287 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010the following Microsoft knowledge base article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732026.aspx.6.11.6 Volume operationsAcronis Disk Director Lite includes the following operations that can be performed on volumes: Create Volume (p. 287) - Creates a new volume with the help of the Create Volume Wizard. Delete Volume (p. 291) - Deletes the selected volume. Set Active (p. 291) - Sets the selected volume Active so that the machine will be able to boot withthe OS installed there. Change Letter (p. 292) - Changes the selected volume letter Change Label (p. 292) - Changes the selected volume label Format Volume (p. 292) - Formats a volume giving it the necessary file systemThe full version of Acronis Disk Director will provide more tools and utilities for working withvolumes.Acronis Disk Director Lite must obtain exclusive access to the target volume. This means no other diskmanagement utilities (like Windows Disk Management utility) can access it at that time. If you receive amessage stating that the volume cannot be blocked, close the disk management applications that use thisvolume and start again. If you can not determine which applications use the volume, close them all.6.11.6.1 Creating a volumeYou might need a new volume to: Recover a previously saved backup copy in the “exactly as was” configuration; Store collections of similar files separately — for example, an MP3 collection or video files on aseparate volume; Store backups (images) of other volumes/disks on a special volume; Install a new operating system (or swap file) on a new volume; Add new hardware to a machine.In Acronis Disk Director Lite the tool for creating volumes is the Create volume Wizard.Types of dynamic volumesSimple VolumeA volume created from free space on a single physical disk. It can consist of one region on thedisk or several regions, virtually united by the Logical Disk Manager (LDM). It provides noadditional reliability, no speed improvement, nor extra size.Spanned VolumeA volume created from free disk space virtually linked together by the LDM from several physicaldisks. Up to 32 disks can be included into one volume, thus overcoming the hardware sizelimitations, but if at least one disk fails, all data will be lost, and no part of a spanned volume maybe removed without destroying the entire volume. So, a spanned volume provides no additionalreliability, nor a better I/O rate.Striped Volume
