Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0

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Product Features

• Comprehensive workstation partition and disk-management suite
• Includes Partition Manager, Boot Manager, Partition Recovery, and Disk Editor
• Reorganize PC for better performance and data protection
• New split, merge, and explore partitions; auto operating system detection
• Boot from CD/DVD or from an additional hard-disk drive; view logs

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BB46JY
• Item model number: PCO46350MB
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 7, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (65 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #321 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is a comprehensive workstation partition and disk-management suite that combines a number of previous Acronis products into one solution:

• Acronis Partition Manager allows you to resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without losing your data
• Acronis Boot Manager is a multi-boot software utility that allows you to install multiple operating systems on your PC
• Acronis Partition Recovery allows you to recover accidentally lost or deleted partitions
• Acronis Disk Editor is a disk-drive repair tool that allows you to perform advanced operations on your hard-disk drive, such as restoration of boot records and hexadecimal editing

Acronis Disk Director Suite is the ideal tool in combination with Acronis True Image backup. Here's how you can take advantage of these two products together:

• Create individual partitions for your system and your data using Acronis Disk Director Suite.
• Image your system partition using Acronis True Image only before applying system changes, such as installing new software and the like.
• And make scheduled data backups from your data partition by selecting specific files you need to backup.
• Thus, using the combination of two great Acronis products you will always have an image of your system and backup of your data. This will greatly save you time and reduce your storage requirements.

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 adds new key features making it easier than ever before to modify your partition structure and boot new operating systems.

• New! Split partitions--split one partition into two and leave your data intact
• New! Merge partitions--merge two partitions into one and leave your data untouched, even if file systems on the partitions are different
• New! Explore partitions--Windows-like explorer interface to view partition data before performing partitioning operations
• New! Boot from an additional hard disk drive--select the hard-disk drive you want to boot from
• New! Boot from CD/DVD--insert a bootable CD/DVD, and it will automatically be detected and displayed as a boot option by Acronis OS Selector
• New! Automatic operating system detection--detect operating systems that became unbootable due to some accidental reasons with the Acronis OS Selector detection tool

Product Description
Avoid putting off the task of repartitioning your hard disk drive because of the time consuming task of reinstalling operating systems, applications and the recovery of data. Now with Disk Director Suite you can easily separate system data from personal documents and increases PC performance and data safety! Easily recover any inadvertently deleted partitions or edit hard disk drives!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrifically dangerous software, September 18, 2007

By	Bud - See all my reviews

This is probably the worst software I've used in years--probably in the last decade. If you are using old operating systems or old hardware, you may be fine, but with XP64 or Vista on the latest hardware, it repeatedly corrupted my hard drive partions rendering them not only unbootable but generally unrecoverable. Another bug is that my wireless mouse would only work during the first welcome/splash screen of the boot CD but not the actual utility once it loaded. I had to hook up a PS/2 mouse. Even that didn't work all of the time (like when I had a 2nd drive plugged in).

Aside from the hardware problems, it plain destroyed partitions and corrupts MBRs. I'll give you some examples. Resize NTFS cluster sizes renders Windows completely unbootable and corrupted. Changing drive letters renders the system unbootable. Setting a partition active corrupts the drive. Performing operations on an external USB drive completely corrupted the drive, and I couldn't fix with any other DOS/Windows utilities that I had. I had to fix it on my Mac! Note that you cannot clone a drive or partition. You can only copy a partition which assigns the wrong drive letter and as noted above you cannot correct without losing all the data. Many operations require multiple reboots for each step involved and some steps fail/crash. Sometimes, it would set the wrong partition active. Finally, copying partitions from one drive to another failed inexplicably and crashed about 1/2 the time. The only operations I was consistently successful at were trivial operations like partition resizes which Vista does natively anyway. Operations that I could do in their "demo" (it is NOT a trial) are fake. They could not be performed using the real software which was the latest version. Please note that my system is otherwise stable and all the native Vista disk utilities/operations work flawlessly. I have used disk utilities like Partition Magic, Norton Ghost, Drive Image, etc., for decades so I am not a newbie.

The final reason for 1 star (zero if I could ), I purchased this direct from Acronis via Digital River. Their support is horrible (basically auto-replies) if they ever respond. Despite having a 30-day money back guarantee, you will never see your money again. This product sets new lows in the already shaky computer hardware/software industry.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fast, full featured, reliable, August 20, 2006

By	Doug Cooper (Los Angeles, CA (USA)) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this after several failed attempts to duplicate my boot partition for backup purposes useing Symantec Partition Magic 8. This product not only did the job quickly, but easier than PM8, and it supports UBS/Firewire drives when using the bootable disk (which PM8 does not).

You can create bootable disks from the downloadable version of this software, and it has a full graphical interface which is easy to use, and worked flawlessly for my needs. Highly recommended.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to Use, September 18, 2006

By	Electronic Gadgetphile (St. Paul, MN) - See all my reviews

I found that Disk Director Suite worked for expanding the partition on my C: drive without any problems. The interface is all menu driven and very simple to use. I did not try to use the software for anything else and cannot comment on the complaints reported by others on this site. If you only want to expand partitions, as I did, the software worked great and was priced lower than the competitive products.