192 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-20091. Create a disk image of the disk on which volumes will be created or managed. Having your mostimportant data backed up to another hard disk or CD will allow you to work on disk volumesbeing reassured that your data is safe.Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is an extremely effective comprehensive data backup and recovery solution.It creates a data or disk backup copy stored in a compressed archive file that can be restored in case of anyaccident.2. Test your disk to make sure it is fully functional and does not contain bad sectors or file systemerrors.3. Do not perform any disk/volume operations while running other software that has low-level diskaccess. Close these programs before running Acronis Disk Director Lite.With these simple precautions, you will protect yourself against accidental data loss.6.11.2. Running Acronis Disk Director LiteYou can run Acronis Disk Director Lite under Windows or start it from a bootable media.Running Acronis Disk Director Lite under WindowsIf you run Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console, and connect it to a managedmachine, the Disk management view will be available in the Navigation tree of the console, withwhich you can start Acronis Disk Director Lite.Running Acronis Disk Director Lite from a bootable mediaYou can run Acronis Disk Director Lite on a bare metal, on a machine that cannot boot or on a non-Windows machine. To do so, boot the machine from a bootable media (p. 211) created with theAcronis Bootable Media Builder; run the management console and then click Disk Management.6.11.3. Choosing the operating system for disk managementOn a machine with two or more operating systems, representation of disks and volumes depends onwhich operating system is currently running.A volume may have a different letter in different Windows operating systems. For example, volume E:might appear as D: or L: when you boot another Windows operating system installed on the samemachine. (It is also possible that this volume will have the same letter E: under any Windows OSinstalled on the machine.)A dynamic disk created in one Windows operating system is considered as a Foreign Disk in anotherWindows operating system or might be unsupported by this operating system.When you need to perform a disk management operation on such machine, it is necessary to specifyfor which operating system the disk layout will be displayed and the disk management operation willbe performed.The name of the currently selected operating system is shown on the console toolbar after “Thecurrent disk layout is for:”. Click the OS name to select another operating system in the OperatingSystem Selection window. Under bootable media, this window appears after clicking Diskmanagement. The disk layout will be displayed according to the operating system you select.
