The safest way to manage your data and hard drives

What is Acronis Disk Director Home

Acronis Disk Director 12.5 Home delivers a set of powerful tools that work together to optimize your disk usage and protect your data. Store different file systems or operating systems on one disk by creating and managing disk partitions.

Disk Cloning

Easily migrate your data, operating system and applications from an old basic MBR disk to a replacement disk.

Volume Recovery

Quickly recover lost or deleted data partitions, even in cases when your operating system fails to boot.

Partition Management

Safely create, customize, and organize partitions and your hard drive’s structure without losing data.

What’s New

Extended hardware support

Acronis Disk Director 12.5 features support for 4k native hard disks, as well as an updated Linux kernel version in its bootable media, delivering greater support of most modern hardware.

Acronis True Image 2019 compatibility

Rest easy knowing your data is safe. You can operate both products on the same machine, using the same Linux-based bootable media, to back up the volumes that you create and manage.

Key Features

Manipulate

Manage your data, whether you are splitting, re-sizing, converting or merging volumes. Create, convert and copy files and volumes as needed.

Partition

Create partitions more quickly and easily. One easy step formats, labels and activates partitions, reducing the time spent and the risk of errors.

Format

Make complex operations easily and efficiently through an intuitive user interface. Format your drive with the correct file system, whether FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, Ext3, Reiser3, Linux, SWAP.

Recover

Recover volumes that were accidentally deleted, damaged by hardware failure, or affected by a malware attack – all through a single, easy-to-use solution.

Clone

Migrate everything on one disk – from the OS to apps to system preferences – to a replacement disk in mere minutes. This operation is available for basic MBR disks.

Install

Boost your processing power by splitting an existing volume into two and installing an operating system on the second one to create another processing volume.

Convert

Adapt your system to meet new and changing requirements in mere moments. Converting disks from basic to dynamic, or vice versa, is fast and easy.

Span

Maximize the use of your disk space by creating a single, logical volume from the unallocated space across multiple physical disks. Supports up to 32 disks.

Access

Benefit from the direct byte access and editing capabilities of the Acronis Disk Editor when modifying your disk.

Boot

Create bootable media so you can launch your system from a CD/DVD or USB drive, even when the disk has no OS installed. Includes support for the Windows 10 Preinstallation Environment.

Manage

Browse detailed information about all hard disks, partitions, and files systems, hide or make visible any partition type, and preview changes before applying them.

Optimize

Get the most out of your system by examining and automatically optimizing the use of hard disk space.

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System Requirements

Supported operating systems

• Windows 10 – Home, Pro, Education, Enterprise, and IoT Enterprise editions
• Windows 8/8.1 – all editions (x86, x64), except for the Windows RT editions
• Windows 7 – all editions

• Windows Vista – all editions
• Windows XP Professional SP3 (x86, x64)

Recommended hardware requirements

• Computer processor: 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• System memory: 512 MB or more

• Screen resolution: 1024×768 or higher
• CD / DVD recording drive, or a flash drive for bootable media creation

Minimum hardware requirements

• Boot firmware: Bios-based, UEFI-based
• Computer processor: modern processor, 800 MHz or faster
• System memory: 256 MB

• Screen resolution: 800×600 pixels
• Installation disk space: 150 MB
• Other: Mouse

Supported file systems

• FAT16
• FAT32
• NTFS
• Ext2

• Ext3
• Reiser3
• Linux SWAP