User manual ACRONIS DISK DIRECTOR SERVER 10.0

[. . . ] Acronis Disk Director Server 10. 0 User's guide www. acronis. com Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2005. 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 Delete or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or click Delete the selected partition on the toolbar. Select the deletion method in the Delete Partition window; you can: (1) (2) just delete a hard disk partition (without wiping disk sectors) -- set the switch to Delete partition. delete a hard disk partition and fully wipe partition sectors -- set the switch to Delete partition and destroy data. Delete Partition window Having set the switch to Delete partition and destroy data, enter a number of passes for wiping. Wiping unallocated disk space means multiple writing of special data to hard disk sectors. Acronis Disk Director Server features a rather simple wiping algorithm. During each pass, a symbol sequence or logical zeroes (0x00) or ones (0xFF) is written to unallocated space sectors. Acronis offers extremely powerful hard disk/partition wiping software -- Acronis Privacy Expert Suite, featuring strict algorithms for guaranteed confidential information wiping and destruction. 4. 5. Confirm partition deletion by clicking OK in the Delete Partition window. By clicking OK in the Delete Partition window, you'll add the pending operation of partition deletion (your actions may only undo an existing operation depending on the situation selected see 3. 4. 5 «Modifying pending operations»). Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2005 51 Manual Partition Operations The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis Disk Director Server main window. Attention!Deleting a partition destroys all its data, including files and folders!Deleting a partition 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 4. 1 «Creating A New Partition». 5. 1. 11 Checking hard disk partitions for errors Acronis Disk Director Server enables you to check hard disk partitions for file system errors. Hard disk partitions should be checked before any partition operations (see 2. 7 «Before You Run ». Select a hard disk and partition in the Acronis Disk Director Server main window. Select Disk Check or a similar item in the Operations sidebar list, or click Check the selected partition for errors on the toolbar. If you want to find and fix errors, choose one of the next options: · Check partitions for errors · · 4. Check and fix found errors Check and fix errors and locate bad sectors. By clicking OK, you'll run partition error checking. Results are shown in the Check Partition window. 52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2005 Manual Partition Operations Partition check results window 5. 1. 12 Defragmenting a partition Defragmentation is reorganizing file storage on a hard disk partition. Defragmentation is the process of eliminating file fragmentation, which causes files to be spread across the disk after operations. File fragmentation significantly reduces PC and server performance, especially when intensive I/O operations are taking place. Conversely, file defragmentation can increase performance, as the read head has to move less across the disk to read all file parts. Acronis Disk Director Server supports defragmentation in Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server only. To defragment a partition in Windows NT 4. 0 and earlier Windows operating systems, it is recommended that you install a third-party disk defragmenter tool. If you need to defragment a hard disk partition: 1. Select a hard disk and partition to defragment in the Acronis Disk Director Server main window. [. . . ] 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. [. . . ]