Acronis disk director suite 9.0 User Manual

Manual Partition Operations

1. Select a disk and partition to unhide from the list in the Acronis Disk

Director Suite main window.

Execute operation of partition unhiding by selecting Disk Advanced

Unhide or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or by clicking

Unhide the selected partition on the toolbar (or selecting it from partition or
the graphical representation context menu).

3. By

clicking

in the Unhide Partition window, you'll add the pending operation

to partition unhiding (your actions may only undo or modify an existing
operation, See 2.4.5 «Modifying pending operations»).

Unhide partition window

The partition Hid label will disappear from the Flags field.

Note that the Advanced Unhide

sidebar item is changed to Advanced Hide after

you select a hidden partition from the list. The partition context menu changes the

same.

If you unhide the only primary partition on a disk, it will be set active.

Hiding a partition in Windows 95/98/Me can change the order of letters assigned to
other partitions. As a result, some shortcuts might stop working. A detailed

discussion of partition letter assignment rules for various operating systems appears

in 3.1 «Creating A New Partition».

4.2.5

Setting active partition

If you have several primary partitions, you must specify one to be the boot partition.
For this, you can set a partition to active. A disk can have only one active partition.

If you need to set an active partition:

1. Select

primary partition to set to active from the list in the Acronis Disk

Director Suite main window.

Execute operation of setting active partition by selecting Disk Advanced

Set Active or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or by clicking

Set the selected partition as active on the toolbar (or selecting it from

partition or the graphical representation context menu).