Acronis disk director suite 9.0 Manual Do Utilizador

Manual Partition Operations 

 

 

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1. 

Select a hard disk and a partition to be deleted. 

2. 

Execute partition deletion by selecting Disk    Delete or a similar item in 
the Operations sidebar list, or by clicking 

 Delete the selected partition on 

the toolbar. 

3. 

Select the deletion method in the Delete Partition window; you can: 
(1) just 

delete a hard disk partition (without wiping disk sectors) — set 

the switch to Delete partition. 

(2)  delete a hard disk partition and fully wipe partition sectors — set the 

switch to Delete partition and destroy data. 

 

Having set the switch to Delete partition and destroy data, enter a number 
of passes for wiping. 

 

Wiping unallocated disk space means multiple writing of special data to hard disk 

sectors. Acronis Disk Director Suite features a rather simple wiping algorithm. During

each pass, a symbol sequence or logical zeroes (0x00) or ones (0xFF) is written to 

unallocated space sectors. Only logical zeroes are written during the last pass. The 
more passes performed, the more complete the wiping will be. 

 

Acronis offers extremely powerful hard disk/partition wiping software — Acronis
Privacy Expert Suite, featuring strict algorithms for guaranteed confidential 
information wiping and destruction. 

4. 

Confirm partition deletion by clicking OK in the Delete Partition window. 

5. By 

clicking 

OK

 in the Delete Partition window, you'll add the pending 

operation of partition deletion (your actions may only undo an existing 
operation depending on the situation selected see 2.4.5 «Modifying pending 
operations»). 

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

 

Attention! Deleting a partition destroys all its data, including files and folders! 

Deleting a system partition will make a PC inoperable. Take special care when 
performing this operation.