extFAT and Basic volume
I have purchased Acronis Disk Directory Suite 10 rus.
But in that version there is no support for extFAT.
For this option, I have downloaded Disk Director Home 11 Trial.
But in the DDS 11 no support of extFAT ether.
1) Are Acronis were planned to include extFAT support in the future versions?
And there is a one more question.
2) Why in the new DDS 11, if I create a partition in the Removable device, I cannot create partition on the all ampty space?
I mean, in the dialog window, where I can choose a size of partition, always 1 Mb minimum of space is wasted (unused space) or before, or after the partition? In the DDS 10 there is no such bug.
Thank you in advance for answers for my 2 questions.
My desktop system is Windows 7 Ultimate.
1) I understand, thanks.
2) I have tried to make partitions on the variable flash-usb devices, from 1 Gb up to 64 Gb. For all flash-usb drives situation is the same.
For example, Flashdrive is 4 Gb. In the DDS 10 displays 3,777 Gb, in the DDS 11 displays 3,778 Gb, but now I can create partition in DDS11 only with 64 Kb of unusable space (before or after the partition). For the same USB, in DDS 10 I can create partition on all empty space.
I 'm attaching screens from DDS 10 and DDS 11.
I'm making partitions in the DDS10 and that's Ok, but I'm going to purchase an upgrade for the new version, and if new version has a bug, It's very bad.
This situation is not only in my system, I've installed DDS11 in the three different computers with windows 7, and tried variable usb-drives, situation is the same - in DDS 11 I cannot use all empty space for partition.
I would just ignore those "before" and "after" values when they are very small amounts (and 64KB is a very small amount). The DD 11 partition is actually larger than the DD partition which means that DD 11 is creating a partition that uses more "empty space" than DD 10.
This is not good, if unpartitioned space in the HDD, it's not acceptable.
And while in the DDS is no extFAT support, I stay in the old version, new version with this bug doesn't please me at all.
It's your choice, of course. However, there is almost always "unpartitioned" space left on drives. These spaces may be at the beginning or at the end or even between partitions. Most partitioning programs have a minimum size that they display. This size differs between them so "unpartitioned" spaces may appear differently (you can't create a partition with 64KB so why display it). Also, as already stated, if the partition is aligned differently (as can be the case between DD 10 and DD 11) the "unpartitioned" left-over space will be different too. I fail to understand why you seem to prefer the "zeros" in DD 10 when the partition is actually smaller than the DD 11 partition. This "problem" is not what I would call a bug.
It's not a bug, especially when you have an extended partition, which by design cannot use 100% of the available space. there are logical and physical head and cylinder boundaries that the BIOS hides but the file systems cannot completely negate.
You also have to remember that when companies advertise their disks be they USB flash drives or magnetic HDDs they advertise a GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes (1 billion bytes), while 1 GigaByte is 1024*1024*1024 or 1,073,741,824 bytes. So, your 4 "GB" flash drive 4 billion bytes is really 3.73 GigaBytes.
The difference gets larger as the size goes up.
You are both wrong.
1) I see with diskedit and diskview - after work of DDS 10, there no unpartitioned space at all. But DDS 11 for some reason cannot make partition to all empty space, that's a problem, as I see.
2) If you see my screenshots you must mention, that I do NOT make extended or logical partition, I make Primary partition in both (DDS10 and DDS11).
3) I know about difference of space capacity. All vendors of USB devices count capacity like 1000 MB in one GB and so on. There problem not in the capacity. There problem in difference of making partitions in DDS 10 and DDS 11.
And problem in not solved. I will be waiting for the new updates of DDS 11, may be Acronis team will fix that problem.
It's still unclear to me if your problem is with unpartitioned space or "visible" unpartitioned space. You seem to like not seeing it so I'm guessing the latter. There is always going to be unpartitioned space on a drive - some will be before the partition and some after - and it's not always visible (you would have to check the actual sectors used). This is completely normal. It's not a bug or a technical problem.
In any case, after seven posts we're right back where we started. I'm done with this thread.
Yes we 're right back where we started.
It's not true, that after I create Primary partition on all empty space of device, there is unused space before or after the partition.
Unused space may be if I create Logical partition, extended or some kind of NON primary partition.
This very easy to check with some low-level tools (like DiskEdit and DiskView, early mentioned). I can see the real structure of partition.
If I make partition with Windows DiskPart tool and if I make partition with DDS 10 or other partition tools, I can see with low-level tools, that there is no unused space in the Device at all, all capacity used by one Primary partition.
And only the DDS 11 cannot make partition on all capacity of device, I do not know why.
OK, I see you have used Diskpart and and can make a single large partition. but you want to make an extended partition, which DD10 won't do, but DD11 will do (but DD11 leaves "unused space").
Why exactly do you need to partition a USB memory stick. Those things are so inexpensive now, that you can just get another stick. Let me see, i have 13 or 14 of them hanging around my house and in my computer bag.
And having 64KB of "unused space on a 64GB stick is irrelevant. That's likely a partition boundary due to the extreme LBA / Large disk alignment that has to be used for multiple partitions. I mean are you really pulling your hair out over a 64KB block on a 64GB device?????
No, I repeat, I'm making PRIMARY partition, not extended, not logical, only primary on all the space. I attached screens in the early messages.
DDS10 can do also extended and logical partition, as well as a primary. It do not leave any unused space. But DDS11 even if you make primary partition, leave unused space. The matter is not in the free space, I don't care if in 64 Gb I loose <100 Mb, the matter is in the fact - DDS10 can do primary partition on all space, DDS11 cannot. And there is no difference of file systems, wich I select for patition, DDS10 can, DDS11 cannot. I need to know, can Acronis team fix that in future versions, or not? If not, that's very sad.
PS: As I know, Acronis was based on the Russia, but I cannot find the russian branches in that official forum.