hide/unhide volumes
• - Specify i-node density
• - Initialize newly added hard disks
• - Explore volume data, even on Linux volumes, before performing operations
• - Preview changes made in disk and volume layout before applying them
• - Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, volumes, and file systems

Acronis Recovery Expert

Helps you to recover accidentally lost or deleted volumes on basic MBR disks.

Acronis Bootable Media Builder

Now, you can create bootable media based both on WinPE and Linux to use Acronis Disk Director on bare metal or outside of an operating system.

Disk Editor

A professional tool that performs a variety of actions on a hard disk.

Log

Examine information about disk and volume operations, including reasons for failure, if any.

* For the operating systems that support such functionality.

Product Documentation

• Data Sheet (0.5 MB, PDF)
• Quick Start Guide (0.2 MB, PDF)
• User Guide (0.8 MB, PDF)

Product Support

• Knowledge Base

Other resources

• Screenshots
• Version Comparison
• Customer Stories
• Awards & Reviews
• Acronis forums

Screenshots

	The graphical view provides visual information about all the disks and their volumes for better understanding of the volume configuration.
	The graphical view also lets you select both the volumes and disks to perform operations on them.
	The Disk Cloning wizard lets you replace the old basic MBR disk with a new one without reinstalling operating systems and applications. It transfers all the source disk data to a target disk. The source disk volumes can be cloned to the target disk "as is", or resized automatically with respect to the target disk size.
	The handy Create Volume wizard has been improved to support dynamic volume creation. Now, in addition to basic volumes, you can easily create dynamic volumes in Acronis Disk Director 11 to: Increase the volume size beyond the capacity of a single disk, by using a spanned volume Reduce access time to files, by using a striped volume Achieve fault tolerance, by using a mirrored or RAID-5 volume * * For the operating systems that support such functionality.
	Quickly set up a fault-tolerant volume with the Create Volume Wizard. A RAID-5 volume occupies three or more disks in equally-sized portions.
	Resizing a volume allows you to extend a volume-whether basic or dynamic-by taking unallocated space from one or more disks; or reduce a volume so that a portion of the volume's free space becomes unallocated space.

Version Comparison

Feature	Acronis Disk Director 11 Home	Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation	Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Server
Price
Price per License	£34.95	£60.00	£348.00
Partition Management
Basic Operations
Advanced operations
Acronis Recovery Expert
Install Multiples OSs on one PC
Disk Editor	*
Rescue Media Builder
Clone Disk
GPT Disk Support
Dynamic Disk Support
Repair RAID-5 Column
Administration
Command Line Interface
Commit Pending Operations
Remote Management
Supported Operating Systems
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2
Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2

* Requires Acronis Disk Director 11 Home Update 1

Customer Stories