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1. Location Disk 4 Before Unallocated 200 GB 200 0 GB After aw D SE 200 0 GB NTFS Primary Logical Dynamic Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported y g Click Proceed to start creating new partition s Click Cancel to cancel the procedure and quit to the main program window After you click Proceed Seagate DiscWizard starts creating new partition or partitions indicating the progress in a special window If you stop this procedure by clicking Cancel you will have to repartition and format the new disk or repeat the disk add procedure Before clicking the Proceed button you can use the sidebar to navigate through the Add New Disk Wizard steps and make changes 6 4 Seagate Extended Capacity Manager The Seagate Extended Capacity Manager ECM allows your operating system OS to support large capacity disks that have the MBR partition style You are able to use the disk space beyond 2 TB This free space will be recognized as a separate disk and will be usable by your operating system and applications as if it was a regular physical hard disk When it is needed If you have hard disks larger than 2 TB and your OS does not see the entire disk space you can resolve this issue through one of the following options 103 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 Use Extended Capacity Manager You can use this tool for all cases because it
2. Lu Help lt Back Next gt l Cancel To select a component Figure 10 REMOVE Select the check box of the program you want to include into the AFTER TRANSLATION bootable media The bottom field displays the space required for the selected components If you have other Seagate products installed on your computer you can also include standalone versions of these programs into the same bootable media fautomatic start of the program is necessary select the Starts automatically after check box The Start automatically after parameter specifies the timeout interval for the boot menu If this parameter is not specified the program will display the boot menu and wait for you to select whether to boot the OS or the Seagate component If you set for example 10 sec for Seagate rescue media the standalone Seagate DiscWizard will launch 10 seconds after the menu is displayed m Click Next to continue 6 1 1 2 Bootable media startup parameters Here you can set bootable media startup parameters in order to configure rescue media boot options for better compatibility with different hardware Several options are available nousb nomouse noapic etc These parameters are provided for advanced users If you encounter any hardware compatibility problems while testing boot from the rescue media it may be best to contact the product s support team To add a startup parameter Enter a command into the Parameters field
3. Having specified the startup parameters click Next to continue Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel Description The following parameters can be used to load Linux kernel in a special mode acpi off Disables ACPI and may help with a particular hardware configuration noapic Disables APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller and may help with a particular hardware configuration nousb Disables loading of USB modules nousb2 Disables USB 2 0 support USB 1 1 devices still work with this option This option allows using some USB drives in USB 1 1 mode if they do not work in USB 2 0 mode m quiet This parameter is enabled by default and the startup messages are not displayed Deleting it will result in the startup messages being displayed as the Linux kernel is loaded and the command shell being offered prior to running the Seagate program nodma Disables DMA for all IDE disk drives Prevents kernel from freezing on some hardware nofw Disables FireWire IEEE1394 support nopcmcia Disables PCMCIA hardware detection nomouse Disables mouse support module name off Disables the module e g sata_sis off pci bios Forces to use PCI BIOS and not to access the hardware device directly For instance this parameter may be used if the machine has a non standard PCI host bridge pci nobios Disallows use of PCI BIOS only direct hardware access m
4. enables recovery of a disk to the same disk where the disk s backup resides offers a cost effective and handy method for protecting data from software malfunction virus attack operator error eliminates the need for a separate media or network connection to back up or recover the data Note This product edition does not support Acronis Secure Zone creation To access this feature please upgrade to full version B Backup 1 The same as Backup operation p 123 2 A set of backup versions created and managed by using backup settings A backup can contain multiple backup versions created using full p 124 and incremental p 124 backup methods Backup versions belonging to the same backup are usually stored in the same location Backup operation An operation that creates a copy of the data that exists on a machine s hard disk for the purpose of recovering or reverting the data to a specified date and time Backup settings A set of rules configured by a user when creating a new backup The rules control the backup process Later you can edit the backup settings to change or optimize the backup process Backup version The result of a single backup operation p 123 Physically it is a file or a set of files that contains a copy of the backed up data as of a specific date and time Backup version files created by Seagate DiscWizard have a TIB extension The TIB files resulting from consolidat
5. If you delete an incremental backup version the program will also delete all subsequent incremental versions till the next full version 3 7 Backup options In the Disk Backup Options window you can configure options for a disk partition backup process To open the options window click the appropriate link After you have installed the application all options are set to the initial values You can change them for your current backup operation only or for all backups that will be created in future Select the Save the settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further backup operations by default Disk Backup Options o Lajm Backup scheme Advanced Performance Notifications Exdusions 6 Image creation mode A Back up sector by sector Back up unallocated space fay Backup protection v B Pre Post commands v ii Backup splitting v amp Validation e Backup reserve copy v E Removable media settings v amp Backup comment y i Screenshot settings ei ais Error handling ze Computer shutdown ei Windows account Ki Save the settings as default IS Reset to initial settings OK Cancel Note that options of each backup type are fully independent and you should configure them separately If you want to reset all the modified options to the values that were set after the product installation initially click the Reset to initial settings button In this section E Tee EE E
6. Unmount image With this tool you can unmount the temporary logical drives you have created to explore an image 6 1 Creating bootable rescue media In this section Seagate Media Builder ii dcsctsuntsseivsedenstessdevebesedetetessdersbenedennteesseuebeeesess 84 6 1 1 Seagate Media Builder You can run Seagate DiscWizard from an emergency boot media on a bare metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot You can even back up disks on a non Windows computer copying all its data into the backup by imaging the disk in the sector by sector mode To do so you will need bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Seagate DiscWizard version installed on it You can create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder For this you will need a blank CD R RW a blank DVD R RW or any other media from which your computer can boot such as a USB flash drive Seagate DiscWizard also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a bootable disc on the hard disk Notes If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Seagate DiscWizard installation you will not be able to use this feature When booting from the Rescue Media you cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 ReiserFS and Linux SWAP file systems Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions Due to this reason we strongly re
7. Disk1 NTFS System Reserved C PriAct 101 9MB 77 31 MB NTFS LANTFS System disk D Pri 15 9GB 7 755 GB NTFS Disk 2 LANTFS Backups E i 16GB 12 05 GB NTFS Settings of Partition C 24 91 GB NTFS Cancel Next gt Cancel 7 Clicking Accept returns you to the Settings of partition 1 1 screen Check the partition type and change it if necessary You should remember that the System Reserved partition must be primary and marked as active 53 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 8 Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size area By default the partition occupies the entire new disk You need to keep the hidden partition size unchanged and place it in the same location on the disk at the start or the end of disk space To do this resize and relocate the partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen Or you can enter corresponding values into the appropriate fields Partition size Free space before Free space after Click Accept when the partition has the required size and location and then click Next r Placovary Wizard CH Recovery Wizard Specify recover settings of Partition 1 1 er ss Partition location required ei You can change the size of the partition amp Partition size 106 Free space before 1 Free space after
8. In this case Seagate DiscWizard generates a new disk signature for the recovered hard drive even if you recover to the same drive Disk recovery options click to set up additional parameters for the disk recovery process 4 3 How to recover more than one partition at once Here we describe recovery of two partitions If an image of a hard disk has more than two partitions the procedure is similar 1 Click Recover on the backup box of a disk containing several partitions The Disk Recovery window appears Disk Recovery EECH Lea Recovering VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 o Version Source Switch to disk mode p New Volume D NTFS Oe 19 GB New Volume G NTFS PF ep Show MBR amp Disk recovery options Cancel 2 Click the down arrow next to Version and then select the backup version you want to recover by its backup date and time 3 Select a partition to recover This opens the recovery destination field below the partition name label Disk Recovery Recovering VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 Version Source NTFS i 19 GB NTFS 2 Disk recovery options LS fea o Switch to disk mode are Virtual S1 GI Cancel 4 Click the down arrow to the right of the field and select the destination hard disk The partition to be recovered is then placed on the selected hard disk It occupies all the available disk space To reduce the partition size so as to l
9. Position Before partition After partition e You can create one or more partitions on the unallocated space with Acronis Disk Director Learn more about Acronis Disk Director 6 Select the next partition s check box 7 Select the unallocated space on the destination hard disk The program creates a partition occupying the entire unallocated space Recovering VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 Version Todayat 1 39PM Source Switch to disk mode New Volume D NTFS q 1 9 GB i D sl CH VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 A 25 GB Partition properties o New Volume G NTFS 2 9 GB l L card nen oon VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 gt 0 GB QS oe Reserved VMware VMware Virtual 1 0 Seon S F VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 o 6GB New Volume D VMware VMware Virtual 1 0 6GB New Volume G 10 GB amp Disk recovery q e VMware Virtual S 1 0 Unallocated space 10 GB Virtual S 1 0 49 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 8 Click the Partition properties link and make the settings for the partition Select a disk letter and partition type When you finish the settings click OK to confirm them and return to the main Disk Recovery window Partition Properties Lo a e Specify the partition properties kl Partition Letter H Label Type Primary X Partition size Used space
10. Computer restart 60 File recovery options ccccccccccsssssssecceeecccaaaeeseceeeeessauaaeseeeeeeeessuaaaaess 60 Overwrite file OPtiONS cccccccccccccccseeeseeeceececssaeeeeseseeeessssuaaeeeeeeeeeseaaa 60 Performance of recovery operation ccccsssseseeeeeeeeccseeeseeeeeeeeeessaaeeees 60 Notifications for recovery operation csssseseseceeeeesseaeeseeeeeeeessaaaeeess 61 4 9 1 Pre Post commands for recovery You can specify commands or even batch files that will be automatically executed before and after the recovery procedure For example you may want to start stop certain Windows processes or check your data for viruses before recovery To specify commands batch files Select a command to be executed before the recovery process starts in the Before recovery process field To create a new command or select a new batch file click the Edit button Select a command to be executed after the recovery process ends in the After recovery process field To create a new command or select a new batch file click the Edit button Please do not try to execute interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause These are not supported 4 9 1 1 Edit user command for recovery You can specify user commands to be executed before or after recovery Inthe Command field type in a command or select it from the list Click to select a batch file Inthe Working directo
11. E Used space L Free space Unallocated space Si MB Sa MB GB Specify the settings for the second partition wh ich in this case is your system partition Click New location and then select unallocated space on the destination disk that will receive the partition r Pacovary Wizard Ca Recovery Wizard Partition Disk 1 Settings of Partition C L LANTFS System disk D Disk 2 LANTFS Backups E Disk 3 Unallocated 15 9GB 7 755 GB NTFS 16GB 12 05 GB NTFS Unallocated Optional steps Options Cancel Next gt Cancel 54 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 10 11 12 Click Accept check the partition type change if necessary The system partition must be primary Specify the partition size which by default equals the original size Usually there is no free space after the partition so allocate all the unallocated space on the new disk to the second partition Click Accept and then click Next r SS Pacovery Wizard lalz G Recovery Wizard Specify recover settings of Partition C Partition location required Partition giza o e You can change the size of the partition Settings of Partition C Finish _ _ ___ O O O E Used space L Free space Unallocated space Partition size 24 9 j GB Free space before 0 MB Free space after 0 H MB vg
12. In this case you should plug in a USB flash drive before clicking the Seagate System Report icon The generated report will be saved on the USB flash drive To place the Seagate System Report tool on a bootable rescue media Select the Seagate System Report check box on the Rescue Media Content Selection page of the Seagate Media Builder wizard Click Next to continue Creating a system report from the command line prompt 1 Run Windows Command Processor cmd exe as administrator 2 Change the current directory to the Seagate DiscWizard installation folder To do so enter cd C Program Files x86 Acronis TrueImageHome 3 To create the system report file enter SystemReport File SystemReport zip will be created in the current folder If you want to create the report file with a custom name type the new name instead of lt file name gt SystemReport exe filename lt file name gt 7 2 Creating a custom rescue CD In most cases you can use a standard rescue CD created with a help of Seagate Media Builder For more information see Creating bootable rescue media p 84 If the recovery environment cannot detect some of the hard disk drives the network adapter the mouse or the keyboard usually there is a problem with the drivers So when the standard rescue CD lacks some of your hardware drivers you need to create a custom one The Linux based recovery environment used by Seagate does not provide the ability for user
13. Then restart the computer The POST power on self test that starts immediately after you turn on your computer checks your system hardware If the POST has found a failure you will need to send the PC for repairs If the POST does not reveal a hardware failure enter BIOS and check whether it recognizes your system hard disk drive To enter BIOS press the required key combination Del F1 Ctrl Alt Esc Ctrl Esc or some other depending on your BIOS during the POST sequence Usually the message with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test Pressing this combination takes you to the setup menu Go to the hard disk autodetection utility which usually comes under Standard CMOS Setup or Advanced CMOS setup If the utility does not detect the system drive it has failed and you need to replace the drive If the utility correctly detects your system hard disk drive then the cause of the crash is probably a virus malware or corruption of a system file required for booting If the system drive is healthy try to recover the system using a backup of your system disk or system partition Because Windows does not boot you will have to use Seagate bootable rescue media You will also need to use a system disk backup when recovering the system after replacing the damaged hard disk drive 4 1 2 Preparing for recovery a Scan the computer for viruses if you suspect that the crash occurred due to a virus or malware att
14. available in the View submenu The View submenu is opened by right clicking on a backup version or by right clicking on time line s free space Ea Show software installations Show software updates v d d Show warnings d Show errors Show software installations if this item is selected the time line shows icons that indicate moments when new programs have been installed on your computer Show software updates if this item is selected the time line shows icons that indicate updates of Windows and programs installed on your computer Show warnings if this item is selected the time line shows all the backup versions that have been suspended or completed with warning messages selected by default Show errors if this item is selected the time line shows failed backup versions and backup versions that have completed with errors 1 3 5 Settings menu With the Settings menu you can make or change some settings of Seagate DiscWizard To open the menu click the gear icon at the upper right corner of the program screen The Settings menu contains the following items View log opens the log of Seagate DiscWizard operations Integrate Seagate DiscWizard into Windows allows selecting the Seagate components to be integrated into Windows Timeout settings allows you to specify the time interval the program should wait for your response For more information see Timeout settings p 82 1 3 6 Help
15. etc To set the options click the File recovery options link The options you set here will be applied only to the current recovery operation To start the recovery process click the Recover now button The recovery progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the recovery by clicking Cancel Please keep in mind that the aborted recovery may still cause changes in the destination folder 4 6 Recovering file versions If you need to recover a specific version of a file select the file in the Backup Explorer When you select the file the View versions link appears below the file size information Clicking the link opens the View Versions window with a list of all versions of the file in the backup Until you select a file version the Open and Recover buttons remain disabled Selecting a file version enables the buttons V View Versions o ojs Studio bmp v H Version Backup A 3 38 16 PM I 3 42 06 PM File backup 3 42 18 PM Thursday August 12 2010 3 28 50 PM Thursday August 12 2010 3 29 12 PM Thursday August 12 2010 3 29 22 PM Thursday August 12 2010 3 29 36 PM Open Il Recover IL cnca Select the required version by its backup time and click the Recover button This will open the File Recovery window Select the destination and recover the file version to the folder of your choice For more information see Recovering data from file level backups p 56 You can also recover the vers
16. rescue CD that will have drivers for your models of the mouse and keyboard Please be aware that finding the appropriate drivers and making the custom rescue CD may take some time Furthermore this may be impossible for some models Se Seagate DiscWizard d Seagate System Report Le ec Windows Seagate DiscWizard You can turn on MouseKeys to control the mouse pointer using the numeric keypad Press left ALT left SHIFT NUM LOCK or CTRL M or F10 and control the pointer using the numeric keypad keys Includes drivers for USB PC Car 4 When the program starts we recommend you try recovering some files from your backup A test recovery allows you to make sure that your rescue CD can be used for recovery In addition you will check that the program detects all the hard drives you have in your system Figure 7 REMOVE AFTER TRANSLATION If you have a spare hard drive we strongly recommend you to try a test recovery of your system partition to this hard drive How to test recovery as well as check the drives and network adapter 1 If you have file backups start Recovery Wizard by clicking Recovery gt File Recovery on the toolbar If you have only disk and partition backup Recovery Wizard also starts and the recovery procedure is similar In such a case you need to select Recover chosen files and folders at the Recovery Method step 66 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 2 Select a
17. sector in the CHS co ordinates Cylinder Head Sector HDS is the number of heads per disk SPT is the number of sectors per track You can return to a sector from another one by selecting the Back item in the Search menu or by pressing the Ctrl Backspace key combination 6 5 2 Hard Disk Wiping methods Information removed from a hard disk drive by non secure means for example by simple Windows delete can easily be recovered Utilizing specialized equipment it is possible to recover even repeatedly overwritten information Therefore guaranteed data wiping is more important now than ever before The guaranteed wiping of information from magnetic media e g a hard disk drive means it is impossible to recover data by even a qualified specialist with the help of all known tools and recovery methods This problem can be explained in the following way Data is stored on a hard disk as a binary sequence of 1 and 0 ones and zeros represented by differently magnetized parts of a disk Generally speaking a 1 written to a hard disk is read as 1 by its controller and O is read as 0 However if you write 1 over 0 the result is conditionally 0 95 and vice versa if 1 is written over 1 the result is 1 05 These differences are irrelevant for the controller However using special equipment one can easily read the underlying sequence of 1 s and O s It only requires specialized software and inexpensive hardware to read data de
18. the name and the model of the selected disk drive its capacity file system and its interface 99 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 6 3 2 Selecting initialization method Seagate DiscWizard supports both MBR and GPT partitioning GUID Partition Table GPT is a new hard disk partitioning method providing advantages over the old MBR partitioning method If your operating system supports GPT disks you can select the new disk to be initialized as a GPT disk gt ees _ Initialize disk in GPT layout Disk will use GUID Partition Table GPT layout To adda GPT disk click Initialize disk in GPT layout To add an MBR disk click Initialize disk in MBR layout If you use a 32 bit version of Windows XP the GPT initialization method will be unavailable and the Initialization options step will be absent After selecting the required initialization method click Next 6 3 3 Creating new partitions To use the space on a hard disk it must be partitioned Partitioning is the process of dividing the hard disk s space into logical divisions Each logical division may function as a separate disk with an assigned drive letter its own file system etc Even if you do not intend to divide your hard disk into logical divisions it must be partitioned so that the operating system knows that it is intended to be left in one piece Initially all disk space will be unallocated This will change after you add ne
19. you only have to slightly correct the copied settings for your new backup and click Back up now To create a new backup based on an existing backup 1 On the Backup and recovery tab find the corresponding backup box click the gear icon to open the Operations menu point to More and then click Clone settings A new backup box named Copy of the initial backup name will be created It will contain the same settings as the parental backup On the cloned backup box click the gear icon to open the Operations menu and then click Edit settings Change selection of items to back up You may modify backup name destination and other settings if needed Click the Save button To create the first backup version click Back up now on the backup box 4 Recovering data The purpose of data backup is to recover backed up data when the original is lost due to hardware failure fire theft or accidental deletion of files We hope that you backed up your system and data using the backup features provided by Seagate DiscWizard If so nothing will have been lost The following sections describe how to recover disks partitions files and folders In most cases you will use Acronis Backup Explorer to recover files and folders For more information see Acronis Backup Explorer p 17 In this section Recovering your system after a Crash 41 Recovering partitions and disks ccccccccsssssssseeccceecsaeeeeseeeceeeeseaaaeeess 4
20. 2 Upgrading Seagate DiscMizard EE 11 EC WEN ee WOFKSP Ee 11 1 3 1 Ba ck pand recovery tab ER 11 1 3 2 Tools and utilities Gab 16 E Fe e ET E 16 1 34 Acronis Backup EXPlOnehicccsesccss fcssesccssecccs focssacacecisccssacenadedestessada stessa astvscedaisescs seescicasa seedalasheaseca dienes dost 17 1 35 Settings En EE 23 E SNE E 23 HOW CO sevccsensaccccanndccccssuxexscsnnvexsevoncccsasucecsnasaxecsansasecsasansesensussxsavonsscsanansscsanassscsnsaxexceusasceessussaceass 25 Backing Up Catia E T E E A A A A S E A ET 26 3 1 The difference between file backups and disk partition images cccccccccessssssteeeeeeeeeeees 26 3 2 Full incremental and differential backups 26 3 3 Backing up partitions and disks nnesessssneeneesssssretnressssrrrrrrrrssssssrrrrersssssnrerrrrsssssreerreens 28 3 4 Adding an existing backup totbe let 29 3 5 Making reserve copies of your backups 29 3 6 Deleting backups and backup VerSiONS cccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeseeeees 30 3E BACKUP ele le 30 SC Backup SCHEMES zoegteerdrrgeugeeseseedeee ege deed deed Mes Rs geg ege deiere gege 32 3 7 2 Single Version scheme sisiisinssisisanimminananisnsnnomisanmanisannnonisnaanaanasannnnni miana masana nsanimiaianananasisaatabio aiaia 32 3 7 3 Custom schemes estaba ttt EStStA ENESES E ENESES EEE ESES EEEE Seatntatsennneee esene eee 32 3 7 4 Image creation mode 34 3 7 5 Pre Post commands for backup ccscsssscs
21. 20 in the appropriate box If you want to regularly back up data located on a removable media for example USB flash drive or remote storage for example network folder or NAS we recommend that you select the Run when the current source device is attached check box This is useful because an external storage device may be often unavailable at the scheduled moment of backup In that case if the check box is selected the missed backup operation will start when the device is connected or attached Having finished scheduling click OK In this section Weekly execution parameters ccccccccccccssessesseeeeeeecssaaeeeeeeeeeeessaaaeees 76 5 6 1 Weekly execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for weekly operation execution Week days Select the days on which to execute the operation by clicking on their names Start time Set the operation s start time Enter hours and minutes manually or set the desired start time using the up and down buttons Description of the Advanced settings see in Scheduling p 75 5 7 Searching backups and their content In this section Searching 77 Using Windows Search with Seagate DiscWizard sssessessssseesseeseses 78 5 7 1 Searching In addition to the ability to explore backups Seagate DiscWizard provides search for files in your backups Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Seagate DiscWizard window You will be taken
22. 29GB Total size 10252 0 New Volume H 10 GB Preserve source partition size 10 GB Reduce partition size If the image contains more than two partitions leave enough unallocated space for other partitions to be recovered and repeat steps 5 7 until you make the settings for all partitions 9 Click Recover now to recover the partitions to the destination hard disk Disk Recovery Show MBR Recovering VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 Version Todayat1 39PM_ v e Disk recovery options src wg Source Switch to disk mode ey New Volume D NTFS DP ioe New Volume F VMware VMware Virtual 1 0 o VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 25 GB Partition properties np ae New Volume G NTFS H aN Unallocated space Mware VM 10 GB are Virtual 1 0 DA Partition properties Recover now Cancel 4 4 Recovering a disk backup to a different disk under rescue media Recovery of a disk backup containing several partitions to a hard disk that has a different capacity is one of the most complicated operations This is especially true when the original hard disk you have backed up has a hidden diagnostic or recovery partition Complete the preparations described in Preparing for recovery p 42 If you have not already done so assign unique names labels to the partitions of your computer s disks This will allow for identification of the partitions by their names and not by the dis
23. Ctrl F key combination Search parameters are set in the Search dialog window To begin searching A search line can be set both as a char Text field and numeric hexadecimal value Hex field When you type text in the Text field it will be automatically converted to hexadecimal value in the Hex field and vice versa Check the Case sensitive parameter to consider a letter case If you selected a search mode without letter case matching not only the case but also elements of the above characters will be ignored for Roman character sets Check the Search at sector offset parameter to search for a given line at a given offset inside the sector Click OK to begin searching After the search process is finished the current position will be moved to where a line was found or will remain the same if no lines were found You can search for the next line from the current position by selecting the Search again item in the Search menu or by pressing the F3 key Go to sector You can go to the necessary sector according to its absolute offset by selecting the Go to line in the Search menu or by pressing the Alt P key combination Selecting this line opens the Go to dialog window The transition is performed by entering the absolute sector offset or cylinder head and sector numbers The listed parameters are bound by this expression CYL x HDS HD x SPT SEC 1 Where CYL HD SEC are numbers of the cylinder head
24. How it works H J Deleti 1 j previous full ve Legend O Full backup version E Save the settings as default 7 IS Reset to initial settings OK Cancel Seagate DiscWizard allows you to choose the following backup schemes Single version p 32 select this scheme if you want to use the smallest backup storage Custom p 32 select this item if you want to set up a backup scheme manually 3 7 2 Single version scheme The program creates a full backup version and overwrites it every time according to the specified schedule or when you run backup manually Backup scheduler setting for disk backup weekly Result you have a single up to date full backup version Required storage space minimal 3 7 3 Custom schemes With Seagate DiscWizard you also can create your own backup schemes Schemes can be based on the pre defined backup schemes You can make changes in a selected pre defined scheme to suit your needs and then save the changed scheme as a new one You cannot overwrite existing pre defined backup schemes So first of all select one of the backup methods in the appropriate box Full p 26 Select this method if you want to create only full backup versions Automatic cleanup rules To delete obsolete backup versions automatically you can set one of the following cleanup rules Delete versions older than defined period available for full method only Se
25. Insert First Media prompt when backing up to removable media With the default setting backing up to removable media may not be possible if the user is away because the program will wait for someone to press OK in the prompt box Therefore you should disable the prompt when scheduling a backup to removable media Then if the removable media is available for example CD R RW inserted the backup can run unattended If you have other Seagate products installed on your computer the bootable versions of these programs components will be offered as well 3 7 10 Backup comment This option allows you to add comments to the backup Backup comments may help you to find the necessary backup later If a backup does not have comments type your comment in the comments area and click Save When a comment already exists you can edit it after clicking Edit Having finished editing click Save to save the changed comment Note that by default the comment will be assigned to all versions of the backup You can edit the comment of a specific backup version in Backup Explorer 3 7 11 Error handling When the program encountered an error while performing backup it stops the backup process and displays a message waiting for a response on how to handle the error If you set an error handling policy the program will not stop the backup process and warn you about an error with a message but will simply handle the error according to the set rules and conti
26. OxAA or OxCD etc These values are 1 byte long but they may be up to 512 bytes long Except for such values you may enter a random hexadecimal value of any length up to 512 bytes Your algorithm may also include one more value for writing that is designated as the complementary value the value that is complementary to the one written to disk during the previous pass If the binary value is represented by the 10001010 Ox8A sequence then the complementary binary value will be represented by the 01110101 0x75 sequence The Algorithm definition window offers you the template for the algorithm only You should define exactly what the software should write to disk to destroy the confidential data according to your algorithm To do this click your mouse on the line representing pass 1 and click Edit Wiping pass adjustment The Wiping Pass Adjustment window allows you to define the pattern to be written to disk hexadecimal value This is what the window control elements mean You may enter any hexadecimal value into the field under the Write pattern switch to write it to a hard disk during any pass during the first pass in this case By setting the switch to Write a random number position you will first select to write a random value to disk and specify the length of the random value in bytes in the field below The U S standard provides the writing of random values to each byte of each disk sector during the first
27. ProgramData 5 27 2011 5 File Folder 3 d IJl Recovery 9 9 2009 2 1 File Folder S d J System Volume Information 6 1 2011 9 1 File Folder 7 T J Users 9 9 2009 2 1 File Folder T J Windows 5 16 2011 1 File Folder v B autoexec bat 6 11 2009 1 File 0 023 KB V config sys 6 11 2009 1 File 0 010 KB WI B hiberfil sys 5 24 2011 3 File 392 872 KB v B pagefile sys 5 24 2011 3 File 1 048 576 KB 0 43 GB 4 6 GB O Used space 1 Free space B Space to exclude E Remember that if you select or somehow specify to exclude a file that has NTFS hard links you also need to select specify to exclude these hard links from the clone Otherwise the file will not be excluded and will appear on the target disk after the cloning Note When you exclude files the program calculates the size of excluded items and checks if the cloned data will fit the target disk Please be patient as this process may take up to several minutes to complete 2 To proceed to the next step click Next Insufficient free space warning You may receive a warning message saying that there is no enough free space on the target hard drive to complete the operation The possible reasons are as follows Amount of data being cloned from the source disk exceeds the available capacity of the target disk To resolve this issue try excluding more items from the clone then click Next If necessary repeat this operation
28. also by your relatives In such a case each user often has personal documents e mail accounts settings and other personal data By default Seagate DiscWizard backs up data of the current user We recommend that you change this setting if the Windows account under which you are currently working is not yours The program will back up only the data related to the specified account Data of all other accounts will not be backed up To change the current Windows account 1 Select the Run backup as different Windows account check box 2 Type the account name and password in the appropriate fields 3 8 Validating backups The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup version To validate an entire backup 1 Select the backup to validate click the gear icon to open the Operations menu and select Validate If the selected backup is password protected Seagate DiscWizard will ask for the password in a dialog box After you enter the correct password the program will start the validation procedure When the validation is complete you will see the result in the line below the backup s box You can cancel validation by clicking Cancel 3 9 Cloning backup settings When you already have a backup and you need to create a new backup of the same type there is no need to configure the backup process from scratch The program allows you to copy all settings from an existing backup After that
29. also schedule validation of your backups to ensure that they remain healthy By default regular validation is turned on with the following settings Frequency once a week Day the date when the backup was started Time the moment of backup start plus 15 minutes Advanced settings the Run the validation only when the computer is idle check box is selected You can change the default settings and specify your own schedule For more information see Scheduling p 75 3 7 8 Backup reserve copy You can create reserve copies of your backups and save them on the file system or a network drive To make a reserve copy Select the Create a reserve copy of my backups check box Click Set location and specify a location for the backup copies All backup options such as backup compression backup splitting etc will be inherited from the source backup A reserve copy always contains all the data selected for backup that is when creating a reserve copy the program always makes a full backup of the source data Also remember that you will pay for the enhanced convenience and increased security of your data by the time required for performing the backup because normal backup and reserve copying are performed one at a time and not simultaneously 3 7 9 Removable media settings The following settings are available Ask for first media while creating backups on removable media You can choose whether to display the
30. disk for recovery Recovering the entire disk does not allow you to resize partitions manually You will be able to recover the MBR later Select the partitions and click Next Facovary Wizare Ca Recovery Wizard Select the items to recover Partition Fla Capa UsedS Type Disk 1 a 7 LANTFS System disk C Pri 169GB 8 145 GB NTFS 7 MBR and Track 0 MBR and Track 0 NTFS System Reserved PriAct 101 9MB 24 63 MB NTFS WITT Selecting partitions leads to appearance of the relevant steps Settings of partition Note that these steps start with partitions which do not have an assigned disk letter as usually is the case with hidden partitions The partitions then take an ascending order of partition disk letters This order cannot be changed The order may differ from the physical order of the partitions on the hard disk Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 6 You can specify the following partition settings location type and size You first need to specify the settings of the hidden partition System Reserved partition in our case as it usually does not have a disk letter Because you are recovering to the new disk click New location Select the destination disk by either its assigned name or capacity Pacovary Wizard wla G Recovery Wizard Required steps Settings of Partition 1 1 Partition Flags Capac FreeSp Ty
31. doesn t delete any data on a large disk Therefore we recommend that you use this tool if your large disk contains an operating system or useful data See details below Convert the MBR disk to GPT disk The easiest way to do this is by using Windows built in Disk Management utility Note that this utility erases all data on the disk while converting it to GPT The following table helps you to find out which option to choose It relates only to disks larger than 2 TB MBR disk containing OS or data iol REESEN Windows XP x32 Use ECM Use ECM Windows XP x64 Use ECM Convert to GPT Windows Vista Use ECM Convert to GPT Windows 7 Use ECM Convert to GPT Windows 8 Use ECM Convert to GPT How it works Seagate Extended Capacity Manager wizard displays all hard disks larger than 2 TB unallocated or with MBR partition style You can see the disk space which Windows recognizes and allocates This space is called Windows Native Capacity in the wizard The space beyond 2 TB is displayed as Extended Capacity You can enable Extended Capacity Disks and once it is done this space becomes visible to the operating system and ready for disk management operations How to use it 1 To start Seagate Extended Capacity Manager select the Tools and utilities tab and then click Seagate Extended Capacity Manager If the program does not find any MBR disks with a capacity of more than 2 TB it displays a message that t
32. files Select clear the Hidden files and folders check box to enable disable overwriting of all hidden files and folders Select clear the System files and folders check box to enable disable overwriting of all system files and folders Select clear the More recent files and folders check box to enable disable overwriting of new files and folders Click Add specific files and folders to manage the list of custom files and folders that you do not want to overwrite To disable overwriting of specific files click the Add button to create an exclusion criterion While specifying the criteria you can use the common Windows wildcard characters For example to preserve all files with extension exe you can add exe Adding My exe will preserve all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my To delete a criterion for example added by mistake click the Delete icon to the right of the criterion 4 9 6 Performance of recovery operation On the Performance tab you can configure the following settings Operation priority Changing the priority of a backup or recovery process can make it run faster or slower depending on whether you raise or lower the priority but it can also adversely affect the performance of other running programs The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the operati
33. files and folders in tib backups Double clicking on a filename opens the file You can recover the file by right clicking on its filename and choosing Recover in a shortcut menu This shortcut menu also enables you to open the file or the parent folder that contains that file When searching files in backups you can type all or part of the filename and use the common Windows wildcard characters For example to find all batch files in the backups type bat Typing my exe will allow you to find all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my It should be noted that search is case insensitive i e Backup and backup is the same search string When a file is included in several backups and it has been modified the search results will show the number of file versions in the appropriate column Clicking on the number in this column opens the View Versions window where you can select the version you want to recover Please note that Seagate DiscWizard does not search files in encrypted and password protected tib backups nor in the password protected Acronis Secure Zone 5 7 2 Using Windows Search with Seagate DiscWizard If you use any edition of Windows Vista or Windows 7 that has built in Desktop Search functionality or Windows Desktop Search 3 0 or later you can enable indexing for tib files If you do not have Windows Search installed but would like to use it you can download Windows Search 4 0 for
34. fix the alignment problem Pp rb oo ND 10 11 12 13 14 15 Start Seagate DiscWizard and click the Backup and Recovery tab Create a task for backing up your SSD in the disk backup mode Back up your SSD using as destination for example an external hard disk Go to the command line prompt To do so perform the following Shut down the computer and then boot using Windows installation CD Press Shift F10 during GUI mode phase of the Setup Note that you should not start Windows installation At the command line prompt type diskpart select disk N where N is the number of your SSD clean create partition primary align 1024 active format fs ntfs quick exit exit Shut down the computer and then boot to Seagate rescue media Validate the backup to make sure that it can be used for recovery Click the Recovery tab and then click Disk recovery Select the backup of your SSD at the Archive selection step and then click Next If the disks have different disk letters in Windows and the recovery environment click Browse and show the path to the backup Select Recover whole disks and partitions and click Next Select the check box of the entire SSD disk and click Next Select the SSD as the destination and click Next When the confirmation window appears stating that the destination disk contains partitions perhaps containing useful data click OK Carefully read the summary of operations to check the se
35. for the backup scheme button Allows you to keep your Click when all settings backup up to date and are configured optimize backup strategy The steps below describe how to configure a backup using most of the available image backup settings 1 Select a partition to back up by selecting the corresponding check box If you want to back up more than one partition click Multiple partition selection If the disk has several partitions and you want to back up the whole disk click Switch to disk mode in the upper right corner and then select the disk s check box To return to the partition selection click Switch to partition mode You can only use the partition mode to back up dynamic disks 2 Select a destination for backup you can leave the default destination when it suits you or browse for a destination after clicking the down arrow to the right of the current destination and selecting Browse When the backup destination is any removable media USB stick BD DVD the Make this media bootable check box becomes selectable Selecting the check box results in creating a bootable recovery environment on the removable media and adding a standalone Seagate DiscWizard version You will be able to run Seagate DiscWizard from the removable media on a bare metal system or the crashed computer that cannot boot If possible avoid storing your system partition backups on dynamic disks because the system partition is recovered in the
36. free from Microsoft s Web site To download click http www microsoft com download en details aspx id 23 Double click on the downloaded file and follow the instructions for installation Seagate DiscWizard has a plug in for Windows Search To speed up searches in your backups you can install the plug in for indexing the backups After indexing you will be able to search backup content by entering a filename into the Windows Search query field without opening Seagate DiscWizard Using the search results you can Select any file and open it for viewing and or save that file back to anywhere in the file system not in the backup or where it was before See in which backup a given file is stored and recover that backup In addition to indexing the files in backups by their names Windows Search provides Seagate DiscWizard with the ability to perform full text indexing of many files in your backups You will be able to use this feature and perform searches of the files content Full text indexing of files in backup is provided only for the file types recognizable by Windows Search It recognizes text files Microsoft Office files all Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express items and more The contents of password protected backups or backups protected by a password and encryption will not be indexed though Windows Search provides search for the tib files of such backups Furthermore Windows Search has no access to Acr
37. have to make the same decisions To set the free disk space threshold Select the Show notification message on insufficient free disk space check box n the Size box type or select a threshold value and select a unit of measure Seagate DiscWizard can monitor free space on the following storage devices Local hard drives USB cards and drives Network shares SMB NFS The message will not be displayed if the Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode check box is selected in the Error handling settings This option cannot be enabled for FTP servers and CD DVD drives 5 Useful information In this section BrotecttngCvOUESVSteffteeeesiegegegeeledegegecege gege ege deg ege e degegregegegegegegegceg 62 Deciding where to store your backups cceecccceececeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess 64 Making sure that your rescue media can be used when needed 65 Testing that your backups can be used for recovenm 70 Migrating your system from an HDD to an asf 70 SGHGCHUIN IS cess tees ese ae e r EE ose eteeeeeee ee 75 Searching backups and their content 76 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards cccsssssssssseesessssssesessteeees 82 Backup Information cccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeess 82 dl ee d LTC 82 5 1 Protecting your system To protect your system please take the necessary precautionary measures 1 To protect your system from a disas
38. in the license txt file located in the root installation directory You can always find the latest up to date list of the third party code and the associated license terms used with the Software and or Service at http kb acronis com content 7696 Acronis patented technologies Technologies used in this product are covered by the following U S Patents U S U S Patent 7 047 380 U S U S Patent 7 275 139 U S Patent 7318135 U S Patent 7 366 859 U S Patent 7 462 11 U S Patent 7 603 533 U S Patent 7 650 473 U S Patent 7 831 789 U S Patent 7 895 403 U S Patent 7 934 064 U S Patent 7 953 948 U S Patent 8 005 797 U S Patent 8 069 320 U S Patent 8 074 035 Table of contents 1 GOTLINS E fice ccceccceccccecceccccccceccccccccccccecccccccucceccccecccccccscccccscecceccscscccccscscccccscscccccscscceccscseeeseete 6 LI Introductlon EEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPE EEEE EEEE EEEE 6 1 1 1 What is Seagate DiscWizard E 6 1 1 2 Seagate DiscWizard basic concept 6 1 1 3 New m Seagate Dise Wizard asearen enone RERE EIE EEE EREE EEREN E RERE 8 1 1 4 System requirements and supported meda 8 11 5 Techinicall SUP POMS siscisiisecstevevssevsvessvevsievevavevevsvevesseevevsessevsasbewstavevsesbevstestvstnasastaaesatcbeveasssusvsteuseeneusaavensts 10 1 2 Installation ANd upgrade eecccccceccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess 10 1 2 1 Installing Seagate DiscuWizard 10 1 2
39. information on hard disk drives and or partitions with the help of techniques that meet or exceed most national and state standards You can select an appropriate data destruction method depending on the importance of your confidential information The data destruction methods are described in detail in Hard Disk Wiping methods p 113 of this guide In this section Seagate Driveleanser 106 Hard Disk Wiping Methods cccccccccccccseesseeeeeeeeecseeeeeeeeceeeeseaaaeees 113 6 5 1 Seagate DriveCleanser Many operating systems do not provide users with secure data destruction tools so deleted files can be recovered easily by using simple applications Even a complete disk reformat cannot guarantee permanent confidential data destruction Seagate DriveCleanser solves this problem with guaranteed and permanent data destruction on selected hard disks and partitions You can select from a number of data destruction algorithms depending on the importance of your confidential information Be aware that depending on the total size of selected partitions and the selected data destruction algorithm the data destruction may take many hours Working with Seagate DriveCleanser With Seagate DriveCleanser you can perform the following Clean up the selected hard disks or partitions using preset algorithms m Create and execute custom user algorithms of hard disk clean up Seagate DriveCleanser is based on a wizard that script
40. is required for recovery select the Restart the computer automatically if needed for the recovery check box This may be used when a partition locked by the operating system has to be recovered Enabling the option allows rebooting the computer without user interaction during recovery 4 9 4 Pie recovery options You can select the following file recovery options Recover files with their original security settings if the file security settings were preserved during backup see File level security settings for backup you can choose whether to recover them or let the files inherit the security settings of the folder where they will be recovered to This option is effective only when recovering files from file folder backups Set current date and time for recovered files you can choose whether to recover the file date and time from the backup or assign the files the current date and time By default the file date and time from the backup will be assigned 4 9 5 Overwrite file options Choose what to do if the program finds a file in the target folder with the same name as in the backup Selecting the Overwrite existing files check box will give the files from the backup unconditional priority over the files on the hard disk though by default the more recent files and folders are protected against overwriting If you want to overwrite those files and folders too clear the appropriate check box If you do not need to overwrite some
41. month or several times a month on the selected dates Upon event the operation will be executed upon an event Clicking the Do not schedule button turns off the scheduler for the current operation In this case the backup or validation will run only when you click Back up now or Validate backup respectively in the main window Note Scheduling options that are grayed out are available in the full version of the product To access these features please upgrade to full version Advanced settings Clicking Advanced settings allows you to specify the following additional settings for backup and validation To postpone a scheduled operation until the next time the computer is not in use a screen saver is displayed or computer is locked select the Run the backup only when the computer is idle check box If you schedule validation the check box will change to Run the validation only when the computer is idle f you want to wake up the sleeping hibernating computer to perform the scheduled operation select the Wake up the sleeping hibernating computer check box If the computer is switched off when the scheduled time comes the operation won t be performed You can force the missed operation to run at the next system startup To do so select the Run at system startup check box Additionally you can set a time delay to start backup after the system startup For example to start backup 20 minutes after system startup type
42. of Data from Magnetic and Solid State Memory Bruce Schneier s method Bruce Schneier offers a seven pass overwriting method in his Applied Cryptography book 1 pass OxFF gh pass 0x00 and then five times with a cryptographically secure pseudo random sequence Logical zeros 0x00 numbers to all sectors to wipe DC 6 6 Mounting an image Seagate DiscWizard offers mounting for images and exploring for both images and file level backups Exploring images and file level backups lets you view their contents and copy the selected files to a hard disk To explore a backup in Windows Explorer double click on the corresponding tib file You can also right click on the file and choose Explore in the shortcut menu When you copy files from a backup being explored the copied files lose the Compressed and Encrypted attribute If you need to keep these attributes it is recommended to recover the backup Mounting images as virtual drives lets you access them as though they were physical drives Such ability means that anew disk with its own letter will appear in the drives list using Windows Explorer and other file managers you can view the image contents as if they were located on a physical disk or partition you will be able to use the virtual disk in the same way as the real one open save copy move create delete files or folders If necessary the image can be mounted in read only mode The opera
43. pass so set the switch to Write a random number position and enter 1 into the field Click the OK button to continue You will be taken to the algorithm definition window again and will see that the former record write 00 was replaced by write random 1 byte To define the next pass click the Add button You will see the already familiar window but this time there will be more switch positions available two additional positions will be available for selection Write complementary to previous pass pattern As during the second pass of the U S standard each disk sector is filled with hexadecimal values that are complementary to those written during the previous pass Therefore you should set the switch to the Write complementary to previous pass pattern position and click the OK button You will be taken to the algorithm definition window again In this window the second record looks like this write complementary to previous step pattern Verify Following the U S data destruction standard specification define third and fourth data overwriting passes In the same way you can create any data destruction algorithm to match your security requirements Saving custom algorithm In the next Saving Custom Algorithm window you will be able to save the algorithm you have created This will be useful if you are going to use it again In order to save your algorithm you need to give it a filename and define the pat
44. several times until the warning message disappears Source disk has an unsupported file system and is larger than the target disk The target disk must be larger or equal in size to the source disk in this case and it will be pointless to exclude more items Source disk has partitions both with supported and unsupported file systems and the target disk capacity is less than the amount of data being cloned from partitions with supported file system plus the size of partitions with unsupported file system Trying to exclude more items may be helpful in this case 6 2 7 1 Exclusion examples Files and folders on the source disk can be excluded from the clone both individually and in bulk according to a pattern Such pattern can be either a file or folder name or a file mask defined through common wildcard characters substitutes for zero or more characters substitutes for exactly one character 94 Copyright Acronis International If necessary you can type several criteria in the same line separating them by semicolons For example to exclude all files with gif and bmp extensions you may type gif bmp The table below shows several exclusion examples EECH By name F log Excludes all files named F log F Excludes all folders named F Excludes the file named F log located in the folder C Finance By folder path C Finance F Excludes the folder C Finance F be sure to specify the full path starting from the
45. the Welcome screen display on your monitor suits you To test another video mode close Seagate DiscWizard and repeat the above procedure After you find the optimal video mode for your hardware you can create a new bootable rescue media that will automatically select that video mode To do this start Seagate Media Builder select the required media components and type the mode number with the Ox prefix 0x338 in our instance in the command line at the Bootable media startup parameters step then create the media as usual 5 4 Testing that your backups can be used for recovery Here are some recommendations Even if you start recovery of the active partition in Windows the program will reboot into the Linux environment after the recovery process starts This is because Windows cannot be left running during the recovery of its own partition So you will recover your active partition under the recovery environment in all cases If you have a spare hard drive we strongly recommend you to try a test recovery to this hard drive It should be done after booting from the rescue media which uses Linux If you do not have a spare drive please at least validate the image in the recovery environment A backup that can be read during validation in Windows may not always be readable under Linux environment When you use the Seagate DiscWizard rescue media it creates disk drive letters that might differ from the way Windows identifies dri
46. using the backup methods Full A standalone full backup might be an optimal solution if you often roll back the system to its initial state or if you do not like to manage multiple files Incremental These are most useful when you need frequent backups and the ability to roll back to a specific point in time Having created a full backup once if you then create an incremental backup each day of a month you will get the same result as if you created full backups every day of the month As a rule incremental backups are considerably smaller than full or differential backups Such a backup scenario may consist of a weekly full system backup with intermediate daily backups that cover data that was changed since the LAST backup This scenario while requiring less storage space and time for the daily backups will require more work for the program to provide recovery after a system crash In the event of a Thursday crash the program would have to recover the Wednesday Tuesday and Monday incremental backups and the last FULL backup Differential is an intermediate between the first two approaches Each differential backup includes all the files changed since the last full backup It takes less time and space than Full but more than Incremental The good thing is that recovering is simpler than for 2 the program will have to recover the last differential backup and the last full backup To choose a desired backup method yo
47. validate it To clone a disk m Click Clone disk on the Tools and utilities tab of the Home screen Follow the Disk Clone Wizard steps 6 2 2 Security Please note the following if the power goes off or you accidentally press RESET during the transfer the procedure will be incomplete and you will have to partition and format or clone the hard disk again No data will be lost because the original disk is only being read no partitions are changed or resized The system transfer procedure does not alter the original disk at all After the procedure finishes you might want to format the old disk or securely wipe the data it contains Use Windows tools or Seagate DriveCleanser for these tasks Nevertheless we do not recommend that you delete data from the old disk until you are sure it is correctly transferred to the new disk the computer boots up from it and all applications work 6 2 3 Selecting clone mode There are two transfer modes available Clone Disk Wizard o ejes L Clone Disk Wizard Choose clone mode Clone Mode Automatic recommended Source Disk All your partitions from the source hard disk will be copied to the target disk in a few simple steps and your new hard disk will be made bootable Your existing partitions will be automatically resized to fit the target hard disk Manual Manual mode will give you full control over the hard disk cloning procedure You will be able to adjust the
48. 048 jpg An 21007 File 2 248 TELA TEE EE Fila asnan lt S lt S el e d S Woo ol 3 3 0 o a a E 7 Click Proceed on the Summary window to start recovery 8 After the recovery finishes exit the standalone Seagate DiscWizard Now you can be reasonably sure that your rescue CD will help you when needed 68 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 5 3 1 Selecting video mode when booting from the rescue media When booting from the rescue media the optimal video mode is selected automatically depending on the specifications of your video card and monitor However sometimes the program can select the wrong video mode which is unsuitable for your hardware In such case you can select a suitable video mode as follows 1 Start booting from the rescue media When the boot menu appears hover the mouse over Seagate DiscWizard item and press the F11 key 2 When the command line appears type vga ask without quotes and click OK Seagate E Seagate DiscWizard Sog ran Enter Linux kernel command line quiet vga abk L oe Jong Seagate DiscWizard You can turn on MouseKeys to control the mouse pointer using the numeric keypad Press left ALT left SHIFT NUM LOCK or CTRL AN or F10 and control the pointer using the numeric keyp
49. 2 bit version of the FAT file system that supports volumes up to 2 TB FAT 16 is a DOS native file system Most operating systems recognize it However if your disk drive is more than 4 GB it is not possible to format it in FAT16 Ext2 is a Linux native file system It is fast enough but it is not a journaling file system Ext3 officially introduced with Red hat Linux version 7 2 Ext3 is a Linux journaling file system It is forwards and backwards compatible with Linux Ext2 It has multiple journaling modes as well as broad cross platform compatibility in both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures Ext4 is a new Linux file system It has improvements in comparison to ext3 It is fully backward compatible with ext2 and ext 3 However ext3 has only partial forward compatibility with ext4 ReiserFS is a journaling file system for Linux Generally it is more reliable and faster than Ext2 Choose it for your Linux data partition Linux Swap is a swap partition for Linux Choose it if you want to add more swap space using Linux Partition letter Select a letter to be assigned to the partition being created from the drop down list If you select Auto the program assigns the first unused drive letter in alphabetical order Partition label Partition label is a name assigned to a partition so that you can easily recognize it For example one could be called System a partition with an operating system Program an applicatio
50. 4 powered by e 8 Acronis Seagate DiscWizard User s Guide Copyright Statement Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 All rights reserved Acronis Acronis Compute with Confidence Acronis Recovery Manager Acronis Secure Zone Acronis True Image Acronis Try amp Decide and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis International GmbH Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds VMware and VMware Ready are trademarks and or registered trademarks of VMware Inc in the United States and or other jurisdictions Windows and MS DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard paper book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID Third party code may be provided with the Software and or Service The license terms for such third parties are detailed
51. 5 How to recover more than one partition at ONCE ccceeseeeceeeeeeeeeeees 47 Recovering a disk backup to a different disk under rescue media 50 Recovering data from file level backups 56 Recovering file versions oo cc cccccccccccccsceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeess 56 Backup protection dialog DOX ccccccccccccsssseseeceeceeceaeaeseeeceeeessaaaaeess 57 Arranging boot order in BIOS ccccccccccceceessseseeececeesaeeaeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeess 57 RECOVERY ODtONS iusvsisesevscesevecesesvsecevscvevesveeiseeseveseet Eeer ret TERE SEEE EE REES 58 4 1 Recovering your system after a crash When your computer fails to boot it is advisable to at first try to find the cause using the suggestions given in Trying to determine the crash cause p 41 If the crash is caused by corruption of the operating system use a backup to recover your system Make the preparations described in Preparing for recovery p 42 and then proceed with recovering your system p 42 4 1 1 Trying to determine the crash cause A system crash can be due to two basic factors One reason is that your computer will not boot due to a hardware failure The second reason is that the operating system is corrupted and Windows will not start up In the first scenario it is better to let your service center handle the repairs However you may want to perform some routine tests Check the cables connectors power of external devices etc
52. 7 Finish Disk 2 d a NTFS New Volume D G Pri 16 00GB 15 39 GB NTFS gt Drive letter Mount the partitions in the read write mode Proceed Cancel 4 Having finished the settings click Proceed to connect the selected partition images as virtual disks 5 After the image is connected the program will run Windows Explorer showing its contents Now you can work with files or folders as if they were located on a real disk 6 7 Unmounting an image We recommend that you unmount the virtual disk after all necessary operations are finished as maintaining virtual disks takes considerable system resources If you do not unmount the disk it will disappear after your computer is turned off To disconnect the virtual disk click Unmount image on the Tools and utilities tab select the disk to unmount and click OK 117 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 If you have mounted several partitions by default all of them will be selected for unmounting You can disconnect all mounted drives together or disconnect only those you do not need mounted anymore Unmount les Unmount drive Select the drives you want to unmount Drive Letter Volume Label Disk Size File System d New Volume 16 GB NTFS You can also do this in Windows Explorer by right clicking on the disk icon and choosing Unmount 6 8 Working with vhd files True Image
53. Linux environment Linux and Windows work with dynamic disks differently This may result in problems during recovery 1 If you need the backup to run on a schedule click the link to the right of Schedule turn on scheduling and set the required schedule For more information see Scheduling p 75 2 You can also change the default backup scheme by clicking on the appropriate link For more information see Backup schemes p 32 3 If you would like to assign a specific name to the backup type the name in the Backup name field instead of the default one You can also add useful information to the backup name To do so click the down arrow to the right of the destination and click Browse Select the items you want to add in the right field of the File name line add date the backup creation date will be added add time the backup creation time will be added add user name the current user name will be added add machine name the computer name will be added add task name the name of the task that includes the backup will be added add task run number the sequence number of the task run will be added 4 Click Disk backup options to set the options for the backup being configured For example when your data disk contains sensitive information you may want to protect the information by encryption You can also choose to validate the backup immediately after its creation though it can be done later For more inf
54. Optional steps Options sw Carefully read the summary of operations to be performed and then click Proceed In the case being described recovery of the System Reserved partition steps 10 12 are optional You need to perform them when recovering a hidden partition created by the PC manufacturer When the operation finishes proceed to MBR recovery You need to recover the MBR because the PC manufacturer could change the generic Windows MBR or a sector on track 0 to provide access to the hidden partition Select the same backup again Right click and select Recover in the shortcut menu Choose Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step and then select the MBR and Track 0 box At the next step select the destination disk as the target for MBR recovery click Next and then Proceed After MBR recovery is complete exit the standalone version of Seagate DiscWizard Windows should not see both the new and old drive during the first boot after recovery because this could result in problems booting Windows If you upgrade the old drive to a larger capacity new one disconnect the old drive before the first boot Switch off the computer if you need to disconnect the old drive Otherwise just reboot the computer after removing the rescue media Boot the computer to Windows It may report that new hardware hard drive is found and Windows needs to reboot After making sure that the system operates
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56. SCSI SCSI J MT Rp Un 3 15 96 GB NTFS sa Primary Logical Dynamic D Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported Next gt Cancel Seagate DiscWizard does not support cloning of dynamic disks Select the source disk and click Next to continue Viewing disk and partition information Columns selects the columns to display You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse 7 Disk properties duplicated in the context menu opened by right clicking objects displays the selected partition or disk properties window This window contains two panels The left panel contains the properties tree and the right one describes the selected property in detail The disk information includes its physical parameters connection type device type size etc partition information includes both physical sectors location etc and logical file system free space assigned letter etc parameters 91 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 6 2 5 Selecting a destination disk After you select the source disk you have to select the destination where the disk information will be copied to The previously selected source becomes grayed out and disabled for selection Clone Disk Wizard G Clone Disk Wizard Required steps Y Clone Mode 7 Source Disk Select the target hard disk from the list below Disk properties Drive Capa
57. The list contains all available devices that can be used to create bootable media You can create CD DVD USB flash drive or other bootable media or build an ISO image of a bootable disc Name Type CD RW Drive D NECVMWar VMware IDE CDR10 1 00 ag Floppy Disk Drive A Floppy Disk Drive HI ISO image ISO image file 7 Help lt Back I Next gt Cancel Figure 11 rEMove 9 1 1 4 Destination file selection AFTER TRANSLATION _ f you chose to create a bootable disk ISO image specify the ISO file name and the folder where to place it Select the destination folder from the folder tree Enter a name for the iso file in the File name field m Click Next to continue 6 1 1 5 Bootable media creation summary This page displays operations to be performed Click Proceed to start the bootable media creation process Use the sidebar on the left to navigate through the wizard s steps for revision To cancel operation and quit Seagate Media Builder click Cancel After you create a boot disc mark it and keep it in a safe place Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions Due to this reason we strongly recommend that you create a new bootable media after each Seagate DiscWizard upgrade One more thing you should remember when booting from the rescue media and using a standalone version of Seagate DiscWizard you cannot recover files
58. ack b Boot from the rescue media and validate the backup you want to use for recovery This is necessary because when a backup is validated in the recovery environment the program sometimes declares it corrupted though it has been successfully validated in Windows This may be due to the fact that Seagate DiscWizard uses different device drivers in Windows and in the recovery environment If Seagate DiscWizard considers the backup corrupted it will not proceed with recovery 4 1 3 Recovering your system After you have performed the steps described in Preparing for recovery p 42 begin the system recovery procedure Here we will explain how to recover a corrupted system to the same hard disk System recovery to a replaced hard disk drive will be similar with some minor differences You do not need to format the new disk as this will be done in the process of recovery Attach the external drive if it contains the backup to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booting from Seagate rescue media 1 Arrange the boot order in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot order in BIOS p 57 2 Boot from the rescue media and select Seagate DiscWizard 3 Select Recovery Recovery Log Tools amp Utilities Welcome to Seagate DiscWizard What would you like to do 32 Clone Disk X Copy parti
59. ackups and backup versions You may want to delete backups and backup versions you no longer need Seagate DiscWizard stores information on the backups in a metadata information database Therefore deleting unneeded backup files in Windows Explorer will not delete information about these backups from the database and Seagate DiscWizard will consider that they still exist This will result in errors when the program tries to perform operations on the backups that no longer exist So you must only remove obsolete backups and backup versions by using the tools provided by Seagate DiscWizard To delete an entire backup Find the corresponding backup box on the Backup and recovery tab of Seagate DiscWizard Click the gear icon to open the Operations menu and then click Delete When you delete an entire backup all its versions will be deleted as well To delete a specific backup version 1 On the Backup and recovery tab find the corresponding backup box click Explore and recover 2 In Backup explorer right click on the time line the version you want to delete and then click Delete version When you delete a backup version please remember that this version may have dependent versions In this case the dependent versions will be deleted as well because data recovery from such versions becomes impossible If you delete a full backup version the program will also delete all subsequent incremental versions till the next full version
60. ad keys click a task 3 Select Seagate DiscWizard in the boot menu to continue booting from Figure 8 REMOVE AFTER the rescue media To see the available video modes press the Enter key TRANSLATION when the appropriate message appears 4 Choose a video mode you think best suitable for your monitor and type its number in the command line For instance typing 338 selects video mode 1600x1200x16 see the below figure 1624x768x16 S 334 1152x864x16 ESA 335 128 x968x16 VESA 1286x1624x16 337 1466x1858x16 VESA 338 x1266x16 33A 1856x1392x16 VESA 33B 19286x1446x16 VESA 33D 328x488 VESA 33E 648 x488x32 VESA 346 866x600 VESA 341 18024x768x32 k VESA 343 1286x966x32 VESA 344 1288x1824x32 1466x1656x32 VESA 346 1688x128 UES 347 1344x32 1856x1392x32 VESA 349 1928x144 34A 1366x768x8 1366x768x16 VESA 34C 1366x768x3 VESA 34D 1688x10858x8 1686x1656x16 VESA 34F 16 lt U 358 1920x12088x8 1926x1266x16 VESA 352 EAR VESA 353 2648x1536x16 VESA 355 2 SE ESA 356 2 46x16 VESA 358 gt 2 359 35B S 35C 35E KE 2 ES 35F 854x486x8 VES 361 i 362 1280x720x8 1286x726x16 VESA 364 gt 365 19 1926x1886x16 VESA 367 26x ESA 368 1286x866x16 VESA 36A 12 Kat ES 36B 1446x966x8 VESA 36D 14486x988x32 36E 726x486x8 VESA 376 720x48 2 d 371 726x576x8 ES 373 720x576 374 800x480x8 376 868 x48 x32 377 1280x768x8 1286x768x16 379 1288x768x32 a video mode or scan to scan for additional modes 5 Wait until Seagate DiscWizard starts and make sure that the quality of
61. ain later To do this start the Seagate Extended Capacity Manager and then click Allocate space 7 Extended Capacity Manager Seagate Extended Capacity Disk T33000651AS Windows Native Capacity Extended Capacity J Unallocated 0 73 TB Unallocated 0 1 GB 0 73 TB Temporary switch off Extended Capacity Disks Remove Extended Capacity Disks To remove the Extended Capacity Disks click Remove Extended Capacity Figure 12 REMOVE Disks and then click the Apply button in the next step These disks will be AFTER TRANSLATION removed from your system and the disk space beyond 2 TB will become inaccessible To allocate this space later you need to start the Extended Capacity Manager again and then repeat the wizard s steps You will be able to continue using the Extended Capacity Disks even after uninstalling Seagate DiscWizard During uninstallation you will be asked whether you want to remove the Extended Capacity Disk If you choose not to remove the disk it will remain usable 6 5 Security and Privacy Tools Seagate DiscWizard contains the utility for secure destruction of data on an entire hard disk drive and individual partitions When replacing your old hard drive with a new higher capacity one you may accidentally leave personal and confidential information on the old disk This information could be retrieved even if you have reformatted the disk The Seagate DriveCleanser provides for the destruction of confidential
62. al machine The stand alone versions of Seagate DiscWizard that start when booting from the rescue media do not support conversion operations Disk images created by Windows 8 vhdx files are not supported True Image cannot convert Ob and vhd files that contain dynamic volumes which were originally located on more than one disk drive for example spanned or striped dynamic volumes In this section Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup 119 6 8 1 Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup You may have vhd files if you used the Windows Backup utility included into Windows Vista and Windows 7 for backing up the system hard drive When you need to recover your system using a vhd backup file proceed as follows 1 Arrange the boot order in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot order in BIOS p 57 Boot from the rescue media and select Seagate DiscWizard After Seagate DiscWizard starts click the My Disks link under Recover on the Welcome screen Choose the vhd backup file to be used for recovery by its creation date When the required vhd backup is not shown click Browse choose Windows Backup Archives vhd in the Files of type field and locate the backup for recovery Even if the required vhd backup is shown on the screen after you choose it Seagate DiscWizard may display the following message Seagate DiscWizard cannot d
63. ally C selected by default CHE oo Configure disk backup process Source P Lee g Den Desnation FAMy backups Semode OM Tarn on Ractep scheme Bectup name My myteri 3 Select a destination for backup you can leave the default destination or browse for a destination after clicking the down arrow to the right of the current destination and selecting Browse 4 Click Back up now Additional recommendations Many IT professionals recommend that you have at least two copies of your system backup three are even better It is further recommended to keep one copy of a backup in a different location from the other preferably on other premises for example at work or at a friend s home if you use the backed up computer at home One more argument in favor of several backups when starting recovery Seagate DiscWizard deletes the target partition or disk If you have just a single backup you are at great risk The moment the system partition is deleted on the computer being recovered the only thing you have is the image being recovered If the image is corrupted you will not be able to recover the system 5 2 Deciding where to store your backups Seagate DiscWizard supports quite a few of storage devices For more information see Supported storage media p 9 Some of the supported storage locations are discussed below Hard disk drives Since hard disk drives are now quite inexpensive in most cases pu
64. an start recovering a partition or disk from an image backup both on the Backup and recovery tab and in Acronis Backup Explorer To start recovery from the Backup and recovery tab select the box of a backup containing the partition image you need to recover Click the Recover button or the Recover icon if the backup box is collapsed This opens the Disk Recovery window 45 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 If you want to recover the partition to the state it was at an earlier date click the gear icon to open the Operations menu and then click Explore and recover This opens Acronis Backup Explorer and you can select the image backup version created on that date Clicking Recover after selecting the required version opens the Disk Recovery window Disk Recovery koks Recovering Local disk C Ka Version Yesterday at 11 45PM Source Switch to disk mode S Ge C NTFS w Local Disk C a 100 Mware Wirtu 1 y Partition properties Hide MBR e Disk recovery options Recover now Cancel 1 Select the corresponding check box of the partition to recover If you backed up an entire disk you can choose to recover the entire disk at once by clicking Switch to disk mode To be able to select partitions again click Switch to partition mode 2 Inthe recovery destination field below the partition name select the destination partition Those partitions where the partition to be recove
65. and folders encrypted with use of the encryption feature available in Windows XP and later operating systems 6 1 1 6 How to create a bootable USB flash drive You can create a bootable USB flash drive containing a standalone Seagate DiscWizard This may be handy for example if your notebook does not have an internal CD DVD drive You will need a USB flash drive with a capacity of 256 MB or more The drive must be formatted in FAT16 or FAT32 file system To create a bootable USB flash drive attach the drive to a USB port Start Seagate Media Builder and then select the drive as the destination for the rescue media creation Then follow the Media Builder wizard steps For more information on creating the media see How to create bootable media If Seagate Media Builder does not recognize your USB flash drive you can try using the procedure described in an Acronis Knowledge Base article at http kb acronis com content 1526 6 2 Cloning a hard disk In this section General Information 89 SO GCUMIEY Eege 90 Selecting clone mode 90 Selecting aSOUNCE ISK vic ccccne svcececsonsecenncceecsencceeceenccteceesoctereesocteceencceeenes 91 Selecting a destination dek 92 EA Se A E E E E E T 92 Excluding Eege eege ee ee e 93 Manual partitioning ccccccccsssssssseeecceeceseeeeeeeeceeeeesseaeeseeeeceeesssaaagess 95 Cloning summar o secniiionncnnncernronncrnnenr scenen erer ecen etenaren enanar einen aana aa as 97 6 2 1 General i
66. and write key are printed on a sticker attached to the bottom of the NDAS device or on the inside of its enclosure If there is no sticker you need to contact your NDAS device vendor to obtain that information Optical discs Blank optical discs such as DVD R DVD R are very cheap so they will be the lowest cost solution for backing up your data though the slowest one This is especially true when backing up directly to DVDs Furthermore if your backup consists of several DVDs data recovery from DVDs will require a lot of disc swapping On the other hand using Blu ray discs may be a viable option Due to the necessity of swapping discs we strongly recommend to avoid backing up to DVDs if the number of discs is more than three When there is no alternative to backing up to DVDs we recommend to copy all DVDs to a folder on a hard disk and then to recover from that folder 5 2 1 Authentication settings If you are connecting to a networked computer in most cases you will need to provide the necessary credentials for accessing the network share For example this is possible when you select a backup storage in the Browse for destination window The Authentication Settings window appears automatically when you click a networked computer name To open it manually click Specify credentials for this locations on the toolbar If you need to specify the user name and password User name enter a user name Password enter the user
67. artition backups 1 Click the Files and folders tab 2 Select files and folders you want to recover 3 Click the Recover button For more information on recovering files and folders see Files and folders tab p 19 Backup version Backup name date and time Backup version contents Name of the backup Date and time when the selected Disks and partitions that the being explored backup version was created backup version contains Available for recovery Reeves P a eon df Current item The selected Time line information area backup version Contains all versions Information on the current of the backup disk partition file or folder Right clicking on a backup version opens the shortcut menu with other Figure 3 REMOVE AFTER available operations TRANGLANGN Recover select to recover the current backup version Validate select to check the integrity of the backup version data Mount for image backups select to mount the backup version as a disk Delete version select to delete the backup version the backup chain will not be corrupted View select to set up the time line to show some additional information To find a file or folder you need to recover type the file or folder name in the search field Both tabs also show backup comments and allow for adding editing and deleting comments to the selected backup version If a backup version does not have comments click the Add comment icon then typ
68. at to do if your SSD does not have enough space for all HDD content p 72 SSD alignment Another question concerns the alignment of SSDs To get the optimum performance from an SSD and to prolong its life the partition offset must meet certain criteria In most cases you do not need to check or manually fix the alignment the program will do it automatically In any event we recommend that you perform one of the following Create the backup you are going to use for migration in disk mode In other words back up the source disk entirely not just the system partition Make sure the destination SSD does not contain partitions the disk space is unallocated Note that if your SSD is new and has never been used before it does not contain partitions For more information see SSD support p 9 Which migration method to choose If your system disk consists of a single partition not counting the hidden System Reserved partition existing in many installations of Windows 7 you can try to migrate to the SSD using the Clone tool For more information see Cloning a hard disk p 89 However we recommend to use the backup and recovery method in most cases This method provides more flexibility and control over migration See Migrating to an SSD using the backup and recovery method p 74 5 5 1 1 What to do if Seagate DiscWizard does not recognize your SSD Sometimes Seagate DiscWizard may not recognize an SSD In such a case ch
69. b When you click an item short information on this item is displayed under the browser area The set of displayed parameters depends on the item s type Clicking the View versions link opens the View Versions window with a list of all versions of the file in the backup You can recover a desired version by its backup time By double clicking on a file in the right hand area you will recover the file to a temporary folder Then 1 3 4 3 Time line Seagate DiscWizard will open the file using the associated application Note Nonstop Backup is not available in this product edition To access this feature please upgrade to full version Usually the time line at the bottom of Acronis Backup Explorer screen shows information on the backup versions stored in the selected backup The time line provides easy navigation through backup versions and allows you to recover your data to the state it was in at a certain date and time The squares that represent backup versions have colored stripes at the bottom The color of the stripes depends on the backup types violet for disk backups turquoise for file backups green for Nonstop Backup and brown for other backups e g created by a previous Seagate DiscWizard version The picture below shows various states of a time line The states vary depending on the number of backups and the time interval through which you are navigating Event in the system Now block In
70. backup at the Archive location step and then click Next Pacovery Wiese Recovery Wizard Required steps Archive selection EE Name Images a My_system Nonstop Backup Storages Nonstop backup File Backups a EN Pictures Pictures Select a backup from which to recover Created Rating Method a 3 1111 11 21 34 AM KKH Full backup m J DH Path F Pictures tib Browse Cancel 3 When recovering files with the rescue CD you are able to select only a new location for the files to be recovered Therefore just click Next at the Location selection step 67 After the Destination window opens check that all your drives are shown under My Computer If you store your backups on the network you should also check that you can access the network If no computers are visible on the network but the Computers Near Me icon is found under My Computer specify network settings manually To do this open the window available at Tools amp Utilities gt Options gt Network adapters Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 If the Computers Near Me icon is not available under My Computer there may be problems either with your network card or with the card driver provided with Seagate DiscWizard een ox G Recovery Wizard le er Destination 2 My Computer Name Date Type gt a System Reserved C No items to disp
71. backups tib files of disks or partitions can be converted to Windows backups vhd files How to use vhd files True Image allows you to recover your system from a vhd file created by Windows Backup utility Refer to Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup for details You can boot your computer from the converted vhd file to test whether the backup is valid and can be recovered to a bootable operating system You can also boot from a tib file In this case it will be converted automatically to a vhd file Refer to Booting from a tib image of your system partition for details You can keep a converted vhd file for emergency situations For example if your computer cannot start and you need to run it right away you can boot from the vhd file In Windows 7 you can mount a vhd file as an additional drive The vhd file may contain any partitions system or non system Limitations and additional information A file backup cannot be converted to a vhd file To boot from a converted vhd file it must contain System partition of the same computer You cannot boot other computers using the same vhd file Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Enterprise Any changes you make to a booted or mounted vhd file are saved to it If you boot from a vhd file and make changes to the data that was not backed up these changes will affect your live system You cannot run a converted vhd file as a virtu
72. cedecadsdadacadsdadasadasasaaaaaaadas 121 7 1 Seagate System Report 121 7 2 Creating a custom rescue CD 122 Glossary ot d E 123 1 Getting started 1 1 Introduction In this section What is Seagate DiSCWIZard cccccccccccccccceeesseeeceeeesseeaeseeeeeeeeessaaaness 6 Seagate DiscWizard basic CONCEPHS cceesssssseessssseseesessseeseseeeeeseeeaeaeaaes 6 New in Seagate Discizard 8 System requirements and Supported media 8 Technical SUPPO EE 10 1 1 1 What is Seagate DiscWizard Seagate DiscWizard is an integrated software suite that ensures the security of all of the information on your PC It can back up the operating system applications settings and all of your data while also securely destroying any confidential data you no longer need With this software you can back up the entire disk drive or selected partitions Seagate DiscWizard provides you with all the essential tools to recover your computer system should a disaster occur such as losing data accidentally deleting critical files or folders or suffering a complete hard disk crash You can store backups on almost any PC storage device Windows style interface and wizards will make your work easier Just perform a few simple steps and let Seagate DiscWizard take care of everything else When a system problem occurs the software will get you up and running in no time 1 1 2 Seagate DiscWizard basic concepts This section provides general informat
73. city Model gege peann Disk Disk1 16 GB VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 SCSI B Disk2 16 GB VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 SCSI 16 GB VMware VMware Virtual 1 0 Interface SCH LL Disk3 ER 16GB New Volume D 16 00 GB NTFS oO Primary Logical Dynamic D Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported Next gt Cancel Select the destination disk and click Next to continue At this point the program checks to see if the destination disk is free If not you will be prompted by the Conformation window stating that the destination disk contains partitions perhaps with useful data To confirm deletion of the partitions click OK Note that no real changes or data destruction will be performed at this time For now the program will just map out cloning All changes will be implemented only when you click Proceed If any disk is unpartitioned the program will automatically recognize it as the destination and bypass this step 6 2 6 Move method When you select the manual cloning mode Seagate DiscWizard will offer you the following data move methods Asis anew partition will be created for every old one with the same size and type file system and label The unused space will become unallocated Proportional the new disk space will be proportionally distributed between cloned partitions 92 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 Manual y
74. commend that you create a new bootable media after each Seagate DiscWizard upgrade When booting from the rescue media and using a standalone version of Seagate DiscWizard you cannot recover files and folders encrypted with use of the encryption available in Windows XP and later operating systems 6 1 1 1 Rescue media contents selection You can select which components of Seagate programs you want to place on the bootable media Seagate DiscWizard offers the following components Seagate DiscWizard includes support of USB PC Card formerly PCMCIA and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them Seagate System Report the component allows you to generate a system report that is used for collecting information about your system in case of any program problem Report generation will be available before you start Seagate DiscWizard from the bootable media The generated system report can be saved to a USB flash drive Seagate Media Builder ES Rescue media contents selection Select the bootable components of the Seagate products to be placed on the bootable media Once the media is created you will be able to boot a computer into the media and run the selected components A dl 12 Seagate DiscWizard Seagate DiscWizard WG Seagate System Report Version 16 0 7113 Language English WM Seagate DiscWizard HES Space required 445 6 MB
75. d commands for creating new backups managing the backup list validating backups etc Disk and partition backup This feature allows you to protect your computer by creating backups of your partitions including the system one and whole disks File backup This feature allows you to back up your files and folders Other backups E mail backup This feature allows you to back up your e mail messages and settings Nonstop Backup This feature continuously protects your partitions and files Create bootable media If your computer cannot start use bootable rescue media to run the standalone version of Seagate DiscWizard and recover your system from a previously created system partition backup Browse for backup Click this item to browse for backups on your computer and add them to the backup list This may be useful when you have backups created by a previous Seagate DiscWizard version which are not shown in the backup list Recover Click this item to recover data from your backups and then select the backup that contains the required data Show only my favorite backups f This icon filters the backups which you have marked as favorite Expand all backup boxes f This icon expands all collapsed backup boxes Collapse all backup boxes This icon collapses all expanded backup boxes into narrow stripes This command sorts all backups by types The order is as follows disk backups file backups nonstop backup applicatio
76. data However sometimes it might be useful to make a full sector by sector backup For example you have deleted some files by mistake and want to make a disk image before trying to undelete them because sometimes undeleting may create problems in the file system Please note that this mode increases processing time and usually results in a larger image file because it copies used and unused hard disk sectors The Back up unallocated space option becomes available if you have selected the previous parameter Back up sector by sector By default while performing sector by sector backup unallocated space is not included into the backup file Enabling this option will include all unallocated disk space into the backup 3 7 5 Pre Post commands for backup You can specify commands or even batch files that will be automatically executed before and after the backup procedure For example you may want to start stop certain Windows processes or check your data before starting backup To specify commands batch files Select a command to be executed before the backup process starts in the Before backup process field To create a new command or select a new batch file click the Edit button Select a command to be executed after the backup process ends in the After backup process field To create a new command or select a new batch file click the Edit button Please do not try to execute interactive commands i e commands that require us
77. deletes all backup versions of the current backup at their location Be careful because the deletion cannot be undone Create shortcut creates a shortcut on the Desktop With the shortcut you can run a backup without starting Seagate DiscWizard More opens the following additional items Clone settings clones the current backup settings when you need to create several similar backups Clone the backup settings and then introduce the required changes Move click to move all the backup files to another location The subsequent backup versions will be saved to the new location If you change the backup destination by editing the backup settings only new backup versions will be saved to the new location The earlier backup versions will remain in the old location Remove from the list removes the current backup from the backup list shown in the My backups area This operation also turns off the scheduling of the removed backup if a schedule was set but it does not delete the backup files The Operations menu of backups created on another computer and added to the backup list without importing the backup settings will have less items 1 3 1 1 Backup and recovery toolbar Features marked with the sign are available in the full version of the software only To access these features please upgrade to full version The toolbar at the top of the Backup and recovery tab contains the most frequently use
78. dicates a software This w eek b lock Today block collapsed and installations and Contains versions for he Contains versions for the ded i current week till today es expanded software updates current day til the last hour Contains versions for the last hour KEES ae ee Older Oder Tox day CEET EE EE Version pack This month block The selected Collapsed block Contains several versions Contains versions forthe backup version Click to view all the versions for the day click to view current month till the next that the black contains block The Now interval shows backup versions created during the last hour When using Nonstop Backup backup versions may be created as often as every five minutes The Today interval shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current day to the last hour The week interval can be named either Week ago or This week When today is Monday Tuesday or Wednesday the week interval is named Week ago In such cases the time line shows backup versions created during the previous week and from the beginning of the current week to the beginning of today When today is Thursday Friday Saturday or Sunday the week interval is named This week In such cases the time line shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current week to the beginning of today The month interval can be named either Month ago or This month When t
79. ding double layer DVD R DVD RW DVD RAM BD R BD RE USB 1 1 2 0 3 0 FireWire IEEE 1394 and PC card storage devices REV and other removable media Seagate DiscWizard does not support dynamic disks and volumes Seagate DiscWizard supports large hard disk drives with a capacity of more than 2TB This support is provided even if the operating system does not have support for such hardware For more information see Seagate Extended Capacity Manager p 103 Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without a kernel patch 1 1 4 5 SSD support The recommended offset for Solid State Drives SSD is a multiple of 64 KB most commonly 1024KB or 2048 sectors Seagate DiscWizard provides full support of SSDs It keeps the proper offset of SSD during such operations as image recovery and cloning Specifically full support means that If you recover a disk backup to an SSD or clone a disk to an SSD the offset will be automatically set to the default 1024 KB 2048 sectors If you recover a partition backup to a target empty non partitioned unallocated SSD the offset will be automatically set to the default 1024 KB 2048 sectors If you recover a partition backup to a target empty partitioned SSD the target SSD will keep its original offset 1 1 5 Technical Support Support for Seagate DiscWizard users is provided by Seagate Please visit Support Page at www seagate com support http www seagate com s
80. disk letter and the backslash at the end By mask log Excludes all files with the log extension F Excludes all files and folders with names starting with F such as folders F F1 and files F log F1 log By mask Excludes all log files with names consisting of four symbols and starting with p Wildcards in a mask may represent only parts of file or folder names and cannot substitute for a part of the file path Sub folders should always be specified explicitly using a backslash For example to exclude all files in directory C Program Files Acronis TrueImageHome that have Qt in the file name you may use the following line Prog Acr True Qt P 6 2 8 Manual partitioning The manual transfer method enables you to resize partitions on the new disk By default the program resizes them proportionally This window displays rectangles indicating the source hard disk including its partitions and unallocated space as well as the new disk layout Along with the hard disk number you can see disk capacity the label volume and file system information Different volume types including primary logical and unallocated space are marked with different colors CH Clone Disk Wizard Required steps Clone Mode Source Disk Destination Disk e Disk 2 Move Method Change Disk Layout Finish Partition NTFS Unlabeled C LANTES System Reser
81. dll mapi_proxy_64 dll 1 mapi_proxy_stub_32 dll E 5 mapi_proxy_stub_64 dll prl_net_enumadil E pri_report exe E pri_stat exe 3 qmngs dll QtCored dill S QtGuid all E spawn exe T L SystemReport exe OOSSI g timanagers dll 2 universal_restore dll Size 1 998 KB 3 624 KB 62 KB 138 KB 614 KB 1 578 KB 818 KB 314 KB 399 KB 78 KB 65 KB 78 KB 2 637 KB 3 018 KB 237 KB 2 249 KB 7 777 KB 263 KB 7 301 KB 13 304 KB 1 475 KB Size 3 5 MB View versions 08 2013 12 40 00 PM Type DLL file CHM file RTF file TXT file EXE file DLL file EXE file DLL file DLL file DLL file DLL file DLL file EXE file EXE file DLL file DLL file DLL file EXE file EXE file DLL file DLL file Date 7 5 2013 6 59 14 PM 7 5 2013 4 08 14 PM 7 5 2013 6 38 50 PM 7 5 2013 6 46 34 PM 7 5 2013 8 13 02 PM 7 5 2013 8 18 44 PM 7 5 2013 7 49 40 PM 7 5 2013 8 12 36 PM 7 5 2013 8 12 46 PM 7 5 2013 8 12 38 PM 7 5 2013 8 12 48 PM 7 9 2012 12 22 52 PM 7 9 2012 12 23 46 PM 7 5 2013 8 12 02 PM 5 17 2012 11 19 42 AM 5 17 2012 11 19 58 AM 5 17 2012 11 20 16 AM 7 5 2013 8 11 02 PM 7 5 2013 8 12 28 PM 7 5 2013 7 41 38 PM 7 5 2013 7 32 58 PM Selected to recove Ss 13 files and 1 folders 73 9 MB amp Recover The majority of user interface elements located on this tab are described in Figure 4 REMOVE AFTER the Disks and partitions tab section Here we describe the items specific for TRANSLATION the ta
82. e backup to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booting from Seagate rescue media 1 Arrange the boot order in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot order in BIOS p 57 Boot from the rescue media and select Seagate DiscWizard Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu Choose the image backup of your system disk that you want to use for recovery Before continuing with the recovery you need to know the sizes and physical order of all existing partitions To see this information click Details on the wizard s toolbar Seagate DiscWizard displays information about the backup This includes a graphical view of all partitions the disk contains and their physical order on the disk Scns Jooren Son Backup information Detailed information on the selected backup Path G My backupsiMy_System_disk tip Name My_System_disk Backup method Full Backup file type tib Created 2 18 11 11 22 50 AM 16GB S System disk C 1 15 9 GB NTFS Primary Logical Dynamic M Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported 52 4 Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step 5 Atthe What to recover step select the boxes of the partitions to be recovered Do not select the MBR and Track 0 box because this will result in selecting the entire
83. e your comments in the comments area and click the Save icon If there is already a comment you can edit it for the current version only To do this click Edit comment for current version type a new comment and click the Save icon to save the changed comment or the Cancel icon to cancel the changes 1 3 4 2 Files and folders tab The Files and folders tab shows the backed up files and folders contained in the selected backup version The left hand area of the tab shows a directory tree and the right hand area the contents of a selected directory tree item The tab shows the files and folders states of when the current backup version was created You can switch between the backup versions by using the time line at the bottom of the screen For more information on using the time line see Time line To recover files and or folders 1 Onthe time line select the backup version from which you want to recover your files folders The version s exact date and time will be displayed near the backup name Your data will be recovered to the state it was at this point in time 2 Select the corresponding check boxes of the files and folders you want to recover see selection rules below Short information about the selected items their number and total size will be displayed near the Recover button 3 Click the Recover button You can also recover files and folders by dragging them to your Desktop or into a selected folder in Windows Explor
84. eave enough disk space for the remaining partition click the Partition properties link below the recovery destination field The Partition Properties window appears Partition Properties Specify the partition properties ke Partition Partition size Used space 19GB Total size 25597 0 New Volume F 25 GB Preserve source partition size 25 GB Unallocated space Size 20 e Expand partition to maximum size Position Before partition After partition e You can create one or more partitions on the unallocated space with Acronis Disk Director Learn more about Acronis Disk Director OK Canca 5 You can resize the partition by dragging its right border with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen To assign the partition a specific size enter the appropriate number into the Total size field Remember that you need to leave as much unallocated free space after having resized the partition as will be needed for the remaining partition Select a disk letter and partition type When you finish the settings click OK to confirm them and return to the main Disk Recovery window Specify the partition properties Partition Letter F Z Label Type Primary X Partition size Usedspace 19GB Totalsize 153467 MB New Volume F F e 7 15GB Preserve source partition size 25 GB Unallocated space Size 102523 Expand partition to maximum size
85. eck whether the SSD is recognized in BIOS If the BIOS of your computer does not show the SSD verify that the power and data cables are properly connected You may also try to update the BIOS and SATA drivers If these suggestions do not help contact the Support of your SSD manufacturer If the BIOS of your computer does show the SSD you can try the following procedure For Windows Vista Windows 7 type cmd in the Search field and press Enter For Windows XP type cmd in the Run field and press Enter At the command line prompt type diskpart list disk The screen will show the disks connected to your computer Find out the disk number for your SSD Use its size as the reference select disk N Here N is the disk number of your SSD clean This operation removes all information from the SSD and overwrites the MBR with the default one exit exit Start Seagate DiscWizard and check whether it detects the SSD If it detects the SSD use the Add new disk tool to create a single partition on the disk occupying the entire disk space When creating a partition check that the free space before partition is 1 MB For more information see Adding a new hard disk p 98 The next step is to check whether your Seagate bootable rescue media recognizes the SSD 1 Boot from the rescue media 2 Select Tools amp Utilities gt Add New Disk in the main menu and the Disk selection screen will show the information about all hard disks i
86. ecovering a disk with a hidden partition ccccsscsscsscsscsscsscsecsscsscsecsecssseeseeseeseesesseseeseeseeseesersaesensats 51 4 5 Recovering data from file level DACKUPS cceccccccccccccee cece cece cece eee eeeee eee eeeeeeeeeeeEeeeeeeeeeeeeetess 56 dp RECOVEFINE TIlE Versions ccccccccevseveesccccccnuveveeseesseuetuasseeeteesseeeouuvovestesssuneoesvovestesesueneesyoesstecesees 56 4 7 Backup protection dialog box 57 4 8 Arranging boot order in BIO 57 Z RECOVErY OPTIONS eege eos ee ee ee 58 4 9 1 Pre Postc mmands for TE OVE V eege 59 49 2 Validation Optretter ere eet 59 4 9 3 COMPUTER LEStA EEN 60 Z FIIGFECOVERY OPtlONSvsciiess eo hsecececeescececscecececcezcosesacssececenscocedexesadesaxesecscisteacerevisetssixsaacvsaviaatstisveatixen heath 60 4 9 5 Overwrite tile Options eegend d EE 60 4 9 6 Performance of recovery Operation 60 4 9 7 Notifications for recovery operation c ccccccsscescesscsccsscesscesecscesscesecsssesscesecsesessceseceecsseeseceasessceaeceees 61 Usef l information EE 62 SE Protecting your Systeri ee ETE E AAE EA Ee AEA eE EC ENER e EAEE EESE 62 5 2 Deciding where to store your backups cccccccssssssseececeeccaeeeseseeceeeeesaeaesseeeeeeeeseaaaaeeeeeess 64 5 21 Authentication eeneg eege aS 65 5 3 Making sure that your rescue media can be used when neecded 65 5 3 1 Selecting video mode when booting from the rescue meda 69 5 4 Testing that your backups can be used fo
87. er You cannot recover files by dragging them to an FTP recordable CD DVD or other optical media as well as mounted ISO files Selection rules Check boxes that correspond to the items may be in the following states Selected check mark in square this state indicates that the item is selected for recovery A selected folder means that all items in the folder are selected Cleared clear square this state indicates that the item is not selected Mixed filled square this state is available for folders only and indicates that some items in the folder are selected and the others are not Note that you cannot set the state by clicking the check box but you can change it to a cleared or selected state Selecting a disk partition file or folder to make it the current item in a list does not mean selecting it for recovery amp Disks and partitions gg local disk c gt Monday July 4 My computer 4 ec E J Perflogs J Program Files aE J Program Fil J Common E J Internet E 1 Microsoft J MSBuild E amp Reference am J Seagate J Discwiz A Windows E A Windows A Windows D Windows A Windows B Windows A Windows Ji Users Ji Windows E ze System Reser E help chm E HM file Files and folders Name foxdll EP help chm 5 license rtf license tt 57 license_activator exe live_update_dll dill LiveUpdatelnstaller exe E 8 mapi_proxy_32
88. er input for example pause These are not supported 3 7 5 1 Edit user command for backup You can specify user commands to be executed before or after the backup procedure Inthe Command field type in a command or select it from the list Click to select a batch file Inthe Working directory field type in a path for command execution or select it from the list of previously entered paths Inthe Arguments field enter or select command execution arguments from the list Disabling the Do not perform operations until the command execution is complete parameter enabled for Pre commands by default will permit the backup process to run concurrently with your command execution The Abort the operation if the user command fails enabled by default parameter will abort the operation if any errors occur in command execution You can test a command you entered by clicking the Test command button 3 7 6 Backup splitting Seagate DiscWizard cannot split already existing backups Backups can be split only when being created Large backups can be split into several files that together make up the original backup A backup can also be split for burning to removable media The default setting Automatic With this setting Seagate DiscWizard will act as follows When backing up to a hard disk If the selected disk has enough space and its file system allows the estimated file size the program will create a single backu
89. ers primary master primary slave secondary master secondary slave next go the SCSI hard disks This order is broken if you change the boot order in BIOS setup If for example you specify that booting has to be done from hard disk E numbering starts with the hard disk that would be the third in usual circumstances it is usually the secondary master for IDE hard drives Some motherboards have a so called boot menu opened by pressing a certain key or key combination for instance F12 The boot menu allows selecting the boot device from a list of bootable devices without changing the BIOS setup 4 9 Recovery options In the Disk Recovery Options and File Recovery Options windows you can configure options for a disk partition and file recovery processes respectively After you installed the application all options are set to the initial values You can change them for your current recovery operation only or for all further recovery operations as well Select the Save the settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further recovery operations by default Note that disk recovery options and file recovery options are fully independent and you should configure them separately If you want to reset all the modified options to their initial values that were set after the product installation click the Reset to initial settings button In this section Pre Post commands fOr reCoverng 59 Validation option 59
90. etect volume 1 of Backup_Name archive where Backup_Name is the name of the chosen backup This is because disk letters in the standalone Seagate DiscWizard may differ from those in Windows and the path to this backup stored in the metadata information will point to the wrong location In such case click Browse choose Windows Backup Archives vhd in the Files of type field and locate the backup for recovery At the next step select Recover whole disks and partitions if it is not selected and click Next Select the system partition at the What to recover step Usually you will not need to recover the MBR 7 Then specify the settings of the selected system partition location type primary active and size When recovering the partition to the original location you do not need to make any setting changes 8 Read the Summary of the recovery operations and then click Proceed You can also recover partitions and disks from vhd files while working in Windows This is preferable for recovering data partitions and disks 6 9 Importing and exporting backup settings Seagate DiscWizard allows you to import and export the settings of your backups This may be desirable if you need to transfer the settings to a new PC after installing Seagate DiscWizard on that computer Such transfer will make configuring backups on the new PC much easier You only need to export the settings and then import them to the other PC The settings are expor
91. ethods are allowed For instance this parameter may be used if you experience crashes upon boot up probably caused by the BIOS pci biosirq Uses PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt routing table These calls are known to be buggy on several machines and they hang the machine when used but on other computers it is the only way to get the interrupt routing table Try this option if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard vga ask Gets the list of the video modes available for your video card and allows selecting a video mode most suitable for the video card and monitor Try this option if the automatically selected video mode is unsuitable for your hardware 6 1 1 3 Bootable media selection Select a destination for bootable media creation CD R RW if you are creating CD insert a blank disc so that the program can determine its capacity ISO image having created an ISO disk image you will be able to burn it onto any kind of recordable DVD using DVD recording software Creating a bootable DVD directly from Bootable Media Builder is impossible any other media your PC can boot from such as USB flash drives etc If you use non optical media the media must have a FAT file system This limitation is not applicable for an ISO image r 7 J Seagate Media Builder E Bootable media type selection Select a drive to be used to create bootable media
92. g hardware requirements 512 MB RAM Processor Pentium 1 GHz or faster The recommended screen resolution is 1280 x 1024 The minimum screen resolution is 1024 x 768 1 1 4 2 Supported operating systems Seagate DiscWizard has been tested on the following operating systems m Windows XP SP3 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 Windows Vista SP2 all editions Windows 7 SP1 all editions Windows 8 all editions Seagate DiscWizard also lets you create a bootable CD R DVD R that can back up and recover a disk partition on a computer running any Intel or AMD based PC operating system including Linux Note that the Intel based Apple Macintosh is not supported 1 1 4 3 Supported file systems FAT16 32 NTFS Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 ReiserFS Linux SWAP If a file system is not supported or is corrupted Seagate DiscWizard can copy data using a sector by sector approach The Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 ReiserFS and Linux SWAP file systems are supported only for disk or partition backup recovery operations You cannot use Seagate DiscWizard for file level operations with these file systems file backup recovery search as well as image mounting and file recovering from images You also cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with these file systems 1 1 4 4 Supported storage media Hard disk drives Solid State Drives SSD Networked storage devices CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R inclu
93. h in the Select file field or locate an existing file on the disk Each custom algorithm is stored in a separate file with its own name If you try to write a new algorithm to an already existing file the existing file s contents will be erased 6 5 1 3 Post wiping actions In the Post wiping actions window you can select actions to be performed on the partitions selected for data destruction Seagate DriveCleanser offers you three options No action just destroy data using the algorithm selected below Delete partition destroy data and delete partition Format destroy data and format partition default r re Seagate DriveCleanser Post wiping actions Source selection Select actions to be performed after the data is wiped v Algorithm selection No action Dn Do nothing with the wiped partitions Note that the wiped partitions will be unusable until formatted e Delete partitions Delete the partition from the partition table Format Format the wiped partitions with the current file systems Post wiping actions Figure 17 REMOvE 9 9 1 4 Disk wiping summary AFTER TRANSLATION The summary window contains the list of operations to be performed Note that after you click the Proceed button the selected partitions will be wiped permanently So the button is disabled until you select the Wipe the selected partitions irreversibly check box Click the Proceed butt
94. he component to be removed Seagate DiscWizard 3 Click Remove Windows XP and Windows Vista or Uninstall Windows 7 and Windows 8 4 Follow the instructions on the screen You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task If you used Seagate Extended Capacity Manager select in the window that appears what to do with extended capacity disks Then click Next to proceed with the uninstallation procedure Upgrading from a previous versions of Seagate DiscWizard If you already have Seagate DiscWizard installed the new version will simply update it there is no need to remove the old version and reinstall the software Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions Therefore if you roll back Seagate DiscWizard to an older version you likely will have to re create the backups using the older version We strongly recommend that you create new bootable media after each Seagate DiscWizard upgrade 1 2 2 Upgrading Seagate DiscWizard Seagate DiscWizard has limited functionality compared to True Image 2013 by Acronis In the software interface the locked features and functionalities are either grayed out or marked with the sign You can get all these features by upgrading Seagate DiscWizard to True Image 2013 at a special upgrade price which is lower than the regular retail price To upgrade Seagate DiscWizard 1 Click Get f
95. he entire disk space is accessible and you do not need to use Seagate Extended Capacity Manager 2 Seagate Extended Capacity Manager shows the Extended Capacity available for allocation A Extended Capacity Manager ZS Allocate Extended Capacity Disc WDC WD25EZRS 00J99B0 Windows Native Capacity Extended Capacity 1 el 227 TB D Unallocated 2 TB 0 27 TB You can access this storage by Add New Disc or Windows disc management tools You can create Extended Capacity Discs on this storage Ww Cancel Allocate space 3 Click Allocate space to see the possible disk space allocation in the next step After clicking the Apply button an Extended Capacity Disk will be emulated on your physical disk If your physical disk s capacity is more than 4 TB and your operating system does not support the GPT partition style the program creates several MBR Extended Capacity Disks Note that Extended Capacity Disks are not bootable though most of their properties are the same as that of physical disks 4 Click Close to exit the Seagate Extended Capacity Manager What else you can do After allocating the space you can temporarily switch off the Extended Capacity Disks by clicking Temporary switch off Extended Capacity Disks This makes the Extended Capacity Disks invisible for disk management tools though the disk space will remain allocated and you will be able to make these partitions visible ag
96. ight be slow L Organize s MSaveSearch fa Search Tools Name Date modified Sa MyBackup 3 5 2008 1 25 PM Favorite Links E Documents E Pictures Did you find what you were searching for D Music EF Advanced Search Recently Changed p Searches B Public Type Acronis True Imag Desktop C Users Authors Add an author Name myback Tags Add atag Folder Folders d 1 item L Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 5 8 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards You can change the way the columns are represented in various wizards To sort items by a particular column click the header another click will switch the items to the opposite order To select columns to view right click in the right pane and select Choose Columns in the shortcut menu Then flag the columns you want to display You can also change the display order of columns using the Move Up and Move Down buttons You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse 5 9 Backup information The backup information window provides detailed information about the selected backup Path the location where the backup is stored In case it is an incremental backup the location may be different from the location where the full backup is stored Backup method may be full or incremental For more information about types of backup see Full and inc
97. ion Thus the picture you might see on a disk or partition depends on the data destruction algorithm But what you actually see are disk sectors filled with either zeros or random symbols Creating custom algorithms of data destruction Seagate DriveCleanser gives you the opportunity to create your own algorithms for wiping hard disks Although the software includes several levels of data destruction you can choose to create your own This is recommended only for users familiar with the principles of data destruction used in secure disk wiping methods To create a custom hard disk wiping algorithm select and click the Custom line from the drop down list in the Algorithm selection window In this case some new required steps appear in the DriveCleanser wizard and you will be able to create a data destruction algorithm matching your security requirements Si SG P A Seagate DriveCleanser gg _ d z A Wiping Pass Adjustment ZS Required steps Your algorithm d eler Please select a pass er Change parameters for the custom algorithm pass V Algorithm selection can change the setting Algorithm Definition Operation Patt Saving Custom Algorithm write 00 All the data will be overwritten with the chosen pattern Please enter the pattern write 00 00 write ST Hl D Write a random number Random length A random value will be generated Then all the data will be overwritten with this number P
98. ion about basic concepts which could be useful for understanding how the program works Backup and recovery Backup refers to the making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to recover the original after a data loss event Backups are useful primarily for two purposes The first is to restore a state following a disaster called disaster recovery The second is to recover small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted Backup versions Backup versions are the file or files created during each backup operation The amount of versions created is always equal to the amount of times the backup is executed or to the amount of stored points in time So a version represents a point in time to which the system or data can be restored The backup versions are similar to file versions The file versions concept is familiar to those who use a Windows Vista and Windows 7 feature called Previous versions of files This feature allows you to restore a file as it existed on a particular date and time A backup version allows you to recover your data in a similar way This could be useful when trying to find damaged or deleted files Simply browse through the backup versions in the Acronis Backup Explorer until you find the backup version containing the required files Additionally you can recover different saved versions of the found files Disk cloning This operation migrates or copies the enti
99. ion by dragging it into a selected folder in Windows Explorer To choose the correct version you can open the version in the associated application and view the file contents Choose the version by its backup time and then click the Open button Seagate DiscWizard will recover the file version to a temporary folder Then it will open the file using the associated application 4 7 Backup protection dialog box A backup file can be protected with a password You can set password protection in backup options while creating a backup using a full product version If you try to recover data from a password protected backup mount it or append an incremental backup to such a backup the program will ask for the password in a special window allowing access only to authorized users In this case you must specify the correct password for the selected backup file Only then will you be able to proceed with the selected operation 4 8 Arranging boot order in BIOS BIOS has a built in setup utility for initial computer configuration To enter it you have to press a certain key combination Del F1 Ctrl Alt Esc Ctrl Esc or some other depending on your BIOS during the POST power on self test sequence that starts immediately after you turn your computer on Usually the message with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test Pressing this combination takes you to the menu of the setup utility that is included in your BIOS The
100. ion of backup versions are also called backup versions Backup version chain Sequence of minimum 2 backup versions p 123 that consist of the first full backup version and the subsequent one or more incremental versions Backup version chain continues till the next full backup version if any Bootable media A physical media CD DVD USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine BIOS as a boot device that contains standalone version of Seagate DiscWizard Bootable media is most often used to recover an operating system that cannot start access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system deploy an operating system on bare metal back up sector by sector a disk that has an unsupported file system D Differential backup Note Differential backups are not available in this product edition To access this feature please upgrade to full version 1 A backup method used for saving data changes that occurred since the last full backup version p 124 within a backup 2 A backup process that creates a differential backup version p 123 Differential backup version Note Differential backups are not available in this product edition To access this feature please upgrade to full version A differential backup version stores changes to the data against the latest full backup version p 124 You need access to the corresponding full backup version to recover
101. ions menu CP Back up now GH amp Recover View log Collapse ZS Recover files Settings Back up now Open location Edit settings Validate X Delete Create shortcut More d Consolidate versions Clone settings Move Remove from the list Clicking the gear icon in the box of a selected backup or right clicking in the free area of the box opens an Operations menu containing the following items View log click to open the log for the current backup Expand expands the selected backup box available for collapsed boxes Collapse collapses the selected backup box into a narrow stripe available for expanded boxes Recover files opens the Backup Explorer window where you can select any version of the backup Open location opens the folder containing the backup files Edit settings allows editing of the current backup settings Recreate backup settings available only for backups manually added to the backup list allows configuring the settings for image and file backups created by a previous Seagate DiscWizard version This item may also appear for backups created on another computer and added to the backup list without importing their settings Without backup settings you will be unable to perform certain operations Specifically you cannot refresh the backup by clicking Back up now Also you cannot edit and clone the backup settings and schedule Validate starts backup validation Delete
102. iously defined and saved Algorithm selection To specify a data destruction method select a predefined method from the list A description of the selected algorithm custom method select Load from file m Description Navy Staff Office Publication NAVSO Pub 5239 Information Systems Security INFOSEC Program Guidelines is issued by the Naval Information Systems Management Center Disk controllers use a variety of encoding techniques to convert the computer data to a format suitable for the magnetic data storage media Typically ST506 style disk drives use Modified Frequency Modulation MFM encoding SCSI and ATA IDE drives use a Run Length Limited RLL encoding scheme If you are uncertain as to the drive encoding technique use this pattern _Net gt Cancel Figure 15 REMOVE AFTER TRANSLATION 108 After you select an algorithm Seagate DriveCleanser will perform all the actions necessary to destroy the contents of the selected partition or disk After this is done you will see a message indicating successful data destruction Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 Seagate DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability to estimate the results of executing a data destruction algorithm on a hard disk or partition It features an integrated Disk Editor hard disk browsing tool The aforementioned algorithms offer various levels of confidential data destruct
103. k letters Disk letters may differ when booting from the rescue media The names will help you find the drive containing your backups as well as the target new drive Information on partition sizes drive capacities their manufacturers and model numbers can also help to correctly identify the drives It is highly recommended to install the new hard drive to the same position in the computer and to use the same cable and connector that was used for the original drive This is not always possible e g the old drive may be an IDE and the new drive may be a SATA In any case install the new drive to where it will be used 4 4 1 Recovering a disk with a hidden partition A hidden partition may be created by the PC manufacturer for diagnostics or system recovery Users of Windows 7 usually have the hidden System Reserved partition Recovering a backup of a system disk with a hidden partition requires that you to take into account some additional factors First of all it is necessary for the new drive to keep the physical order of the partitions that existed on the old drive In addition you should place the hidden partition in the same location usually at the start or the end of the disk space To minimize the risk of possible problems it is better to recover the hidden partition without resizing Here we describe recovery of a system disk with Windows 7 and the hidden System Reserved partition Attach the external drive if it contains th
104. l open Acronis Backup Explorer and show the found file and backup s containing the file 1 3 2 Tools and utilities tab This tab allows you to select the tools and utilities provided by Seagate DiscWizard Launch the required tool or utility by clicking the appropriate link For more information see Tools and utilities p 83 Tools and utilities Backup and recovery Try amp Decide S Perform any unsafe operation in the Try mode and decide whether to apply or revert it Protection tools Rescue Media Builder Create a rescue media to boot and recover your computer if it becomes unbootable Acronis Startup Recovery Manager If Windows works unstably press F11 at boot time and recover your data or whole system Acronis Secure Zone O A special secure partition for storing backups on your disk Backup settings transfer Create a file containing backup settings and move it to another computer Import backup settings Export backup settings Backup conversion Convert an Seagate backup to a Windows backup and vice versa Seagate backup conversion Windows backup conversion as Clone disk Copy partitions from one disk to another Security and privacy Zi System Clean up Destroy your computer usage history Seagate DriveCleanser Permanently destroy all data on your old partitions or whole disks File Shredder Guaranteed destruction of your files and folders Disk management Add ne
105. lay Lu Local Disk D Lu New Volume E ai New Volume F gt 1 RECYCLE BIN gt Il My backups gt J System Volume Informal gt J Time Explorer Storage gt A Trial recovery gt Computers Near Me m J rile m D Folder F Trial recovery 5 Select the destination for the files and then click Next 6 Select several files for recovery by selecting their check boxes and then click Next Select files and folders to recover D Backup archive Name Date Type Size a BR Local Disk E 1 L Corsica 002 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 404 BI Pictures BD Corsica 003 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 692 B Corsica 007 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 3 052 D Corsica 012 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 3 196 B Corsica 013 jpg An 21007 File 2 692 0 Corsica 017 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 3 280 D Corsica 020 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 3 188 D Corsica 022 jpg An 21007 File 2 888 O Corsica 024 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 704 BD Corsica 025 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 720 BD Corsica 030 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 3 452 0 Corsica 032 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 382 D Corsica 033 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 376 B Corsica 034 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 724 0 Corsica 038 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 376 BD Corsica 039 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 644 B Corsica 040 jpg An 21007 File 2 372 0 Corsica 041 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 812 D Corsica 042 jpg 4 12 09 7 File 2 256 B Corsica
106. lease select the number of bytes in the random value The random value length can vary from 1 to 512 bytes long ZS Write complementary to previous pass pattern Select this operation if you want Seagate DiscWizard to count complementary to the previous step pattern The data will be overwritten with the newly counted pattern D Verify Select this operation if you want the previously written data to be verified a J Having created a custom method you can save the algorithm you created Figure 16 REMOVE This will be handy if you are going to use it again AFTER TRANSLATION Loading an algorithm from a file If you created and saved your algorithm for data destruction while working with Seagate DiscWizard software you can use it in the following way In the Select algorithm window choose Load from file from the drop down list and select the file with custom data destruction algorithm parameters By default such files have a alg extension Algorithm definition The Algorithm definition window shows you a template of the future algorithm The window has the following legend The first column of the list contains the type of operation ona disk there are just two to write a symbol to disk writing and to verify written verification the second column contains the pattern of data to be written to disk The pattern to be written is always a hexadecimal value for example a value of this kind 0x00
107. lect this option to limit the age of backup versions All versions that are older than the specified period will be automatically deleted Store no more than n recent versions available for full method only Select this option to limit the maximum number of backup versions When the number of versions exceeds the specified value the oldest backup version will be automatically deleted Keep size of the backup no more than defined size Select this option to limit maximum size of the backup After creating a new backup version the program checks whether the total backup size exceeds the specified value If it s true the oldest backup version will be deleted The first backup version option Often the first version of any backup is one of the most valuable versions This is true because it stores the initial data state for example your system partition with recently installed Windows or some other stable data state for example data after a successful virus check Do not delete the first version of the backup Select this check box to keep the initial data state The program will create two initial full backup versions The first version will be excluded from the automatic cleanup and will be stored until you delete it manually Note that when the check box is selected the Store no more than n recent versions check box will change to Store no more than 1 n recent versions 3 7 3 1 Managing custom backup schemes If y
108. led C PriAct 100GB 3 348 GB NTFS m J MER and Track 0 MBR and Track 0 IS l Next gt Cancel 7 Atthe Settings of partition C or the letter of the system partition if it is different step check the default settings and click Next if they are correct Otherwise change the settings as required before clicking Next Changing the settings will be needed when recovering to the new hard disk 44 of a different capacity Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 8 Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step If you have not resized the partition the sizes in the Deleting partition and Recovering partition items must match Having checked the summary click Proceed Pacovary Wizard LS k G Recovery Wizard Required steps Summary Operations Number of operations 2 e 1 Deleting partition Finish Harddisk 1 Drive letter C File system NTFS Volume label Size 100 GB 2 Recovering partition sector by sector Harddisk 1 Drive letter C File system NTFS Volume label Size 100 GB Optional steps Options Va Options Proceed Cancel 9 When the operation finishes exit the standalone version of Seagate DiscWizard remove the rescue media and boot from the recovered system partition After making sure that you have recovered Windows to the state you need restore the original boot order 4 2 Recovering partitions and disks You c
109. leted this way by analyzing magnetization of hard disk sectors residual magnetization of track sides and or by using current magnetic microscopes Writing to magnetic media leads to subtle effects summarized as follows every track of a disk stores an image of every record ever written to it but the effect of such records magnetic layer becomes more subtle as time passes 6 5 2 1 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods Physically the complete wiping of information from a hard disk involves the switching of every elementary magnetic area of the recording material as many times as possible by writing specially selected sequences of logical 1 s and O s also known as samples Using logical data encoding methods in current hard disks you can select samples of symbol or elementary data bit sequences to be written to sectors in order to repeatedly and effectively wipe confidential information Methods offered by national standards provide single or triple recording of random symbols to disk sectors that are straightforward and arbitrary decisions in general but still acceptable in simple situations The most effective information wiping method is based on deep analysis of subtle features of recording data to all types of hard disks This knowledge speaks of the necessity of complex multipass methods to guarantee information wiping The detailed theory of guaranteed information wiping is described in an article by Peter Gutman
110. ll be able to restore your system if need arises Secure Boot support Secure Boot is a feature developed by Microsoft for the Windows 8 operating system This feature blocks unauthorized software from running during a computer boot Seagate DiscWizard now supports Secure Boot This means that if your operating system becomes corrupt you can easily boot your Windows 8 computers using two tools bootable rescue media and Acronis Startup Recovery Manager New backup naming rules The new automatic backup naming is more flexible and convenient By default Seagate DiscWizard creates for each backup task a folder with a backup task name and keeps in this folder all related backups A backup filename always contains a task name a backup method a backup number and a sequential file number if the backup is split into several files the suffixes will be v1 v2 etc Optionally you may add to the name date time etc by adding the appropriate macros 1 1 4 System requirements and supported media 1 1 4 1 Minimum system requirements Seagate DiscWizard has minimum hardware requirements corresponding to that of the operating system installed on the computer to be used for running Seagate DiscWizard In addition Seagate DiscWizard requires the following hardware Seagate Maxtor or Samsung drive CD RW DVD RW drive for bootable media creation Mouse or other pointing device recommended Seagate DiscWizard rescue media has the followin
111. ll version Try amp Decide Try any unsafe operation in the Try mode and then decide whether to apply or discard it Protection tools Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Allows you to start Seagate DiscWizard without loading the operating system by pressing F11 at boot time before the operating system starts m Rescue Media Builder Allows you to create a bootable rescue media with Seagate products or their specified components installed on your computer Acronis Secure Zone Allows you to store your backups in a special safe partition on your disk Boot Sequence Manager Allows you to add Windows 7 system partition images to the booting list and then manage the list Backup settings transfer Import backup settings Allows you to get backup settings from another computer Export backup settings Allows you to copy the settings of your backups and move them to another computer Backup conversion Acronis backup conversion Use the feature to convert a backup file format from tib to vhd The vhd files can be used for example in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems for mounting disk images without using Seagate DiscWizard Windows backup conversion Use the feature to convert a backup file format from vhd to tib The latter is the native file format of Acronis backups Clone disk Use Clone disk wizard if you need to clone your hard disk drive by copying the partitions to another hard disk Security a
112. mage d _ wizard aspx 1 6 11 2009 12 3 C Windows Microsoft NET Framework64 1 Masterlmage Mi wizard aspx resx i 2 6 11 2009 1 22 _C Windows Microsoft NET Framework v2 1 Masterlmage mL wizard aspx resx 2 6 11 2009 12 3 C Windows Microsoft NET Framework64 1 Masterlmage E _ wizardAddUser ascx 2 6 11 2009 12 3 C Windows Microsoft NET Framework64 1 Masterlmage wizardAddUserascx 1 6 11 20091 22 C Windows Microsoft NET Framework v2 1 Masterlmage E wizardAddUserascx 1 6 11 200912 3 C Windows Microsoft NET Framework64 1 Masterlmage EI _ wizardAuthenticati 3 6 11 2009 12 3 C Windows Microsoft NET Framework64 1 Masterlmage E wizardAuthenticati 2 6 11 2009 1 22 _C Windows Microsoft NET Framework v2 1 Masterlmage E wizardAuthenticati 2 6 11 2009 12 3 C Windows Microsoft NET Framework64 1 Masterlmage E H wizard aspx resx Size 2 KB Selected to recover RESX View versions 3 files 80 7 KB d By default Seagate DiscWizard performs the search in all the sources where it can search information That is it searches files in all backups and their versions on all local storage devices Figure 9 REMOVE AFTER TRANSLATION Seagate DiscWizard cannot perform search on network shares and devices that are recognized by Windows as Devices with removable storage The Files and folders tab shows results of searches for
113. menu The Help menu allows you to open the program s Help perform certain operations view product s build number etc To open the menu click the question mark icon at the upper right corner of the program screen The Help menu contains the following items Help opens the program s Help Generate system report click to generate an Seagate system report for sending to the product s support team Seagate Web site takes you to the Seagate Web site About Seagate DiscWizard shows information about Seagate DiscWizard including the product s build number 2 Howto Due to the size of this User s Guide it is sometimes not so easy to find how to perform a particular task This section lists some frequently used tasks and provides links to the appropriate parts of the User s Guide Click the corresponding page number or the link if you are viewing the Help if you need information on how to protect your entire system from a disaster p 62 recover your system when your computer refuses to boot p 41 recover your photos finance documents music etc p 56 clone your disk drive p 89 automatically refresh your backups Backup schemes p 32 or Scheduling p 75 create a bootable rescue media p 84 create a bootable USB flash drive p 88 make sure that your rescue media can be used when needed p 65 add and partition a new hard disk p 98 find a backup that contains the file
114. menu can differ in appearance sets of items and their names depending on the BIOS manufacturer The most widely known BIOS makers for PC motherboards are Award Phoenix and AMI Moreover while items in the standard setup menu are mostly the same for various BlOSes items of the extended or advanced setup heavily depend on the computer and BIOS version Among other things the BIOS menu allows you to adjust the boot order Boot order management differs for various BIOS versions e g for AMI BIOS AWARDBIOS and brand name hardware manufacturers Computer BIOS allows booting operating systems not only from hard disks but also from CD ROMs DVD ROMs and other devices Changing the boot order may be required for example to make your rescue media CD DVD or USB stick device the first booting device If there are several hard disks installed in your computer labeled as C D E and F you can change the boot order so that an operating system is booted from for example disk E In this case you have to set the boot order to look like E CD ROM A C D This does not mean that booting is done from the first device in this list it only means that the first attempt to boot an operating system will be from this device There may be no operating system on disk E or it may be inactive In this case BIOS queries the next device in the list The BIOS numbers disks according to the order in which they are connected to IDE controll
115. mouse button and drag the selected partition border to enlarge or reduce the partition size You can also set the size of the partition manually by typing in the desired partition size in the Partition Size field If you want to relocate the partition Point the cursor at the partition The cursor will change into a crosshair Hold down the left mouse button and drag the partition until you get the necessary size of the Free space before and or Free space after fields You can also set the amount of unallocated space before or after the selected partition by manually typing in the necessary value in the respective fields If you create one or more logical drives the program will reserve some unallocated space for system needs in front of the created partition s If you create a primary partition or a primary partition together with a logical one then no unallocated space will be reserved for system needs CH Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 File System Choose the file system type for the partition being created Different partitions may have different type of file system You can either leave the partition unformatted or choose between the following file system types NTFS is a Windows NT Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista and Windows 7 native file system Choose it if you use these operating systems Note that Windows 95 98 Me and DOS cannot access NTFS partitions FAT 32 is an improved 3
116. n Please see Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid State Memory at http www cs auckland ac nz pgut001 pubs secure_del html 6 5 2 2 Information wiping methods used by Seagate The table below briefly describes information wiping methods used by Seagate Each description features the number of hard disk sector passes along with the number s written to each sector byte The description of built in information wiping methods 4 United States Department of 1 pass randomly selected symbols to each byte of each sector 2 complementary to written during the st a Zi 1 pass 3 random symbols again 4 writing verification Defense 5220 22 M United States NAVSO 4 P 5239 26 RLL ha pass 0x01 to all sectors 2 Ox27FFFFFF 3 random symbol sequences 4 verification 17 6 alternate sequences of 0x00 and OxFF Va OxAA i e 0x00 OxFF 0x00 OxFF 0x00 OxFF OxAA Russian GOST P50739 95 1 Logical zeros 0x00 numbers to each byte of each sector for 6 to AN security level systems Randomly selected symbols numbers to each byte of each sector for 3 to 1 security level systems United States NAVSO 4 1 pass 0x01 to all sectors 2 Ox7FFFFFFF 3 P 5239 26 MFM random symbol sequences 4 verification Peter Gutmann s method Peter Gutmann s method is very sophisticated It s based on his theory of hard disk information wiping see Secure Deletion
117. n partition Data a data partition etc Partition label is an optional attribute Partition type these settings are available only for MBR disks Choose the type of partition to be created You can define the new partition as primary or logical Primary choose this parameter if you are planning to boot from this partition Otherwise it is better to create a new partition as a logical drive You can have only four primary partitions per drive or three primary partitions and one extended partition Note If you have several primary partitions only one will be active at a time the other primary partitions will be hidden and won t be seen by the OS Mark the partition as active an active partition is used for loading an operating system Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your computer from booting Logical choose this parameter if you don t intend to install and start an operating system from the partition A logical drive is part of a physical disk drive that has been partitioned and allocated as an independent unit but functions as a separate drive When you finish to specify the settings for the partition being created click Accept to continue 6 3 4 Add new disk summary The Add new disk summary graphically as rectangles illustrates information about the new disk layout before and after partitioning ro toes CH Add New Disk Wizard Required steps Summary
118. n settings backups system state backups Windows backups This command sorts all backups in alphabetical order Date created This command sorts all backups starting from the newest down to the oldest Date updated This command sorts all backups by date of the last version The newer the last backup version the higher the backup will be placed in the list Total size This command sorts all backups by size starting from the biggest down to the smallest Scheduling type This command sorts all backups into two groups backups with a schedule and backups without a schedule which can be started only manually Explore all backups This command allows you to explore all your backups in the Acronis Backup Explorer using the time line Validate all backups This command checks the integrity of all your backups Update backup list Click to search for lost backups More features Remove from All backups This command removes all backup boxes from the the list backup list The removed backups can be returned to the list by using the Browse for backup tool Not backe This command removes all empty backup boxes d up yet from the backup list Be careful because after boxes removal such backup boxes cannot be returned to the list Search To search for a backed up file you need to recover type the filename or part of its name in the search field on the main menu bar If the search is successful the program wil
119. n your system Use this for checking whether the SSD is detected in the recovery environment 3 If the screen shows your SSD just click Cancel If the rescue media does not recognize the SSD and the SSD controller mode is ACHI you can try to change the mode to IDE or ATA in some BIOS brands and see whether this solves the problem Attention Do not start Windows after changing the mode it may result in serious system problems You must return the mode to ACHI before starting Windows If after changing the mode the rescue media detects the SSD you may use the following procedure for recovery or cloning under rescue media Shut down the computer Boot to BIOS change the mode from AHCI to IDE or ATA in some BIOS brands Boot from Seagate rescue media Recover or clone the disk Boot to BIOS and change IDE back to AHCI Start Windows Or Ns NS en What to do if the above suggestions do not help You can request a custom rescue media from Seagate Support For more information see Creating a custom rescue CD p 122 Please be aware that finding the appropriate drivers and making the custom rescue media may take time Furthermore finding the appropriate drivers may not be possible in some cases 5 5 1 2 What to do if your SSD does not have enough space for all HDD content Now let s see what can be done when the occupied space on your old hard disk exceeds the size of your SSD In this case you need to mo
120. nd privacy Seagate DriveCleanser Seagate DriveCleanser utility provides for secure destruction of data on your hard disk File Shredder With the File Shredder you can quickly select unnecessary files and folders and destroy them permanently System Clean up With the System Clean up utility you can clean up components folders files registry sections etc related to general system tasks These Windows components retain evidence of user PC activity so they too should be thoroughly wiped to maintain confidentiality Disk management Add new disk Add new disk wizard helps you to add a new hard disk drive to your computer You will be able to prepare the new hard disk drive by creating and formatting new partitions on this hard disk Seagate Extended Capacity Manager If you use an operating system that has a 2 TB limitation on hard drive capacity this tool will help you to lift this restriction You will be able to use all the space of your 3 TB disk and not only 2 TB View current state of your disks This link opens an integrated Seagate Disk Editor in read only mode to show you the state of your cleaned up disks or partitions For more information see Disk Editor read only mode p 112 Image mounting Mount image With this tool you can explore a previously created image You will be able to assign temporary drive letters to the partition images and easily access these images as ordinary logical drives
121. nformation You might find that your hard disk does not have enough space for the operating system and installed applications preventing you from updating your software or installing new applications In this case you have to transfer the system to a higher capacity hard disk To transfer the system you must first install the new disk in the computer If your computer doesn t have a bay for another hard disk you can temporarily install it in place of your CD drive or use a USB 2 0 connection to the external target disk If that is not possible you can clone a hard disk by creating a disk image and recovering it to a new hard disk with larger partitions On program screens damaged partitions are marked with a red circle and a white cross inside in the upper left corner Before you start cloning you should check such disks for errors and correct the errors using the appropriate operating system tools For best results install the target new drive where you plan to use it and the source drive in another location e g in an external USB enclosure This recommendation is especially important for laptops We strongly recommend that you create a backup of the entire original disk as a safety precaution It could be your data saver if something goes wrong with your original hard disk during cloning For information on how to create such a backup see see Backing up partitions and disks p 28 After creating the backup make sure that you
122. ng Proceed you will be asked to confirm the reboot Canceling the reboot will cancel the entire procedure After the clone process finishes you will be offered an option to shut down the computer by pressing any key This enables you to change the position of master slave jumpers and remove one of the hard drives Cloning a non system disk or a disk containing an operating system but one that is not currently active will proceed without the need to reboot After you click Proceed Seagate DiscWizard will start cloning the old disk to the new disk indicating the progress in a special window You can stop this procedure by clicking Cancel In that case you will have to repartition and format the new disk or repeat the cloning procedure After the cloning operation is complete you will see the results message 6 3 Adding a new hard disk If you do not have enough space for your data e g family photos and videos you can either replace the old disk with a new higher capacity one data transfers to new disks are described in the previous chapter or add a new disk only to store data leaving the system on the old disk If the computer has a bay for another disk it would be easier to add a disk drive than to clone one To add a new disk you must first install it in your PC To add a new hard disk m Click the Tools and utilities tab and then click Add new disk Follow the Add new disk Wizard steps If you use a 32 bit version of Window
123. nnot wipe partitions on dynamic and GPT disks so they will not be shown in the Source selection window Click Next to continue 107 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 If the disks and or partitions you have selected include the system disk or partition you will see a warning window r Required steps Seagate DriveCleanser Source selection Algorithm selection Select drives and partitions with data to erase Pe Warning You have selected the active partition Cancel E Primary Logical Dynamic BR Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported Next gt Cancel Figure 14 REMOVE AFTER TRANSLATION Be careful because clicking OK in this warning window and then Proceed in the Summary window will result in wiping the system partition containing your Windows operating system 6 5 1 2 Algorithm selection Seagate DriveCleanser utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction algorithms Select the desired algorithm from the drop down list The data destruction methods are described in detail in Hard Disk Wiping Methods p 113 of this guide r Required steps Finish Optional steps Post wiping actions Seagate DriveCleanser V Source selection Algorithm selection appears below the list To create and use your own algorithm select Custom To use a prev
124. normally restore the original boot order 4 5 Recovering data from file level backups You will usually start recovering files and folders from Acronis Backup Explorer When recovering a specific file version you will start recovery from the View Versions window In all cases starting recovery opens the File Recovery window Let s consider recovery of files and folders from the Backup Explorer 1 Select in the Backup Explorer the files and folders you want to recover For more information on selection in the Backup Explorer see Files and folders tab p 19 Click Recover to start recovery This will open the File Recovery window File Recovery e Fon L Where to recover your files Choose recovery destination for the selected 24 files and 7 folders Original location New location amp Recover now Cancel 2 Select a destination on your computer to where you want to recover selected files folders You can recover data to its original location or choose a new one if necessary To choose a new location click the Browse button 3 When you choose a new location the selected items will be recovered by default without recovering the original absolute path You may also wish to recover the items with their entire folder hierarchy In this case select the Recover absolute path check box 4 When needed set the options for the recovery process recovery process priority file level security settings
125. nue working You can set the following error handling policy Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode the preset is disabled You can enable this setting to ignore errors during backup operations This feature was mainly designed for unattended backups when you cannot control the backup process In this mode no notifications will be displayed to you if errors occur during backup Instead you can view the detailed log of all operations after the backup process finishes Ignore bad sectors the preset is disabled This option is present only for disk and partition backups It lets you run a backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk Although most disks do not have bad sectors the possibility that they might occur increases during the course of the hard disk s lifetime If your hard drive has started making strange noises for example it starts making quite loud clicking or grinding noises during operation such noises may mean that the hard drive is failing When the hard drive completely fails you can lose important data so it is high time to back up the drive as soon as possible There may be a problem though the failing hard drive might already have bad sectors If the Ignore bad sectors check box is left unselected a backup is aborted in case of read and or write errors that could occur on the bad sectors Selecting this box lets you run a backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk ensu
126. ocedure is called creating a disk image and the resulting backup is often called a disk partition image By default Seagate DiscWizard stores only the hard disk sectors that contain data Furthermore Seagate DiscWizard does not back up pagefile sys under Windows XP and later and hiberfil sys a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into hibernation This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and recovery A partition image includes all files and folders including hidden and system files boot record and FAT file allocation table It also includes files in the root directory and the zero track of the hard disk with the master boot record MBR A disk image includes images of all disk partitions and the zero track with the MBR 3 2 Full incremental and differential backups Note Incremental and differential backups are not available in this product edition To access this feature please upgrade to full version Seagate DiscWizard offers you three backup methods 1 Full contains all of the data at the moment of the backup creation It forms a base for further incremental or differential backups It can also be used as a standalone backup 2 Incremental Only those files will be included which have been changed since the LAST backup 3 Differential Only those files will be included which have been changed since the last FULL backup We suggest you to choose one of the following three approaches of
127. oday is any date from the 1st to 15th day of the month the month interval is named Month ago In that case the time line shows backup versions created during the previous month and from the beginning of the current month to the week interval When today is any date from the 16th to 31st day of the month the month interval is named This month In that case the time line shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current month to the week interval 21 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 The This year interval shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current year to the month interval The Older interval shows backup versions created from earlier than the beginning of the current year Working with time intervals and backup versions Time intervals may be expanded when the number of backup versions fits onto the time line or folded into a square block When a time interval is expanded the squares representing backup versions may contain a warning or error icon Such an icon indicates that warning s or error s have been written into the Log during version creation If more than one backup version has been created during a day within week month year or older time interval such a date is shown on the time line using a special version pack icon If you hover over a folded block for more than half a second a balloon will show the information about the time in
128. on The program will perform the backup and turn off your computer automatically This option is also useful when you schedule your backups For example you may want to perform backups every weekday in the evening to save all your work Schedule the backup and select the check box After that you may leave your computer when you finish your work knowing that the critical data will be backed up and the computer will be turned off 3 7 13 Performance of backup operation On the Performance tab you can configure the following settings Compression level You can choose the compression level for a backup None the data will be copied without any compression which may significantly increase the backup file size Normal the recommended data compression level set by default High higher backup file compression level takes more time to create a backup Maximum maximum backup compression but takes a long time to create a backup The optimal data compression level depends on the type of files stored in the backup For example even maximum compression will not significantly reduce the backup size if the backup contains essentially compressed files like jog pdf or mp3 Operation priority Changing the priority of a backup or recovery process can make it run faster or slower depending on whether you raise or lower the priority but it can also adversely affect the performance of other running programs The priority of any p
129. on priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Increasing backup or recovery priority may speed up the process by taking resources from the other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors You can set up the operation priority Low enabled by default the backup or recovery process will run slower but the performance of other programs will be increased Normal the backup or recovery process will have the equal priority with other processes High the backup or recovery process will run faster but the performance of other programs will be reduced Be aware that selecting this option may result in 100 CPU usage by Seagate DiscWizard 4 9 7 Notifications for recovery operation Free disk space threshold You may want to be notified when the free space on the backup storage becomes less than the specified threshold value If after starting a backup Seagate DiscWizard finds out that the free space in the selected backup location is already less than the specified value the program will not begin the actual backup process and will immediately inform you by displaying an appropriate message The message offers you three choices to ignore it and proceed with the backup to browse for another location for the backup or to cancel the backup If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run the program will display the same message and you will
130. on to start the listed operations Click the Options button to perform the optional steps Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations 6 5 1 5 Disk Editor read only mode Seagate DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability to estimate the results of executing a data destruction method on a hard disk or partition To view the state of your cleaned up disks or partitions click the Tools amp Utilities tab Then click the View current state of your disks link and choose the partition whose cleaning results you wish to view This opens an integrated Seagate Disk Editor in read only mode Different algorithms offer various levels of confidential data destruction Thus the picture you might see on a disk or partition depends on the data destruction method But what you actually see are disk sectors filled with either zeros or random symbols EI Seagate Disk Editor read only mode disk 1 sectors 206 848 83 884 031 ei IS E Equation 1 REMOVE Disk Edit View Search Help AFTER TRANSLATION P R aaO H US DOS WR o Position D View Hex Hard disk content search The Search menu allows you to search a hard disk for a line and to go to a disk sector according to its absolute offset Selecting the Search item in the same menu will give you access to functions of searching lines in the disk being edited You can do the same by pressing the
131. onal GmbH 2002 2013 Give Windows Search some time for indexing Acronis backups on your computer s hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database The required time depends on the number of backups and the number of files they contain After completing the indexing the Windows Search will be able to search files in tib backups data Windows Desktop Search Edit View Favorites Tools Help Back Ki a Search E Folders Address 40 Windows Desktop Search Results P ai Locations v Everything fj Documents E E mail Acronis True Image Home Data Sources ODBC acronis htm ai 3ds_max xml ai access_2000 xml al access_2003 xml ail access_2007 xml a access_xp xml ai adobe_photoshop_cs3 xml e adobe_photoshop_cs_9 xml ko after_effects_7 xml at bittorrent xml diskeeper _administrator _10 xml E easy_screensaver_4_1 xml ei f secure _is_2007 xml Desktop Other v Windows Desktop Search 1 054 results BR Unable to display preview The search engines in Windows Search and Windows Vista or Windows 7 have similar functionalities though search results are presented somewhat differently 81 D D 4 Search Results in Indexed Locations Show only fa E mail Document Picture Music Other Advanced Search a Location J Indexed Locations z 2 5 2008 Size KB F Include non indexed hidden and system files m
132. onis Backup Explorer provides you with a wealth of information on your backups backup types backup versions number dates contents backup results etc In addition the Backup Explorer allows you to explore and recover backed up data both partitions and individual files and even file versions It also allows for operations with backups you can validate them mount images as disks and delete backup versions you no longer need Let s have a closer look on the Acronis Backup Explorer It has two tabs for viewing backups and their content Disks and partitions available for disk backups only and Files and folders 1 3 4 1 Disks and partitions tab The Disks and partitions tab shows the backed up disks and partitions that the selected backup version contains The tab shows the disks and partitions state of when the current backup version was created You can switch between the backup versions by using the time line at the bottom of the screen For more information see Time line p 20 To recover disks and or partitions 1 Onthe time line select the backup version from which you want to recover your disks partitions The version s exact date and time will be displayed near the backup name Your data will be recovered to the state it was at that point in time CH 2 Select the corresponding check boxes of the disks or partitions you want to recover 3 Click the Recover button To recover specific files and folders from the disk p
133. onis Secure Zone so it will be unable to search and index backups in the zone Windows Search does not support indexing of zip files content 1 To register the plug in click the down arrow to the right of the Search field at the upper right corner of the main program window and then click Use Windows Search 2 You can verify that the tib files indexing support is enabled Right click on the Windows Search icon in your system tray and select Windows Desktop Search Options in the context menu The following window appears Make sure that the tib item is present in the Included Locations list 4 To open the Indexing Options window in Windows Vista or Windows 7 open the Control Panel and then double click the Indexing Options icon The Windows Vista and Windows 7 indexing options have some differences in content and appearance though most of the following information is applicable to those operating systems as well Indexing Options 31 986 items indexed e RB Indexing complete Index these locations Included Locations Exclude Local Disk C Application Data Default User HA Microsoft Outlook Express M tib H4s 1 5 21 1645522239 Modify Advanced Close Click Advanced select the File Types tab and then make sure that the tib extension is selected and tib Filter is shown in the Filter Description field Select Index Properties and File Contents Advanced Options Index Set
134. ormation see Backup options p 30 5 When you set up the backup as needed you can run it immediately by clicking the Back up now button If you want to run the backup later or on a schedule click the down arrow to the right of the Back up now button and select Later in the drop down list to save the settings you have made 3 4 Adding an existing backup to the list If you have backups that are not shown in the backups list on the Backup and recovery tab for example backups created by a previous Seagate DiscWizard version you can add them to the list Click Browse for backup on the Backup and recovery tab This opens a window where you can browse for backups on your computer To add an existing backup to the backup list select the backup and click the Add to backup list button 3 5 Making reserve copies of your backups You can create reserve copies of your backups and save them on the file system or a network drive A reserve copy may help you if the main backup becomes corrupted or if the storage of the main backup fails A reserve copy always contains all the files selected for backup that is when creating a reserve copy the program always makes a full backup of the source data Also remember that the operation will take more time because normal backup and reserve copying are performed one after another and not simultaneously Furthermore you will need more storage space or an additional storage device 3 6 Deleting b
135. ou change anything in an existing backup scheme you can save the changed scheme as a new one In this case you need to specify a new name for that backup scheme You can overwrite existing custom schemes You cannot overwrite existing pre defined backup schemes Inascheme name you can use any symbols allowed by OS for naming files The maximum length of a backup scheme name is 255 symbols You can create not more than 16 custom backup schemes After creating a custom backup scheme you can use it as any other existing backup scheme while configuring a backup You can also use a custom backup scheme without saving it In this case it will be available only for the backup where it was created and you will be unable to use it for other backups If you do not need a custom backup scheme anymore you can delete it To delete the scheme select it in the backup schemes list click Delete and then click Delete scheme in the confirmation window The pre defined backup schemes cannot be deleted 3 7 4 Image creation mode You can use these parameters to create an exact copy of your whole partitions or hard disks and not only the sectors that contain data Note that the Back up unallocated space check box is available only when the Back up sector by sector check box is selected To make a sector by sector backup check the Back up sector by sector parameter By default the program copies only the hard disk sectors that contain
136. ou will specify a new size and other parameters yourself E Clone Disk Wizard Lo tae G Clone Disk Wizard eecht Choose data moving method from old to new hard drive Y Clone Mode Asis V Source Disk x The data on your old hard disk will be moved to the new drive in its current state the size of the partitions Destination Disk will not be changed 7 Move Method Proportional Finish The size of the original partitions will be respectively changed to fit the new drive size If the new drive is smaller the partitions will be shrunk accordingly if the new drive is bigger the partitions will be enlarged proportionally Manual Allows you to set partition size manually Next gt Proceed J Cancel If you elect to transfer information as is a new partition will be created for every old one with the same size and type file system and label The unused space will become unallocated Afterwards you will be able to use the unallocated space to create new partitions or to enlarge the existing partitions with special tools such as Acronis Disk Director Suite As a rule as is transfers are not recommended as they leave a lot of unallocated space on the new disk Using the as is method Seagate DiscWizard transfers unsupported and damaged file systems If you transfer data proportionally each partition will be enlarged according to the proportion of the old and new disk capacities FAT16 pa
137. p file f the storage disk has enough space but its file system does not allow the estimated file size the program will automatically split the image into several files If you do not have enough space to store the image on your hard disk the program will warn you and wait for your decision as to how you plan to fix the problem You can try to free some additional space and continue or select another disk When backing up to a CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R RW BD R RE Seagate DiscWizard will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one is full Alternatively you may select the desired file size from the drop down list The backup will then be split into multiple files of the specified size This is useful when you store a backup to a hard disk in order to burn the backup to CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R RW or BD R RE later on Creating images directly on CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R RW BD R RE might take considerably more time than it would on a hard disk 3 7 7 Backup validation option You can specify the additional validation setting Validate backup when it is created When this option is enabled the program will check the integrity of the recently created or supplemented backup version immediately after backup When setting up a backup of critical data or a disk partition backup we strongly recommend that you enable this option in order to ensure that the backup can be used to recover the lost data Regular validation You can
138. pace near it Having provided the new location and size click Accept You will be taken back to the Change disk layout window You might have to perform some more resizing and relocation before you get the layout you need By clicking Next you will proceed to the Cloning summary window Be careful Clicking any previous wizard step on the sidebar in this window will reset all size and location changes that you ve selected so you will have to specify them again 6 2 9 Cloning summary The cloning summary window graphically as rectangles illustrates information about the source disk partitions and unallocated space and the destination disk layout Along with the disk number some additional information is provided disk capacity label partition and file system information Clone Disk Wizard G Clone Disk Wizard eebe Summary Y Clone Mode F Source disk Disk 1 Source Disk Target disk Disk 2 7 Destination Disk V Move Method 7 Change Disk Layout Before J d 16 GB New Volume D U 16 00 GB NTFS After LJ H C 16GB S C 2 1597 GB NTFS E Primary Logical Dynamic M Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported Click Proceed to start disk cloning Click Cancel to cancel the procedure and quit to the main program window Cloning a disk containing the currently active operating system will require a reboot In that case after clicki
139. r Windows Vista Windows 7 1 Type cmd in the Search field and press Enter 2 Atthe command line prompt type wmic partition get BlockSize Index Name StartingOffset You will get the output looking like this iC Users tester gt wmic partition get BlockSize StartingOffset Name Index BlockSize Index Name StartingOffset Dis Partition 32256 i 6 Partition 167619563526 gt Partition 2 261371304960 gt Partition 203016360968 Partition 32256 gt Partition 17468 gt Partition 134235136 3 Partition 1048576 Partition 1648576 D 1 2 3 a a 1 a a In the screen shot disk O has an incorrect alignment and disks 3 and 4 have the correct alignment Windows XP In this case the procedure requires more commands 1 Type cmd in the Run field and press Enter 2 Atthe command line prompt type diskpart list disk The screen will show the disks connected to your computer Find out the disk number for your SSD using its size as reference select disk N Here N is the number of your SSD list partition The output will show the size of SSD partition s and offset value If the SSD has an incorrect offset value see Fixing SSD partition alignment p 74 5 5 1 4 Fixing SSD partition alignment If you did not properly prepare your SSD before transferring your system to it the starting offset may turn out be incorrect For example this may occur if you upgraded Windows XP to Windows Vista 7 Let s see how to
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141. rchasing an external hard drive for storing your backups will be an optimal solution An external drive enhances the security of your data because you can keep it off site for example at home if you back up your office computer and vice versa You can choose various interfaces USB FireWire eSATA depending on the configuration of your computer ports and the required data transfer rate In many cases the best choice will be an external USB hard drive especially if your computer supports USB 3 0 If you plan to use an external USB hard drive with your desktop PC connecting the drive to a rear connector using a short cable will usually provide the most reliable operation This reduces the chance of data transfer errors during backup recovery Home file server NAS or NDAS If you have a Gigabit Ethernet home network and a dedicated file server or NAS you can store backups on the file server or NAS practically like on an internal drive If you decide to use an external hard drive NAS NDAS etc you will need to check whether Seagate DiscWizard detects the selected backup storage You need to check this both in Windows and when booted from the rescue media To gain access to an NDAS enabled storage device in many cases you will need to specify the NDAS device ID 20 characters and the write key 5 characters The write key allows you to use an NDAS enabled device in write mode for example for saving your backups Usually the device ID
142. re contents of one disk drive to another disk drive This may be necessary for example when installing a larger capacity disk The result is two identical drives with the same file structure The Disk Clone tool effectively copies all of the contents of one hard disk drive onto another hard disk drive The operation allows you to transfer all the information including the operating system and installed programs from one hard disk drive to another without having to reinstall and reconfigure all of your software Seagate DiscWizard does not provide for cloning a single partition You can only clone the entire drive You can also transfer all the information from your hard disk drive to another one by backing up the entire old hard disk and then recovering the backup to the new disk Backup file format Seagate DiscWizard usually saves backup data in the proprietary tib format using compression This reduces the amount of needed storage space When creating a tib file the program calculates checksum values for data blocks and adds these values to the data being backed up These checksum values allow for the verification of data integrity The data from tib file backups can be recovered only through Seagate products This may be done in Windows or in the recovery environment Backup validation The backup validation feature allows you to confirm that your data can be recovered As mentioned above the program adds checksum values to the da
143. red can fit are marked by black lettering Unsuitable partitions are marked by red lettering Note that all data on the destination partition will be lost because it is replaced by the recovered data and file system To recover an image to the source partition without resizing at least 5 of free space is required on the partition Otherwise the Recover now button will be unavailable 3 After you finish with your selections click Recover now to start recovery Sometimes you need to recover the MBR Master Boot Record For instance it may be necessary when Windows does not boot after recovery To recover the MBR either together with the partition or individually click Show MBR and then select the MBR check box If you recover the entire disk the Recover disk signature check box appears Disk signature is a part of a hard disk MBR It is used for uniquely identifying the disk media We recommend that you select the Recover disk signature check box due to the following reasons Seagate DiscWizard creates scheduled backups using the signature of the source hard disk If you recover the same disk signature you don t need to re create or edit the backups created previously Some installed applications use a disk signature for licensing and other purposes We recommend that you clear the Recover disk signature check box when You use an image backup not for disaster recovery but for cloning your Windows hard drive to another one
144. remental backups p 26 Backup file type either a disk partition or a file folder backup Created the date and time when the backup was created Comments if you have entered comments they will be shown here 5 10 Timeout settings Sometimes when the program performs an operation an error message or a warning message may interrupt the operation progress To resume the operation some additional information or a decision is required from the user For example such a situation may occur during a backup operation when the storage space in the destination location becomes insufficient for completing the backup The program will wait for your decision on whether you want to cancel the backup free some storage space or select another destination for the backup Timeout settings allow you to specify the time interval the program should wait for your response Move the slider to the right to set the time interval in minutes Note that the Infinite setting is not recommended If the response is not received during the interval the operation will be canceled 6 Tools and utilities Tools and utilities include Try amp Decide protection tools mounting tools backup conversion tools clone disk utility security and privacy utilities disk management utilities and backup settings transfer tools Features marked with the sign are available in the full version of the software only To access these features please upgrade to fu
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146. ring that you save as much information from the hard drive as possible When not enough space in ASZ delete the oldest backup the preset is enabled When this setting is disabled and there is not enough space in the Acronis Secure Zone for the backup file being created the program will display a dialog warning you that the zone is full and will require your action The backup is suspended until you take a desired action and this makes unattended backups impossible The dialog opens even when the Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode setting is enabled So it is advisable to select the When not enough space in ASZ delete the oldest backup check box when planning unattended scheduled backups to the Acronis Secure Zone Repeat attempt if a backup fails This option allows you to automatically repeat a backup attempt if the backup fails for some reason You can configure this option by specifying two settings number of attempts and time interval between attempts According to these settings Seagate DiscWizard will try to back up your data until the backup is successfully created But if the error interrupting the backup persists then the backup will not be created 3 7 12 Computer shutdown If you know that the backup process you are configuring may take a long time you may select the Shut down the computer after the backup is complete check box In this case you will not have to wait until the operation completi
147. roblem Sometimes getting the information is an inconvenient process and may take a long time The Generate system report tool simplifies the procedure It generates a system report containing all the necessary technical information and allows you to save the information to file When it s necessary you can attach the created file to your problem description and send it to Seagate support team This will simplify and speed up the search for a solution To generate a system report perform one of the following On the main program window click the question mark symbol and select Generate system report On the Windows Start menu click All Programs gt Seagate gt Seagate DiscWizard gt Tools and Utilities gt Seagate System Report Press CTRL F7 Note that you can use the key combination even when Seagate DiscWizard is performing any other operation After the report is generated To save the generated system report to file click Save and in the opened window specify a location for the created file To save the report to file and send it to Seagate support team by e mail click Save and send To exit to the main program window without saving the report click Cancel You can place the tool on your bootable rescue media as a separate component to be able to generate a system report when your computer cannot boot After you boot from the media you will be able to generate the report even without running Seagate DiscWizard
148. rocess running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the operation priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Increasing backup or recovery priority may speed up the process by taking resources from the other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors You can set up the operation priority Low enabled by default the backup or recovery process will run slower but the performance of other programs will be increased Normal the backup or recovery process will have the equal priority with other processes High the backup or recovery process will run faster but the performance of other programs will be reduced Be aware that selecting this option may result in 100 CPU usage by Seagate DiscWizard Network connection speed If you frequently back up data to network drives or FTP think of limiting the network bandwidth used by Seagate DiscWizard You can specify the network backup data transfer speed by choosing one of the following Transferring speed stated as a percent of the highest possible speed drag the slider to set the desired limit for transferring backup data Transferring speed stated in kilobytes per second enter the bandwidth limit for transferring backup data in kilobytes per second 3 7 14 Notifications for backup operation Free disk space threshold You may want to be notified
149. rtitions are enlarged less than others as they have a 4GB size limit Depending on the selected combination you will proceed to either the cloning summary window or the Change disk layout step see below 6 2 7 Excluding items In the What to exclude section you can set up exclusions for files and folders that you do not want to include in the disk clone 1 To create a list of items for exclusion do one of the following Inthe Exclude by files and folders tab select files and folders using a typical file browser In the Exclude by masks tab enter names of individual files and folders full path is required or define a pattern through common wildcard characters and Use buttons Add Edit Remove and Remove All on the right to control the set of items in the list You can combine these two methods For example define a file mask and select certain items in the file browser Clone Disk Wizard Lo LS sl Ca Clone Disk Wizard Clone Mode BZ Mu Computer Name Date Type Size Source Disk gt IL Local Disk C Si d SRecycle Bin 9 9 2009 2 1 File Folder Destination Disk gt HL Local Disk E Ww J acroldr 5 24 2011 3 File Folder k gt E System Reserved 7 Documents and Settings 7 14 2009 8 Unknown Drive Lk Migration method 7 J PerfLogs 7 14 2009 6 File Folder What to exclude 7 Program Files 5 27 2011 5 File Folder hae NI Ji
150. ry field type in a path for command execution or select it from the list of previously entered paths Sg Inthe Arguments field enter or select command execution arguments from the list Disabling the Do not perform operations until the command execution is complete parameter enabled by default will permit the recovery process to run concurrently with your command execution The Abort the operation if the user command fails enabled by default parameter will abort the operation if any errors occur in command execution You can test the command you entered by clicking the Test command button 4 9 2 Validation option Validate backup before recovery The preset is disabled Before data is recovered from the backup Seagate DiscWizard can check its integrity If you suspect that the backup might have been corrupted enable this option Check the file system after recovery The preset is disabled Having recovered a partition from an image Seagate DiscWizard can check the integrity of the file system To do so enable this option Limitations on use of this option Check of the file system is available only when recovering partitions using FAT16 32 and NTFS file systems The file system will not be checked if a reboot is required during recovery for example when recovering the system partition to its original place 4 9 3 Computer restart The preset is Disabled If you want the computer to reboot automatically when it
151. s XP the wizard will not have the Initialization options step because this operating system does not support GPT disks In this section Selecting a hard dek 98 Selecting initialization method 100 Creating NEW partitions 2 0 cccceecccccssesccccesececceeeeeeeseeseeesseeseesaeeeeeees 100 Add new disk summap 103 6 3 1 Selecting a hard disk Select the disk that you have added to the computer If you have added several disks select one of them and click Next to continue You can add the other disks later by restarting the Add New Disk Wizard If there are any partitions on the new disk they must be deleted first If the added disk contains partitions Seagate DiscWizard will warn you by displaying the warning message Click OK to delete the existing partitions on the added disk gt Add New Disk Wizard Required steps Select your hard disk from the list below Initialization o Drive Disk 1 b Disk 2 Dynamic k Disk 3 Dynamic Capacity Model Interface 200 GB VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 SCSI 200 GB VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 SC 200 GB VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 SCSI 200 GB VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 SCSI 16 GB VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 KA Unallocated 200 0 GB E Primary D Logical f Dynamic H Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated f Unsupported TESS You can also see the properties of all the hard disks installed in your system for example
152. s all hard disk operations so no data destruction is performed until you click Proceed in the wizard s Summary window At any moment you can return to the previous steps to select other disks partitions or data destruction algorithms To permanently destroy data on your disk Click the Tools and utilities tab and then click Seagate DriveCleanser Follow the Seagate DriveCleanser wizard steps 6 5 1 1 Data selection First you must select the hard disk partitions where you want to destroy data e l Lk Seagate DriveCleanser V Required steps Select drives and partitions with data to erase Source selection Algorithm selection L ia J 40GB e C 39 90 GB NTFS FRE A 40GB E Unallocated 12 36 GB ERE E E Primary Logical Dynamic BR Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported bag Next gt Cancel A To select a partition click the corresponding rectangle You will see a red Figure 13 REMOVE mark in the upper right corner indicating that the partition is selected AFTER TRANSLATION You can select an entire hard disk or several disks for data destruction To do this click the rectangle corresponding to the hard disk with a device icon disk number and capacity You can simultaneously select several partitions located on different hard disk drives or on several disks as well as unallocated space on disks Seagate DriveCleanser ca
153. s password When you click the Test connection button the computer will try to connect to the selected network share If you receive an error message check if the credentials are correct and provide the correct user name and password for the selected network share To repeat the connection attempt click the Test again button Having provided the required information click Connect 5 3 Making sure that your rescue media can be used when needed To maximize the chances of your computer s recovery you must test that your computer can boot from the rescue media In addition you must check that the rescue media recognizes all your computer s devices such as the hard drives the mouse the keyboard and network adapter To test the rescue media If you use external drives for storing your backups you must attach the drives before booting from the rescue CD Otherwise the program might not detect them 1 Configure your computer to enable booting from the rescue media Then make your rescue media device CD ROM DVD ROM drive or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot order in BIOS p 57 Boot the computer from the rescue CD After the boot menu appears choose Seagate DiscWizard If your wireless mouse does not work try to replace it with a wired one The same recommendation applies to the keyboard If you do not have a spare mouse or keyboard contact the product s support team They will build a custom
154. s to add new drivers Because of this you should request the product s support team to create a custom rescue CD that will have all the drivers you need Before making a request collect the information about your system Select Generate system report inthe Help menu Seagate DiscWizard will automatically collect the required information and display a list of what is collected in the report In the process of creating the report the program may install some components required for collecting the necessary information When the report is complete click Save and select the desired folder or leave the default folder The program will archive the report into a zip file This report may also be useful when you request the product s support team to help you with a problem Send the file to the product s support team They will build an iso image of a custom rescue media compatible with your computer hardware and send you the iso file Burn this file to a CD DVD using a program that can handle iso files such as Nero Please be aware that finding the appropriate drivers and making the custom rescue media may take time Furthermore finding the appropriate drivers may be not possible in some cases After burning your custom rescue CD test it to make sure that all your computer hardware is now detected in the recovery environment 8 Glossary of Terms A Acronis Secure Zone A secure partition for storing backups p 123 ona hard disk Advantages
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156. size of the target partitions change their parameters and much more Next gt Cancel Automatic recommended in most cases In automatic mode you will only have to take several simple actions to transfer all the data including partitions files and folders to a newer disk making it bootable if the original disk was bootable Manual Manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility Manual mode can be useful if you need to change the disk partition layout If the program finds two disks one partitioned and another unpartitioned it will automatically recognize the partitioned disk as the source disk and the unpartitioned disk as the destination disk In such case the next steps will be bypassed and you will be taken to the cloning Summary screen 6 2 4 Selecting a source disk You can determine the source and destination using the information provided in this window disk number capacity label partition and file system information If the program finds several partitioned disks it will ask you which is the source i e the older data disk Clone Disk Wizard v o E Clone Disk Wizard ech Select the source hard disk from the list below Y Clone Mode Source Disk Destination Disk E Disk properties E Drive B Disk1 Disk3 LD Capacity Model 16 GB VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 16 GB VMware VMware Virtual 1 0 16 GB VMware VMware Virtual 1 0 Interface SCH
157. ssword G Mount Wizard Required steps Mount backup Archive selection I Details Password Required Please specify the password to access the archive Password I m Optional steps Dre letter Path DAMy backups My_syster tib 3 Select a partition to mount as a virtual disk Note that you cannot mount an image of the entire disk except in the case when the disk consists of one partition If the image contains several partitions by default all of them will be selected for mounting with automatically assigned drive letters If you would like to assign different drive letters to the partitions to be mounted click Options talba E Mount Wizard Required steps Summary Archive selection Partitions to mount 1 Mode Read Partition 1 Drive letter G File system NTFS Label New Volume Size 16 GB Cluster size 4 KB Optional steps Drive letter Options 1 Proceed Cancel 116 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Mount letter drop down list If you do not want to mount a partition select Do not mount in the list or clear the partition s check box Oo Mount Wizard Required steps Drive letter V Archive selection Select partitions to mount and assign drive letter Partition Mount letter F Capa FreeS Le
158. stop backup actually is a disk partition or file backup that is created using the Acronis Nonstop Backup feature This is a set of one full backup version p 124 and a sequence of incremental backup versions p 124 that are created at short intervals It gives almost continuous protection of data that is it allows recovery of previous data state at any recovery point you need Nonstop protection Note Nonstop Backup is not available in this product edition To access this feature please upgrade to full version Note Incremental backups are not available in this product edition To access this feature please upgrade to full version 1 A backup method used for saving data changes that occurred since the last Nonstop protection the process that the Nonstop Backup feature performs when it is turned on R Recovery Recovery is a process of returning of a corrupted data to a previous normal state from a backup p 123 V Validation An operation that checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup version p 123 When you select for validation a full backup version p 124 the program validates the full backup version only an incremental backup version p 124 the program validates the initial full backup version the selected incremental backup version and the whole chain if any of backup versions to the selected incremental backup version
159. ta blocks being backed up During backup validation Seagate DiscWizard opens the backup file recalculates the checksum values and compares those values with the stored ones If all compared values match the backup file is not corrupted and there is a high probability that the backup can be successfully used for data recovery Disaster recovery Recovering from a disaster usually requires a rescue media and a backup of the system partition Seagate DiscWizard provides for recovery from a disaster caused by system data corruption viruses malware or other causes If the operating system fails to boot Seagate DiscWizard will recover the system partition You can create a rescue media by using the Media Builder tool Scheduling For your backups to be really helpful they must be as up to date as possible This means that you should run backups on a regular basis Although creating a backup is quite easy on occasion you may forget to do a backup With the scheduler you do not have to remember You can schedule automatic backups ahead of time Your data will be backed up as long as there is sufficient storage space Understanding these terms and concepts will be helpful when using the program s features k 1 3 New in Seagate DiscWizard Windows 8 support Seagate DiscWizard supports the next version of the operating system released by Microsoft namely Windows 8 You can safely buy and install Windows 8 without worrying whether you wi
160. ted in the form of script files The settings content can be different depending on a backup type In case of classic disk and file type backups the settings consist of the following items list of items for backup backup options backup location schedule backup scheme automatic clean up rules backup version naming rules To export the settings of your existing backups click Tools amp Utilities on the menu bar Then click Export backup settings and browse for the destination to save the script files with the settings To import the settings start Seagate DiscWizard on another computer and click Tools amp Utilities on the menu bar Then click Import backup settings and show the path to the script files with the settings After importing the settings you may need to change some of them to suit the new environment For example it may be necessary to change the list of items for backup backup destination etc If you want to copy some of your backups to another computer it is recommended to export the settings of those backups too Thus you will not lose some of the copied backup s functionality 7 Troubleshooting In this section Seagate System Reg iesicececscscececeseseds davssececs dae ecess vad acvcuvedacvcudedocseesveas 121 Creating a CUSTOM rescue CD 122 7 1 Seagate System Report When you contact the Seagate support team they will usually need information about your system in order to resolve your p
161. ter you need to make a full backup of your system We strongly advice you to create a system backup as soon as possible 2 Whenever possible you should store your system backup on a hard drive other than your primary disk C preferably on an external one This gives an additional guarantee that you will be able to recover your system if your primary hard disk drive fails 3 Because recovery of your system after a failure in most cases will be done after booting from the rescue media you must create the rescue media see Creating bootable rescue media p 84 and then test it as described in Making sure that your rescue media can be used when needed p 65 4 It is recommended to scan your system partition for viruses before backing it up Backing up your system partition If you want to use your external drive for storing the backup attach and power it on before starting Seagate DiscWizard 1 Start Seagate DiscWizard select the Backup and recovery tab and then click Disk and partition backup Tools and utilities Backup and recovery R A Ba SS Sy Disk and partition Other backups Create bootable Recover Browse for backup backup media No backups found on your computer Browse for old backups Add an existing backup to the list This product edition has limited functionality Get full version Figure 6 REMOVE AFTER TRANSLATION 2 This opens the Disk Backup window with your system partition usu
162. terval start its end and the number of backup versions it contains If you hover over a backup version within an expanded time interval a balloon will show more detailed information about the backup version Clicking on a folded block or its name above or below the time line expands the corresponding time interval If the number of backup versions within the time interval is too big to fit onto the time line the horizontal scroll line allows you to navigate through the backup versions within the time interval If you select another folded block and there is no room for displaying all backup versions of the newly expanded block then the current expanded block will collapse By clicking on a backup version you select it in the Backup Explorer Shortcut menus Right clicking on the time line opens the shortcut menu The menu contents will change depending on the selected item This week Thu Thu Thu 10 40 Recover f Validate b Convert to Windows backup Mount Delete version View WM Disk backup version Recover Validate Mount Delete version File backup version Validate Delete version Backup version packs and time blocks Right clicking on a folded version pack or time interval s block opens the shortcut menu with a single item Expand Viewing additional information on the time line You can also set up the time line to show additional information The appropriate commands are
163. the data from a differential backup version Disk backup Image A backup p 123 that contains a sector based copy of a disk or a partition in packaged form Normally only sectors that contain data are copied Seagate DiscWizard provides an option to take a raw image that is copy all the disk sectors which enables imaging of unsupported file systems F Full backup 1 A backup method that is used to save all the data selected to back up 2 A backup process that creates a full backup version p 124 Full backup version A self sufficient backup version p 123 containing all data chosen for backup You do not need access to any other backup version to recover the data from a full backup version I Image The same as Disk backup p 124 Incremental backup backup version p 123 of any type within a backup 2 A backup process that creates an incremental backup version p 124 Incremental backup version Note Incremental backups are not available in this product edition To access this feature please upgrade to full version A backup version p 123 that stores changes to the data against the latest backup version You need access to other backup versions from the same backup p 123 to restore data from an incremental backup version N Nonstop backup Note Nonstop Backup is not available in this product edition To access this feature please upgrade to full version Non
164. then click Next Select the system disk at the What to recover step Click New location and then select the SSD as the new location for your system disk then click Accept At the next step click Proceed to start recovery After the recovery is complete exit the standalone version of Seagate DiscWizard Try to boot from the SSD and then make sure that Windows and applications work correctly If your system hard disk also contains a hidden recovery or diagnostic partition as is quite often the case with notebooks the procedure will differ You will usually need to resize the partitions manually during recovery to the SSD For instructions see Recovering a disk with a hidden partition 5 6 Scheduling To open the Scheduler window click the Turn on link to the right of Schedule while configuring a backup Here you can specify the backup and validation schedule settings k i Schedule your operation bad Weekly o Weekly Mon Tue Wed Thu DEI Sat Sun Les Start at 7 00 PM D Advanced settings wi A Scheduling capabilities are limited in this product edition Get full version D Do not schedule OK Cancel You can choose and set up one of the following backup or validation frequencies Daily the operation will be executed once a day or more frequently Weekly p 76 the operation will be executed once a week or several times a week on the selected days Monthly the operation will be executed once a
165. tings File Types Add UNC Location Extension Filter Description Null Filter Null Filter Null Filter Plain Text Filter Null Filter Plain Text Filter File Properties Filter Null Filter File Properties Filter ESSER eseoo ez E Null Filter Plain Text Filter File Properties Filter Mull Filtar How should this file be indexed IEA Index Properties Only Index Properties and File Contents Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open check that the disks where you store your backups are shown in the Included Locations list If the list does not contain those disks Copyright Acronis International GmbH 200 the backups will not be indexed To include the disks click Modify and select them in the window that appears Indexed Locations Change selected locations E M Local Disk C z Local Disk E Tee Local Disk E Ma Microsoft Outlook Express Main Identity Q4 xP K Administr Si Summary of selected locations Included Locations Exclude Local Disk C Application Data Default User S Local Disk E ka Microsoft Outlook Express M Si RH DE CH If you store backups on a network share Windows Search can index them too You just have to add the share to the Indexed Locations list by typing the appropriate UNC path after selecting the Add UNC Location tab of Advanced Options 80 Copyright Acronis Internati
166. tions described in this section are supported only for the FAT and NTFS file systems Please keep in mind that though both file backups and disk partition images have a default tib extension only images can be mounted If you want to view file backup contents use the Explore operation How to mount an image 1 Start the Mount wizard by clicking Mount image on the Tools and utilities tab 2 Select the backup for mounting E tekaa Q Mount Wizard Required steps Mount backup Archive selection TE E Details Name Created Com Rating Method Path Images a z a Partition_D B Partition_D 7 1 2011 5 43 59 PM WwW Ww Full backup E My t a My_system My system 7 1 2011 6 17 37 PM KA AAA Fullbackup E My D DI H Path E My backups My_system tib Browse Next gt Cancel If you selected a backup containing incremental images you can select one of the successive incremental images also called backup versions by its creation date time Thus you can explore the data state at a certain moment To mount an incremental image you must have all previous backup versions and the initial full backup If any of the successive backups are missing mounting is not possible If the backup was password protected Seagate DiscWizard will ask for the password in a dialog box Neither the partitions layout will be shown nor will the Next button be enabled until you enter the correct pa
167. tions from one disk to another Add New Disk Add a new hard disk drive to your system Extended Capacity Manager id Manage extended capacity disks ei Ton gen Trim your SSD Es belied may be different from My favorites Help Options 2 Tools amp Utilities 4 Select the system disk or partition backup to be used for recovery Figure 5 REMOVE AFTER Right click on the backup and choose Recover in the shortcut menu TRANSLATION 5 Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step Pacova wiizar bajes G Recovery Wizard Choose recovery method Recover whole disks and partitions Recovery method Recover chosen files and folders tto recover Select files and folders to recover from the original disk backup Next Cancel 6 Select the system partition usually C on the What to recover screen If the system partition has a different letter select the partition using the Flags column It must have the Pri Act flags 43 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 In case of Windows 7 the System Reserved partition will have the Pri Act flags You will need to select for recovery both the System Reserved partition and the System partition Pacovary Wizar E Recovery Wizard Required steps Select the items to recover E Partition Flags Cap Used Sp Type T Disk 1 a V C NTFS Unlabe
168. to the Acronis Backup Explorer screen The program shows search results on the Files and folders tab Seagate DiscWizard kb e e e n p 8 wizard je H Ps My backups gt Search result 100 items E Name Date modifi Folder Ver Backup name E Microsoft Applicati 2 7 14 2009 6 33 C Windows assembly GAC_MSIL Microso 1 Masterlmage 5 Microsoft Security 6 11 20 2010 5 4 C Windows assembly GAC_MSIL Microso 1 Masterlmage Microsoft Security 9 5 23 2013 1 23 C Windows assembly Nativelmages_v2 0 1 Masterlmage Microsoft Security 8 5 23 2013 1 30 _C Windows assembly Nativelmages v2 0 1 Masterlmage 2 Microsoft Security 1 7 14 2009 6 33 C Windows assembly GAC_MSIL Microso 1 Masterlmage v Microsoft Windows 6 5 23 2013 6 33 C Windows System32 winevt Logs Micro 1 Masterlmage 1 RS_ProgramCompa 3 6 11 2009 12 4 C Windows winsxs amd64_microsoft win 1 Masterlmage 1 RS_ProgramCompa 2 6 11 2009 12 4 C Windows diagnostics system PCW RS_ 1 Masterlmage 1 TS_ProgramCompa 9 6 11 2009 12 4 C Windows winsxs amd64_microsoft win 1 Masterlmage mm TS_ProgramCompa 9 6 11 2009 12 4 C Windows diagnostics system PCW TS 1 Masterlmage 1 VF_ProgramCompa 1 6 11 2009 12 4 C Windows winsxs amd64_microsoft win 1 Masterlmage 1 VF_ProgramCompa 1 6 11 2009 12 4 C Windows diagnostics system PCW VF_ 1 Masterl
169. ttings you made and click Proceed After the recovery finishes check the partition offset once more to make sure it is fixed 5 5 2 Migrating to SSD using the backup and recovery method You can use the following procedure for all supported operating systems First let s consider a simple case your system disk consists of a single partition Note that for Windows 7 the system disk usually has a hidden System Reserved partition 1 2 Start Seagate DiscWizard and click the Backup and recovery tab Create Seagate rescue media if you do not have it yet To do this on the toolbar click Create bootable media and follow the instructions on the screen Click Disk and partition backup and then back up your system disk in the disk backup mode to a hard disk other than your system hard disk and the SSD 10 11 12 13 14 Switch off the computer and remove your system hard disk Mount the SSD into the slot where the hard disk was For some SSD brands you may need to insert the SSD into a PCI Express slot Boot from your Seagate rescue media Validate the backup to make sure that it can be used for recovery To do this click Recovery on the left pane and select the backup Right click select Validate Archive in the shortcut menu and then click Proceed After the validation finishes right click the backup and select Recover in the shortcut menu Choose Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step and
170. u usually need to configure a custom backup scheme For more information see Custom schemes p 32 An incremental or differential backup created after a disk is defragmented might be considerably larger than usual This is because the defragmentation program changes file locations on the disk and the backups reflect these changes Therefore it is recommended that you re create a full backup after disk defragmentation If you lose an incremental backup or it becomes corrupted all later incremental backups will be unusable 3 3 Backing up partitions and disks To back up partitions or disks click Disk and partition backup on the Backup and recovery tab This opens the Disk Backup window Partition disk mode switcher Allows you to select partitions or whole disks Dink Backup TSN Configure disk backup process wg Source Satch to desk mode D em System Reserved What to back up pe aneo backup source y Select the partitions or New Volume whole disks you want to et back up New Volume y Selection mode switcher l Sve postition selection Click to simplify selection to single partition Destination DAMy backups 7 Where to store The backup file will be stored in this location Schede Off Tuin on Backup scheme Version chan Backup name My Stoen Disk backup options E Click to configure Druk backup optom additional settings Backup name box Schedule and Back up now Type a name
171. ull version on the information box You will see an information window with the list of features that you will get after the upgrade 2 Click Buy Online at the bottom of the information window You will be redirected to the Acronis website where you will be able to buy True Image 2013 at a special upgrade price 3 Purchase True Image 2013 by Acronis and download the distribution package to your computer Install True Image 2013 by Acronis on top of Seagate DiscWizard This will safely replace Seagate DiscWizard and keep your backup archives and settings in place 1 3 Program workspace In this section Backup and recovery ab 11 Tools and utilities tab oo ccc cece cece eee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess 16 Wizarde 000 le eeeeeeneneeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeees 16 Acronis Backup Explorer 17 Settings menu 23 Help menu 23 1 3 1 Backup and recovery tab The Backup and recovery tab provides quick access to all of the program functionality related to data backup and recovery If you have not created any backups yet the program will offer to create a new backup or add an existing backup If you have at least one backup the screen will display the list of your backups Tabs Use to switch between the program main functions L Seagate D Backup toolbar The most frequently used operations for backup Management Expanded backup box Contains deta ed information about backup Collapsed backup bo
172. upport 1 2 Installation and upgrade In this section Installing Seagate DiscWizard cccccccccccssssseeeeceeceeeaeaesseeeceeeessaeaaeess 10 Upgrading Seagate DiscWizard s esssssssssseenresssssrrrerreesssrrrerreeessens 11 1 2 1 Installing Seagate DiscWizard Installing Seagate DiscWizard To install Seagate DiscWizard Run the setup file In the install menu click Install to start the installation procedure Read and accept the terms of the license agreement in the License Agreement window In the Setup options window change the installation folder if necessary ST e E Click Proceed to begin installation To make changes in the setup use the Back and Next buttons Recovering from a Seagate DiscWizard error If Seagate DiscWizard ceased running or produced errors its files might be corrupted To repair this problem you first have to recover the program To do this run Seagate DiscWizard installer again It will detect Seagate DiscWizard on your computer and will ask you if you want to repair or remove it Removing Seagate DiscWizard To remove Seagate DiscWizard components 1 Open the list of installed programs and applications In Windows XP open Start gt Control panel gt Add or remove programs In Windows Vista and Windows 7 open Start gt Control panel gt Programs and Features In Windows 8 click the Settings icon then select Control Panel gt Uninstall a program 2 Select t
173. ve your data files from the old hard disk to another location for example to another hard disk drive If your notebook has space only for a single disk your options are limited You can move the data files you rarely use to an external hard disk Alternatively you can create zip archives of such files and then delete the original files In addition you can clean up the hard disk Choose to delete the System Restore points on the More Options tab of the Disk Cleanup window After freeing up space on the old hard disk check whether the occupied space is less than the SSD size If so perform the migration procedure described earlier Take note that for stable operation Windows needs to have several GB of free space on the system partition After you migrate the system you can try to tweak some of the Windows settings This will reduce the disk space required for Windows In most cases you can safely perform the following Turn off System Restore You don t need it because you have Seagate DiscWizard for restoring your system Disable Indexing Service Turn off the hibernation mode 5 5 1 3 Checking SSD partition alignment If you installed Windows Vista Windows 7 from the installation DVD to a new hard disk the operating system automatically aligns the hard disk during installation to a multiple of 4096 and usually to 1 024 MB In any case it will be useful to check Mount the SSD into the intended location in your compute
174. ved Capacity Free Space 15 97 GB 25 MB 8 719 GB NTFS 888 KB NTFS G 16 GB To resize change the volume type E Primary Logical Dynamic RB Acronis Secure Zone 1 Unallocated Unsupported Le 15 97 GB NTFS H Sa 2 l Next gt l Proceed change the label of the existing volume right click on it and select Edit in the shortcut menu This will open the Partition Settings window Required steps Clone Mode Source Disk Destination Disk Move Method V Finish Size Min 7 195 GB kx CO Partition C 13 53 GB NTFS F Used space E Free space Unallocated space Partition size 13 53 GB Free space before 0 MB Free space after 2 443 GB File system NTFS Partition letter C Select the type of partition Primary Mark the partition as active Logical Partition label You can do this by entering values in the Free space before Partition size Free space after fields by dragging partition borders or the partition itself 96 Copyright Acronis International GmbH 2002 2013 If the cursor turns into two vertical lines with left and right arrows it is pointed at the partition border and you can drag it to enlarge or reduce the partition s size If the cursor turns into four arrows it is pointed at the partition so you can move it to the left or right if there s unallocated s
175. ves For example the D disk identified in the standalone Seagate DiscWizard might correspond to the E disk in Windows It is advisable to assign unique names labels to all partitions on your hard drives This will make finding the disk containing your backups easier 5 5 Migrating your system from an HDD to an SSD In this section Preparing f r migraties ieia 70 Migrating to SSD using the backup and recovery method 74 5 5 1 Preparing for migration Solid state disks have become quite common Many users decide to replace their system hard disk with an SSD to enhance the disk system performance Such a replacement may raise a number of questions First of all make sure that Seagate DiscWizard detects your new SSD both in Windows and under the Seagate rescue media If there is a problem see What to do if Seagate DiscWizard does not recognize your SSD p 71 SSD size Because SSDs are still somewhat expensive the size of your new SSD will usually be less than that of your old hard disk This may cause a problem if your hard disk contains the operating system programs and data We presuppose that before purchasing the SSD you estimated the approximate space occupied by your operating system and applications and that you selected an SSD that has a reasonable reserve capacity If the occupied space on your old hard disk exceeds the size of your SSD you will need to free up space on the system disk to make migration possible See Wh
176. w disk Create partitions on your new hard disk drive to be able to use it in Windows Seagate Extended Capacity Manager Use your more than 2TB capacity hard drive even if your OS does not support it View current state of your disks Image mounting This tool allows you to access an image as an ordinary disk Mount image Unmount image Figure 2 REMOVE AFTER 1 3 3 Wizards TRANSLATION operations When you use the available Seagate DiscWizard tools and utilities the program will in many cases employ wizards to guide you through the CH Wizards have a sidebar listing all the steps both required and optional needed for completing the operation For example see the Mount wizard screen shot below e Sa L Mount Wizard Mount backup Archive selection Name Created Com Rating Method Path Images a D Partition D 3 Partition_D 7 1 2011 5 43 59 PM Ww WW Full backup E My t E My_system My_system 7 1 2011 6 17 37 PM Akk kK Fullbackup E My m Path EAMy backups My_syster tib Browse Next gt Cancel The completed steps are marked with green checkmarks The green arrow shows the current step After you complete all the required steps and come to the Finish step the program displays the Summary screen Check the summary of the operation to be performed and then click Proceed to start the operation 1 3 4 Acronis Backup Explorer The Acr
177. w partitions To create a new partition Select the unallocated space and click Create new partition in the upper part of the window or right click on the unallocated space and select Create new partition in the shortcut menu Specify the following settings for the partition being created the size of the new partition file system of the new partition partition type available only for MBR disks partition letter and label CH Add New Disk Wizard Required steps Create partitions on Setting Partition creation Size Min 3 MB CO Partition D 200 GB NTFS E Minimal space L Free space Unallocated space Partition size bo gt GB Free space before 1 MB Free space after 0 MB File system Partition letter Partition label NTFS X D k Select the type of partition Primary Mark the partition as active Logical ei Please specify settings for the partition being created Cancel If you allocate all unallocated space on the disk to the new partition the Create new partition button disappears 6 3 3 1 Partition settings Specify the settings for the partition being created Size You can resize and relocate the partition being created If you want to resize the partition Point the cursor at the partition border If the cursor is pointed exactly at the partition border it will change into two vertical lines with arrows on each side Hold down the left
178. when the free space on the backup storage becomes less than the specified threshold value If after starting a backup Seagate DiscWizard finds out that the free space in the selected backup location is already less than the specified value the program will not begin the actual backup process and will immediately inform you by displaying an appropriate message The message offers you three choices to ignore it and proceed with the backup to browse for another location for the backup or to cancel the backup If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run the program will display the same message and you will have to make the same decisions To set the free disk space threshold Select the Show notification message on insufficient free disk space check box In the Size box type or select a threshold value and select a unit of measure Seagate DiscWizard can monitor free space on the following storage devices Local hard drives USB cards and drives Network shares SMB NFS The message will not be displayed if the Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode check box is selected in the Error handling settings This option cannot be enabled for FTP servers and CD DVD drives 3 7 15 Windows account When you create a backup you can specify a Windows account under which this backup should be performed This may be useful if your computer is used not only by you but
179. x Takes less space than an expanded one Figure 1 REMOVE AFTER TRANSLATION tm E Bech 0nd Aites Racing ond recovery 3 we e F gat nk and partition ng Feckugn Creste bootable Recover Growmeterbectup f Zeg E bectup mede Local disk C Ce er My beckupriLocel desk 3 Zeg dey at 246 P Shave Local disk C er E Ate Feck Leg dest A fe preter etter has btad Keanna Get AA ven Backup buttons Click to create a new backup version The toolbar Settings button Opens menu with global program settings Help button Opens Help menu me gt 1 pe GP Bech up pes 2 Revove Today st 148 PM DU Recovery buttons The most frequently used recovery operation See the toolbar commands description in Backup toolbar p 14 The backups area The area shows the backups you already have It provides access to all operations with the existing backups and allows you to start recovery of your data Back up now adds a new backup version to the existing backup or replaces the existing backup version depending on the backup scheme being used m Recover click to recover data When a backup box is collapsed the backup and recovery operations can be started by clicking the appropriate icons These icons along with the Operations menu icon a gear appear when you move the pointer over a box area You can collapse and expand the backup box by clicking the triangle near a backup name Operat
180. you need to recover p 76 3 Backing up data Seagate DiscWizard includes a wealth of sophisticated backup capabilities that would please even an IT professional They allow you to back up your disks and partitions You can choose a backup feature that suits you most or use them all The sections below describe the backup features in more detail In this section The difference between file backups and disk partition images 26 Full incremental and differential backups ccceccsssssssteeeeeeessesssnees 26 Backing up partitions and dek 28 Adding an existing backup totbeltet ss ssssssssssssssse 29 Making reserve copies of your backups sssscccceeessessstteeeeeeesssessaees 29 Deleting backups and backup verslons 30 Backup Options ccccsssssessecccccccceeeesesececeecssuaeesseeeeeeeessuaeeeeeeeeeeesaaaaaess 30 Validating backups 2 stetetetetetstetetetetet eege eeg e eg 39 Cloning backup settings sssssssssssssssssssesssseeseserrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrerrereeens 39 3 1 The difference between file backups and disk partition images When you back up files and folders only the files and folder tree are compressed and stored Disk partition backups are different from file and folder backups Seagate DiscWizard stores a sector by sector snapshot of the disk or partition This includes the operating system registry drivers software applications data files and system areas hidden from the user This pr

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