Evacuate disk
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Evacuate disk

The Evacuate Disk command moves the entire contents of a healthy disk to the free space on another dynamic disk. Even if there is a failed volume on the original disk, the volume is moved successfully, but the data is not copied. You can restore the data backup on the moved volume, after it is reactivated.

Note:

Dynamic disks belonging to a Microsoft Disk Management disk group do not support the Evacuate Disk command.

To evacuate a disk

  1. Select the disk to evacuate.

    Right-click the disk.

  2. Select Evacuate Disk.
  3. The Evacuate Disk dialog appears. Select either Auto Assign destination disk or Manually assign destination disk. If you chose Manually assign destination disk, assign the destination disk by selecting one disk from the display.

    You may also check Disable Track Alignment to disable track alignment on the destination disk.

  4. Click OK to evacuate the disk.
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