# Acronis Disk Director

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Organize disks and manage storage volumes with Acronis Disk Director.

## Acronis Disk Director 12 works for

Disk Cloning

You can clone disk in order to replace the old one.

Partition Management

You can create, organize and customize the partitions or you can restructure the whole disk without any data loss.

Volume Recovery

You are always safe in case of boot failure as Acronis Disk Director 2012 enables you to recover the lost data quickly and easily.

Acronis Disk Director 12 is a collection of tools which are very useful for disk optimization and data protection. You are capable of storing different operating systems in one disk creating partitions and managing them properly. Acronis Disk Director 12 saves time which image backup does not offer and the lost data can easily be recovered. The optimization system offers faster PC experience.

### Acronis Disk Director 12 what’s new

- **UEFI compatibility:** This software is compatible with both UEFI-based and bios-based hardware.
- **Supports Windows 10:** Acronis Disk Director 12 is fully certified to work with all Windows operating systems up to Windows 10.

#### Acronis Disk Director 12 key features

Access

You can easily access to the byte of the disk and edit as you need.

Boot

You can boot from whether DVD/CD or USB drive without installing any operating system.

Recover

Acronis Disk Director 12 helps you to recover your accidentally delete or damaged files.

Span

You can extend your volumes in different physical disks. You can use this facility up to 32 disks.

Install

This tool offers to make two volumes from a single volume and install another operating system in the second one.

Convert

While you need changes, you can easily convert the basic disk into dynamic disk or vice versa in just a few minutes.

Format

Acronis Disk Director 12 offers more intuitive user interface and easy operation. You can format your hard drive using NTFS, FAT 32, FAT 16, SWAP, Linux, Reiser3, Ext3, Exts.

Manipulate

Acronis Disk Director 12 helps to manage data, in case of converting, resizing, splitting data or merging volumes. You can create, copy and convert files according to your necessity.

Partition

With the help of Acronis Disk Director 12, mapping the drives and creating partitions are very easy. It is less time consuming. With less risk of errors, you can level, format as well as create partition in only a few seconds.

Clone

While you intend to replace your hard disk drive, you can easily clone the old one using Acronis Disk Director 12. You need not to waste too much time for installing the operating systems since this tool also helps you to make a copy of operating system.

#### Acronis Disk Director 12 additional features

- Create custom setting for showing or hiding the partitions.
- Optimize the disk space automatically for faster performance.
- Have a look at the changes before writing them nto the disk.
- Browse all the information of the file system, partitions and disks.
- Explore data of the disk before creating partitions.
- Format partitions.

## Related guides

- [What to look for when choosing disk management software](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/disk-management-software.html)

## Earlier version comparison

Compare Disk Director 11 Home and Advanced Workstation in this earlier version comparison.

- [Comparison between Acronis Disk Director 11 Home and Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced Workstation](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/acronis-disk-director-comparison.html)