Disk Management and Partitioning. Fast & Easy.
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is the easiest and most convenient partition manager and hard disk toolkit. It brings together the most popular disk management functions, partition recovery tools, and boot disk manager for Windows XP and Vista desktop systems.
Main Features
- Automatically or manually resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data
- Reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize disk space usage
- Install multiple operating systems (OSes) on a single computer, boot an OS from any partition on any hard disk, or have several operating systems on the same partition
- Edit the hard disk at the sector level manually
- Protect your data recovering deleted or lost partitions
Awards & Reviews

Computer Buyer Award
Best Vista DownloadsA suite of utilities that will keep your hard disk healthy. An excellent set of tools that will allow you to keep your hard disk healthy and organized.

6 of 6 Stars from PC Authority
PC AuthorityAcronis understands how to present advanced technical operations at OS level so that anyone with a basic understanding
Customer Stories
Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine:
Our test system (running Acronis Recovery Expert) worked effortlessly and quickly to find and restore a Linux partition that had been deleted months ago. If you've ever lost a partition to buggy or malicious software, this utility alone may be worth the price (of Acronis Disk Director Suite).
Davey Winder, PC Pro Magazine:
If you've been looking for advanced disk management, coupled with a truly intuitive interface, the search is over.
OS Selector
Reliable boot management that is easy to use
As one of the best loved components of Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 OS Selector allows you to:
- Install up to 100 multiple operating systems (OSes) on one computer.
You can boot an OS from any partition on any hard disk or have several multiboot systems on the same partition. This completely redesigned solution is now faster and easier to use. - Protect your data with Acronis boot manager.
Acronis OS Selector allows you to install different multi-boot systems for your children, your work and for software tests. You can also protect multi-boot OSes with passwords. - Use your favorite old programs as well as modern environment.
Your favorite games and applications don't work with latest Windows versions? Simply install both newer and older Windows versions and reboot when necessary. - Try Linux or any other new OS.
You have probably heard and read much about Linux, but never
Other features
- New! Boot from an additional hard disk drive. Acronis OS Selector enables you to set the disk order so you can boot from any hard drive you select
- New! Insert a bootable CD/DVD and it will automatically be detected and displayed as a multiboot option by Acronis OS Selector
- New! Detect multiple operating systems that became unbootable due to some accidental reasons with Acronis OS Selector detection tool
- Install several versions of Windows on a single partition. Operating systems with the same folder names (e.g. C:\Program Files) on one partition are supported.
- Exclusive! Install and boot an operating system from any partition of any hard disk.
- Protect multi-boot OSes and setup with a password.
- Hide operating systems and partitions.
- Clone OS installation as a back-up.
- Repartition your system for a new OS installation.
- Boot viruses protection included.
Partition Expert
The most comprehensible partitioning that is fast and easy
Dividing your hard drive into individual partitions for your operating system, programs, data files, music, and images provides better organization and, most important, much better data safety in the event of a drive crash.
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 makes this task a breeze! The suite includes Acronis Partition Expert product which allows you to
- Merge, split, resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data, automatically or manually. Split one partition into two or merge two partitions into one and leave your data untouched, even if file systems on the partitions are different.
- Reorganize the hard disk drive structure. Explore partition data before performing partitioning operations.
- Optimize disk space usage. Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, partitions and file systems; Preview changes made in partition layout before applying them to disk
- Troubleshoot issues and reasons for failure by viewing logs.
Other features
- New! Troubleshoot issues and reasons for failure by viewing logs:
- Resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data;*
- Create and delete partitions of any type;
- Format partitions;*
- Automatically optimize hard disk space usage;
- Convert FAT16 <=> FAT32, Linux Ext2 <=> Ext3 partitions without losing data;
- Change cluster size automatically or manually;
- Hide or make visible partitions of any type;
- Supports large disks over 180 GB.
* For supported file systems
Disk Editor & Partition Recovery
Disk Editor
A handy tool that makes advanced disk editing easy
There are some problems that appear quite often, but are not that easy to solve. Backing up, copying, and/or recovering important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or extraction of information that was removed by accident or lost due to different soft- and hardware failures or virus attacks… These issues are being solved easily with Acronis Disk Director® Suite 10.0. The product includes Acronis Disk Editor that allows you to:
- Boot up from CDs or DVDs. If your PC fails to boot, irrespective of operating system, this operation may become the only way to avoid disaster.
- Edit contents of HD sectors. You can easily edit content of a hard disk and its partitions, representing them in the most convenient way. Use pending execution to edit sector contents first and then make a decision whether you want to save disk changes or discard them.
- Back up and restore critical hard drive sectors. Works best together with an award-winning backup software from True Image family Acronis True Image Home 2009.
Other features
- Supports IDE, SCSI, USB, IEEE 1394 hard disk drives.
- Allows you to view hard disk partition contents in a hexadecimal mode.
- Supports additional viewing modes that allows you to work effectively with all disk data storage structures like Partition tables, FAT and NTFS partition bootsectors, root and other FAT folders.
- Multiwindow operating mode gives you an opportunity of working with contents of one or several disk sectors in different windows.
- A unified Windows XP-styled graphic user interface with full mouse support.
Partition Recovery
A reliable data, partition and disk recovery
Failed hard disk recovery or deleted partition restore has never been easier!
Acronis Recovery Expert included into Acronis Disk Director® Suite 10.0 completely protects your data, allowing you to:
- Recover deleted or lost partitions. This partition restore software is must-have this if you care for safety of your data and wish to be fully armed and ready for any personal, hard- or software failure, virus attack, or hacker's intrusive destruction.
- Recover your PC instantly if it becomes unbootable after a power outage or a system error.
Other features
- Supported file systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, Linux Swap
- Automatic and Manual recovery mode selections
- Independent work from bootable CDs or diskettes enables you to recover partitions even if your operating system fails to boot
- Supports large disks over 180 Gb
- A Windows XP-like wizard styled interface for superior usability and ease of use