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Acronis Disc Director

Acronis Disc Director

Disc Director is an application composed of partition, boot managers, and hard disk data editing tools developed by Acronis Inc. This tool has been around for some time now, and its use in a virtual machine makes it an excellent application to have handy when managing a virtual infrastructure. Disk Director can perform online disk configuration changes in physical computers as well as in virtual machines. Some of the more useful features for virtual machines include the ability to:

? Resize, move, split, and merge partitions without data loss or destruction.

? Convert partitions to other file systems without data loss.

? Copy (move) partition contents.

? Delete partitions.

? Recover hard disk partitions that were accidentally deleted or damaged due to a hardware or a software error.

? Format, label, assign letters, hide and unhide partitions, set active partitions, and perform additional disk management operations.

? Boot installed operating systems from any hard disk partition.

? Boot installed operating systems from under Windows.

? Recover boot records, files and folders structure, find lost clusters, remove viruses, and so forth.

Disk Director provides an advantage when extending Windows disk drives for virtual machines because the extension of the disk can be performed without any downtime regardless of which disk partitions are being altered. Acronis Disk Director is a great tool to have in your repertoire, especially now that a VMDK can be extended right through the properties of the virtual machine.

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