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1. Partition type Volume label New Volume Assign the following dive letter E Partition type From the pull down list select a file system the newly created partition will be formatted to otherwise the partition will remain unformatted so that it will not be ready to use Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 35 Volume label Enter a label for the selected partition in this textual field It is an irrelevant parameter usually used for drive identification Surface test level Define the level of the surface check to make the program find bad and unstable sectors and mark them unusable in the file system metadata Dialog Setup Initially the program suggests some consistent values for all parameters In most cases you can just press the Yes button to confirm the operation Are you sure you want to create a new partition on disk 37 Tou are about to create a new partition in Unallocated 119 9 GB area Please select size position and file system of the new partition Basic MBA Hard Disk 3 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey E o Hew Volume H i 114 7 GE NTFS Create new partition as Please specify new partition size 1 17546 OMB 122 879 MB Please specify size of free space before the partition 2551 OMB 122 870 MB Please specify size of free space after the partitions 2782 OMB 122 870 MB Please select file system for new partition NTFS Pl
2. Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey i i i Local Disk C 378 GB NTFS Please select the method of new partition creation f Smart Mode Use 109 3 GB to create a partition More info The number of available methods depends on your disk layout Oo To learn more on the way the wizard works please click the corresponding link on the first page of the wizard Create Partition Wizard Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Partition destination Select a hard disk if the computer has several hard disks and then choose position for the future partition on the disk at the end preferable at the beginning or somewhere in the middle between other partitions On this page vou can select hard disk and the place where to create a new partition Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey i Local Disk C 499 6 GE NTFS Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dew i p Unallocated 115 8 GB Basic The partition will be created here ware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev i Local Disk 743 9 GB NTFS Use the buttons to mowe the marker or drag marker by mouse 4 new partition will be A E created where the marker is hu Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 34 By default the program allows you to create a new partition only as the last primary or as the last logical drive
3. 100 Oo The Move Resize dialog offers a number of additional parameters that can also be of help However here we pay attention to the most relevant to fulfill our task 4 Now you have a block of free space sufficient in size to hold a new partition Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev Vista C 158 7 GB NTFS Unallocated 341 2 G8 5 Create a new partition to install Windows XP To do that please call the context menu for a newly created block of free space right click of the mouse button and launch the Create Partition dialog Are you sure you want to create a new partition on disk 07 You se about to oesie a new perttion in Unallocated 341 2 GB ares Please select size postion and file sstem of the new partition Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev i New Volume F 341 2 GE NTFS Create new partition as Primary partition Please soecty new pariiion sine 2459451 7 MB 349 451 MB Please spacy size of free space before the partition 0 l OMB 349 437 MB Please soecty size of free space after tha partion U a DME 369 403 ME Please select file system for new partition NTFS Fiesse enter new volume label Mew Volume Please soecdy diwe letter Fo l 6 Define parameters of the future partition By all means it has to be primary and since we are going to install Windows XP the most preferable file systems are NTFS and FAT32 Clic
4. 4 Select a volume to take the space from i e the logical one Select volumes to take space from Free space from that volume will be used to enlarge the volume pou have selected on the previous page 2 Free Type Capacity Used pace Free space NTFS Friman 280 3 GB 60 6 GE 219 6 GB FAT Se 101 9 GE 0 Bytes 101 9 GE Yolume File system 100 Logical 5 On the next page of the wizard you can specify size of the resulted system volume Drag the slider or type in the exact value to set the volume size Your disk after the changes Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware YHware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk C New Volume 6 241 8 GE NTFS BB cents Select new size 264 553 MB 222 367 MB 449 061 54 MB Ca Current volume size 258 3 GB The volume size has been increased on 41 1 GB 6 Apply all introduced changes By default our program works in the virtual mode of execution so you have to confirm all operations to let the program accomplish them To do that just click the Apply button on the Virtual Operations Bar Separating OS from media data Let s assume you ve got one partition available on the hard disk like other people who purchase a computer with a preinstalled operating system So besides OS it holds all your documents favorite music movies and family photos This type of configuration is certainly not optimal for effective data organization and
5. Boot menu 32 bit environment a Normal Mode Main recovery d Safe Mode environment 4 Low Graphics Safe Mode amp Floppy disk Hard disk H MBR amp Find OSes on your hard disks e Normal Mode Boot into the Linux normal mode This mode uses the full set of drivers recommended e Safe Mode Boot into the PTS DOS mode This mode can be used as an alternative of the Linux normal mode if it fails to work properly e Low Graphics Safe Mode Boot into the PTS DOS safe mode In this case only the minimal set of drivers will be included like hard disk monitor and keyboard drivers This mode has simple graphics and a simple menu e Floppy Disk Reboot the computer from a system floppy disk e Hard Disk 0 Boot from the primary hard disk e Find OS s on your hard disks The program will scan hard disks of your computer to find any bootable operating system 64 bit environment BOOT MENU Start Paragon RCO in sate mode Reboot Power ott e Normal Mode Boot into the Linux normal mode This mode uses the full set of drivers recommended e Safe Mode Boot into the PTS DOS mode This mode can be used as an alternative of the Linux normal mode if it fails to work properly e Reboot Restart the computer e Power off Shut down the computer While working with the recovery environment you might experience some inconvenience caused by possible video artifacts It is just a result of changing video modes and in no
6. Program Files 10 di Program Files x86 g di Users qe Windows g 5 Click the OK button to accomplish the operation The current version of the program does not enable to access pVHD images and file archives with Volume Explorer Resize Scenarios Creating a new partition to detach operating system from the rest of data Let s assume that you re a rank and file user who is most likely to have only one hard disk with only one partition the only partition is always system To secure yourself against a system malfunction or a virus attack you ve got nothing to do but make a backup of the whole partition which besides the operating system itself contains all your family photos favorite films and music program distributives whatever As a result you ll get a very huge backup image You can easily tackle this issue however by detaching your operating system from the rest of data To create a new partition on your hard disk please do the following 1 Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Express Create Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 82 3 Choose a method you find the most suitable to create the partition The wizard is especially designed to minimize your participation
7. 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 90 Mame Size Dake a di Program Files 10 9 2015 5 50 43 AM E L Program Files 86 10 9 2013 11 01 16 PM Users 9 32013 2 48 22 PM a di Administrator 1079 2013 10 26 37 PM Public ai22 2013 6 36 32 AM L a Ji User 9 3 2013 10 45 59 AM 4 E di Contacts gaz0la 10 45 56 4M E di Desktop gaz0la 10 45 56 4M Documents 9 3 2013 10 45 59 AM Downloads 9 3 2013 10 45 59 AM f Favorites 9 3 2013 10 45 56 AM f Links 9j3 2013 10 46 00 AM a Music 9 3 2013 10 45 56 AM H ictures 9 32013 10 45 56 AM ici a Saved Games of3 2013 10 45 59 AM E di Searches gazla 2 40 10 PM Videos 9 3 2013 10 45 56 AM Lp Windows 10 9 2013 11 01 29 PM addins ai22 2013 6 36 36 AM di ADFS ai22 2013 6 36 31 AM 6 Redistribute free space between the partitions by moving the slider or manually by entering the required value for the new partition in the corresponding field Then choose a drive letter for this partition from the pull down list that contains vacant letters if necessary by default the wizard selects the first vacant one Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware YHware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey i Local Disk C i SPLITVOL E 168 4 GB NTFS 111 8 GE NTFS Splitted partition size 1 14556 MB Min size 72 MB F Max sze 224451 MB Please specify drive letter for the second partitions E By default the w
8. 80 iy This operation can also be accomplished with our recovery media Restoring separate files and folders from a backup The program provides a very convenient option to access backup archives and restore only data you need the so called selective restore functionality Volume Explorer To restore separate files and folders from a backup image with Volume Explorer please do the following 1 Click the Volume Explorer tab on the Ribbon Panel EBA Backup Restore Mew Backup Format Partitioning Copy amp Migration Archives Schedule Volume Explorer Refresh volumes information dm Volume Explorer Apply Discard View Changes Unda Reda amp Reload Disk Info Generate Script Save to Scheduler GF Expre Ef Drives Ef Hard Disks He 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Device 500 GB 2 Vidar VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Device 499 9 GB 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Device 750 GB F 4 Yhware Mware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Device 120 GB Af Virtual Drives 2 Browse for the required archive and then open it by double click of the left mouse button Ef Drives Ef Hard Disks E 1 VMware VMware Virtual SCSI Disk Device 500 GB S E 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Device 500 GB Primary NTFS E 72 6 GB E arc_disk3 10 16 2013 9 02 11 PM E arc_doc 10 16 2013 9 00 23 PM E arc_image 1071672013 9 00 56 PM arc_ system 1071672013 8 57 56 PM E imc 171013045750652 10716
9. Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev l p Local Disk C 499 6 GB NTFS Large sized bars display the following information about physical disks e Type basic or dynamic MBR GPT e Manufacturer e Model Small sized bars display the following information about logical disks and blocks of free space e Volume label if exists e Drive letter e Total size e File system The Disk Map is synchronized with the Context sensitive Menu and the Properties Panel Thus by selecting a disk on the map the two will automatically display detailed information on it To know more on the subject please consult the Viewing Disk Properties chapter Oo Since the Disk Map and the Disk and Partitions List have the same purpose the user is allowed to extend only one at the moment by using a corresponding arrow button Disk and Partitions List The Disk and Partitions List is another helpful tool that helps to get a clear cut picture on the current state of the system hard disks and partitions All objects disks partitions or blocks of free space on the list are sorted according to their starting position For every item there is the possibility to call a context sensitive popup menu with available operations Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 21 Disk and partitions list z Name File svstem Yolurme size Partition size Used Free Volume label Hidden Ac Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Vir
10. Dynamic Disk Management DDM The problem is that earlier versions of Windows do not support DDM In addition most hard disk utilities do not support it as well Recovery Media is a CD DVD disc a USB flash card or even a floppy disk from which you can boot for maintenance or recovery purposes Root Directory is the top level directory of a formatted logical drive to include other files and directories In modern file systems Ext2 Ext3 NTFS and even FAT32 it does not differ from other directories This is not the case for old FAT12 and FAT16 file systems Serial Number In the DOS partitioning scheme every hard disk and every partition has a 32 bit serial number represented by an 8 figure hexadecimal value It is stored in the MBR and its value is assigned when the MBR sector is initialized by Microsoft standard disk managing tools such as Windows Disk Administrator and the FDISK utility In fact a hard disk s serial number is not important for most operating systems and software It is known that Windows NT 2000 and XP store its value in the database of assigned drive letters A partition s serial number is stored in its boot sector in FAT16 FAT32 and NFTS file systems Its value is assigned when the partition is formatted It does not play an important role for most operating systems and software as well Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved
11. Internal Hard Disk Drive 750 GB P First Hard Disk Track First Track 0 Bytes ke iiMaster Boot Record MBER U T 4 The size of objects to back up 280 3 GB Estimated archive size 48 3 GB 4 Mapa network disk to place your backup image to Call the Map Network Drive dialog by clicking the appropriate button Select a folder where archive should be placed and specify archive name Archive name will be used as a sub folder where backup data files will be stored Archive location Eha Hian Ad AA rA x F i Ei Sa Hame Size Date Samj My Computer Remote location mapping Seale A network share el EN Network Map to drive letter E Make permanent connection cred Click the standard browse button to browse for the required network share or manually enter a path to it Define a letter from the pull down list of available drive letters Mark the checkbox to make this connection permanent Otherwise it will only be available for the current Windows session Click the Connect as user button at the foot of the dialog page to specify a user name and password to access the selected network share if necessary 5 Edit the archive name if necessary Please specify the archive name Archive name will be used as a sub folder where backup data files will be stored Archive details Archive name jarc_091 013135006539 Estimated archive size 5 5 GB Space available on back
12. oO To avoid any possible problems the new partition will in no way be created as the first partition of the disk which already contains at least one partition And its size If there are blocks of the free space on the disk the wizard will merge them all and allocate the resulted space for a new partition in the first place If not it will take 50 of the unused space of an adjacent partition However the size to take can be customized by moving the slider You can select either a block of unallocated space of the disk or an existing partition unused space of which will be served to create a new partition Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey E Local Disk iY Unallocated 4 3 GB NTFS 3 6 GB New volume current size it 3 9 GB Min Volume Size 0 Bytes _ 1 Max Yolume Size 7 9 GB In case the second option has been marked the wizard enables to choose an existing primary partition to install a new operating system Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 48 On this page vou can choose an existing primary partition where you Would like to install a new operating system Please make sure your BIOS tt set up to Boot from the disk containing the selected partition Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 Mware iTotal size 553 4 GB Used 108 7 MIE l p o Hew Yol 7 o Local lf ee 153 3 GB g
13. then select View Log Files Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved a Zj amp amp Sessions Session operations Session event Show Source launcher exe Operation parameters Started 10 24 2013 at 7 06 32 AM Ze Applying at 7 30 34 AM 61 b Mount Unmount partition virtual succeeded Start time 07 1431 Show Source Operation parameters Type of operation Virtual Result Succeeded Create partition committed succeeded Total 6 operations 3 virtual and 3 committed Warning This session did not finished corectly Most probably the program was abnormally terminated Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disl E S i Local Disk C NTFS NTFS Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk E a 3 j Unallocated NTFS Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disl g Unallocated Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disl E S E Local Disk C NTFS NTFS Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk E 5 E New Volume E NTFS NTFS Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disl g Unallocated Typical Scenarios This chapter lists a number of the most frequently used scenarios that may be accomplished with the program You can find here useful recommendations and descriptions of operations Backup Scenari
14. 2013 8 57 56 PM S E aic_system pbl 57MB 10 16 2013 8 57 20 PM arc_ system pfi SREB 10 16 2013 6 59 78 PM arc_ sister pim 72KB 10716 2013 8 57 19 PM System Volume Information 10 16 2013 8 23 03 PM Z2 Primary FAT 32 F 20 9 GB G3 Primary Ext2 Ext3 E xtd Reiser 13GB 4 Primary Ext2 Ext3 E t4 Reiser 15 2 GB H 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Device 50 GB 4 Ywa VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Device 120 GE Af Virtual Drives 3 Calla context menu right click of the mouse button for a file folder you need and then select the Export item Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 81 Name Size Modified Ef Drives Hard Disks h E 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Device 500 GB BP Primary NTFS 350 MB MP2 Primary NTFS C 499 6 GB E Recycle Bin 9 3 2013 1 49 11 PM f iD ocuments and Settings ef 22 2013 6 45 52 AM E PerfLogs 22 2013 7 22 35 AM l E Program Files Refresh 0 16 2013 8 18 50 PM E Program Files x86 9 3 2013 1 54 49 PM E ProgramData 10 16 2013 8 21 08 PM E System Volume Information 10 16 2013 8 18 29 PM t Users 9 3 2013 1 48 22 PM Windows 9 3 2013 9 43 00 AM 4 Select a place on the disk where the file folder will be extracted to Lookin E Local Diski il 9 F Address co Disk Drives PEME De T E Local Disk C ee pp Utis 10 Ej 2 di arc new 10 Network Places H di PerfLogs By
15. Disk Drives to use a local disk as backup destination Select Partitions to use a physical partition as backup destination Click on the Map Network Drive icon to map a network share to use it as backup destination our case 5 Tomapanetwork share please do the following Remote location mapping A network share eerver pool h etvwork Storage ed Map to drive letter Y T Make permanent connection Click the standard browse button to browse for the required network share or manually enter a path to it Define a letter from the pull down list of available drive letters Mark the checkbox to make this connection permanent Otherwise it will only be available for the current Windows session Specify a user name and password to access the selected network share if necessary Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 65 Enter network credentials Enter your credentials to connect to server2 quest Domain WeS0WENTOIENM Remember my credentials x Access is denied Cancel e Click OK when ready 6 Edit the default archive name and description in the Archive details section if necessary Click Next to proceed Image details Backup name Backup HDDO_ 20131029 0713 Backup description Backup image 20131029 0713 7 Click Finish to complete the wizard then apply the pending changes Oo This operation can also be accomplished wit
16. File Systems ssssesessesessecescecessecessscessscecescesesoesessecescecesoecesosoecescecesoecesoesesososseecesesceceeoesesoeseesese 9 S ppor ed Media uii E EEEO EET 9 Geringe S ar Oa E E 9 WERE GUNEEN S aeae EEEE EEEO EE EEEE 9 SATON aeon E E E E E E E E E E N E S 10 PURSE SEAM nenn EE cine E E E E E 11 Building Recovery Media sessssesessesescecessecescecesoscesoscesesoecseoesescecesoesescecssoecesoscesoecesescesseceseeoesesoecesoecessese 12 Booting from the Linux DOS Recovery Media cssscssscsssssscssccssecsccnsccessccsccscccsscescsccesssesessscessseseseceussees 12 UD E E E E E E tout 12 BOG PVCU scernu enee E O E I E E 13 BASIC COM COIS rn E E E E E EE 15 PYANO SUI ON erar E E E E E E A TE E E 15 OPT VEUS MBR oreren E E E E E 15 uEFI Boot ChallengeS sesessesessesessecessscecescecssoesesoesesoecessecoesosceseececesoesescesssoesesoecescesesoecesesceseecesesoeceeoecseoese 16 Apple Boot Cali aciccacce tac oae cena ie rr a 16 OA DI SO aac ears sacs cess E E A EE E AE 16 DAVE Parn E raana A AE E EEA EE EE EEE EE N E E NOA 17 Windows Components sessesessssesessesescscesosoesosoesesoesesoecesssoesosoesesoesesoscesossesosoesesoesessesessesee 17 ter aCe OVET CI serres innear onr E EEN EEN queen E ERE 17 General A OO eer E EEE EE 18 TOOLE OR a E E E E E E E E E EAA E eons 19 Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved FUTON PAV CN es sagcacnes ae atateices Soran hee acer wsscesnes tat ala
17. It is used to quickly detect partitions of supported types A number of operating systems completely rely on it to distinguish supported partitions Partition ID is saved in appropriate entries of the Partition Table and takes only 1 byte of space Partition Label or Volume Label is a small textual field up to 11 characters that is located in the partition s boot sector This value is used for notification purposes only It is detectable by any partitioning tool including the DOS FDISK utility Modern operating systems save it within a file system e g as a special hidden file Thus it is able to contain a relatively large amount of text in multiple languages Partitioning Scheme is a set of rules constraints and format of the on disk structures to keep information on partitions located on a hard disk There are known several partitioning schemes The most popular of them is the so called DOS partitioning scheme It was introduced by IBM and Microsoft to use multiple partitions in the disk subsystems on IBM PC compatible computers Another popular partitioning scheme is the so called Logical Disks Model LDM that originates from the UNIX mainframe systems Veritas Executive accommodates a simplified version of LDM to the Windows 2000 operating system Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 107 Windows 2000 and XP support two quite different partitioning schemes the old DOS partitioning scheme and the new
18. The pull down list contains vacant drive letters that can be associated with the newly formatted partition In addition there is the possibility to make further detailed settings although the default values will do in most cases To activate the advance mode you need to click the More options button at the foot of the dialog page Depending on the chosen file system the following options become available W Use 0S built in format routine Please select number of sectors per cluster E hi Restore defaults e Use OS built in routine Mark the option to restrict the available values according to the used OS e The amount of sectors per cluster Define the Cluster Size for the formatted partition with this spinner control Oo Number of available options depends on the selected file system type Result After the operation is completed you receive a fully functional partition Available operation scenarios e Creating a new partition to detach operating system from the rest of data Formatting Partitions Any partition should contain some file system to be used for keeping data The process of installing a file system is commonly known as formatting A huge variety of file systems have been developed these days Supported File Systems The program provides the ability to format partitions of the following file systems FAT12 amp FAT16 FAT32 HFS NTFS Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 Linux Swap v 2 Copyright 1994
19. To detach OS from media files please do the following i Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Split Partition Wizard The first page of the wizard informs the user on the upcoming operation Please read all notes carefully before you proceed Once you re done with that click Next to continue Select a volume you want to split up Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev If the wizard cannot work with the selected partition you ll get a corresponding O notification click on the More Info link to see the details amp Split operation can t be performed over this partition More in 4 When selecting a system partition just our case the wizard notifies that this type of operation may cause inability of the operating system to start up if moving system files folders to the new partition So please take it seriously If you re sure confirm the operation ATTENTION You are trying to split system partition Make sure not to split system foldersffiles otherwise system will not be able to boot anymore Would you like to continue 5 Mark checkboxes next to files folders you d like to move to the new partition Please don t touch system yy lt files folders like Windows Users Program Files config sys etc By clicking the Next button the wizard starts calculating the amount of data to move which may take some time Copyright
20. after the operations are completed 7 Restart the computer Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 104 Troubleshooter Here you can find answers to the most frequently asked questions that might arise while using the program 1 try to run an operation but the program claims my partition is in use and suggests restarting the computer There are a number of operations that cannot be performed while your partition is in use or locked in other words Please agree to reboot your machine to make the program accomplish the operation in a special boot up mode run an operation and restart the machine as required but it just boots back into Windows without accomplishing the operation Please run chkdsk f for the partition in question cannot create a new partition on the disk There can be a number of reasons for that e The program cannot create a new partition on a dynamic disk e The program allows creating new partitions only within blocks of un partitioned space It cannot convert a free space on an existing partition to a new partition cannot copy a partition There can be a number of reasons for that The source or target disk you select is a dynamic disk 4 primary partitions or three primary partitions and an extended one already exist on the target disk need to copy a partition But when selecting a place where to make a copy always get a crossed circle sign no matt
21. block of unallocated space of the disk or an adsting partition unused space of which w De servec to create a new partion Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev g Vista C 9 Unallocated 158 7 GB NTFS 341 2 GB i New volume current size is 341 2 GB Min Volume Size 0 Bytes Max Volume Size 241 2GB 5 The next page enables to specify a file system and a number of additional parameters Since we are going to install Windows XP the most preferable file systems are NTFS and FAT32 Click the Yes button to continue Yas want to fonnat fhe partition Partition type NTFS r Assign the followang drive letter E Surface test level None Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 98 Oo On this page you can specify a number of additional parameters that can also be of help However here we pay attention to the most relevant to fulfill our task 6 Enter a label for the future partition in the textual field It will later be used for the drive identification O S labels wil be displayed in the Boot Manager s startup menu to help you boot the required operating system CS labe Vitindows xF 7 The program will carry out all the necessary operations and then automatically restart the computer to initiate the installation process If you ve changed your mind on installing a new operating system don t insert its 1 distributive CD but press ESC when the following m
22. by Intel to replace the outdated PC BIOS it offers a number of crucial benefits e Upto 128 primary partitions for the Windows implementation only 4 in MBR Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 16 e The maximum allowed partition size is 18 exabytes only 2 terabytes in MBR e More reliable thanks to replication and cyclic redundancy check CRC protection of the partition table e A well defined and fully self identifying partition format data critical to the platform operation is located in partitions but not in un partitioned or hidden sectors as this is the case with MBR uEFI Boot Challenges Introduced back in 2005 by Intel to lift restrictions of the old MBR Master Boot Record and PC BIOS Basic Input Output System uEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface is now a recommended platform for new 64 bit Windows 8 computers And the reason is easy to catch besides other unique features impossible for the traditional tandem of BIOS MBR only a uEFl based platform enables to accommodate Windows OS on a partition larger than 2 2TB Despite all uEFI advantages however it has one quite naughty issue a pretty standard operation with a bootable device for instance involving its connection to another SATA port results in unbootable Windows You ll get the same result if trying to boot from a cloned system hard disk or from a restored hard disk All these problems originate from the way UEFI GPT bundle is
23. confirm the operation Are you sure you want to format volume F You are about to format volume F New Volume NTFS our computer may na longer boot or work correctly Please select new tile system Please enter new volume label New Volume w More options No e File system From the pull down list select the desired file system type In fact the program displays only those file systems that can correctly be placed to the selected partition taking its capacity into account e Volume label Enter a label for the selected partition in this textual field It is an irrelevant parameter usually used for drive identification Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 39 In addition there is the possibility to make further detailed settings although the default values will do in most cases To activate the advance mode you need to click the More options button at the foot of the dialog page Depending on the chosen file system the following options become available W Use 0S built in format routine Please select number of sectors per cluster Zz z Restore defaults e Use OS built in routine Mark the checkbox to restrict the available values according to the used OS e The amount of sectors per cluster Define the Cluster Size for the formatted partition with this spinner control Number of available options depends on the selected file system type Result After the op
24. data sensitive operation interrupted by an accidental reset of your computer from our bootable recovery media thus reviving the corrupted partition Power loss Maximum protection but minimal performance Besides journaling our program will also disable cache of your disk when accomplishing data sensitive operations to avoid data loss even in case of a power outage General Copy and Backup Options ys General copy and backup options HOD raw processing Copy an entire hard disk sector by sector without taking into account its partition structure Partition raw processing Copw Backup each partition sector by sector All sectors will be processed one by one even Unused sectors Requires more time to complete the operation W Automatic BCO update Add Boot entry for target partition to BCD hive on copy restore source partition This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during copy and backup operations e HDD raw processing Mark the checkbox to copy back up a hard disk in the sector by sector mode thus ignoring its information structure e g unallocated space or unused sectors of existing partitions will be processed as well This can help to avoid problems with hidden data created by certain applications or the system administrator However it will take more time to accomplish the operation Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 25 e Partition raw processing
25. get the product ready to use System Requirements For the Windows installation package e Windows XP SP3 e Windows Vista e Windows 7 e Windows 8 e Windows 8 1 Additional requirements e To install and run the product the target OS should have Visual Studio C 2010 Runtime Library installed comes with the installation package you will be prompted to install it if it s not been found in the system Oo During the installation additional free space up to 1GB will be required Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 10 For the Linux bootable environment Intel Pentium CPU or its equivalent with 300 MHz processor clock speed 256 MB of RAM SVGA video adapter and monitor Keyboard Mouse Additional requirements Network card to send retrieve data to from a network computer Recordable CD DVD drive to burn data to compact discs External USB hard drive to store data Installation Before the installation please make sure the systems requirements are met If everything is OK please do the following to install the product 1 In case there is some previous version of the program installed on the computer the program will offer the user to uninstall it first Click on the supplied setup file to initiate the installation First your system will be checked for the presence of Visual Studio C 2010 Runtime Library and if not found you will be prompted to install it comes with the in
26. goal In future releases pVHD will gradually take the primary role e Uplifted Recovery Media Builder Paragon s Recovery Media Builder a simple alternative to Boot Media Builder can help you prepare a Linux based bootable environment on a USB thumb drive or in an ISO file Unlike Boot Media Builder it doesn t require to have Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit ADK or Automated Installation Kit WAIK installed in the system However it can only be used under Windows 7 or higher and its functionality is rather limited e Complete support of Windows Storage Spaces Windows 8 has come with a storage management feature called the storage spaces It enables to easily manage large storage pools In fact it s an expandable virtual container of defined data size allowing users to add it as many physical drives as they want until the defined virtual disk s limit is reached This makes it easy to include additional storage devices without having to set up and manage each attached physical storage drive e Uplifted Linux Recovery Environment Started from HDM 14 the Linux based recovery environment is based on SuSe 12 3 more hardware devices supported and includes UEFI fixup to clone restore migrate 64 bit Windows systems configured to the uEFI boot mode Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 6 ConnectVD to connect a virtual disk as if it were an ordinary physical disk thus opening up all functiona
27. i media Removable disks cs IDE CD DYD NECVMWa VMware IDE s C Ext4FS 1 on Disk 1 NEW VOLU rieriarnia iraj Mele F 7 Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipboard by pressing the left arrow button Clipboard Source 9 Mindows System HDDO Part1 Windows 9 SottwareDistribution Speech 3 System Systems2 3 SystemResources 3 Syswows4 C TAPI C Tasks l Temp 3 ToastData 9 tracing Total data size nia Calc Rename FG Delete F8 Click the Calc button to estimate the resulted data size 8 On the Select Destination Type choose the way the data will be stored Select the Save data to any local drive or a network share item Please select how would you like to save the archive Save data to any local drives or a network share Choose this option if you want to save your data to local mounted or physical partition to USB or FireWare external drives and to a mounted network share You will be prompted to choose a location you want to save the archive to Burn data to CD DVD BD Choose this option tf you want the Wizard to burn the archive to CD DYVD BD You will be prompted to choose a drive 9 On the Select Destination Path page select a hard disk to copy the data to by pressing the standard browse button Select path imntidisk sdb Space available on destination 321 MB Total data size nla Calc 10 On the Transfer Summary page check all parameters of the ope
28. in finding an appropriate place for it and its resulted size The only thing you re to do is to choose between several modes The most relevant thing here is the amount of space that will be allocated for that partition For easy perception you can see the resulted disk layout on the disk map by selecting this or that mode The result you will get after applying the changes Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey l j Local Disk C l i 406 8 GB NTFS Please select the method of new partition creation C Advanced Mode Use 46 4 GB to create a partition More info The number of available methods depends on your disk layout Oo To learn more on the way the wizard works please click the corresponding link on the first page of the wizard 4 That s basically it By clicking the Next button the wizard will start modifying your disk layout If you ve got to do with the system partition resize like we do in our case you will be asked to restart your computer in a special boot up mode to accomplish the operation So click the appropriate button to agree 5 Inthe Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see the newly created NTFS partition Now you ve got a place to keep your stuff apart from Windows Increasing size of a system
29. installation has been completed to fix this issue Available operation scenarios e Creating Dual Boot Systems Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 49 Moving Resizing Partition The Move Resize Partition function allows you to resize or change location of any partition without destroying its data In order to move resize a partition you should take the following steps 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Move Resize Partition ale There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 3 Define parameters of the operation y Are you sure you want to move resize system volume L Tou are about to moveresize NTFS volume No label C Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey E o Local Disk C e247 GE NTFS Volume size 230 114MB 19 261 MB 230 114 MB Free space before 0 Bytes O bytes 210 552 MB Free space after 0 Bytes a O bytes 270 852 MB Sector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that don t contain any data This allows you to keep the partition s content after move exactly as it was but will require more time Volume size Define size in Mb of the modified partition e Free space before Define the partition position in Mb relative to the beginni
30. of an adjacent partition ccccccecsccsescceeeseceecsceneseeeeeeeens 82 Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused Space from ANY OTHE cccccceeeccceeeseceeeceeeececeeeceseuecseeeseeeneeeeens 83 Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space of an adjacent logical partition ccceecsceeesseeseseeeeeeeeees 87 SC Dal alin OS TOM GC lal Cla Ulex gies toes paca a aces sac ates oe ceeds ee eee tea ee ees 88 Merging a system partition with an adjacent logical Partition cccccccsseccccsssecccesececceecccsesecessesececeeneceeseneceesauecetsuneses 91 Shrinking a system partition to increase size of a data partition cceccccsssecccessececcesecceeeesececeuececeueeceeeeeeecesseaecessuneceesenes 92 RESIZING partons ADDIG BOOL Cai D peceditncr seat cceten ca tefeve a a Mehl ote lintabet iallia din lhtioet lee arekntabt ded 95 Creating Dual Boot Systems ivssinsieeseeceteecscecuttenveceniiwscnesievewdseavenneuicaseueenlenisieddesaveseniecieskceiawdesteveaiedeuiedseiass 97 WIndows Vista VWIMGOWS AP oerein ie EA E AE E E E A N T ER E A 97 WiINGOWS XP EWINGOWS VASCaiatcccscesastwitere ales E E R E N 102 TFOUDICSMOOLCN oaro E 104 GIOSSANY eico T E E es seanoendesstesusacutestaveiesss 105 Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved Introduction Paragon Partition Manager 14 Home is an integrated set of powerful tools that is specially designed to tackle most of the pr
31. organized Microsoft provides how to guides to tackle this type of problems but they demand a great deal of experience from the user involving the use of the cmd diskpart and bcdedit tools Paragon has a better way Introducing an elegant technology realized at the user side as one simple option you can define a system GPT volume you re willing to boot from Below is a list of wizards where the uEFI switch boot device option can be found e Restore Wizard e Boot Corrector Apple Boot Camp Boot Camp is a special utility to help you set up a dual boot system Mac OS X and 32 bit Windows XP Vista on Intel based Macs It enables to securely re partition your hard disk resize an existing HFS partition to create a separate partition for Windows and then launch the installation process With Boot Camp all the necessary drivers will be at your disposal Moreover after Windows has been installed it will serve as a boot manager to choose what operating system to start up It is strongly recommended not to modify the hard disk configuration with Windows Disk Manager Otherwise it may lead to unexpected consequences right up to BSOD and 1 inability to boot in Windows XP Vista Please use our program to correctly update both MBR and GPT 64 bit Support The bulk of software today is written for a 32 bit processor It can meet the requirements of almost any end user However that is not the case when dealing with servers processing la
32. page to correct drive letters in the Windows System Registry Correct Windows installations Program has searched for valid Windows installations on your computer The results of the search you can see below Status 5 refers to a system partition you can edit the Boot ini file B a boot partition you can correct the System Registry N Partition Status Root System 1 ODiskO PartitionO S 6 WINDOWS WinXP For the highlighted Windows installation please point out the operation to perform Properties Correct drive letters in the System Registry Edit the Boot ini file Correct partition boot record Adjust OS to boot on new hardware To continue click Next 8 On the next page choose a hard disk from the pull down list if several then the required partition If you re not sure which installation you need please use the Properties button to get more info on the selected item Partitions List Letters Map Below you can choose a hard disk drive and see all partitions on tt Information about drive letters assigned to these partitions is taken from the System Registry of the Windows installation selected Basic Hard Disk 0 500 GB YMware Virtual Type Actve FileSystem Volume label Size Drive letters Primary Yes System Rese 350 MB lt None gt Primary No NTFS No label 478 GB C Primary No Free 21 9 GB lt None gt Properties Edit letters Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights
33. purpose the user is allowed to extend only one at the moment by using a corresponding arrow button Context sensitive Menu The Context sensitive Menu shows a list of operations available for an object disk partition or block of free space selected either on the Disk Map or the Disk and Partitions List If you click a corresponding record the appropriate wizard or dialog will be started All default values for the operation parameters will correspond to the object s settings If there too many items on the list type in the first word of the required command in the Search commands field to filter the list Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 22 Back Up Partition Burn Partition on COL DVD or BD Copy Partition Restore Partition Format Partition Delete Partition Move Aesize Partition Convert File Syster Defragment Partition Defragment MFT Compact MFT Change Volume Label Hide Partition Mark Partition as Active Properties Panel The Properties Panel provides information on the object disk partition or block of free space selected either on the Disk Map or the Disk and Partitions List Local Disk C Yolume letter C VYolume label Ho label Type Primary File system NTFS Root entries 16 Sectors per boot 3 Sectors per cluster 8 Seral number S48E 4601 cE46 9R1E Partition ID OU NTFS ExFAT ReFS HTFS version 3 01 Volume size 499 6 GB Partiti
34. reserved 70 9 Click the Edit Letters button to correct an existing drive letter or assign a new one in the Windows System Registry Partitions List Letters Map Below you can choose a hard disk drive and see all partitions on tt Information about drive letters assigned to these partitions is taken from the System Registry of the Windows installation selected Basic Hard DiskO N Type Actiwe riwe letters 0 Primary Yes None gt 1 Primary No Lettera 2 Primary No E E Change None gt Release Arle Properties Edit letters 10 Once you ve assigned the appropriate drive letter close the dialog then click the Apply button 11 Confirm the operation A 3 pending operations Apply changes Yes No Details 12 After the operation is completed click the Report button to see a well informative summary page The program also enables to store the resulted report To do that just press the Save button and choose the exact location in the opened dialog en Reporting To view the Operations performed Operation 1 Correct partition boot record Partition targeted Hard disk 0 Partition 0 Status Successful Date and Time 2013 Oct 10 Thd 15 27 52 four computer he program Operation 2 Change drive letters Partition targeted Hard d
35. safety First it negatively affects the system huge amount of data aggravated by its inevitable excessive fragmentation causes poor performance in file search access and read write operations Second it s inconvenient for the user system files and folders piled up with media and documents besides obvious difficulties in transparent organization become a naughty problem in case of a system malfunction Split Partition Wizard can help you detach the operating system and data or different types of data by splitting one partition to two different partitions of the same type and file system you just select a partition then files and folders you d like to move to the new partition finally redistribute free space between the two partitions if necessary and here you are Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 89 Before you start please take into account the cases when the split operation is impossible to perform e Partition s type is not supported you have selected a non standard primary or logical partition e The selected partition is located on a dynamic disk e You ve already got 4 primary partitions on a Basic MBR disk e You ve already got 3 primary partitions on a Hybrid Retained GPT MBR disk e There s not enough free space on the selected partition free up to 50 MB e The selected partition has an unsupported file system currently only NTFS and FAT file systems are available for splitting
36. that will be taken into account when converting FAT and NTFS file systems By default the program takes locale regional settings from the system Problems might occur however because of different standards for file names and file time stamps Created Modified and Last Access Time of NTFS and FATxx file systems To tackle problems of that kind you can manually set e Time zone to use during the convert operation NTFS keeps file timestamps in GMT Greenwich Mean Time while FAT uses a fixed local date and time The program takes proper account of these differences and enables to adjust timestamp values Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 28 1 An incorrectly chosen time zone might lead to inability to launch certain software e Language for file names to use during the convert operation NTFS stores file names in Unicode while FAT FAT32 uses ANSI to save short file names also called the DOS aliases The codepage information is required for the correct conversion of non English file names from Unicode to ANSI and vice versa 1 An incorrectly chosen codepage will certainly result in corruption of non English file names e Request confirmation of settings before NTFS lt gt FAT FAT32 conversion Mark the checkbox to automatically display the local settings dialog to check and modify if necessary the default parameters before launching the convert file system operation Log Files Options
37. the appropriate button to agree 10 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see that you have the merged volume now Shrinking a system partition to increase size of a data partition Let s assume you ve got two partitions on your hard disk the first one takes about 40 of all the disk space and is exclusively used for Vista 64 bit while the second servers as a data storage One day you realize that your system partition doesn t need so much disk space that s what your data partition really requires at the moment You can easily tackle this problem with Paragon Linux DOS recovery environment To increase size of a data partition by taking unused space from a system partition please do the following 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 93 Please use Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder to prepare Paragon s recovery environments on CD DVD flash or in an ISO image You can get these utilities here www paragon software com my accou nt To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Inthe boot menu select Normal Mode to use the Linux recovery environment more preferable or Safe Mod
38. the current file system for consistency and then verifies whether the on partition data meet the requirements of the desired file system or not After having passed the testing the program re organizes the file system metadata and user files The program enables to convert the following file system types FAT16 32 lt gt NTFS NTFS lt gt HFS In order to convert a file system you should take the following steps 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Convert file system There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 3 Initially the program suggests some consistent values for all parameters In most cases you can just press the Convert button to confirm the operation Gar Are you sure you want To convert system volume C You are about to convert file system on volume C No label NTFS our computer may no longer boot or work correctly Please select new file system FAT se Select new cluster size ree Come J oe e New file system From the pull down list choose a file system you would like to convert to Actually the program only displays variants available for the operation taking into account the current parameters of the selected partition and limitations of the used file system Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH A
39. the hard disk you have selected The wizard can only expand the volume C at the espence of some other volumes Please click the check box next to any volume to take free space from tt e Partition size By default the program leaves 50 of the unused space on a partition and removes another 50 to add it to the target partition However the size to take can be customized by moving the slider or by manually entering the exact value four disk after the changes Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey Local Disk C i ey 13 5 GB NT Select new size 370 818 MB 230 114 MB 511 522 66 MB Co Curent volume size 362 1 GB The volume size has been increased on 137 4 GB Result After the operation is completed free space of the specified partition will be increased by up taking the on disk unallocated space and the unused space of other partitions Undeleting Partitions When simply deleting a partition without additional wiping disk management software only removes references to it in the Partition Table thus leaving the possibility to recover it later The program enables to find and recover these partitions A restored partition will be fully functional as long as other partitions were not created moved or exceeded the disk space occupied by that partition That is why the program offers this function only for blocks of free space The operation can be accomplished with the Und
40. the wizard First Start To start Paragon Partition Manager 14 under Windows please click the Windows Start button and then select Programs gt Paragon Partition Manager 14 gt Paragon Partition Manager The program provides wide opportunities in the field of hard disk structure modification so 1 just to be on the safe side please make a backup of your data before carrying out any operation The first component that will be displayed is called the Express Launcher Thanks to a well thought out categorization and hint system it provides quick and easy access to wizards and utilities that we consider worth using on a regular basis With its help you can also start up the traditional launcher the help system or go to the program s home page oF Paragon Partition Manager 14 Home Paragon Partition Manager mu ead Resize Partition Backup Install New OS NHTFS HFES Convener Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 12 Oo To know more on how to handle the product s interface and accomplish typical operations please consult the Windows Components chapter Building Recovery Media Linux based recovery environments should be prepared on site with Paragon s Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder which you can download from Paragon s web site the My Account section www paragon software com my account To know more on the subject please consult documentation that comes wi
41. will make OS non bootable what is quite normal 9 Apply all introduced changes By default our program works in the virtual mode of execution so you have to confirm all operations to let the program accomplish them To do that just click the Apply button on the Virtual Operations Bar 10 The program will require the system restart to accomplish the operation in a special boot up mode Click the appropriate button to agree After all the operations are completed you will not be able to restart the system what is quite normal Nevertheless if you do try it the following error will occur fem Error ee process terminated unexpectedly with a sta P m u CFI g nar S Tom P k Tall a I L Id EE L a tat OL L Wl if L A a 11 Install Windows XP on the newly created partition We won t go into details as for its installation as you can find all the necessary information in documentation that comes with the product However to avoid any problems we consider it necessary to draw your attention on the following issues You need a bootable distributive CD of Windows XP to install it To automatically start your computer from this CD make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD first or press F12 during startup to select a bootable device Do not forget to select the newly created partition as destination lowe AP Professiona ollowing s ed 5 Ei iT UP and DOWR AHHU keys to zt an item in the set up Windows AFP
42. 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 37 Wizard Startup e Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Format Partition There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Dialog Startup 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Format Partition Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Wizard Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Partition to format Select a hard disk if the computer has several hard disks and then the required partition to format On this page you can choose a volume vou would like to format Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey I i o Local Disk C E o data Z 256 1 GE NTFS 243 5 GE NTFS Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 WHware YMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey l i 7 Unallocated 113 8 GB Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev E o Local Disk 749 9 GB NTFS M 1 As a result of this operation contents of the selected partition will be lost e Partition properties On the next page of the wizard you can set the following partition parameters Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 38 Your hard disk afte
43. As a result of this operation contents of the selected partition will be lost e Merge free blocks As a result of the operation you may get several blocks of the unallocated space on the hard disk So choose whether to merge them all and place at the beginning of the disk or at the end by selecting the required operation from the pull down list Merge free blocks options Do not merge free blocks N r Merge free blocks at the end of the disk Do not merge tree blocks T Merge free blocks at the beginning of the disk Dialog Setup Initially the program suggests you just to remove references to the selected partition from the Partition Table lt i Are you sure you want to delete volume F You are about to delete volume F Local Disk NTFS four computer may na longer boot or work correctly e Enter the volume label to confirm deleting To confirm deletion of the selected partition enter its Volume Label The current volume label is displayed above e Donot ask volume label next time Mark the option to inhibit confirmation next time you start the dialog Result By default the operation takes only a fraction of a second However the program waits until Windows completes the modification of the disk layout Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 41 Advanced Partitioning Operations Here you can learn how to accomplish advanced partitioning operations Merging Partitions The
44. Cd Program Files x86 3 ProgramData 9 System Volume Information 3 Users 3 Windows Rename FG New folder FT Delete F8 File name Img DO pbt Save File type Archive files pbf Cancel lt Back Next gt Cancel 10 Edit the archive name if necessary Backup destination Archive name HDD1 Parntoi Img_O_1 pbf Space available on destination 490 GB Approximate archive size 52 8 GB Please take into account values of the parameters Estimated archive size and Space i available on backup destination if the archive size exceeds the available space another drive needs to be selected 11 Add comments to your backup describing its contents Archive text comment Please enter backup comments to describe the archive Archive Img_O_1 pbf created 2013 10 10 05 23 24 12 On the Backup Summary page review all parameters of the operation and modify them if necessary Click the Next button to start the backup process Oo This operation can also be accomplished under Windows Recovery Scenarios Fixing Windows startup ability Let s assume that due to an unknown reason your Windows fails to complete the startup procedure At first everything seems quite OK you can see the standard startup messages on the screen but at some moment it hangs up Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 68 To fix your Windows startup ability please do the following 1 Start up the comp
45. GmbH All rights reserved 56 Available operation scenarios e Restoring separate files and folders from a backup The current version of the program does not enable to access pVHD images and file archives with Volume Explorer Mount Partition The program enables to assign or remove drive letters of existing formatted partitions Assign Drive Letter In order to mount a partition you should take the following steps 1 Selecta partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Assign Drive Letter Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 3 Specify a drive letter for the selected partition Initially the program suggests some consistent value for this parameter So you may just press the Yes button to confirm the operation Car Assign a drive letter This allows access to the volume by using the drive letter assigned The assignment Is Mok recommended if the volume contains a file system not supported by your operating system Assign the following drive letter Kz However you can manually define the required letter by selecting it from the pull down list of available drive letters 4 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Remove Drive Letter In order to un mount a partition you should take the following steps 1 Selecta partition on the Dis
46. ISOFTWARE GROUP G PARAGON Software GmbH 5 karacon Pa racon Heinrich von Stephan Str 5c 79100 Freiburg Germany Tel 49 0 761 59018201 Fax 49 0 761 59018130 Internet www paragon software com Email sales paragon software com Partition Manager 14 Home User Manual Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved Contents PIV EBOGUCKION p RANE E E A E E A E O E E E E 5 What s New in Partition Manager 14 sesessesessecessecessececescecosoecescesesoecesoesesoecesosceseececeecesesoecesoesssoesssoesesseo 5 Product COMPONENTS arrere E A E E EE T A EE E 6 OAL OS OV ClO W searen rirse E EEN N E EE E EEO 6 FESTUTOS sissstaencaccesnsescsastewsncvsaaassedasnesuseanevensussvesscisdnaienelataeducsenemensnatensacnaaeasastaeaesncusanssnsatenediaianalencdesnerecsuaenenens 6 User Friendly Fault Minimizing ah ais el lt n eee eet tno AEN 6 PCD ere 61 1 c ae teat ae em an nm E 6 REOR 2 101 2 ee E Re ane ec eet ore ee ee ere eee etre 7 BOOU Management FC iG S ais acce cassis case rs cacssaanectessarcieseaasnacuesneateastananssuee nacunn cane seri uoeiescetoannuessevsnstaaenceesoany uGsseneosedneceastinienoeeaner 7 Partition Hard Disk Management FaACiItleS sixesssesccxssncttsaceacncunnseasuesesedaxenneetisamuanoeeyansadysesuncaunaenra E 7 PIAA FCM E EEE E EEIE A E E AE PE aloasiceecaies AE E E EE EE AEE E E E EE 8 Supported VECO ONS cio voices oan ote csc sce Sere anisi niser i a e ieis 8 Supported
47. Mark the checkbox to copy a partition in the sector by sector mode to successfully process unknown file systems However it is not recommended to enable this option when working with supported file systems as it takes more time to accomplish the operation e Skip OS auxiliary files Mark the checkbox to skip OS auxiliary files like pagefile sys hiberfil sys etc thus reducing the operation time and the resulted size of the backup image e Automatic BCD Update Unmark the checkbox to suppress automatic update of BCD Boot Configuration Data after copy restore operations Hot Processing Options A Hot processing options W Enable hot processing Hot processing technology Microsott Volume Shadow Copy Service Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service is a reliable technology designed to back up volumes being locked by numerous active transactions of W55 supporting applications Microsoft 55 technology requires over 300 ME of free space on any mounted NTFS volume for temporary data This technology is provided for Windows SF and newest Windows versions but unavailable for old versions of Windows 98 ME AT 72000 Additional options f Always use hot processing f Use hot processing only when partition is locked Hot processing temporary drive C Number of attempts to start W55 3 Timeout between attempts in seconda 120 Change run during backup options In this section you may configure the hot processin
48. Merge Partitions Wizard enables to consolidate the disk space which originally belongs to two adjacent partitions or additionally separated by free blocks into a single larger partition The order in which two partitions have been chosen is important since all contents of the second selected partition will be placed in a folder on the resulted joined partition The program provides the ability to merge only NTFS FAT16 or FAT32 partitions Startup e Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Merge Partitions There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Adjacent partitions to merge Click on the left partition of the pair of partitions you need to merge as the right one will be selected automatically During the operation all contents of the right partition will be placed ina folder on the resulted joined partition By default the program offers an easy to understand folder name which can be customized however Please note that itis possible to select only FAT FAT S2 of NTFS adjacent partitions or FAT FATS of NTFS partitions separated from each other by free block ou will not be able to proceed further if no pair of partitions of these types are presented on the disk Select left partition from a pair you would like to merge Aight partition will be selecte
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50. On the Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 7 On the What to Restore page click the standard browse button to find the required archive When done double click on it to select Look in arc_091013131559760 B 3 arc_101013062156703 htt arc_091013131559760 pbf File name arc_091013131559760 pbf File type Archive files pbf Help Fl Back Hazi Cancel 8 On the Image Properties page make sure that you select the correct image by viewing the provided information about the archive Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 72 Disk preview Volume Type File System Sze Used Volumelabel Basic Hard Disk3 Size 120 GB 7 Primary NTFS 14 3 GBE 164MB New Volume ia Primary NTFS 8 4 GB 8 5 MB New Volume Archive details Type image of the hard disk Archive path imntdisk sdb2 Img_D3 pbf Created 2013 Oct 10 Thd 04 49 39 To continue restore process click Next 9 On the next page specify a hard disk to restore the image to Basic Hard Disk 2 VMware Virtual 750 GB Basic Hard Disk 3 VMware Virtual 120 GB Basic Hard Disk3 Mi Model Vivhware Virtual Size 120 GB N Volume Type File System Size Volume label Active Hidden D Primary NTFS 1443 GB WNewVolume Wo No 1 Primary NTFS 8 4 GB New Volume Wo No 2 Primary Free 37 3 GB No No 1 All contents on disk selected for restoring purposes will be deleted during the o
51. Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 55 SAE i Drives oS AY E C CO De Ez POOL SE Hard Disks GEE 1 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Device 500 GB RT Primary NTFS 350 MB 2 Primary NTFS C 499 6 GB ngm Recycle Bin 9 3 2073 1 45 11 PM H E Documents and Settings of ee 6 45 52 oh wE PerfLogs Braer a 222355 AM E Frogram Files 10 22 2073 4 01 15 AFl H E Program Files 86 9 3 2073 1 54 48 PM os ee a 10 22 2013 7 00 32 AM E System Volume Information Export 10 22 2073 4 00 53 AM H Users Refresh 9 3 2013 1 48 22 PM ee m 9 3 2073 9 43 00 4M bootmgr 417 6 KB 8 21 2013 9 31 45 PM s BOOT NT 1 Bytes 6 18 2013 4 18 29 AM B pagefile sys 1 1 G86 10 24 2013 3 37 45 AM awapfile sys 256 MB 10 22 2013 3 37 46 4M d E A 2 VMware YMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Device 500 GB a E 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Device 750 GB GE 4 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Device 120 GB AR virtual Drives Call a context menu for the selected file folder by the right mouse click to export it to some other location local or network drive etc E LocaDikic A g Address ON Disk Drives E PefLogs 8 22 2013 12 50 47 AM Ej H i Program Files 10 14 2013 10 48 56 PM ie Users 9 3 2013 3 24 45 PM Re Windows 9 3 2013 10 55 03 AM e 5 Dvo Drive D H NEW VOLUME E fl New Volume F Network Places Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software
52. S recovery media Please use Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder to prepare Paragon s recovery environments on CD DVD flash or in an ISO image You can get these utilities here i www paragon software com my account To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 3 Inthe boot menu select Normal Mode to use the Linux recovery environment more preferable or Safe Mode to use the PTS DOS recovery environment in case you ve got problems with Linux Moreover you ve got the option to boot into the Low Graphics Safe Mode PTS DOS safe mode to cope with a serious hardware incompatibility In this case only the minimal set of drivers will be included like hard disk monitor and keyboard drivers This mode has simple graphics and a simple menu By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period 4 Inthe Linux launch menu select the File Transfer Wizard You can find the same wizard in PTS DOS as well 5 On the Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 6 Select a disk where the files you need are stored from the pull down list in the right pane of the page Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 74 Source CC Ext4FS 1 on Disk 1 NEW VOLUME rg My computer 2 Ka Root dir wi iMyComputer My computer ft imnt Mounted resources wi imntdisk Local disks
53. TFS ia S ee Ease biexo Model VMware Virtual IDE Hani Drive Size 250Gb VMware Wirual IDE Hard Drive Size 250 Gb IN Volume Type File System Size Used F reve Volume Labe Basic Disk 0 Size 250 Gb 0 D Primary NTFS 200 Gb 1 7 Gb 199 Gb Vista l D Primary FAT 32 49 7 Gb 24 4 Mb 49 6 6b Mo label 4 Unhide the partition by calling the context menu for it right click of the mouse button and then selecting Unhide Create an image of partition Burm an image of paniten ia CODY ype Restore parition from image AltR rie Copy partion Alte Tin 199 Gb Vista Fin 49 6 Gb Mo label L Pe AA Alr P Format Delete mej achive Wipe partition Clear free space Convert label Resize MMove Linnea writ Change cluster size Modify A ng m l size hange boot sire Retest surface 5 Only for the Windows XP Windows Vista scenario you need to make the system partition active as well by calling the context menu for it right click of the mouse button and then selecting Set Active Create an image of partition Bum an image of partion ta LOD DVD AS Pell Il Restore partition from image AHR Copy partition AR T 18Gb 12Gb 5 4 Mb 370 Gb F t TS E Linhide Delete Wipe partition Clear iee space Convert Set label Resize Mowe Umowny Change cluster sire 6 You will be notified
54. This option is recommended for advanced users only Oo You ve got the option to modify the default backup settings by marking the appropriate checkbox on this page Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 64 4 Specify location of the resulted pVHD in the Backup destination section If you d like to save it locally either enter a full path to the target folder in the corresponding field or use the Browse button to find it Backup destination Backup location C AUsers Administrator s Desktop J Available space 10 GB If you re going to save the backup image on a network share or a physical partition a partition that doesn t have a drive letter in the system click on the Browse button In the opened dialog you can see several options Look in Local Disk C me amp g Address CMU sere Wdministrator Desktop h a Disk Drives pane Hells pees H Pi archive_db TU 444013 AUT Tb AM 2 l Ji PerfLogs Drar 201a 0 22 55 AM k 2 Ji Program Files 10 22 2013 5 01 15 AM Partitions H a Program Files 86 9 3 2013 2 54 46 PM ad Users 9 3 2013 2 48 22 PM di Administrator 1072972013 6 36 23 AM di kechmviewer 10 23 2013 7 12 13 AM di Contacts 9 3 2013 2 46 42 PM p Desktop 107 2972013 6 45 32 AM di Documents 9 3 2013 2 48 42 PM di Downoad 9 3 2013 2 46 42 PM di Favorites 9 3 2013 2 46 42 PM n Ei iaa DNT TAD AT Dh Select
55. ansfer Wizard Boot Corrector DiskO 0 GB Password Cleaner B o e Type ee Volume lak Primary Network Configurator 33 1 MBE System Ri Primary Install Windows OS utility 39GB No label 6 On the Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 7 On the What to back up page select your Mac hard disk Basic Hard Disk 0 Mi Model VMware Virtual Size 500 GB N Volume Type File System Size Used Free Volumelabel Active Hidden Basic Hard Disk 0 Size 500 GB h 0 Primary NTFS 350 MB 257 MB 93 1 MBE System Resen Yes Yes 1 Primary NTFS 500 GB 60 5 GE 439 GB No label No No 8 On the Backup Destination page select the Save data to any local drive or a network share option Please select how would you like to save the archive Save data to any local drives or a network share Choose this option if you want to save your data to local mounted or physical partition to USB or FireWare external drives and to a mounted network share You will be prompted to choose a location you want to save the archive to Burn data to CD DVDIBD Choose this option f you want the Wizard to burn the archive to CD DVD BD You will be prompted to choose a drive 9 Select an external USB drive as a backup destination Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 67 Look in NTFS 0 on Disk 1 UFSD disk arc_091013125156058 3 Documents and Settings C PerlLogs C Program Files
56. asic Hard Disk 0 VMware Virtual 500 GB E NTFS Back Up Partition Burn Partition on CD DVD BD Restore Partition Basic Hard Disk 1 Vv NTFS New Volu Copy Partition Copy Partition by Files Format Partition Delete Partition Basic Hard Disk 2 Convert File 43 Unmount Wipe Partition Basic Hard Disk 0 e 500 GB Clear Free Space l i E l N Volume Type Free volume label Active Hidden i z Basic Hard DiskO S Modify oO Prima 93 1 MBE System Resen No Mo 1 E Primar Check File System Integrity 3 219GB No label No No 2 Prima Dump File System 212 GB BC Yes Yes Test Surface Edit View Sectors Fa Ctrl F4 Alt Enter Browse Partition Properties 6 Inthe opened dialog set a new size for the partition by moving the slider or by entering the exact value in the appropriate field While doing this free space from the partition will be released displayed in aqua green Click OK to continue Partition preview E NTFS New size 62815 287034 MB J 168463 e MB Free space before 0 224719 MIB U 10 Me Free space after 0 224219 MB E p 118570 le MB 7 Now you ve got a block of free space to add to your data partition Basic Hard Dis
57. can be customized however Please note that itis possible to select only FAT FAT S2 of NTFS adjacent partitions or FAT FATS of NTFS partitions separated from each other by free block ou will not be able to proceed further if no pair of partitions of these types are presented on the disk Select left partition from a pair you would like to merge Aight partition will be selected automatically Please note that content of right partition will be placed within a folder placed in a root of left partition ou can specity this folder name in a field below Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey E System E Data E K Utils G 2 1 GE NTFS 26GB NTFS 3 2 GE NTFS Specity a folder name to keep content of right partition Folder Hame merged_partition_content To review the changes click Next 1 If a system partition is the right one of the selected pair Windows OS will become unbootable after the merge operation is over 7 Review the changes and complete the wizard 8 Apply all introduced changes By default our program works in the virtual mode of execution so you have to confirm all operations to let the program accomplish them To do that just click the Apply button on the Virtual Operations Bar 9 If you ve got to do with the system partition resize like we do in our case you will be asked to restart your computer in a special boot up mode to accomplish the operation So click
58. ce that is lost and the amount of fragmentation on the volume A cluster is also called an allocation unit Extended Partition is a partition type you create only on a basic MBR Master Boot Record disk Extended partition is used if you want to create more than four volumes on a disk since it may contain multiple logical drives File System Metadata The servicing structures of a file system which contain information about allocating files and directories security information etc are named the file system metadata It is invisible for users and regular applications because its accidental modification usually makes a partition unusable Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 106 Hard Disk Geometry Traditionally the usable space of a hard disk is logically divided into cylinders cylinders are divided into tracks or heads and tracks are divided into sectors The triad of values Sectors per Track Tracks per Cylinder Amount of Cylinders is usually named the Hard Disk Geometry or C H S geometry Tracks and cylinders are enumerated from 0 while sectors are enumerated from 1 These disk parameters play an essential role in the DOS Partitioning scheme Modern hardware uses an advanced scheme for the linear addressing of sectors which assumes that all on disk sectors are continuously enumerated from 0 To allow backward compatibility with older standards modern hard disks can additionally emu
59. ck the Apply button on the Virtual Operations Bar 13 The program will require the system restart to accomplish the operation in a special boot up mode Click the appropriate button to agree Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space of an adjacent logical partition Let s assume you ve got several partitions on your hard disk After installing a number of resource consuming applications and system updates your system partition has started to suffer from the lack of free space But an adjacent logical partition has a plenty of redundant space That s just enough to make your system partition suffer no more To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from an adjacent partition please do the following 1 Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Redistribute Free Space oO There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Select a volume you want to expand i e the system one Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 88 Choose a volume to expand Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk C E O New p Ne 280 3 GE NTFS 117 3 GB TONNE Co Capacity of the volume Cz it 280 3 GB The wizard can expand this volume up to 499 6 GB at the expence of other volumes
60. d automatically Please note that content of right partition will be placed within a folder placed in a root of left partition ou can specify this folder name in a field below Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey E o System 7 o Data E i p Utils G 2 1 GB NTFS 2 6 GB NTFS 3 2 GB NTFS Specity a folder name to keep content of right partition Folder Hame merged_pattition_content To review the changes click Next 1 If a system partition is the right one of the selected pair Windows OS will become unbootable after the merge operation is over Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 42 Result After the operation is completed the disk space of the two adjacent partitions will be consolidated Redistributing Unused Space between Partitions Express Resize Partitions Wizard The Express Resize Partitions Wizard enables to easily increase free space on one partition by up taking the unused space of an adjacent partition of your hard disk Startup e Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Express Resize Partitions D There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Adjacent partitions to resize Click on the left partition of the pair of partitions you need to redistribute the unused
61. e to use the PTS DOS recovery environment in case you ve got problems with Linux Moreover you ve got the option to boot into the Low Graphics Safe Mode PTS DOS safe mode to cope with a serious hardware incompatibility In this case only the minimal set of drivers will be included like hard disk monitor and keyboard drivers This mode has simple graphics and a simple menu By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period 3 Inthe Linux launch menu select Partition Manager You can find it in PTS DOS as well 4 Inthe main window select the required hard disk if several on the Disk Map Hard Disk Partition Wizards Help Basic Hard Disk O VMware Virtual 500 GB i Ea Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware Virtual 500 GB Basic Hard Disk 2 VMware Virtual 750 GB sea Basic GPT Hard Disk 3 VMware Virtual 120 GB Basic Hard Disk 1 Model VMware Virtual Size 500 GB N Volume Type File System Size Used Free Volume label Active Basic Hard Disk 1 Size 500 GB oo Primary Free 500 GB No 5 Choose your system partition and then call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 94 B
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63. ease enter new volume label New Volume Please specify drive letter H T w More options e Define whether the partition will be Primary Extended or Logical You can choose the desired partition type from the pull down list As a matter of fact the available alternatives fundamentally depend on the selected block of free space within the Logical free space only Logical partitions can be created Within the Primary free space both Primary partitions or the Extended Partition can be created e Partition Size Define the size in Mb of the new partition e Free space before Define the position in Mb of the new partition relative to the beginning of the block of free space e Free space after Define the amount of trailing free space in Mb at the end of the new partition Partition size and position may also be defined by using the drag and drop technique To do that just carry out the required operation on the Disk Map The virtual operations are to be available e File system for new partition From the pull down list select a file system the newly created partition will be formatted to otherwise the partition will remain unformatted so that it will not be ready to use Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 36 e Volume label Enter a label for the selected partition in this textual field It is an irrelevant parameter usually used for drive identification e Drive letter assignment
64. ected partitions Selected part of Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware irtual 5 SCSI Dis E o Hew Yolume F E 259 3 GE NTFS Left volume size Right volume size 246381 MB H ME H ME 2 MB On the next page of the wizard you need to confirm the operation by selecting the appropriate option 6 That s basically it By clicking the Next button the wizard will start modifying your disk layout If you ve got to do with the system partition resize like we do in our case you will be asked to restart your computer in a special boot up mode to accomplish the operation So click the appropriate button to agree 7 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see that your system partition is bigger now Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 97 Creating Dual Boot Systems Windows Vista Windows XP Most likely you have only one hard disk with only one partition the only partition is always system To install the second operating system you need to repartition your drive first as it requires a separate primary partition Install New OS Wizard This scenario implies that operating systems will be installed on different partitions to provide better security and system independence 1 Click the Partition
65. elete Partition Wizard Startup e Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Undelete Partitions There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 45 Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the undelete partition operation e Free blocks to scan for lost partitions Choose a free block from a tree like list of available hard disks Click the check bos nest to any hard disk drive or free Block you want to esamine Name Type My Computer My Computer e ta Basic MBA Hard Disk 4 VMware VMware Virtual 5S SCS Disk Dev Internal Hard O i Been Free space The summary size of fragmentis to analyze is 7 9 GB e Search method By default the wizard selects the fastest search method for your operating system In most cases that will do to find any accidentally deleted partition However if you re under Windows XP for instance the Conventional Search option is selected but the deleted partition you re looking for has been created with the Disk Management utility under Vista the wizard won t be able to find this partition unless you manually select the appropriate option Quick Search for Partitions Created by Vista or Later OS Moreover if the wizard still fails to find the partition you need you can select the Thorough Search option to scan every s
66. ended or logical In case of backing up an entire disk you ve got the possibility to include into the image such disk elements as the Master Boot Record MBR and the first track of the hard disk This can be very helpful for serious disk recovery procedures Name Type Fl F EI My Computer hy Computer E Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Internal Hard Disk Drive 2 E First Hard Disk Track First Track 2 fn SiMaster Boot Record MBA E System Reserved Primary N be Local Disk C Primary N E Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual 5S SCS Disk Dey Internal Hard Disk Drive 2 First Hard Disk Track First Track ibe E SiMaster Boot Record MBA e Name and location of the resulted image Provide a file name for the new image and its exact location The program automatically offers an easy to understand name containing the date and the time of the archive creation which can anyway be modified Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 30 Select a folder where archive should be placed and specify archive name Archive name will be used as a sub folder where backup data files will be stored Archive location Esarctesty OOO al x F Mame Size Date Ef My Computer fa E Local Disk C New Yolume E F NEW VOLUME F l H RecovenMedia G F E Network Archive details Archive name Jarc _tesi Estimated archive size 2 HB S
67. ensitive Menu CO N ODO UW A WW N F amp F Properties Panel Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 19 9 Status Bar A number of panels offer similar functionality with a synchronized layout The program enables to conceal some of them to simplify the interface management Tool Button By clicking on this button the user can e Launch auxiliary wizards e Get access to the program settings e Collect and send a log files package to the Support Team e Goto Paragon s website to download a free update register the product visit Paragon s Knowledge Base etc Ribbon Panel An area across the top of the program s window is called the Ribbon Panel It makes almost all the product capabilities available to the user in a single place A Ribbon Tab is an area on the panel that contains buttons organized in groups by functionality Each button corresponds to a certain program wizard or dialog Oo If you d like to hide all ribbon tabs click on the arrow button at the right top corner of the program window Virtual Operations Bar The program supports previewing the resulting layout of hard disks before actually executing operations so called virtual mode of execution In fact when the virtual mode is enabled the program does not accomplish operations immediately but places them on the List of Pending Operations for later execution The Virtual Operations Bar enables to manage pending operat
68. er These two options will only be available once the wizard has been completed and launched again Select the Deactivate option to remove the Boot Manager from the MBR Master Boot Record or Configure to modify the previously set parameters of the startup process f Configure Choose this option to enter Settings page ou will be able to configure Booth anager appearances and Boot Menu options f Deactivate Choose this option to deactivate Booth anager This will remove Booth anager and restore boot process to its previous state Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 32 Result After the Boot Manager Setup Wizard is completed the program updates the original record in the MBR to get control of the booting process and to be able to display the boot menu Available operation scenarios e Creating Dual Boot Systems Partition Management In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to carry out partitioning operations supported by the program Basic Partitioning Operations Here you can learn how to accomplish basic partitioning operations create format delete Creating Partitions The program provides the ability to create a new partition within a block of un partitioned space Restrictions 1 Do not use the Create Partition function in order to undelete the last deleted partition 2 The program allows creating new partitions only within blocks of un partitioned space It canno
69. er which partition is selected The program enables to copy a partition only to a block of un partitioned space If you don t have a block of free space on your hard disk please delete or reduce an existing partition to accomplish the operation cannot do anything with my USB flash drive get a crossed circle sign when trying to select any area on it Some USB flash drives don t have the MBR Master Boot Record that s the cause of your problem To fix the issue please use the Update MBR function of our program or fixmbr of the Windows installation disc to write a standard code to your flash drive When trying to back up my system the program asks to restart the computer Most likely the Hot Processing mode is disabled Please make it active in the program settings When backing up a partition with the VSS Volume Shadow Copy Service mode the program throws VSS could not be started for processed volume Most likely you try to back up a FAT32 partition which is not supported by VSS Please use the Paragon Hot Processing mode instead cannot back up my hard disk to an external hard drive Once started the operation is aborted with the following error Hard Disk management Error Code 0x1100a What is wrong here The problem is that the Microsoft VSS service is set as the default Hot Processing mode in the program But this service has not been started in your WindowsXP Windows2003 Vista Please start this service right clic
70. eration is completed you receive a fully functional partition formatted to the specified file system Deleting Partitions Wizard Startup e Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Delete Partition There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Dialog Startup In order to start the operation you should take the following steps 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Create Delete Partition There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Wizard Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Partition to delete Select a hard disk if the computer has several hard disks and then the required partition to delete Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 40 On this page you can choose a volume you would like to delete Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey i Local Disk C Wi wsosae ures Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey i R Unallocated 115 8 GB Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey i o Local Disk 749 9 GB NTFS A Tou are about to destroy a partition All data on this partition will be lost 1
71. essage appears Insert distributive CD DVD and press any key to continue re ee abort the action Please wake sure your BIOS is set up to boot from CD DVD 8 Install Windows XP on the newly created partition We won t go into details as for its installation as you can find all the necessary information in documentation that comes with the product However to avoid any problems we consider it necessary to draw your attention on the following issues You need a bootable distributive CD of Windows XP to install it To automatically start your computer from this CD make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD first or press F12 during startup to select a bootable device Do not forget to select the newly created partition as destination Windows AP Professional Setup The Following list shows the existing partitions and unpArtirtioned space on this computer Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select an item in the list To set up Windows AF on the selected item press ENTER To create a partition in the unpartitioned space press C To delete the selected partition press D 238591 AB Disk at Id on bus on at i Fartitiontl Inactive t O08 2 Boot HanilSeehh AB 182419 AHR free Partitions LFAT32 ORS MB lt 49659 MB Free 9 So if everything is OK you ve got to have by this moment Windows XP successfully installed Your Windows Vista however is still non bootable To fix this issue you need to lau
72. g mode e Enable hot processing Mark the checkbox to enable the so called hot data processing mode that is specially designed to process data without restarting your operating system e Hot processing technology From the pull down list you can select the required hot processing technology e Always use hot processing Select the option to process partitions without making them locked Thus you will be able to keep working with them as usual e Use hot processing only when partition is locked Select the option to use the hot processing only when partitions are locked and cannot be processed without restarting the computer Please keep in mind that once you start any operation on a partition in this mode it will automatically be locked by the program thus you won t be able to keep working with it as usual e Hot processing temporary drive Here you can select a disk drive that will be used to store the temporary hot backup data by default C e Attempts to start VSS Here you can set how many attempts to start Microsoft VSS the program is to do before automatically rebooting the system and accomplishing the operation in a special boot up mode e Timeout between attempts in seconds Here you can set a time period between different attempts to start Microsoft VSS Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 26 e Switch between hot processing technologies Mark the checkbox to automatically switch between Pa
73. h our recovery media Backing up a dual boot Mac to an external USB drive To back up a dual boot Mac Mac OS X and Windows XP Vista 7 8 and then place the resulted image to an external USB drive please do the following 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Please use Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder to prepare Paragon s recovery environments on CD DVD flash or in an ISO image You can get these utilities here WWW pa ragon softwa re com my accou nt To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Connect an external USB drive to the computer 3 Restart the computer It will be automatically started up into the Linux recovery environment Normal Mode since it s the only mode that provides support for Mac computers 4 Inthe Linux launch menu select Partition Manager 5 Launch the Backup Wizard by selecting in the Main Menu of the program Wizards gt Backup Wizard Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 66 Partition Help Copy Hard Disk One Button Copy Wizard Restore Wizard Simple Backup Restore d Disko V 5 d Disk 1 V Backup to VD Wizard Incremental Backup to YD Wizard Restore from VD Wizard d Disk 2 V Undelete Partitions Wipe Wizard Express Resize Wizard Split Partition Wizard d Disk 3 Wh File Tr
74. hard disk and a partition you need to increase is surrounded by other partitions you ve got the choice to choose which partition will act as a space donor Just click on the left partition of the pair as the right one will be selected automatically 4 Increase size of the system partition with the slider or manually by entering the required value Please note when you change size of one partition the size of the other will be changed as well thus redistributing the unused space between the partitions Please specify new sizes of selected partitions Selected part of Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 Mware VMware irtual 5 SCSI Dis o Hew Yolume F 422 9 GE NTFS Lett volume size Right volume size eg46 MB ME k 5M A MB 5 On the next page of the wizard you need to confirm the operation by selecting the appropriate option 6 That s basically it By clicking the Next button the wizard will start modifying your disk layout If you ve got to do with the system partition resize like we do in our case you will be asked to restart your computer in a special boot up mode to accomplish the operation So click the appropriate button to agree 7 Inthe Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see that your system partition is bigger now Increasing size of a
75. hout reformatting e Mount a partition assign a drive letter of any file system type to make it available for your operating system e Modify file system parameters make active inactive hide unhide etc e Install New OS Wizard to make a system ready to install a new operating system e Undelete Partitions Wizard to recover an accidentally deleted partition Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved Auxiliary Facilities File Transfer Wizard to make such operations as transferring of files directories or burning of them to CD DVD as easy and convenient as possible Providing access to Paragon backups as regular folders it may also help to replace corrupted data from a previously created image in case of an operating system failure This feature is only available for the bootable recovery environment Volume Explorer is a handy tool when you have different file systems on the disk whether they contain an operating system or just data Volume Explorer will let you explore a file system of any type and provide access to the necessary files and directories regardless of their security attributes Network Configuration Wizard to establish a network connection on a bootable recovery media either to save a backup of a partition hard disk or just several files on a network computer or retrieve a previously made backup from a network computer for recovery purposes Boot Corrector to fix most of the system boot proble
76. ia Log files options Logs directory Browse Please select a folder name to place an engine log files stubact log etc White logs in Bluescreen Choose this option to allow engine operations logging when actions need to be restarted and continued in Bluescreen mode Stubact log file truncation Choose a storage lite span for the stubact log file Please note once the defined period has been expired the file will be ernptied f Infinite C Minimal f Custom 1 hours Clean now In this section you can set up the program logging engine e Logs directory to specify location of program log files By default all logs are placed to C Program Files Paragon Software product s name program e Write logs in Bluescreen to enable the program logging in a special boot up mode e Stubact log file truncation to specify a storage life span for the stubact log file Infinite not to empty the file ever Minimal to have the file emptied all the time Custom to set a certain storage life span for the file Please note once the defined period has been expired the file will be emptied Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 29 problems with the program our Support Team won t be able to study operation logs thus 1 We strongly recommend you not to choose the Minimal option as in case of having help you out Viewing Disk Properties The Disk Map and the Disk and Part
77. ile saem of the new partition Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Create new partition as Primary partition Please soecty new partition sine 245451 7 MB 345 451 MB Please spacy size of free space before the partition 0 al OMB 345 437 MB Please soecty size of free space after tha partion O a DME 369 403 ME Please select file system for new pattion NTFS Piaee2 enter new volume label Mew Volume Please specty drive letter F 3 Inthe opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the left by the drag and drop technique While doing this free space from the partition will be released displayed in aqua green You can also do it manually by entering the exact size of free space Click the Yes button to continue Are you sure you wart to move resize volume E You are about to move resize NTFS volume No label E Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Unallocated Local Disk E 3GB NTFS Volume size 274 790 519MB 101 MB 511 993 ME Free space before 0 97 ME tlw Obytes 511 891 43 MB Free space after 237 201 952 MB Giz Obytes 511 683 61 MB vector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that dont contain any dats This slows you to keep art r 1 _ ual s m b ine PSO S Conert ater Move exactly SS amp was DE We regure more ime Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved
78. ill fail to boot Hide Unhide Partition The program allows you to hide unhide primary and logical partitions By default an operating system does not mount hidden partitions thus preventing access to their contents In order to hide unhide a partition you should take the following steps 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Hide Unhide Partition Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 3 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation 1 It is strongly recommended not to hide the system partition Otherwise your operating system will fail to boot Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 53 Set Label of a Partition The Partition Label is a small textual field up to 11 characters that is located in the partition s boot sector It is detectable by any partitioning tool and is used for notification purposes only In order to change a partition label you should take the following steps 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Change Volume Label Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 3 Enter a label for the selected partition S Are you
79. ill not be that annoying and time consuming any more By detaching the OS from the rest of the data you can tackle one more crucial issue in case of a system malfunction you can get the system back on track in minutes by recovering it from a backup image located on the other partition of the hard drive But that is not all drive partitioning may be used for If you are willing to play games in Windows while browsing the Internet in Linux 100 percent sure that no virus will attack your PC drive partitioning is a necessity In order to run several OSs on a single hard drive you are to create a corresponding number of partitions to effectively delineate the boundaries of each OS Windows Components In the given section you can find all the information necessary to successfully work with the Windows version of the product Interface Overview This chapter introduces the graphical interface of the program The design of the interface precludes any mistake being made on the part of the user Most operations are performed through the system of wizards Buttons and menus are accompanied by easy understandable icons Nevertheless any problems that might occur while managing the program can be tackled by reading this very chapter Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 18 General Layout When you start the program the first component that is displayed is called the Launcher It enables to run wizards and dialogs t
80. ing out a number of extra move resize operations Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey a n iL Data E j Unallo New Vol ae 2441GBN 641GB 170 2GBL Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey Unallocated 499 9 GB 5 Since the block of free space is within the extended partition you need to take it out first The program enables to resize the extended partition only when there s a block of free space adjoining its borders In our case it s between two logical disks So we need to move it To do that please select the first logical partition and then call a context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Local D Data E i Unallo New Vol 21 2 GB 244 L Back Up Partition x Burn Partition on CO DWD or BD Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware Restore Partition Unallocated 499 9 GE Format Partition Delete Partitions Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 VMware cle Partition Unallocated a Defragrniertt MFT 749 9 GB gt Compact MFT Change Volurne Label Basic MBR Hard Disk 3 Mware Remove Drive Letter Unallocated Hide Partition 6 At first shift the right edge of the partition to the right then do the same with the left edge Make sure the partition size has been left unchanged w Are y
81. ing tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Install New OS Wizard There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 2 On the Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Select the appropriate option to create a new primary partition on your hard disk ii n A A i re tn tal ae es or m7 Where would you like to install an operating systen wart to create a new pimay partition to instal OS A new partition wil be create ce of your hard disk or unused space of existing partitions tt is the most preferable way as no system or user s data wil be affected during the installation process Ae wart io use an wosing Pamary panton to mata U5 n case creaton of a new primary partition is not possible there are already four primary partitions on the disk or not desirable you are free to select any of exdsting pemary parttions Please note that al dats on the selected partition wil be deleted f you choose to format t later in this wizard Besides make sure no operating system has already been installed on that partition 4 Onthe next page of the wizard define size of the new partition If the selected hard disk contains blocks of free space the wizard will automatically merge them all and allocate the resulted space to create the partition If not it will take 50 of the unused space of an adjacent partition thus resizing it You can select ether a
82. ingle sector in the specified search area to get the most accurate results Choose how to look for the deleted partitions f Quick search for partitions created by Vista or later OS f Conventional search f Thorough search y Show file systems search options D To know more on the available search methods please use the context sensitive hint system e File system filter By default the wizard will search for all known file systems However by clicking on the appropriate option on the second page of the wizard you can specify only those file systems you need amp Hide file systems search options FAT and FAT 32 file systems Iw NTFS file systern Linus file systems E st Exts and Ext Apple HFS Other unlisted file system To begin search click Next e A partition to undelete if several By default the program searches records of any deleted partition ever existed on the selected block of free space So you can get several partitions to choose from Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 46 Search deleted partitions from sector OxUOOOU00000000801 to sector OxO000000000 tr rr lt 6 Gea eae aaa The following partitions have been found File system Type Capacity Used Space Used GntTrs Primary 7 9 GB 35 9 MB 0 Most likely the required partition will be found first If so you may abort the search operation by pressing the Stop search button Result Afte
83. ions BUTTON FUNCTIONALITY Cancel the last undo virtual operation on the List of Pending Operations Display the List of Pending Operations Launch the real execution of virtual operations Cancel all virtual operations on the List of Pending Operations Generate a script out of all pending operations Schedule pending operations Virtual mode is an effective way of protection from any troubles since no operations will Oo be executed until clicking the Apply button for confirmation thus giving a second chance to weigh all pros and cons of this or that particular operation The program politely reminds Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 20 the user that there are unsaved changes by showing the following window J You have unsaved changes Express Mode Button By clicking on this button the user can switch to the express mode of operation at any time Disk Map As the name infers the Disk Map displays the layout of physical and logical disks Physical disks are represented with rectangle bars that contain small sized bars These small sized bars represent logical disks Their color depends on the file system of the appropriate partition By looking at the size of the bar s shaded area it is possible to estimate the used disk space For the selected at the moment object there s the possibility to call a context sensitive popup menu with available operations Disk map Basic MBA Hard Disk 0
84. ions Partition Alignment Mode Vista Align partitions according to the rules used in Windows Vista and later OSes Check FS integrity policy Once Standard protection from data loss with acceptable performance The file system integrity will be checked for each volume only once just before accomplishing data sensitive operations Data Loss Protection mode Reset Medium protection from data loss This section contains a set of general options that will be taken into account during any operation carried out with the program e Partition Alignment mode There are three options you can choose from Legacy DOS and Windows OSes before Vista required that partitions had to be aligned to the disk cylinder or 63 sectors to address and access sectors correctly It was OK until 4K hard drives came into scene When partitions are aligned this way on this type of disk each logical cluster is linked to two physical 4K clusters thus resulting in a double read write operation Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 24 Vista Since Windows Vista operating systems do not use the archaic CHS cylinder head sector addressing scheme but the Logical Block Addressing LBA where sectors are addressed continuously over the whole disk drive It is optimal for both 512B and new 4K disk drivers Inheritance Select the option to disable automatic alignment of partitions e Check FS i
85. is only available for the bootable recovery environment Boot Management Facilities e Boot Manager Setup Wizard to easily manage several operating systems on one computer Partition Hard Disk Management Facilities e Basic functions for initializing partitioning and formatting hard disks create format delete Instead of the standard Windows disk tools the program supports all popular file systems e Express Create Partition Wizard to create a new partition in the most appropriate place of a hard disk format it to NTFS and then make it available in the system by assigning a drive letter e Split Partition Wizard helps you separate OS and data or different types of data by splitting one partition to two different partitions of the same type and file system e Merge Partitions Wizard to consolidate the disk space which originally belongs to two adjacent partitions NTFS FAT16 FAT32 into a single larger partition e Redistribute Free Space Wizard to increase free space on one partition by up taking the on disk unallocated space and the unused space of other partitions e Express Resize Partitions Wizard to increase free space on one partition by up taking the unused space of an adjacent partition of a hard disk including partitions of Apple Boot Camp e NTFS hot resize upward to enlarge an NTFS partition system locked without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work e Convert a file system FAT16 32 NTFS Apple HFS wit
86. isk 0 Partition 0 Info System Root folder is WINDOWS Status Successful Date and Time 2013 Oct 10 Thd 15 28 39 13 Click the Finish button to close Boot Corrector 14 Reboot the computer Restoring a dual boot Mac from an external USB drive Let s assume that your Mac fails to boot because of a hard disk malfunction But you ve got a backup of your hard disk on an external USB drive Just replace the failed disk with a new one and carry out a bare metal restore To restore a dual boot Mac from a backup image located on an external USB drive please do the following Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 71 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Please use Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder to prepare Paragon s recovery environments on CD DVD flash or in an ISO image You can get these utilities here WWW pa ragon softwa re com my accou nt To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Connect an external USB drive to the computer 3 Restart the computer 4 Inthe boot menu select Normal Mode to use the Linux recovery environment since it s the only mode that enables to work with USB devices By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period 5 Inthe Linux launch menu select the Simple Restore Wizard 6
87. ition areas that don t contain any data This allows you to keep the partition s content after move exactly as it was but will require more time es 9 The block of free space has been released Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Loca Unalloc E Data E Hew Yolume 2ij2 G 123 5 GB 194 6 GE NT 170 2 GE Lin 10 Finally increase size of the system partition Call a context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog 11 In the opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the right thus increasing its size Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 8 Y Are you sure you want to move resize system volume C Tou are about to moveresize NTFS volume No label C Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey E 1 Volume size a wel MB 12 418 MB 148 276 MB Free space betore i ME O bytes 135 556 MB Free space after 1 26 554 MB O bytes 135 556 MB Sector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that don t contain any data This allows you to keep the partition s content after move exactly as it was but will require more time 12 Apply all introduced changes By default our program works in the virtual mode of execution so you have to confirm all operations to let the program accomplish them To do that just cli
88. itions List are the main tools to get information on the properties of hard disks and partitions available in the system To know more on the subject please consult the corresponding chapters of the Interface Overview chapter Data Backup and Rescue In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to establish a reliable data protection system Creating Backup Images Depending on a type of information you need to protect and the way this information should be processed the program offers a number of handy backup wizards To make your job with the program as easy and convenient as possible all backup wizards share similar work algorithm By going through steps of the wizard you configure all the necessary settings to launch the backup operation To minimize the possibility of making any mistake the wizard provides auxiliary information on every single option Moreover you can get an in depth description to any setting control or field of the wizard just by clicking the hint button and then the object you need Simple Backup Wizard Startup e Inthe Main Menu select Wizards gt Simple Backup There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Simple Backup Wizard Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the backup operation e The object to back up You can back up either an entire disk or separate partitions of the disk primary ext
89. izard allocates all free space to the original partition You should decide Oo for yourself how much of it should be given to the original and the new partitions Anyway we strongly recommend you to allow free space on both partitions 7 Review the changes and complete the wizard 8 Apply all introduced changes By default our program works in the virtual mode of execution so you have to confirm all operations to let the program accomplish them To do that just click the Apply button on the Virtual Operations Bar 9 Inthe Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 91 Merging a system partition with an adjacent logical partition Let s assume you ve got several partitions on your hard disk After installing a number of resource consuming applications and system updates your system partition has started to suffer from the lack of free space But an adjacent logical partition has a plenty of redundant space That s just enough to make your system partition suffer no more To merge a system partition with an adjacent partition please do the following 1 Inthe main window select the required logical volume on the Disk Map Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey Local Disk C 280 3 GB NTFS Hew Volume E 219 3 GE NTFS 2 Calla context menu for it right click of the mo
90. k 0 VMware Virtual 500 GB E NTFS pe NTFS New Volume 8 Choose the data partition and then call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog 9 Move the slider to the right to increase size of the partition Click OK to continue Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 95 Partition preview D NTFS New Volume New size 96 335358 MB 335358 Z MB Free space before 0 335262 MB Free space after 0 335267 MB D MB 10 Apply the pending changes 1 pending operations Apply changes Undo last ndo las 7 Undo all Apply b You have 1 pending operations P 11 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out by the program Operations list Suboperation progress 1 Move partition Operation progress Overall progress Time elapsed 00 00 15 Time to finish 00 00 00 Restart enabled i Moving volume Scan volume Pernormance test Restart enabled Copy data by cluster Restart disabled Resizing partitions of Apple Boot Camp Let s assume you re a Boot Camp user who s got Windows XP as the second operating system Initially allocated space for the Windows partition has turned out to be insufficient for your current needs The only way out is to take some space from your Mac partition thus redistributing the unused space between the partiti
91. k Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Remove Drive Letter Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 3 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 57 Modifying drive letter of the system partition will result in inability to boot the operating 1 system After having processed partitions with installed software some programs may not run properly Test Surface The program enables to test surface of existing partitions and blocks of free space for bad or unstable sectors If found any it automatically marks them unusable in the file system metadata thus minimizing the risk of data loss In order to start the surface test you should take the following steps 1 Select a partition or a block of free space on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Test Surface There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 3 From the pull down list choose the level of the surface check Ga Test surface of volume C lt P Testing volume surface allows to find bad blocks and other problems Please select a surface test level Pe mye lt p 4 The operation will be perfo
92. k on My Computer gt Manage gt Services gt find Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and make it active Set also to start it automatically Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 105 10 When running a backup operation with the Paragon Hot Processing mode enabled get an error error code 0x1200e Internal error during Hot Backup Most likely your hard disk contains bad blocks Please fix the issue with your HDD manufacturer s tool You can find a name of the tool you need here http kb paragon software com 11 When running a backup operation with the Microsoft VSS mode enabled get the following error error code 0x12016 VSS can t read volume data Most likely your hard disk contains bad blocks Please fix the issue with your HDD manufacturer s tool You can find a name of the tool you need here http kb paragon software com 12 When trying to back up to a network share get the following error i o error or can t open create file Please check whether you ve got a permission to write to the selected destination or not 13 When trying to restore a backup archive get the following error Can t restore to current selection or Archive does not fit Most likely you re trying to restore a backup of the whole hard disk to a partition or vice versa 14 set up a timetable for a task but it fails to execute There can be a number of reasons for that Windows Task Scheduler does no
93. k the Yes button to continue Creste new patton as Primary patton Please specfy new parttion size 349451 gt 7MB 349 451 ME Please specty size of free space before the partion C gt OMB 349 437 MB Please specty size of free space after the partition p OMB 349 443 MB Please select file system for new partition NTFS v Please antar new volume labe New Volume Please specty drive letter F amie fa 7 one opt ons Oo The Create Partition dialog offers a number of additional parameters that can also be of help However here we pay attention to the most relevant to fulfill our task 7 As a result of the operation we have got a newly created FAT32 partition just enough in size to comfortably work with Windows XP Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev Vista C New Volume F 158 7 GB NTFS 341 2GB NTFS Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 101 8 Hide the Windows Vista partition to avoid writing any data on it during the Windows XP installation as it is the best way to provide system independence To do that please call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button and launch the Hide Partition dialog Click the Yes button to continue Eam Are you sure you want to hide the partition You are about to hide parttion E No label NTFS Hiding the partition may cause drive letters to be changed bai Oo Hiding of the system partition
94. late the C H S geometry Hidden Partition The concept of a hidden partition was introduced in the IBM OS 2 Boot Manager By default an operating system does not mount a hidden partition thus preventing access to its contents A method of hiding a partition consists in changing the partition ID value saved in the Partition Table This is achieved by XOR ing the partition ID with a 0x10 hexadecimal value Master File Table MFT is a relational database that consists of rows of file records and columns of file attributes It contains at least one entry for every file on an NTFS volume including the MFT itself MFT is similar to a FAT table in a FAT file system MBR amp 1st track of the hard disk is the Oth sector of the disk MBR Master Boot Record contains important information about the disk layout The used partitioning scheme The starting records of the Partition Table The standard bootstrap code or the initial code of boot managers disk overlay software or boot viruses Generally the Oth sector is used for similar purposes in all existing partitioning schemes The MBR capacity is not sufficient to contain sophisticated boot programs That s why the on boot software is allowed to use the entire Oth track of the disk For example boot managing utilities such as LILO GRUB and Paragon Boot Manager are located in the Oth track Partition ID or File system ID is a file system identifier that is placed in the partition
95. lee ae setae ta aap hee ced eed heeds uaa 60 TV OIGAl SCCM ANIOS dante sicnestercratatctsanestaapnannes O a 61 BACKUP Scenarios saesae eaca Gide ess oidioaleiads Stic sub dutcls Ounce a E a dh A E A ECNE 61 Backing up a hard disk or partition to a network drive ccccccesscccceesecccceseccceeusccecausececeenececeensccessuecessuaecesseneceesauecetseneses 61 Backing up a auial boot Mac to an external USB drive ciora isd Mee RA RAE Re 65 Recovery SCON ANOS aissei A E A E E E uacen Mina ca E E T 67 FIXING Windows StartUp apilit y ssn N E E E E E ea aaa eae 67 Restoring a dual boot Mac from amexternal USB Grivel aininn a N ERA 70 Copying of data from the corrupted system disk to another hard iSk essesssssssssssesresersssrrnssrersrresserssrresrrrssrresrresrerserresreens 73 Burning of data from the corrupted system disk to CD DVD sssssssssssesssseseeessssrrrrrrtttrrrrrrrernsssssssrrttttttttreeeeensssssreereeterrrreeeeee 75 Copying of data from a backup to the corrupted system Partition ccccccccesccccssseccceesecceceesececeeeceeseeeceeseuecessueceesenaeeetes 77 Restoringsepar ate Tiles and folders troma ACK UND ss sees oi canccsestatiecs erses lyiniices n A A AE S 80 RESIZE SCON ANOS sei scsiustsiietiietda siete sdulssesie a a A N 81 Creating a new partition to detach operating system from the rest of data ccecccccecccesescceneceeeneeeeeeseseesceseueceeeueeeeeneeees 81 Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space
96. lity available for physical disks to virtual Separate x86 and x64 installation packages Please note that started from HDM 14 installation packages do not include Recovery Media Builder thus customers can build Linux based recovery media only through special utilities Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder obtained from Paragon s website Windows 8 1 support Our product has been tested to work fine on Windows 8 1 RTM New user friendly interface that is fully compatible with the Windows 8 streamlined tile oriented interface Metro style Express Launcher Ribbon based full scale launcher GUI of the Linux recovery environment has also been uplifted Product Components In order to cope with different tasks the product contains several components Windows based set of utilities is the crucial part of the product With the help of an easy to use launcher you may find and run tasks of any complexity in the field of data and system protection hard disk partitioning and cloning etc Linux DOS based recovery environment is a multi platform bootable media that enables to run utilities under Linux or PTS DOS and that way to get access to your hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes Both platforms have their strong sides for instance Linux can boast support of FireWire i e IEEE1394 or USB devices It enables to burn CD DVD discs However there can be some difficulties with detecting new hardware DOS in its turn has no
97. ll rights reserved 51 e New cluster size Define the cluster size for the partition This parameter can have a profound effect on the overall performance In a nutshell larger clusters waste more space but generally provide for slightly better performance because of less fragmentation So be particularly careful with it The cluster size value is expressed in sectors per cluster To get it in Kbytes please divide it into half You may only decrease the current cluster size e Surface test level Define the level of the surface check to make the program find bad and unstable sectors and mark them unusable in the file system metadata 4 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Making Logical Primary The program allows you to include a primary partition in the extended partition or exclude a logical partition from the extended partition without partition duplication In order to change a partition type you should take the following steps 1 Selecta primary or logical partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Make Partition Logical Primary There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Fra Are yOu sure you want to make the partition logical Tou are about to make the partition C No label NTFS logical The Make Primary gt Logical op
98. mal Mode to use the Linux recovery environment since it s the only mode that enables to burn CD DVD discs By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period 3 Inthe Linux launch menu select the File Transfer Wizard You can find the same wizard in PTS DOS as well 4 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 5 Select a disk where the files you need are stored from the pull down list in the right pane of the page Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 76 Source Ci Ext4FS 1 on Disk 1 NEW VOLUME rg My computer 2 Ka Root dir wi iMyComputer My computer ft imnt Mounted resources wi imntdisk Local disks i media Removable disks 4 IDE CD DVD NECVMWa VMware IDE s C Ext4FS 1 on Disk 1 NEW VOLU resrizinis a Delais tr 6 Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipboard by pressing the left arrow button Clipboard Sou roe Windows System HDDO Part1 Windows 9 SottwareDistribution Speech System 3 System3 3 SystemResources 3 Syswows4 TAPI C Tasks I Temp ToastData 9 tracing Total data size nia Calc Rename FG Delete F8 Click the Calc button to estimate the resulted data size 7 Onthe Select Destination Type choose the way the data will be stored Select the Burn data to CD DVD item Please select how would you like to save the archive Save data to any local dri
99. ms that can be a result of a human factor program error or a boot virus activity Boot Corrector is only available for the bootable recovery environment Supported Technologies Along with using innovative technologies from outside Paragon has developed a number of its own original technologies that make its products unique and attractive for customers Paragon Hot Backup technology to back up locked partitions and hard disks under Windows NT family operating systems providing both high operating efficiency as well as low hardware requirements Paragon Power Shield technology to provide data consistency in case of a hardware malfunction power outages or an operating system failure Paragon UFSD technology to browse partitions of any file system including hidden and unmounted modify and copy files and folders etc Paragon Hot Resize technology to enlarge NTFS partitions system locked without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work Paragon Smart Partition technology to securely perform hard disk partitioning operations of any complexity Paragon BTE technology to set tasks for execution during the system restart thus saving from the need to use a bootable media when modifying system partitions Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS to provide the copy backup infrastructure for the Microsoft Windows XP Vista 7 Server 2003 2008 operating systems It offers a reliable mechanism to create consistent point i
100. n all existing blocks of the free space Besides you can specify partitions to act as a space donor The wizard will automatically recalculate positions of the partitions and move their contents to new locations Startup e Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Redistribute Free Space There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Partition to enlarge Select a partition the size of which will be increased at the expense of other partitions Blocks of the free space if any will be automatically added to the target partition Choose a volume to expand Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey E o Local Disk 274 9 GB NTFS Co Capacity of the volume C is 224 7 GB The wizard can expand this volume up to 499 5 GB at the expence of other volumes How will the wizard expand the volume e Partition to donate Choose any partition s not only adjacent to donate free space Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 44 Select volumes to take space from Free space from that volume will be used to enlarge the volume pou have selected on the previous page Yolume File sztem Type Capacity Used pace Free space Free SORE EEE ELLE CELL LLL LLL Co There iz no unallocated space on
101. n time copies of data known as shadow copies Developed by Microsoft in close cooperation with the leading copy backup solution vendors on the market it is based on a snapshot technology concept GUID Partition Table GPT It is the next generation of a hard disk partitioning scheme developed to lift restrictions of the old MBR GPT disks are now supported by Windows Vista 7 Server 2008 Mac OS X and Linux Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved Supported File Systems e Full read write access to FAT16 FAT32 partitions e Full read write access to NTFS Basic Disks under Windows Linux and PTS DOS Compressed NTFS files are also supported e Full read write access to Ext2FS Ext3FS Ext4FS partitions e Limited read write access to Apple HFS partitions Unfortunately support of non Roman characters for the HFS file system is unavailable at the moment The company is about to implement it in the nearest future Supported Media e Support of both MBR and GPT hard disks 2 2TB disks included e IDE SCSI and SATA hard disks e SSD Solid State Drive e AFD Advanced Format Drive e Non 512B sector size drives e CD R CD RW DVD R DVD R DVD RW DVD RW DVD R DVD R double layer and also Blu ray discs e FireWire i e IEEE1394 USB 1 0 USB 2 0 USB 3 0 hard disks e PC card storage devices MBR and GPT flash memory etc Getting Started In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to
102. nables to easily manage several operating systems on one computer with the help of the Boot Manager Setup Wizard Among the key features of the wizard the following should be mentioned e Upto 16 operating systems on one PC e Secure adding removing of the Boot Manager startup record to from the MBR e Auto Boot option to automatically start up the previously chosen OS after a certain time period e Hiding of any primary partition except selected at the moment Startup e Click Tool Button then select Setup Boot Manager There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Boot menu options In this section you can switch between the following modes Normal mode Choose this mode to display the boot menu every time the computer starts up and define a timeout on the expiry of which the program will automatically select the previously chosen item of the menu Hidden mode Choose this mode not to display the boot menu until pressing a hot key For this mode you should define a hot key used to enable the Boot Manager and a time period in seconds the startup message will be displayed Boot menu options Normal mode W Timeout for booting last used configuration 15 seconds C Hidden mode Choose a hot key for startup Booth anager e Deactivating Configuring the Boot Manag
103. nch the Boot Manager Setup wizard To do that please install our program once again but this time in Windows XP to activate Boot Manager Oo To avoid double installation please use our recovery media to activate Boot Manager 10 Click Boot Management and then select Boot Manager in the Express Launcher Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 99 11 Set up the Boot Manager wizard The parameters offered by default will do in our case so just complete the wizard and it will automatically find the two operating systems and update the MBR Boot menu cotions o Normal mode suns nb 18 A a Time to display the Boot Manager statup message Choose a hot key for startup Boot Manager 12 Now restart the computer to make sure you have got a dual boot system Traditional way Oo This scenario implies that operating systems will be installed on different partitions to provide better security and system independence 1 Inthe main window select your hard disk on the Disk Map to make a block of free space on it 2 Release some free space not less than 10 GB to install Windows XP from the partition To do that please call a context menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button and launch the Move Resize dialog Are you sure you want to create a new partition on disk 0 You se about to create a new perttion in Unallocated 341 2 GB ares Please select size postion and f
104. ng of the available range of disk space e Free space after Define the amount of trailing free space in Mb at the end of the available range of disk space e Sector to sector move Mark the checkbox to move the partition in the sector by sector mode to process its unused space as well This can help to avoid problems with hidden data created by certain applications or the system administrator However it will take more time to accomplish the operation Partition size and position may also be defined by using the drag and drop technique To do that just carry out the required operation on the Disk Map The virtual operations are to be available When resizing a FAT16 partition beyond the 2GB limit maximum file system size the partition will automatically be converted to FAT32 Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 50 The program enables to enlarge NTFS partitions system locked without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work providing 100 percent guarantee that your data is kept intact 4 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Available operation scenarios e Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space from any other e Shrinking a system partition to increase size of a data partition Converting File System With our program you can change type of the used file system without destroying its data While performing the operation it first checks
105. ntegrity policy Accomplishment of any data sensitive operation resize move merge redistribute change cluster size etc is potential with data loss To minimize this risk it s recommended to check integrity of your file system before this type of operations despite the fact that it s quite time consuming We offer you several options to let you choose which is best for you Always Maximum protection but minimal performance The file system integrity will be checked each time it s necessary to guarantee the maximum protection for the on disk data Once Standard protection with acceptable performance The file system integrity will be checked for each volume only once just before accomplishing data sensitive operations Never No protection but maximum performance If you re not 100 sure your disk is rock solid please do not use this option e Data Loss Protection mode To guarantee safety for your information when a data sensitive operation has been abruptly interrupted as a result of a computer reset or a power outage there are several techniques that correspond to the options below Do not protect No protection but maximum performance If you re not 100 sure you re completely safe from a power outage or an accidental reset of your computer please do not use this option Reset Standard protection with acceptable performance Maintaining a special journal our program enables to automatically complete a
106. o Hew Yo 27 GB NTFS 46GB NTF E EGBE NTFS SI Disk Dev 1 Your computer may fail if any other OS has already been installed on the selected partition e Partition properties W Yes want to format the partition Partition type e NTFS Assign the following drive letter Sz Surface test level Morne Partition type From the pull down list select the desired file system type In fact the program displays only file systems that can be correctly placed to the selected partition taking its capacity into account Drive letter assignment The pull down list contains vacant drive letters that can be associated with the newly formatted partition Surface test level Define the level of the surface check to make the program find bad and unstable sectors and mark them unusable in the file system metadata e OS Label Enter a label for the selected partition in the textual field It will later be used for the drive identification OS labels will be displayed in the Boot Managers startup menu to help you boot the required operating system OS label Windows 7 Result As the final step the wizard will offer you to insert a distributive CD DVD of the new operating system and restart the computer to launch the installation procedure The program will update your MBR so most likely you won t be able to start up any of the previously installed operating systems Please launch the Boot Manager Setup Wizard after the
107. o specify program settings to visualize the operating environment and the hard disk configuration The Launcher s window can be conditionally subdivided into several sections that differ in their purpose and functionality Backup amp Restore New Backup Format Partitioning Yolume Explorer sop Tool Button Ribbon Panel Advanced backup i Apply Discard View Changes Undo Redo amp Reload Disk Info gf Express Mode Simple Backup Disk map Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 YH w l i Local Disk C 499 6 GB NTFS Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 VWAware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Update MBA EditWiew Sectors Properties Context sensitive Menu j New Yolume E Unallocated 391 GB NTFS Me 108 9668 Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 WAware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey Unallocated 745 9 GB Basic MBA Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey F Unallocated 113 9 GE Basic MBA Hard Disk 4 JetFlash Transcend 4GB USB Device Removable p Paragon F Me 3 7 GE NTFS Basic MBR Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey Type Internal Hard Disk Drive Status Online Total size 500 GE Sectors per track 63 Heads 255 Cylinders 65270 Properties Panel Disk and Partitions List Disk and partitions list GO No changes Tool Button Ribbon Panel Virtual Operations Bar Express Mode Button Disk Map Disk and Partitions List Context s
108. oblems you might face while using PC A highly intelligent program engine together with built in advanced recovery facilities make it possible to securely carry out partitioning operations of any complexity without fear to lose precious data In this manual you will find the answers to many of the technical questions which might arise while using the program Oo Our company is constantly releasing new versions and updates to its software that s why images shown in this manual may be different from what you see on your screen What s New in Partition Manager 14 e Complete uEFI support Below you can find only new features introduced in this version The Linux based recovery environment supports systems configured to the uEFI boot mode e Enhanced backup format Paragon introduces a pVHD Paragon Virtual Hard Drive format a special VHD optimized for storing backups of virtual and physical machines It s very efficient in handling incremental chains data de duplication and synchronization pVHD allows obtaining backups that are up to four times smaller than original backup objects What you get by using pVHD Incremental imaging works much faster and rock stable in comparison with the old PBF Only pVHD images can be used to do immediate virtualization With the new backup technology Paragon has also achieved easy support of any virtual containers VMDK VHD etc Oo In the current version the pVHD support has a promotional
109. obtain a general notion of the operation performance and makes it easier for the user to operate the program pVHD Support Paragon introduces a pVHD Paragon Virtual Hard Drive format a special VHD optimized for storing backups of virtual and physical machines It s very efficient in handling incremental chains data de duplication and synchronization pVHD allows obtaining backups that are up to four times smaller than original backup objects In the current version of the product backup images can be made either in the old PBF or the new pVHD Please note that the pVHD support has a promotional goal In future releases pVHD will gradually take the primary role Below is the list of wizards that allow working with pVHD e Backup to VD Wizard Linux Windows e Restore from VD Wizard Linux This feature is only available for the bootable recovery environment What you get by using pVHD e Incremental imaging works much faster and rock stable in comparison with the old PBF e Only pVHD images can be used to do immediate virtualization e With the new backup technology available for customers as a new backup image format pVHD Paragon has also achieved easy support of any virtual containers VMDK VHD etc GPT versus MBR GUID Partition Table GPT is the next generation of a hard disk partitioning scheme developed to lift restrictions of the old MBR Being a part of the Extensible Firmware Interface EFI standard proposed
110. on is completed close the wizard by pressing the appropriate button 12 Turn off the computer This operation can also be accomplished with our recovery media Copying of data from a backup to the corrupted system partition The system fails to boot since some files are damaged If you have a backup of the system partition you can recopy these files to make the system be operable again 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media 3 Please use Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder to prepare Paragon s recovery environments on CD DVD flash or in an ISO image You can get these utilities here www paragon software com my account To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first In the boot menu select Normal Mode to use the Linux recovery environment more preferable or Safe Mode to use the PTS DOS recovery environment in case you ve got problems with Linux Moreover you ve got the option to boot into the Low Graphics Safe Mode PTS DOS safe mode to cope with a serious hardware incompatibility In this case only the minimal set of drivers will be included like hard disk monitor and keyboard drivers This mode has simple graphics and a simple menu By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period In the Linux launch menu select the File Transfer Wizard You can find the same wi
111. on size 499 6 GB Used space 11 7 GB Free space 487 9 GB Active Mo Hidden No The Properties Panel helps to obtain the following data For a hard disk e Model e Serial number e Type of hard disk basic or dynamic MBR GPT e Total size in GB e Information on geometry of the disk amount of sectors per track heads and cylinders For a partition e Drive letter assigned to the disk e Volume label if exists e Type of the logical disk e File system e Root entries Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 23 e Serial number e NTFS version e Partition ID e Total size used space and free space in GB etc Besides you can modify practically any partition property by clicking on the required value For a block of free space e Total size in GB Status Bar This is the bottom part of the main window The Status Bar displays menu hints for each item the cursor points to Settings Overview To call the Settings dialog please click Tool Button then select Settings All the settings are grouped into several sections which functions are described in the following paragraphs The list of sections is placed on the left side of the dialog By selecting a section from the list you can open a set of options Oo To get a detailed description to any setting control or field of the program just click the hint button and then the object you need General Options 4 General opt
112. on the selected item presse EH Oo Installation of Windows XP will make Windows Vista non bootable Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 102 12 Launch the Boot Manager Setup wizard As your Windows Vista is non bootable any more you need to install our program once again but this time in Windows XP to activate Boot Manager Oo To avoid double installation please use our recovery media to activate Boot Manager 13 Click Boot Management and then select Boot Manager in the Express Launcher 14 Set up the Boot Manager wizard The parameters offered by default will do in our case so just complete the wizard and it will automatically find the two operating systems and update the MBR Boot menu cotions o Normal mode J Timeout for booting last used configuration 15 seconds Hidden mode Time to display the Boot Manager startup message hoose a hot key for startup BootManager 15 Now restart the computer to make sure you have got a dual boot system Windows XP Windows Vista As this very situation is very close to the previous one please use the Windows Vista Windows XP scenario However please take into consideration one more step you need to accomplish if you decide to use the traditional scenario 1 Besides hiding of the system partition before installation of the second OS you need to make it inactive as well To do that please call the context menu for it right click of the mouse bu
113. ons To increase size of the Windows partition by taking unused space from the Mac partition please do the following 1 Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Express Resize Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 96 Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 The wizard will automatically select Windows the NTFS file system and Mac the Apple HFS file system partitions of your Boot Camp configuration The wizard will resize space between leopard and Local Disk C on Basic GPT Hard Disk 0 Mware VA ware Yirtual SCSI Disk Dev Select left partition from a pair of adjacent partitions you would like to resize Aight adjacent partition will be selected automatically Basic GPT Hard Disk 0 VMware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey On the disk map you can also see the GPT service partition called EFI as well as a 128 megabyte free block between Mac and Windows partitions made with Boot Camp It s just for your information 4 Increase size of your Windows partition with the slider or manually by entering the required value Please note when you change size of one partition the size of the other will be changed as well thus redistributing the unused space between the partitions Please specify new sizes of sel
114. operating system A new partition will be created by using unallocated space of your hard disk or unused space of existing partitions tis the most preferable way as no system or users data will be affected during the installation process f want to use an existing primary partition to install 05 ln case creation of a new primary partition i not possible there are already four primary partitions on the disk or not desirable you are free to select any of existing primary partitions Please note that all data on the selected partition will be deleted if you choose to format it later in this wizard Besides make sure no operating system has already been installed on that partition D Only primary partitions can be used to install an operating system In case the first option has been marked the wizard enables to specify A hard disk if several where a new partition will be created Thanks to an advanced program engine it is possible to use unallocated space of the disk if any and unused space of existing partitions to create a new partition On this page vou can choose a hard disk if several where you would like to create a new primary partition Please make sure your BIOS i set up to boot from the selected disk Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev i Unallocated irtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev a H L Local Disk G E New Volume H 1 5 GE 3 1 GE NTFS 3 3 GE NTFS
115. ork share Choose this option if you want to save your data to local mounted or physical partition to USB or FireWare external drives and to a mounted network share You will be prompted to choose a location you want to save the archive to Burn data to CD DVD BD Choose this option tf you want the Wizard to burn the archive to CD DYVD BD You will be prompted to choose a drive 9 On the Select Destination Path page select your system disk to copy the data to by pressing the standard browse button Look in D NTFS 0 on Disk 3 New Volume n e from RECYCLE BIN System Volume Information Users eal manans Fa New folder FT File name mntidisk sdd 1 File type All files p Aep ED 7 10 On the Transfer Summary page check all parameters of the operation Click the Next button to accomplish the operation 11 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out by the program Operations list Suboperation progress EE Operation progress 1 Transfer user data Copied so far 0 1 MB Overall progress Time elapsed 00 00 00 Time to finish 00 00 00 Transferring mntdisk sdb2 img_D3 pbf to HDDO Part1 Item 1 of 1 All operations have been finished 12 After the operation is completed close the wizard by pressing the appropriate button 13 Turn off the computer Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved
116. os Backing up a hard disk or partition to a network drive To back up an entire hard disk or a separate partition and then place the resulted image to a network share please do the following For PBF images 1 Click the Backup amp Restore tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Simple Backup There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Onthe next page mark the appropriate option opposite a hard disk s name or a partition s name depending on the chosen task Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 62 Click the check bos nest to any hard disk drive or partition you want to back up Name Type File system Size E Of My Computer My Computer iv Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dey Internal Hard Disk Drive n00 GB A First Hard Disk Track First Track 0 Bytes GiMaster Boot Record MBAR 0 Bytes A Local Disk Primary NTFS 350 MB 2E a M E Local Disk C Primary NTFS 200 3 GB Basic MBA Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dey Internal Hard Disk Drive n00 GB First Hard Disk Track First Track 0 Bytes m Master Boot Record MER 0 Bytes Local Disk F Primary NTFS 495 6 GB e CSNEW VOLUME Primary Linux Ext4 350MB E Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dey
117. ou are going to use network resources first launch the Network Configuration Wizard to establish a network connection e Log Saver helps to collect and send the necessary log files to the Technical Support e Eject CD DVD e Reboot the computer e Power off the computer To move within the menu please use the arrow keys of the computer keyboard Safe Mode When the Safe mode is selected the PTS DOS launch menu appears It has nearly the same functionality as for the Normal mode except for the Network Configurator and Log Saver commands Besides due to certain limitations of the PTS DOS environment there is no possibility to burn CD DVD discs Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 15 Low Graphics Safe Mode When the Low Graphics mode is selected the PTS DOS launch menu appears It has the same functionality and looks similar to the Safe mode but graphically simpler Partition Manager 14 You can create delete and Express Resize Partitions format hard disk partitions Restore Wizard using this program which Bae File Transfer Wizard will start now E Boot Corrector Upon the start please elect the drive and one of S Reboot the computer its partitions or its free space Then activate the Partition pull down menu and select one of the partitioning operations Basic Concepts This chapter explains terms and ideas that show how the program works To understand these helps to
118. ou sure you want to move resize volume E Tou are about to moveresize NTFS volume Data E Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev g E Unallocated Data E 123 5 GB Jp 184 6 GB NTFS Volume size 1 84 087 MB 25 000 MB 315 647 MB Free space before 1 26 554 MB 0 bytes 290 640 MB Free space after 0 Bytes O bytes 290 640 MB Sector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that don t contain any data This allows you to keep the partition s content after move exactly as it was but will require more time es Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 86 7 Now you can resize the extended partition to take the block of free space out of it Call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog Call a context menu for the extended partition with the blue border not the logical one 8 Inthe opened dialog shift the edge of the extended partition to the right w Are you sure you want to move resize extended partition on disk Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Una Data E E New Yolume 23 5 GE 184 6 GB NTFS 170 2 GB Linus Ext Volume size 363 374 ME 365 374 MB 489 928 MB Free space before i 26 554 MB 0 bytes 126 554 MB Free space after E Bytes OME Sector to sector move Select this option to move part
119. p and space is set aside for an operating system Until recently most PCs used to have just one partition which filled the entire hard disk and contained an OS The situation has changed however thanks to new cost effective high capacity hard drives thus opening up numerous possibilities for PC users such as editing video archiving music backing up CD images etc Huge increase in space is great but it poses a number of problems most important of which are effective data organization and speed Large drives are always going to take longer to search than smaller volumes and an operating system is going to have its work cut out both finding and organizing files It is for this reason that many people decide to invest in multiple hard drives but there is an easy solution drive partitioning Partitioning lets you divide a single physical drive into a number of logical drives each of which servers as a container with its own drive letter and volume label thus enabling the operating system to process data more efficiently Besides partitioning makes it possible to organize data so that it is easy to find and manage You can set aside for instance 40 GB of a 160 GB hard drive for the OS 70 GB for storing video and another 50 GB for your favorite music collections to provide transparent data storage It is also worth mentioning to that with a hard drive properly partitioned such routine operations as files de fragmentation or consistency check w
120. pace available on backup destination 92 4 GB The program automatically calculates size of the future archive and informs the user about space available on the selected destination e Archive Comment You can add some additional description to the archive that will later help to distinguish it from the others Please enter a short comment to describe the archive E Ry No comment Result After the backup operation is completed you receive an image of the selected object This image is placed into the specified destination its features defined by the wizard Available operation scenarios e Backing up a hard disk or partition to a network drive e Backing up a dual boot Mac to an external USB drive Restoring System and Data The program includes a convenient and reliable restore wizard With its help you can restore all types of backup images created with the program It provides easy to understand instructions to configure and perform all the necessary settings Moreover you can get an in depth description to any setting control or field of the wizard just by clicking the hint button and then the object you need Oo This feature is only available for the bootable recovery environment Available operation scenarios Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 31 e Restoring a dual boot Mac from an external USB drive e Restoring separate files and folders from a backup Boot Management Our program e
121. partition by taking unused space of an adjacent partition Let s assume you ve got several partitions on your hard disk After installing a number of resource consuming applications and system updates your system partition has started to suffer from the lack of free space But an adjacent partition has a plenty of redundant space That s just enough to make your system partition suffer no more To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from an adjacent partition please do the following 1 Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Express Resize iy There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 83 3 Click on your system partition By doing that the wizard will automatically select an adjacent partition as well This partition will later act as a space donor The wizard will resize space between Local Disk C and New Volume E on Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual SCSI Disk Dev Select left partition from a pair of adjacent partitions you would like to resize Aight adjacent partition will be selected automatically Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev A New Volume E 219 3 GE NTFS If you ve got more than two partitions on your
122. peration 10 On the Restore Summary page you can see your hard disk layout before and after the operation Click the Next button to initiate the restore process View changes on Basic Hard Disk3 Your disk before operations _ BO O O O O Your disk after operations ee 11 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out by the program Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 73 Operations list Suboperation progress 1 Restore partition or disk Operation progress Copied so tar 8 9 MB Read so far 14 0 MB 14 0 MB s Write so far 14 0 MB 14 0 MB s Overall progress Time elapsed 00 00 06 Time to finish 00 00 00 gt Restore Disk 3 from file mntdisk sdb2 img_D3 pbt Opening archive Img_D3_0300p 000 Restore Primary partition O disk 3 from file mntdisk sdb2 img_D3_0300p 000 Data writing Opening archive Img_D3_0301p 000 Restore Primary partition 1 disk 3 from file mntdisk sdb2 img_D3_0301p 000 Data writing lt Close 12 After completing the operation close the wizard and then reboot the computer Copying of data from the corrupted system disk to another hard disk To retrieve valuable information from your hard disk and copy it to another hard disk when the system fails to boot please do the following 1 Connect the second hard disk to the computer 2 Start up the computer from our Linux DO
123. problems of that kind but is limited in features The Linux DOS recovery environment requires no installation and can be of great help when the system fails to boot Besides it offers a Windows XP like environment Features Overview This chapter dwells upon key benefits and technical highlights of the product Features Let us list some of the features User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface Graphical representation of the data to gain a better understanding A handy Launcher to easily find and run the required tasks Comprehensive wizards to simplify even the most complex operations A context sensitive hint system for all functions of the program Previewing the resulting layout of hard disks before actually executing operations so called virtual operations Backup Facilities Available location for backup images Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved Backup to local mounted partitions Backup to an external mounted storage to provide for a higher level of data protection and system independence Backup to a network drive to stand a better chance of success in case of a hard disk failure For PBF images e Back up separate partitions or entire disks For pVHD images e Backup to VD Wizard to protect separate partitions or entire hard disks Restore Facilities e Restore an entire disk separate partitions from the previously created backup image for PBF and pVHD Oo This feature
124. r the changes Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev A data 7 274 9 GE NTFS Partition type Volume label New Yolume Partition type From the pull down list select the desired file system type In fact the program displays only those file systems that can correctly be placed to the selected partition taking its capacity into account Volume label Enter a label for the selected partition in this textual field It is an irrelevant parameter usually used for drive identification Drive letter assignment The pull down list contains vacant drive letters that can be associated with the newly formatted partition In addition there is the possibility to make further detailed settings although the default values will do in most cases To activate the advance mode you need to mark the appropriate option at the foot of the page When it is marked the next page enables to define Ww Use 0S built in format routine Please select sectors per cluster m e Use OS built in routine Mark the checkbox to restrict the available values according to the used OS e The amount of sectors per cluster Define the Cluster Size for the formatted partition with this spinner control D Number of available options depends on the selected file system type Dialog Setup Initially the program suggests some consistent values for all parameters In most cases you can just press the Format button to
125. r the operation is completed you receive a fully functional partition Installing a New Operating System Getting your computer ready to install a new operating system especially when it is going to be an additional OS in the system is a rather complicated task that implies quite a number of operations from allocating space to create a new partition resize redistribution of free space to formatting of the newly created partition to a particular file system and checking its surface for bad sectors to avoid possible data loss Operating systems today are being supplied with basic tools of partitioning that only enable to create a partition in case there is enough unallocated space on the disk and then format it to the specified file system type Our program offers a handy Install New OS Wizard to easily carry out all the necessary operations to install a new operating system Startup e Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Install New OS Wizard There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Partition to install a new operating system The program offers two ways of installing a new OS i e to create a new primary partition for it or use an existing one Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 47 Where would pou like to install an
126. ragon Hot Processing and Microsoft VSS if one of them is unavailable at the moment Partitioning Options amp Partitioning Options Confirmations W Ask for volume label before partition delete Ask confirmation when converting FATT6 to FAT Se This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during partitioning operations e Request confirmation before partition deletion Mark the checkbox to activate an additional security mechanism Thus when going to delete a partition you will be automatically requested to enter its label e Request confirmation when converting FAT16 to FAT32 Mark the checkbox to automatically request confirmation before converting FAT16 to FAT32 There are a number of situations when this kind of conversion is the only way out to accomplish the operation For instance you are going to migrate your system to a larger hard disk with the proportional resize of existing partitions what is very convenient As a result you can get original FAT16 partitions go beyond the 4GB limit Thus without conversion to FAT32 this operation will in no way be possible to accomplish The same goes for any copy hard disk partition or restore hard disk partition operation involving an extra upsizing E Mail Options pA E mail options Specify your e mail account options Outgoing mail server SMTP Enter a server name here User e mail address Enter an e mail address her SMTP port number OO Mp outgoing se
127. ration Click the Next button to accomplish the operation Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 75 11 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out by the program Operations list Suboperation progress 1 Transfer user data Operation progress Copied so tar 11 8 MB Overall progress prog Time elapsed 00 00 03 Time to finish 00 00 00 Transferring mntdisk sdb2 img_D3 pbf to HDDO Partl arc_091013131559760 Item 1 of 2 Transferring imntdisk sdb2 img_D3_0300p 000 to HDDO Partl arc_091013131559760 Item 2 All operations have been finished 12 After the operation is completed close the wizard by pressing the appropriate button 13 Turn off the computer This operation can also be accomplished with our recovery media Burning of data from the corrupted system disk to CD DVD To retrieve valuable information from your hard disk and burn it to CD DVD when the system fails to boot please do the following 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Please use Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder to prepare Paragon s recovery environments on CD DVD flash or in an ISO image You can get these utilities here www paragon software com my account To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Inthe boot menu select Nor
128. rge amounts of data with complex calculations of very large numbers That is where 64 bit architecture comes into play It can boast improved scalability for business applications that enables to support more customer databases and more simultaneous users on each server Besides a 64 bit kernel can access more system resources such as memory Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 17 allocation per user A 64 bit processor can handle over 4 billion times more memory addresses than a 32 bit processor With these resources even a very large database can be cached in memory Although many business applications run without problems on 32 bit systems others have grown so complex that they use up the 4 GB memory limitation of a 32 bit address space With this large amount of data fewer memory resources are available to meet memory needs On a 64 bit server most queries are able to perform in the buffers available to the database Some 32 bit applications make the transition to the 64 bit environment seamlessly others do not For instance system level utilities and programs that provide direct hardware access are likely to fail Our program offers a full fledged support of the 64 bit architecture providing fault tolerant work for such system dependent modules as Hot Processing Drive Partitioning As you probably know a hard drive is to be split into one or more partitions since it cannot hold data until it is carved u
129. rmed immediately after confirmation Check File System Integrity The program allows you to check integrity of a file system It can be used to detect possible file system errors before performing any operation on a partition To start the system integrity check you should take the following steps 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Check File System Integrity There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 58 Y Check volume C No label NTFS for errors Please note that check operation neede exclusive access to the volume You may be asked to restart your computer to complete the operation Check disk options Automatically fie file system errors 3 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Edit View Sectors With the built in Edit View Sectors tool the program enables to view edit sectors on existing partitions hard disks providing the possibility to directly access and modify sectors save and restore sectors from specified files navigate through the system metadata etc In order to edit view sectors of a hard disk partition you should take the following steps 1 Select a hard disk partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by
130. roperties The program enables to obtain in depth information on the properties of hard disks and partitions Besides the general information such as capacity used space or file system type it provides the possibility to get info on hard disk geometry cluster size exact partition location etc To get properties on a partition hard disk please do the following 1 Choose a partition hard disk on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Properties There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Local Disk C Volume label No label File system NTFS Type Frima Capacity 499 6 GB 636 501 813 248 Bytes 1 047 855 104 Sectors Used by data 12 6 GB 2 13 630 279 680 Bytes 26 621 640 Sectors Free space 486 9 GB 96 B22 01 533 068 Bytes 1 021 233 464 Sectors In the opened dialog information will be grouped according to its properties thus by clicking tabs you can get information you need Volume Explorer Volume Explorer is a special tool to browse and export contents of the local mounted unmounted volumes formatted to FAT16 FAT32 NTFS Ext2FS Ext3FS Ext4FS reFS file systems Besides it enables to access Paragon backups as regular folders to explorer their contents or to retrieve certain files Click the Volume Explorer tab on the Ribbon Panel to open it Copyright 1994 2014
131. rver requires authentication User name Enteranusernamehere Password Enter a password here Send test e mail Click this Button to test e mail account options The program will send generated e mail message to the address you ve specitted in User e mail address field This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during the Send log files and Send e mail notification operations e Outgoing mail server SMTP To send messages by using the built in mail client it is necessary to have access to a computer running an SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol server All outgoing messages are first sent to the SMTP server which in its turn delivers them to the required recipients The address may be represented as a traditional Internet host name e g mail com or as an IP numeric address e g XXX XXX XXX XX e User e mail address Specify an e mail address that has been assigned by the Internet Service Provider or organization s e mail administrator e My outgoing server requires authentication Activate the option to allow the program to make authentication on the server before sending messages Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 27 User name Enter the name that will be used to log in to the e mail account Password Enter the password that will be used to access the mail server When you re ready with the settings click on the Send test e mail button to check if eve
132. rything is OK Virtual Mode Options Virtual mode options Operations mode Allow virtual mode Set this option on to carry out all the operations virtually ou will be able to commit the changes or rollback all of them or the last one IF you switch this option off the operations Will be carted out immediately Close progress dialog automatically Set this option on to automatically close the progress dialog after committing the changes In this section you may configure the virtual mode e Allow virtual mode Mark the checkbox to enable the virtual mode It is an effective way of protection from any troubles since no operation will be executed until confirmation thus giving you a second chance to weigh all pros and cons of this or that particular operation 1 We strongly recommend you to enable this mode e Close progress dialog automatically Mark the checkbox to automatically close the progress dialog after accomplishing operations File System Conversion Options 6 Virtual mode options Operations mode lf Allow virtual mode Set this option on to carry out all the operations virtually ou will be able to commit the changes or rollback all of them or the last one IF you switch this option off the operations Will be cared out immediately Close progress dialog automatically Set this option on to automatically close the progress dialog after committing the changes This section contains a set of options
133. sd Meck atelintal Malai te dte lilies tt Uecate Net bat a AER 27 File System Conversion ODUONS sonon ecient ieee ieee ord ocd d iis eu la ue aa 27 kOe PIES ODUON rae sarc as acassParie ces E bases ae em cea os a aes emmeantetaieaes 28 VIEWING DISK PrODEFLIES ooer a a a 29 Data B ack p and RESCUE ratsionini a E E OA 29 Creating Backup IMage S onni A ee ee ed ee 29 Restore o ystem ana Dat aya sie aa taney a T a a a TA 30 B otMa n g MmeNt nnna a O O cae eeewianes 31 Parniton Management va sosicees ties can n N TA T a 32 Basic Partitioning Operations encan n a N T kan eniseneebenscadeevecsancmeeceaes 32 Adyanced Partitioning Operations aces sinh totes iceses E a Ta Aa TA A eee ees 41 Changing Partion AN IDUTES aen a a E E a a N R 51 Hard Disk Management xcecotesatea tence soncsieiteiccsbsanstessteaUsecGutaucsuetas a A ESE 53 Boo Fea ay agi 5 eane EI RE E E E N EA E E N E 53 Extra FUNCTIONAIILY annaa a O A eaaesaueieateauednasaaieuies 54 View Partition Aard DIS KPrODEr E Seans n a a EE 54 VOUM XD le eo e TE E T eee eee eee 54 Mount Partio Menia a a a a a a a A at ateaetaesyersbetanemnan teste ek ancancune 56 Testou ICE raise E NE O 57 Check PIG System INTERV a a a a a a A wuldaneeaiubhedadsaees 57 EHON ONSE C O a a a a a a a a a A 58 SENA EOE EES erena pt A EA NE E E N EE O EEN EEA E O E ern ee re 59 Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved VICW OES maataan ner oer et A cwated ba kuus sias sei hal eal e a ae a
134. space between as the right one will be selected automatically The wizard will resize space between Local Disk C and data on Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VA ware irtual SCSI Disk Der Select left partition from a pair of adjacent partitions you would like to resize Aight adjacent partition will be selected automatically Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Hwa Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey e Resulted size of partitions Redistribute the unused space between the partitions with the slider or manually by entering the required value Please specify new sizes of selected partitions Selected part of Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 VMware YMware irtual 5 SCSI Dis Local Disk C p o data 2 ie ada ES 2716 5GB NTFS Lett volume size Right volume size 269898 MB 4 ME F 1750 MBO ME Result After the operation is completed the unused space between the specified partitions will be redistributed according to your needs Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 43 Available operation scenarios e Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space of an adjacent logical partition e Resizing partitions of Apple Boot Camp Redistribute Free Space Wizard The Redistribute Free Space Wizard helps to increase free space on one partition by up taking the on disk unallocated space and the unused space of other partitions By default the wizard adds to the target partitio
135. st of found installations if several then select the Edit the Boot ini file option If you re not sure which installation you need please use the Properties button to get more info on the selected item Correct Windows installations Program has searched for valid Windows installations on your computer The results of the search you can see below Status 5 refers to a system partition you can edit the Boot ini file B a boot partition you can correct the System Registry NM Partition Status Root System 1 ODiskO ParttionO S 6 WINDOWS WinXP For the highlighted Windows installation please point out the operation to perform Properties Correct drive letters in the System Registry Edit the Boot ini file Correct partition boot record O Adjust OS to boot on new hardware To continue click Next Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 69 6 Examine the file maybe that s where the problem is If it contains a mistake correct it by using the appropriate buttons Edit the Boot ini file on Hard Disk 0 Partition 0 boot loader timeout 30 default multi Oldisk O rdiskiO partition lWwiNDOWS operating systems multiMdiskiMrdiskiMN partition WwiNDOWS Microsoft Windows XP Professional noexecute Copy Irizari Ale Delete Edit Insert the sample Add the sample 7 Ifthe Boot ini file does not contain any mistake please return to the Correct Windows Installations
136. stallation package Click Install to continue Status Requirement Pending Visual C 10 0 Runtime 66 10 0 30319 1 The Welcome page will inform that the application is being installed Click Next to continue Please Read Paragon License Agreement carefully and then select the appropriate option to accept Otherwise you won t be able to proceed with the installation By clicking the Print button the license agreement may also be printed out Provide your product key and serial number On the Customer Information page you are to provide the standard customer information i e a user name and an organization Besides you need to decide whether to make the program available for all users of this computer if several or only for the current one Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 11 6 On the next page click Change to install the utility to a different location by default C Program Files Paragon Software Paragon Partition Manager 14 Home Edition Otherwise click Next to continue Do not install the program on network drives Do not use Terminal Server sessions to install and run the program In both cases the program functionality will be limited 7 Onthe Ready to Install the Program page click Install to start the installation or Back to return to any of the previous pages and modify the installation settings 8 The Final page reports the end of the setup process Click Finish to complete
137. sure you want to change label on volume Fi Please specify a volume label for easier recognition of your volume Please enter new volume label New Yoluma Oe j oe 4 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Hard Disk Management In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to carry hard disk operations supported by the program Updating MBR The program enables to overwrite the current bootable code in the MBR Master Boot Record by the standard bootstrap code This can help to repair a corrupted bootable code of a hard disk resulted from a boot virus attack or a malfunction of boot management software In order to update MBR of a hard disk you should take the following steps 1 Selecta hard disk on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Update MBR Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Are you sure you want to Update master boot record Current MBAR contents for hard disk number O will be lost after this operation our computer may no longer boot correctly 3 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 54 Extra Functionality This chapter describes the supplementary functionality available in the program View Partition Hard Disk P
138. system partition by taking unused space from any other Let s assume you ve got several partitions on your hard disk After installing a number of resource consuming applications and system updates your system partition has started to suffer from the lack of free space But one of your partitions has a plenty of redundant space That s just enough to make your system partition suffer no more To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from any other on disk partition please do the following 1 In the main window select the required hard disk if several on the Disk Map Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 84 Disk map a Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware YHware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Local Di a Data E Hew Volume al2 N 244 1 GB NTFS 234 3 GB Linux Extd Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Unallocated 499 9 GB 2 Choose a space donor partition and then call a context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Back Up Partition Burn Partition on F E Local Di L Data E New Volume fee ae SoC uec E Eo T 244 7 GE NTFS 3 Back Up Partition Burn Partition on CO OVO or BD Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware Mware Virtual 5 SCSI Di a Restore Partition Unallocated Format Partition 499 9 GB Delete Parti
139. t convert a free Space on an existing partition to a new partition 3 The program cannot create new partitions on Dynamic Disks Express Create Partition Wizard Startup e Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Express Create There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Create Partition Wizard Startup e Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Create Partition There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Dialog Startup 1 Select a block of free space on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Create Partition Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 33 Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Express Create Partition Wizard Setup Thanks to a highly intelligent work algorithm the wizard requires minimal involvement in the operation thus you only need to choose a method you find the most suitable to create the partition if several available which actually differ in the amount of space to allocate For easy perception you can see the resulted disk layout on the disk map by selecting this or that mode The result you wall get after applying the changes
140. t work properly Check whether it is so or not by scheduling a simple task call Notepad through scheduling You don t have permission to write to the selected backup destination Glossary Active Partition is a partition from which an x86 based computer starts up The active partition must be a primary partition on a basic disk If you use Windows exclusively the active partition can be the same as the system volume In the DOS partitioning scheme only primary partitions can be active due to limitations of the standard bootstrap The term backup originates from the time when the best way to protect valuable information was to store it in form of archives on external media It s become now a general notion to mean making duplications of data for protection purposes Bootable Archive is created by adding a special bootable section when backing up the data to CD DVDs Thus you will be able to restore the data from these archives without having to run the program but by simply booting from these CD DVDs Cluster is the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated to hold a file All file systems used by Windows organize hard disks based on clusters which consist of one or more contiguous sectors The smaller the cluster size the more efficiently a disk stores information If no cluster size is specified during formatting Windows picks defaults based on the size of the volume These defaults are selected to reduce the amount of spa
141. th these utilities Booting from the Linux DOS Recovery Media The Linux DOS recovery environment can be used to boot your computer into Linux or PTS DOS to get access to your hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes It also has the PTS DOS safe mode which may help in a number of non Standard situations such as interfering hardware settings or serious problems on the hardware level In this case only basic files and drivers such as hard disk drivers a monitor driver and a keyboard driver will be loaded Startup To start working with the Linux DOS recovery environment please take the following steps 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Please use Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder to prepare Paragon s recovery environments on CD DVD flash or in an ISO image You can get these utilities here www paragon software com my account To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Launch a boot mode you need Normal Safe Low Graphics Safe in the Boot menu Oo By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period 3 Click on the required operation to start Hints on the selected at the moment item will help you make the right choice 4 Consult the help system by pressing ALT F1 to know more on the subject Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 13
142. the right mouse click then select Edit View Sectors Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 59 Gar Edit sectors on Basic MBER Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual sS SCSI Disk Dey Current sector is 0 of 1 048 575 999 Oz00000000 Oz00000000 Ox00000000 Oz00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 Oz00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 Oz00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 Oz00000000 Oz00000000 Ox00000000 Oz00000000 Ox00000000 Oz00000000 Ox00000000 Oz00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 Ox00000000 ee a a a a a a a anoaaod OOOdd010 anoaz OOO00030 OOOdd040 OOOO00SO OOOO008O OOOddo Oo OOOO008O anood anood OOOO00BO OOOd00CO OOOdd0DO OOO000ED OOOO00FO OOO001O0 OOO00110 OOO00120 OOO00130 OOO00140 OOO00150 OOO00160 OOO0017O OOO001e8oO OOO00190 OOOO01AQ OOOO01BO nnd 33 06 bd E had 7 26 TO Jt ja de 55 Aa ed O0 43 O0 53 6l 18 05 10 24 v4 20 be 67 65 a4 co bd be fl 41 cl 66 68 23 76 11 42 75 oo fh g0 66 66 68 al O0 eb O2 69 bc 67 20 6d an Please select sector number q je O0 OF cd bh O1 k d 02 ol 18 O0 O0 O0 10 ja Uc ja tf bo O0 75 O0 66 O0 07 ab f4 49 be 6l va fal O0 Le be c TE 28 55 v4
143. tion Move Resize Partition Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 VMware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI D he Change Volume Label Unallocated ee nr tter 749 9 GE ssign Drive Letter Hide Partition Make Partition Pri Basic MBR Hard Disk 3 VMware Mware Virtual S SCSI D peeve Change serial Number a Unallocated Chanana Maiti ma IT 3 Inthe opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the right by the drag and drop technique While doing this free space from the partition will be released displayed in aqua green You can also do it manually by entering the exact size of free space Click the Yes button to continue w Are you sure you want to move resize volume y You are about to moveresize Linux Ext4 volume New Yolume 7 Basic MBA Hard Disk 0 Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev p 2 Unallo New Volume 64 1 GB m 170 2 GB Linus Ext Volume size 174 285 MB v 23 992 MB 239 925 MB Free space before 65 640 MB O bytes 215 932 MB Free space after 0 Bytes 0 bytes 215 932 MB Sector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that don t contain any data This allows you to keep the partition s content after move exact as it was but will require more time es Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 85 4 Now you ve gota block of free space to add to the system partition You cannot do it directly however but by carry
144. tion is only available when the selected partition is adjacent Oo to the extended partition and vice versa The Make Primary gt Logical option of the system partition will result in inability to boot the operating system 3 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Changing Partition Attributes This chapter explains how you can change partition attributes Active flag Hidden flag Volume Label etc Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 52 Mark Partition Active Inactive The program enables to set an active inactive flag for primary partitions of a hard disk By default an operating system will boot only if its partition is active or bootable In order to mark a partition active inactive you should take the following steps 1 Selecta primary partition on the Disk Map 2 Calla context menu for the selected object by the right mouse click then select Mark Partition as Active Inactive i There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject A Are you sure you want to set the volume as active You are about to set the volume F No label NTFS as active If you already have active volumes this action might render your system unbootable 3 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation There can only be one active partition on a hard disk otherwise your operating system w
145. tton and launch the corresponding dialog Click the Yes button to continue Fike system 5 j Not formatted amp A Are pou sure you want to sat the volume az inactive gt 1 You ate about bo pet the volume Win P NTFS os mective You compute may no longar boot corectly NTFS ae 164 8 GB NTFS NTFS E rat E FATE Linux Ext Lirune Ext Reviving the system partition In case you are not able or not willing to complete the mentioned above scenarios but have already reached the point when all changes are applied and everything is ready to install the second OS please do the following to make your system bootable once again only relevant for the traditional scenario 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Please use Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder to prepare Paragon s recovery environments on CD DVD flash or in an ISO image You can get these utilities here www paragon software com my account Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 103 To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Inthe Linux launch menu select Partition Manager 3 Inthe main window select your non bootable Windows partition on the Disk Map E Basic Disk o VMware virtual IDE Hard Driver 250Gb Basic Disk 0 VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive 750 Gb a N
146. tual 5S SCS Disk Dev n00 GB E System Reserved NTFS 350 ME 350 MBE 256 8 MB 931MB System Reserved No Ki 499 6 GE 11 7 GE 487 9 0B Mo label G Local Disk C NTFS B Basic MBR Hard Disk 1 vMware YMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev J 495 6 GE 6 Unallocated Back Up Hard Disk 499 9GB No label Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5S SCS Disk Dey Burn Hard Disk on CD DVD or BD GS Unallocated H E Bytes 749 9 GB No label No Me Basic MBA Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5S SCS Disk Dev Unallocated Restore Hard Disk Bytes 119 9GB No label No Ne Update MIER Convert to GPT hard disk TI Undelete Partitions Wipe Hard Disk EditWiew Sectors Properties The Disk and Partitions List provides detailed information on all hard disks and partitions found in the system including the following properties Name Volume label if exists Drive letter File system type Volume size Amount of used and unused free space Active Inactive attribute Hidden Unhidden attribute The Disk and Partitions List is synchronized with the Context sensitive Menu and the Properties Panel Thus by selecting a disk on the list the two will automatically display detailed information on it To know more on the subject please consult the Viewing Disk Properties chapter Since the Disk Map and the Disk and Partitions List have the same
147. untered problem Information of that kind is stored in Log files In order to send log files to the Paragon Support Team you should take the following steps 1 Click Tool Button then select Send Log Files 2 Provide a customer name and a product serial number 3 Give a detailed description on the encountered problem Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 60 Send log files Please enter short description of your problem and send log files to support Customer Mame J ohn Smith Seral Number O9fde 654ec a49fc 7daf8 237a2 Content of inquiry Help Send Cancel By clicking the Send button the built in mail client will generate a template request with attached compressed log files and then send it to the Paragon Support Team Log files do not contain any confidential information on the operating system settings or the user documents Oo The Send Log Files function is only available when outgoing mail server SMTP and the user e mail address are properly set To learn more about it please consult the Settings Overview chapter View Logs With a handy dialog you can study logs on any operation carried by the program To make this job as easy as possible all the information is structurally divided besides there is the possibility to see the disk layout before and after an operation what is very convenient In order to view logs on carried out operations click Tool Button
148. up destination 10 7 GB Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 63 Please take into account values of the parameters Estimated archive size and Space Oo available on backup destination if the archive size exceeds the available space another network drive needs to be selected 6 Add comments to your backup describing its contents Please enter a short comment to describe the archive F Ry No commen 7 On the Backup Summary page review all parameters of the operation and modify them if necessary Click the Next button to start the backup process For pVHD images 1 Click the New Backup Format tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Backup to VD Oo There are other ways to start up this function please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Select partitions or entire hard disks you d like to back up by using Shift or Ctrl to select several objects at once Click Next to proceed Press Shift or Ctrl to select several objects at once o Hew mA e E 470 4 GE NTFS Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 WHware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev il E Unallocated 499 9 GB Basic MBA Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey H Unallocated 749 9 GB Basic MBA Hard Disk 3 Mware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey p E Unallocated 115 5 GB Change backup settings Note
149. use button to launch the Make Partition Primary dialog Backup Capz 219 3 GB Disk Dev Disk Dev Hew Volume F 292 5 GB NTFS Disk Dev EEH Back Up Partition Burn Partition on CO DWD or BD Copy Partition Restore Partition Adjust 05 Format Partition Delete Partition Mowe Resize Partition Convert File Syster Defragment Partition Defragment MFT Compact MFT Change Volume Label Remowe Drive Letter Hide Partition Make Partition Primary 3 Confirm the operation by clicking the Yes button By default our program works in the virtual mode of execution so you can either confirm all operations to let the program accomplish them or continue work in the virtual mode GP Are you sure you want ta make the partition primary Tou are about to make the partition F New Yolume NTFS primary 4 Click the Partitioning tab on the Ribbon Panel then select Merge Partitions any of the ways described earlier can also be used here 5 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 6 Click on the left partition of the pair of partitions you need to merge as the right one will be selected automatically During the operation all contents of the right partition will be placed in a folder on the resulted Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 92 joined partition By default the program offers an easy to understand folder name which
150. uter from our Linux DOS recovery media Please use Recovery Media Builder or Boot Media Builder to prepare Paragon s recovery environments on CD DVD flash or in an ISO image You can get these utilities here Oo Wwww paragon software com my account To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Inthe boot menu select Normal Mode to use the Linux recovery environment more preferable or Safe Mode to use the PTS DOS recovery environment in case you ve got problems with Linux Moreover you ve got the option to boot into the Low Graphics Safe Mode PTS DOS safe mode to cope with a serious hardware incompatibility In this case only the minimal set of drivers will be included like hard disk monitor and keyboard drivers This mode has simple graphics and a simple menu By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period 3 Inthe Linux launch menu select Boot Corrector You can find it in PTS DOS as well 4 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page select the Search for Windows installations to correct option Please choose the operation C Search for Windows installations to correct _ Correct Master Boot Record MBR Correct partition boot record O Correct boot parameters boot ini BCD _ Modify partition parameters To begin click Next 5 On the next page choose the required Windows installation from the li
151. ves or a network share Choose this option if you want to save your data to local mounted or physical partition to USB or FireWare external drives and to a mounted network share You will be prompted to choose a location you want to save the archive to Burn data to CDIDVDIBD Choose this option f you want the Wizard to burn the archive to CD DVD BD You will be prompted to choose a drive 8 Onthe Choose a Recorder page select a recorder from the list of available devices and then set a volume label by entering it in the appropriate field Select a recorder to burn data to Vendor Product Type NECVMWar VMware IDE CDR10 CD R CD RW C Paragon CD Burner Emulator CD R CD RW Paragon DVD Burner Emulator DVO R DVO E Hi Volume label My Data 9 Onthe Transfer Summary page check all parameters of the operation Click the Next button to accomplish the operation Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 77 10 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out by the program Operations list Suboperation progress 1 Transfer user data Operation progress Copied so far 0 02 MB Overall progress prog Time elapsed 00 00 00 Time to finish 00 00 00 Creating compilation image Used burner VMware IDE CDR10 Vendor NECVMWar Quick media erasing it may take about a minute Session opening Data burning 11 After the operati
152. way will affect the program functionality If this is the case please wait a bit and everything will be OK Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 14 Normal Mode When the Normal mode is selected the Linux launch menu appears You can create delete and format hard disk partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start Express Resize Wizard now Upon the start please select the drive and one of its partitions or its Simple Restore Wizard free space Then activate the Partition pull down menu and select File Transfer Wizard one of the partitioning operations Paragon Partition Manager Boot Corrector Network Configurator S b E Le Log Saver Eject CD DVD Reboot the computer Power off OO e Partition Manager enables to run wizards and dialogs to specify program settings to visualize the operating environment and the hard disk configuration e Express Resize Wizard enables to increase free space on one partition by up taking the unused space of an adjacent partition e Simple Restore Wizard allows restoring hard disks and partitions e File Transfer Wizard allows coping files folders to another disk or a partition as well as recording them to CD DVD e Boot Corrector helps to correct the Windows System Registry without Windows being loaded e Network Configurator enables to establish a network connection under Linux If y
153. within the extended partition However by activating the advance mode on the first page of the wizard you can remove this restriction that in its turn might result in some boot problems e Partition size There is no restriction on size of the future partition merely depending on space available on the hard disk If there is not enough free space in one block the wizard enables to redistribute free space joining all free space blocks together into one united block and moving partitions when necessary If the total amount of free space is still not enough it is possible to split a fragment of space from one of the existing partitions thus resizing it Tour hard disk before the changes Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev a New volume curent size is 119 6 GB Min Volume Size 0 Bytes 122751 ME Max Volume Size 119 8 GB If a partition to resize is locked and cannot be processed the wizard makes the system reboot to create the partition and then automatically boots the system again The rebooting mechanism is different for different versions of Windows You can also choose whether the future partition will be primary or logical by marking the appropriate checkbox e Partition properties On the next page of the wizard you can set a number of additional parameters Tour hard disk after the changes Basic GPT Hard Disk 1 VMware Mware Yirtual 5 SCSI Disk Dey
154. zard in PTS DOS as well Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 78 4 On the Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 5 Select a disk where the system backup is stored from the pull down list in the right pane of the page Look in arc_091013131559760 v D arc_101013062156703 fit arc_091013131559760 pbt Ns Rename FG New folder FT Delete F8 6 Double click on the required backup to open Source NTFS 1 on Disk 0 UFSD disk 9 arc_101013091536750 9 arc_101013091716250 3 Documents and Settings 9 Partition oO 2 C PerlLogs 3 Program Files C Program Files x86 3 ProgramData 9 System Volume Information Users 3 Windows 7 Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipboard by pressing the left arrow button Clipboard Source Windows 9 Mindows System HDDO Part1 9 SottwareDistribution 3 Speech 3 System 3 Systems2 3 SystemResources 3 Syswows4 C TAPI Cd Tasks l Temp l ToastData 9 tracing Total data size 30 3 KB Rename FG Delete F8 Click the Calc button to estimate the resulted data size 8 On the Select Destination Type choose the way the data will be stored Select the Save data to any local drive or a network share item Copyright 1994 2014 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 79 Please select how would you like to save the archive Save data to any local drives or a netw

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