Acronis Disk Director

Acronis Disk Director is a complete toolkit for performing hard disk operations, with an emphasis on partition management and recovery. Aside from volume manipulation tasks, it enables you to view the structure of your hard disk in a detailed manner.

The targeted audience is home users, although this has been argued by experts pointing out that the much too simple and permissive dialogs could lead inexperienced users to render disks unbootable. In short, it provides easy access to dangerous functions that may harm the computer irreversibly.

Leaving its exaggerated accessibility aside, Acronis Disk Director sports an array of features that are rarely found in similar software. It’s made up of three major components: a partition manager, a recovery module and a bootable media creator, offering support for UEFI and BIOS-based PCs.

The first one provides the possibility to perform a number of operations on disk volumes, such as merging, resizing, splitting, copying, formatting and moving partitions with the utmost ease. It’s the best chance you have at reorganizing the structure of your HDD without extensive efforts.

The Recovery Expert, on the other hand, is able to get back lost or deleted partitions, as well as to repair and troubleshoot disk failures or errors resulting from situations such as virus attacks or software issues. What’s more, its abilities get to the point where recovering partitions is possible even if your computer fails to boot.

Last, but not least, the Bootable Media Builder enables you to create Windows or Linux bootable drives just by following a few simple steps of the dedicated wizard.

To sum it all up, Acronis Disk Director is a top disk management application. Its only downside is that it allows for high-risk operations without explaining them first or without triggering a warning, which could result in serious trouble for inexperienced users.