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I have been waiting for the release of a new version of Acronis Disk Director since 10. Version 10 was not updated for at least two years and I have wondered what Acronis was doing during that time.

Finally Disk Director 11 Home was released. However, I have been quite disappointed. Various functions available in 10 have been removed in 11, such as Wipe and Hide Partitions. For me the deal breaker is the removal of Hide Partitions. As I routinely deal with multiple operating systems on my computers, this function is absolutely necessary for me. I have not purchased 11 for this very reason.

What on earth is Acronis thinking? Will there be an updated build for 11 that will add back the missing functions? And by the way, does 11 support the 4K Sector hard disks and the Vista/7 partitioning scheme necessary for the 4K Sector disks? How about the GPT partitioning scheme? If yes, can it use the same functions in GPT (such as resize, move) as in MBR?

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An Advanced version of DD 11 is being developed (currently in beta or just out of it). It has many of the "missing" features of DD 11 Home.

DD 11 supports GPT drives.

Supports GPT? What is the extent of that support? Can it do the things as in MBR such as resize, move, combine etc.?

Advanced version? I have not heard of it. Are you sure? If this is so, does this mean that it will be much more expensive than the current Home version?

Only Acronis know what price point they are going to sell DD11 Advanced at.

MBR partitions can be resized and moved. If by combined, you are thinking of deleting a partition and assigning the released space to another partition, then yes it will be able to do that.

Boot volumes can not be converted to GPT.

I haven't tested every feature on a GPT drive, but resize, merge, split, etc., work. Convert to logical and Change partition type don't work.

Thank you for your responses.

Can anyone tell me if Disk Director 11 (and the future Advanced version) supports the Vista/7 partition rules and the new 4K Sector hard disks?