Speaking about how to share a hard drive using Acronis Disk Director, you need to start by creating a separate system boot disk . This will protect all data stored on the computer if something goes wrong. It goes without saying that you need to use the full version of the program.
Launch Acronis Disk Director and select “Bootable Disk Creation Wizard”. You should start the user interface in manual mode in order to get full control over the program.
How to share a hard drive: system partition
The next window will display information about the hard drive. Typically, a single physical hard drive is installed on a computer. You need to create a section C on it, designed for system files and installed programs. It is advisable to set the size of this part to at least 80 gigabytes in order to provide more space for downloads. However, storing other data on it is not a good idea, because if the operating system fails, all files may be lost.
Then you need to create a new partition using the remaining free space on your hard drive. Their number and size can be any, and later you can change or combine them if necessary.
How to share a hard drive: creating storage space
Select "Create Partition Wizard", enter information about your hard disk into it. Then divide the free space of the hard drive as you like. You will need to specify the size of the created partition. If your media size is 180 gigabytes, and you have allocated 80 for system files, you must specify 100 GB (despite the fact that this seems obvious). Select the type of partition in the next window. Creating a logical type is recommended if you are not going to install the operating system and various programs there. This type is considered the most suitable for data files.
After that, select the file system that you want to use. Many rightly prefer NTFS. So, in the program window, select File System. Then enter the drive letter for the new partition that will create Acronis Disk Director. Splitting a disk, as you can see, is quite simple. The next step is the name for the new section, which you also choose yourself. The progress of all actions by the program will be displayed in the form of schematic drawings. Before each operation, a question will be asked whether you really want to do this. So, to complete the instructions on how to share the hard drive, you need to click on the Commit button.
Completion
Disk Director Acronis will take the necessary actions and then issue a warning that the computer requires a restart. After it, you can immediately see that the structure of the hard drive has changed, and at the same time it loads quickly and without any problems. To make sure that the separation was successful, look in the “My Computer” folder - you will see 2 displayed hard drives, instead of the one you saw earlier. In addition to the main purpose of Acronis - to partition the disk, this program also has a number of additional features.