Acronis disk director suite 9.0 User Manual

Manual Partition Operations 

 

 

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4. By 

clicking 

OK

 in the Change letter window, you'll add a pending operation 

to partition letter assignment (your actions may only undo or modify already 
existing operation; see 2.4.5 «Modifying pending operations»). 

The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis 
Disk Director Suite main window. 

 

Only Windows NT/2000/XP lets you change letters assigned to partitions. Windows 
95/98/Me assigns letters to partitions automatically. 

 

Directly changing a partition letter might affect shortcuts to existing partitions. 

Changing a partition letter in Windows NT/2000/XP might result in problems running 

applications and opening files on the partition. If it is a system or swap file partition, it 

might cause OS boot problems. A detailed discussion of partition letter assignment 

rules for various operating systems appears in 3.1 «Creating A New Partition». 

The main 

disadvantages

 of FAT16 are: 

•  Inability to support partitions larger than 2 GB 
•  Inability to work with files larger than 2 GB 
•  Inability to work with hard disks larger than 8 GB 
•  Limited root size — up to 512 elements 
•  Filenames containing up to eight name symbols, a dot and three extension 

symbols (Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows NT do not have this limitation) 

The FAT32 file system appeared in Windows 95 OSR2 and is supported by 
Windows 98/Me and Windows 2000/XP.  

Its main purpose was to remove FAT16 limitations. FAT32 is the evolution of 
FAT16.