Basic Precautions; Running Acronis Disk Director Lite; Choosing The Operating System For Disk Management - ACRONIS BACKUP AND RECOVERY 10 SERVER FOR WINDOWS - UPDATE 3 User Manual

configuration so that the volume image can be recovered exactly "as it was" or with any alteration of
the disk or volume structure the user might consider necessary.
All operations on disks and volumes involve a certain risk of data damage. Operations on system, bootable or
data volumes must be carried out very carefully to avoid potential problems with the booting process or hard
disk data storage.
Operations with hard disks and volumes take a certain amount of time, and any power loss, unintentional
turning off of the machine or accidental pressing of the Reset button during the procedure could result in
volume damage and data loss.
All operations on volumes of dynmic disks in Windows XP and Windows 2000 require Acronis Managed Machine
Service to be run under an account with administrator's rights.
Please take all necessary precautions (p. 194) to avoid possible data loss.

6.11.1 Basic precautions

To avoid any possible disk and volume structure damage or data loss, please take all necessary
precautions and follow these simple rules:
1. Create a disk image of the disk on which volumes will be created or managed. Having your most
important data backed up to another hard disk or CD will allow you to work on disk volumes
being 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 any
accident.
2. Test your disk to make sure it is fully functional and does not contain bad sectors or file system
errors.
3. Do not perform any disk/volume operations while running other software that has low-level disk
access. 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 Lite

You can run Acronis Disk Director Lite under Windows or start it from a bootable media.
Running Acronis Disk Director Lite under Windows
If you run Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console, and connect it to a managed
machine, the Disk management view will be available in the Navigation tree of the console, with
which you can start Acronis Disk Director Lite.
Running Acronis Disk Director Lite from a bootable media
You 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. 230) created with the
Acronis Bootable Media Builder; run the management console and then click Disk Management.

6.11.3 Choosing the operating system for disk management

On a machine with two or more operating systems, representation of disks and volumes depends on
which operating system is currently running.
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