Acronis Disk Director Home Editor's Review

Are you afraid to leave your good old Windows XP or Vista and switch to Window 7? Do you want to try another operating system, or you just want to re-size a disk partition? Normally, you can't change your drives partitions without reformatting your hard disk and in the process, losing all your data. In this case a disk management software becomes very handy - Acronis Disk Director 11 Home.

Whatever it is that you want: re-size, merge, split, convert, check or defrag a partition, this software definitely knows how to handle a hard disk and he does it fast enough and without changing a thing in your files or folders which are already stored on your disk's.

Acronis Disk Director includes, beside the partition manager, another two utilities that are very useful. A boot manager - that allows you to install multiple operating systems on your computer and a partition recovery tool - that allows you to recover accidentally lost or deleted partitions.

Acronis Disk Director has a clean and fresh interface. After you start the software, in the right side of the program window you'll see your hard drives and partitions with details according to them. In the left you'll see the option and tools available for the selected hard drive or partition.

In case you just purchased a new hard drive and you want to move everything on it from the old hard drive, it's very easy with Acronis Disk Director's feature – Disk Cloning. With it, you won't have to spend hours installing the operating system, drivers and applications, you'll be actually back in action using the new disk in a couple of minutes.

Beside the tools for organizing and reorganizing a hard drive structure, the software lets you maintain your hard disk drives with the build-in disk checker and defragmenter.

Pluses:Windows 7 support, Dynamic Disk and GPT disk support; spanning a volume across multiple disks;

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In conclusion: A great software from a trusted company that provides you with all of the tools that you need to manage today's hard drives.

version reviewed: 11.0.216