# Acronis Disk Director 11 Home - Features and Components Archive

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Historical overview of Disk Director 11 Home: partition management, recovery tools and boot-related components, with guidance for safe disk operations.

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## Disk management rather than a backup archive

Acronis Disk Director 11 Home combined partition-management and disk-maintenance tools. Its purpose was to change or inspect disk layouts. It should be distinguished from True Image, which creates backup archives for later restoration.

## Partition-management features

The historical manual describes creating, resizing, moving, copying and merging volumes, along with disk cloning and conversions between supported disk layouts. The availability of an operation depends on the selected disk and volume; a list of features is not a guarantee that every operation applies to every layout.

## Components and recovery tools

Disk Director 11 Home documentation also covers Recovery Expert for recovering lost volumes, Disk Editor for examining and editing disk data, bootable media and OS Selector for boot management. These tools address different problems. Finding a lost partition is not the same operation as restoring a backup image.

## Before changing partitions

Save important data to a separate physical device and verify the copy. Record the existing layout and review all pending operations before applying them. If the disk is failing, preserve recoverable data before experimenting with changes to its partitions.

## Related editions and practical guidance

[Disk Director 12](https://find-your-software.com/acronis/disk-director-12/) has a separate catalog page; it is a different release. Read [the disk-management guide](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/disk-management-software.html) to choose a tool by the operation you need, or [the historical Disk Director 11 edition comparison](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/acronis-disk-director-comparison.html) for Home and Advanced Workstation context.

## Sources and further reading

- [Acronis archive](https://find-your-software.com/acronis/archive/)
- [Backup, recovery and disk-management guides](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/)