Dynamic volume support, Yes or No??

LS,

While i was reading all the info i can get via your website and forum, i'm intrested in buying imaging software for imaging dynamics disks, i found the contrary information:


Acronis FAQ:

Does Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows support Windows LDM (dynamic disks)?
Yes, Acronis True Image 8.0 Server for Windows support Windows LDM (also called Dynamic Disks). You can create an image of a volume of any type and later restore the imaged volume back to dynamic or basic disk. There is one restriction however — if you want to restore a system volume (that is a volume where operating system files reside), then the archive must not reside on a dynamic volume. Non-system volume images can be restored from anywhere.



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August 3rd, 2005, 11:47 AM
netbones
Infrequent Poster Join Date: Aug 2005
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When will Dynamic Disks be supported?!?

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I've seen posts (from April 2004) stating the Disk Director will support Dynamic disks in future releases. When is this REALLY going to happen? I need to increase my OS partition and cannot due to it being dynamic.

If anyone knows of ANOTHER product that can support this, let me know!!



#2 August 3rd, 2005, 12:23 PM
Acronis Support
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Re: When will Dynamic Disks be supported?!?

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Hello netbones,

Thank you for your interest in Acronis Partition and Disk Managing Software.

We are currently working on the implementation of dynamic disks support. This feature will be implemented in future versions of Acronis Disk Direstor Suite 9.0.

Thank you.
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All this is very confusing. I won't buy software that won't do the trick for me, so, can you explain this?



With kind regards,



Marcel Wierenga

 

Hello Marcel,

Perhaps this recent <Acronis Support reply> will help to unravel the mystery.

Regards

 

Hi, inc10521

Convert Dynamic to Basic:- #6

Take Care,
TheQuest

 

Hello inc10521,

Thank you for your interest in Acronis Disk Backup Software.

Acronis True Image 8.0 and Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 don't support Dynamic disks. Please note that only Acronis True Image 8.0 Server and Acronis True Image 8.0 Enterprise Server allow you to create images of Dynamic disks, also you can restore these images but the after the restore the disk will be set as Basic (however, Windows is able to convert Basic disks to Dynamic without data loss).

Thank you.
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Irina Shirokova