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• Aug 19 2009 10:19am
  C Nevius (Visitor)
  I am wanting to purchase Disk Director Suite 10 and replace PowerQuest PartitionMagic 8.0. Do I need to remove all of the files and directories that PartitionMagic created, or does Disk Director Suite read some of these files.
• Aug 20 2009 5:49pm
  Roman Rtichshev (Acronis Inc. Vendor)
  Hello. Thank you for your interest in our software. Unfortunately Disk Director is not compatible with files/folder created by another disk management tools.
• Aug 25 2009 1:40am
  Sam Cal (Visitor)
  I have a Dell XPS with Windows XP MCE. Two drives are set up a a high perfromance 320GB RAID. What is the best way to convert those to a standard, single larger HD (say, 750GB)?
  
  Would Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 be useful?
• Aug 25 2009 9:15am
  Randy Johnson (Visitor)
  C Nevius,
  
  Sounds like all you would need to do is remove your old program after you install the new one and that will get rid of your old one. Once a hard drive is partitioned you can use any partition program to change it as needed. Always back up your data first.
  
  Randy
• Aug 25 2009 10:02am
  Ulrich Peters (Visitor)
  This is a dead product, that has known problems. In April 2008 the company acknowledged that Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 does not work correctly with non-English Windows Vista. (My contact was Nadezhda Averyanova.) The build at this time was #2160, which is the exact same build that is yet offered today in the "Product Update" section of the web site. Never, ever any solution was published, yet I was asked to close my support request as "fully resolved to your complete satisfaction".
  Do yourself a favor and keep you hands off this product.
• Aug 25 2009 4:10pm
  Nick Katz (Frequent Flyer)
  I have to agree with Ulrich Peters. I used this on a computer with XP and it was fine. I could never get it to work right on Vista and the two times I tried it thoroughly screwed up my computer. Luckily I had an emergency boot disc or I would have had to reinstall Windows. After more than a year without an update I gave up completely on this. The last update was March 2007 which supposedly made it Vista compatible but did not, at least for me.
  There are other products such as Easus Partition Master, which has a good, free version. If Acronis doesn't work on Vista and hasn't been updated for so long, I can't imagine there will be an update for Windows 7.
• Aug 25 2009 4:50pm
  Fred B (Visitor)
  Count this as another warning against using this product. I've owned a license for several years, but it is only good for XP! I too learned the hard way that Disk Director does not support Vista--ask yourself, is it worth risking your data? Personally, I won't let it near a Windows7 installation after it destroyed my Vista disk (Win7 is built on the same code base as Vista. You'll notice Vista's version # is 6.0, while Win7's official version # is 6.1.)
  
  And it's worth noting, as Ulrich and Nick point out, no updates or changes have been made since Build 2160 was released in March 2007, a full two and a half years ago. This program is abandonware.

• Feb 25 2010 2:42am
  Jerzy FromPoland (Visitor)
  Is it windows 7 32/64 bit compatible? If no. When will be a new version to use with windows 7?
• Feb 25 2010 10:24am
  Rob Ert (Rising Star)
  Hello,
  
  Is this offer only for the programm in english, or also in dutch ?
  
  Thank you
• Feb 25 2010 10:24am
  Rob Ert (Rising Star)
  Hello,
  
  Is this offer only for the programm in english, or also in dutch ?
  
  Thank you
• Mar 2 2010 3:06pm
  Guy Simmons (Visitor)
  This is abandonware and support sucks; avoid.
• Mar 4 2010 4:20am
  Jon Koerner (Superstar)
  Be sure to expand the "Old Comments" section above and read the notes -- this v10 product is apparently a disaster on Vista. (I have used Acronis Disk Director v9 on Windows XP only, and it has worked okay for me. So I thought I'd take a look at this v10 to see if it offered anything useful.)
  
  I can't understand this Acronis company - they have made some good products (like TrueImage Home v8 and TrueImage Workstation v9 - though you need to watch the Wilder forum to see which builds are stable - they release a lot of buggy ones), but they've also created some real stinkers, and they don't then do anything to help the poor customers who bought them..
  
  I see that they did not respond to any of the questions recently posted here -- nor to any from last August. For those reasons, I'd advise passing on this and waiting for another BDJ sale on Paragon partitioning software.
• Mar 4 2010 5:03am
  Guy Simmons (Visitor)
  They are beginning to give BdJ a bad name...they should be banned from here.
• Mar 4 2010 7:26am
  Kevin Irish (Rising Star)
  It doesn't work with Windows 7.
• Mar 4 2010 9:52am
  Rich Lang (Visitor)
  BDJ - You need to be more selective in your software offerings. A few are extremely problematic. Maybe just review other tech hubs and read their reviews first.
• Mar 4 2010 1:03pm
  Richard Blake (Visitor)
  http://kb.acronis.com/content/5585
  5585: Acronis Disk Director Does Not Support Windows 7
  Created - Nov 6, 2009; Updated - Nov 18, 2009; Access Level - Public
  This article applies to:
  Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0
  Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0
  The current versions of Acronis Disk Director do not support Windows 7.
  Windows 7 support will be implemented in the next officially released version of Acronis Disk Director.
  ---
  http://kb.acronis.com/content/1826
  1826: Acronis Disk Director Product Line Development
  Created - Feb 5, 2009; Updated - Mar 2, 2010; Access Level - Public
  As of 2010, Acronis Development Team is working on releasing a new version of Acronis Disk Director.
  At the moment, there is no specific date for the release.
  ---
  I suppose the $29.99 upgrade fee to the usable product will be waived if released within a year of a purchase today.
  
  While waiting for version 11, consider a free alternative:
  http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-partition-manager.htm
  http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
• Mar 4 2010 6:19pm
  Nick Katz (Frequent Flyer)
  A very outdated program that never worked with Vista even though it was supposed to have been updated. Don't hold your breath for a Windows 7 update. I would absolutely stay away from this at all costs. If you need a partitioning utility you could try Easeus Partition Master. Free and works well. At least unlike Acronis disk Director it does not leave your computer unable to boot.
• Mar 4 2010 9:01pm
  Ash Goyal (Visitor)
  Yes I agree with Jon above. I used v9 on XP and was happy but v10 was a disaster on Vista. Crashed my PC several times until I uninstalled it completely and moved to competition. Very sad that the new v10 from a reputable company has gone down the toilet.

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