Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $17.99

Features:

• Comprehensive workstation partition and disk-management suite
• Includes Partition Manager, Boot Manager, Partition Recovery, and Disk Editor
• Reorganize PC for better performance and data protection
• New split, merge, and explore partitions; auto operating system detection
• Boot from CD/DVD or from an additional hard-disk drive; view logs

Customer Reviews:

Does It's Job [Posted on 2008-04-10]
This product does exactly what it's supposed to do.

I built a new pc and got ahead of myself when formatting the hard drives i set only 10gigs for my C:/. didn't take me very long to start getting that annoying "not enough space" message lol.
This product helped me move around the space to fit my pc perfectly.

Confusing, Unituitive, but it worked [Posted on 2008-05-03]
I purchased this product to change the size of disk partitions. The product came in a box with a page of instructions that essentially told me to put the CD in my computer. I did, and as instructed installed the product on my XP home PC.

I then read the section of the manual regarding my problem and tried to change the size of the partition. The program took my instructions, told me to "commit" to make the changes (operation-commit) which I did. I was instructed to restart the computer and during the restart before Windows started, things appeared to happen. Windows then opened and I anxiously checked the disk sizes--nothing had changed. I repeated the above several times with similar non-results.

I consulted the manual, there was no instructions about this problem. The manual was jargon filled and almost unintelligible to an average computer user (me). FYI I had run disk check and defragmented the disk, as directed, before starting. I checked the Acronis web site and found it similarly uninformative. Mainly directed at getting you purchase other problems. The knowledge base was virtually empty of information. There was no troubleshooting section.

As is often the case the forum (at the Acronis site) was helpful, though scary. Many people were having similar problems. There were horror stories of disks being "ruined", being permanently trashed, but also a few nuggets of information.

One of the forum exchanges suggested booting in the safe mode from the Acronis CD disk (which has startup software). Those downloading the program presumably can create a similar disk from the download. For me starting from the CD did the trick. The program opened automatically and I made the change in partitions without difficulty.

I went back to the manual and found reference to using the CD as above and it states "you may need to use the bootable media: (1) after a serious Windows failure or (2) to work on a Linux based PC." It didn't recommend this for routine problems.

In short the program worked but only after finding a fix at the Acronis forum that was not suggested either at the website or in the manual. I'd be cautious with this program, as it can do irreparable harm to your computer--check out the Acronis forum site before buying.

Very Good Product [Posted on 2008-05-25]
Acronis Director Suite 10 is a very good product, if you need to repartition your Hard Drive, especially if you have data on it that you don't want to lose. It also has the ability to recover lost partitions and data. Allows you to run multiple operating systems on the same Hard Drive. And it has the ability to boot your PC if you crash.

Dangerous - Crashed My Windows XP PC [Posted on 2008-06-28]
My rating is a ZERO.
This product is not only worthless it causes havoc with your PC.
After trying to use this product once I had to spend hours rescuing my computer from its clutches when it failed to perform tasks such as resizing a partition, froze my computer and then finally crashed it.
Would not uninstall - I had to manually hack through the registry to get rid of this abomination.
My computer is a Dell Desktop PC with 2Gigs of RAM and Windows XP (not SP3) but with all the other updates
I have used Norton in the past but will now use Paragon Partition Manager, version 9.0 as its free trial download installed easily, performed perfectly and has solved all my problems.
I am going to try and return Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 but not sure if Amazon will take back opened software. If not I'll physically shred my copy.
Caveat Emptor

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Did what I wanted it to do [Posted on 2008-07-06]
I have a newer ACER laptop. ACER creates four partitions on this notebook (and others, with two partitions "hidden"), most notably a C: drive for applications and a D: drive for data. I, personally, have never liked multiple partitions and always have more apps than data. So, after a few months, the app partition was filling and the data partition was not. If I could have my way, I would have only ONE partition, a C: drive. For backup of this ACER, I use an external drive and Acronis True Image s/w. This s/w saves a complete image of EVERYTHING on the drive, including ALL partitions. I have used Acronis for several years on other computers. Running Vista, things have changed so the old "Norton Partition Magic" doesn't work anymore. Acronis Disk Director s/w claims to work with Vista so I purchased at a good price from an Amazon seller. Desire was to increase the size of the C: drive while decreasing the size of the D:. Left the other two ACER defined partitions alone because I was afraid to mess with them. Before running Disk Director, created an image of the whole drive with Acronis True Image just in case. Change in partititioning was successful although there were a few scarey moments when Acronis said it had to "repair" something. Bottom line, Aconis Disk Director worked and this seller provided a better value for this s/w than some others.

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