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1. E 25 SEINES OV la ls eA 37 Getting Information on Disks and Backup Images ccscscsccccscsccccccscsccccccscnceccecscscescecscscececcecscesescecscesess 47 Data Back p and Rescub 23 dicia id eua eo DE E Cave ano PAUL C OVE T PO LO TU PRE I Co e Sae TA DI V CO PeibUl qnDIER REO ES 50 Spr cm L 55 sjerejdi lI T T Tes 59 Partition Manapgenient ouo coxa ot dem dex e pxa dede e Dane C video e en o den d Ux dude pa coexN Cx d ad im ERIT EN ula nasecdewstscen me pa ea IA 61 Hard Disk Management 35 pos coxa uar dene bes uda ede E ex Da Up T uE T E EOM CU Fev Oa MD deua Dev ul cdu o uM Oe EVO d idu adEE 86 Extra Functionality sonene a ES 89 Typical SCENariOS secco annt E E OUR 99 Backup Scenarios onian E T DIR RES 99 Recovery SCCM ANOS uos o er eE EET a 105 RESIZE SCENA OS isra Em 138 Creating Dual Boot Systems isccicsccoeetwetsccacricsacencaesiesaweas cuasausadeaaeeennceienaiancawsaaocasenssasadesnensenueniasacwucansansesedee 152 System Migration Scenarios iiia eras neveu Eae an eaeI EAE a ciere iso IVI II RN FaDIUES 162 Hard Disk Optimizatiopisusis iste revae od Pado sao a Otrevda Lose daM lesu con d ucdassi dededav i Una onde cu QI QU DUAE 166 Extra Scenarios TOI WINPE 5 ioi ooi b oeste Ens ixi ME Dcos den b oce de tus Conso e unas eos sae S cubes rises eno PURO DEUS S eEAUE 167 TFOUDIGSNOOLCK E I Tm 170 GO
2. Re 22408 E h E 4Natasha i tools PM200 Eel AdjustO s EZ Compatib ty 4 Ec Devecan LL ives t EZ aar bec winZk 3p ista 511375 E x LU E Intel ICH Fii P gx we 7 2 2009 7 08 07 AM 12 17 2008 2 41 05 AM F M Z008 27 51 04 AM 7 7 2009 11 45 04 PM 5 15 2008 7 46 37 AM 5 18 2008 11 28 46 PM 7 8 2008 3 15 36 AM 5 18 2008 10 31 34 PM 5 18 2008 10 33 53 PM 5 18 2008 10 33 53 PM IEEE 558 9 72 2008 1 21 12 AM 79KB 9 12 2008 1 21 12 AM a eee ee ee AE AR A l is Stor in El Ale pame iaAHC inf Files of type inf Files Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved BTW NC M To know how to map a network share please consult the Configuring network scenario 168 3 You will be notified on the successful accomplishment of the operation Click Yes to load another driver or No to close the dialog 1 Driver z adjustos drivers intelich driver iaahci inf has successfully Would you like to load another driver s Our WinPE 3 0 recovery environment is 32 based thus you need to use 32 bit drivers for injection Configuring network If your local network has a DHCP server a network connection will be automatically configured once our WinPE recovery environment has been started up Otherwise you will need to do it manually with a handy dialog by providing an IP address a network mask default gateway etc Besides with its help y
3. Archive File Details server usrs exchange Z 21 6 KB 17 1 KB 4n tmn 4n in 72 22 w 2 ee 75 v SARO 9 97 5 see EVVO s 21 P SARD 94 Abs EVVO a s P 2008 2 3 id 2 20n8 2 37 07 AM wm ew le Total size 40GB Name Basic Hard Disk 0 Unknown Model Comment Backup of My Hard Disk Type Basic Hard Disk Drive File ZJ erc 280508103150968 arc 280508103150968 PBF 6 The What to Restore page displays detailed information about the contents of the archive Select the required item to restore In our case it is the first partition of the disk Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 118 40GB 25GB 18GB 97GB 2622MB 7 Onthe Where to Restore page specify a hard disk then one of its partitions to restore the image to if several in your computer By default the program offers to restore the archive exactly where it belongs That s what we actually need cr J task U VMware Virtua IDE Hard Drive APES See FESS SS vere amt o gt RLG MJE THEU idat F All contents on the partition selected for restoring purposes will be deleted during the N operation 8 Onthe Restore Results page you can see the resulted disk layout Besides there s the possibility to change size of the partition and its location if necessary as well as assign a particular drive letter 9 Onthe next page of the wizard confirm the operation by selecting the a
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5. 6 By default the wizard saves all network settings in the netconf ini file located on the WinPE RAM drive thus it will only be available until you restart the computer However you can just once configure your network device and then save this file to some other destination for instance a local drive and this way avoid constant re configuration just by providing a path to it So Click Save to file to save the netconfig ini file to the required destination Saving log files The program enables to simplify the procedure of sending support requests to the Paragon Support Team In case of having difficulties with handling the program you with the help of this very function can address the company support engineers and provide them with all the information they need such as the disk layout performed operations etc in order to tackle the encountered problem Information of that kind is stored in log files To prepare a log files package please do the following 1 Once you accept the agreement you will see the Universal Application Launcher Click Log Saver 2 Inthe opened dialog browse for the required location of the log files package or manually provide a full path to it Click Collect to initiate the operation Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 170 Path to the target zip file Z Logs 090710 1329 zip Browse Log files do not contain any confidential information on the operating system
6. To create a new partition on your hard disk please do the following Express Launcher Click the Partition Manager button and then Partition Manager in the Express Launcher Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 139 1 Click the Express Create Partition item of the Wizards menu any of the ways described earlier can also be used here 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Choose a method you find the most suitable to create the partition The wizard is especially designed to minimize your participation 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 1 as JA uA uu ta peu n emm Mi mi mmm The resut you wil get after applying the changes Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev H i 9 New Volume E on 5 760 3ITEC DVJ Ut tit Please select the method of new partion creator Take all unallocated space at the end of the disk 9 Smart Mode Use 243 3 GB to create a patton More info Advanced Mode Use 1414 GB to create a patton More rfo The number of available methods depends on your disk layout A N To learn more on the way the wizard works please click the corresponding link on t
7. Eg Backup image options Copy and backup options Hot processing options Iw Control archive integrty CD DVD recording options Choose this option to allow writing of specific data that wil later be used Partitioning options during restore to check the archive integrity It can slow down the backup Operation dependency options operation Virtual mode options Fie system conversion options E mail options Defragmentation options V Set image file names automatically Choose this option to automatically name files in complex archive Compression level Fast compression Slight compression Provides good speed with the significant image size Image spit V Enable image splitting Choose this option to enable spitting the archive to several fies Maxdmum split size 2000 MB This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during restore operations e Control archive integrity Mark the checkbox to guarantee that all backup images created with the program are 100 percent flawless If you decided not to control the archive integrity the backup operation would take about 3 596 less time e Set image file names automatically Mark the checkbox to make the program automatically set a file name for every volume of a complex backup image Otherwise you will need to do it manually during the backup operation e Compression level From the pull down list you can select the desired compression level for backup i
8. Large sized bars display the following information about physical disks e Manufacturer e Model Small sized bars display the following information about logical disks e Serial number e Drive letter e Total size e File system Furthermore it is possible to estimate the used disk space by looking at the size of the bar s shaded area The program offers to choose from several types of the disk layout scaling It s done especially to increase the program usability For instance if you ve got a high capacity hard drive containing both very large more than 100 GB and rather small less than 10 GB partitions you can select the logarithmic type to make all partitions readable otherwise selecting the linear type you won t be able to see small partitions at all but thing strips On the other hand if the proportional disk layout is critical for you the linear type is exactly what you need Nevertheless there s a compromise solution linear scaling with the minimal limit to small partitions So if a partition is too small it will remain readable Just click on the arrow icon on the top right side of the Disk Map to select the desired scaling type w Linear Linear Scaling Min Width e te mic Scaling link Edd i zm Disk Map is synchronized with the Explorer Bar Thus by selecting a disk on the Disk Map the Explorer Bar will automatically display detailed information on it The drag and drop functionality is not availa
9. Recommended to try C If used youtcan release it in Letters Map 10 Once you ve assigned the appropriate drive letter close the dialog then click the Apply button 11 Confirm the operation j Apply the changes ove 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 112 id E Reporting Report Elle report Paragon Boot Connectors Report Operations perlormed Operation 1 Change drive leners Partition targeted Hard disk 0 Partition 0 Info System Root folder is apuser If Status Successful hnd make Date and Time 2009 Jan 14 Wed 16 14 16 ning CRE hee 13 Click the Finish button to close Boot Corrector 14 Reboot the computer Restoring a system partition from external media CD DVD Let s assume that your computer fails to boot because of a virus attack or corruption of some system critical files But you ve got a backup of your system partition on a bootable DVD disc That s just enough to easily get your system back on track again To restore your system partition from a backup image located on CD DVD when the current OS is down please do the following 1 Insert a CD DVD disc containing the previous
10. Started 3 2 2009 at 3 30 35 AM Finished at 3 41 04 AM Stated 3 2 2009 at 3 41 05 AM Stated 3 2 2009 at 12 13 48 PM Finishisd at 12 20 26 Stated 3 2 2009 at 1220 26 PM Finished at 12 2445 Stated 3 2 2009 at 1224 46 PM Stated 3 2 2003 at 1206 15 PM Finished at 120747 Stated 3 2 2009 at 12 07 47 PM Finished at 12 21 18 Stated 9 2 2009 at 12 21 18 PM Finished at 1230 15 Stated 3 2 2009 at 12 30 15 PM Finished at 12 31 33 Stated 9 2 2009 at 12 3133 PM Finished at 12 41 47 Slatted 9 2 2009 at 12 54 44 PM Finished at 1258 38 8 Rated 3 2 2009 at 1 08 03 PM Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Off Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Off 9 C NTFS NTFS Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual SCSI Disk Dev Of Basic Hand Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Off Basic Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Off Basic Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Off t Unallocated K i Unallocated FREE FREE 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 Scenarios Backing up a hard disk or partition to external media CD DVD To back up an entire hard disk or a separate partition and then burn the resulted image to CD DVD please do the
11. Stas Successful Date and Time 2009 Jan 14 Wed 140109 8 Click the Finish button to close Boot Corrector Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 108 9 Rebootthe computer 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 To fix your Windows startup ability please do the following 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive 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 fo Normal Mode Hain recovery E Safe Mode enuironment A Lou Graphics Safe Mode E Floppy disk Hard disk A HBR 2 Find
12. VMware VMware Virtua 5 SCS isk Dev il g Unallocated Where to place a copy Please specify the size of the new partion i524 gt 39 MB 270 473 MB Please specify size of free space aier ihe patton 16849 gt 0 MB 20 4276 MB Partition size Define the size in Mb of the copied partition Free space before Define the position in Mb of the copied partition relative to the beginning of the available range of disk space Free space after Define the amount of trailing free space in Mb at the end of the available range of disk space Partition size and position may also be defined by using the drag and drop technique To do N that just carry out the required operation on the Disk Map Result After the operation is completed you receive a fully functional duplicate of the existing partition To make a Win2K operating system bootable on different hardware please additionally N complete the P2P Adjust OS Wizard Boot Management Our program enables 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved
13. Volume Explorer To restore separate files and folders from a backup image with Volume Explorer please do the following Launcher 1 Click the Disk View tab and then choose Volume Explorer m I CD DVD Drives E E Hard Disks 5 S E 1 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Devi 40GB PHP Primary NTFS E n 399GB 4 ee Ba Recycle Bin 4 15 2010 3 40 55 PM 8 i e are 210410030357578 4 20 2010 7 08 34 PM amp E arc NEW 4 20 2010 7 42 40 PM 5 noms arc TEST 4 20 2010 7 15 14 PM H E Boot 4 15 2010 4 11 30 PM a H E Documents and Settings 11 2 2006 5 02 03 AM ie fae Program Files 4 20 2010 4 18 27 PM w E ProgramData 4 19 2010 12 40 49 AM sa e E System Volume Information 4 20 2010 9 24 08 PM 2 Browse for the required archive and then open it by double click of the left mouse button Disk View Help gl h E CD DVD Drives E 1 LH Hard Disks j E 2 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Devi 40 GB gt g 1 Primary NTFS C 395GB B H E SRecycle Bin 4 15 2010 3 40 55 PM 8 ogm arc 210410030357578 4 20 2010 7 08 34 PM EE arc_NEW 4 20 2010 7 42 40 PM 5 p E ar NEW 001 1 966 4 20 2010 7 32 03 PM p E anc_NEW 002 159GB 4 20 2010 7 37 04 PM ie are NEW 003 18GB 4 20 2010 7 42 40 PM LENIN 039GB 420 7201072652PM j jar NEW pfm 829KB 4 20 2010 7 42 40 PM amp E arc TEST 4 20 2010 7 15 14 PM 3 Call the popup menu right click of the mouse button for a file folder you nee
14. elect how would you like to save the 5 Select a recordable device on the list of available CD DVD devices and edit the archive name if necessary Select a recorder to bum archive images to Name Disc types IAS CD Bumer Emulator CD R RW 4 DVD Burner Emulator DVD R RW Archive details Archive name BP030909 No more than 8 symbols and only in English Estimated archive size 44 GB Please take into account the Estimated archive size value It can give you a hint about the number of CD DVD discs required for the operation 6 Add comments to your backup describing its contents Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 101 Please enter a short comment to describe the archive 7 Onthe Backup Summary page review all parameters of the operation and modify them if necessary Click the Next button to start the backup process This operation can also be accomplished with the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery AN environments 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 Launcher 1 Click the Back up a Disk or Partition item of the Wizards menu any of the ways described earlier can also be used here 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Onthe What to back up page mark the appropriate option opposite a hard disk s name or a par
15. following Launcher 1 Click the Back up a Disk or Partition item of the Wizards menu any of the ways described earlier can also be used here 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Onthe What to back up page mark the appropriate option opposite a hard disk s name or a partition s name depending on the chosen task Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 100 Click the check box next to any hard disk drive or partition you wart to back up Name Type 3 Ul My Computer My Computer I 7 Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev tema Hard Disk Drs 3 7 ff First Hard Disk Track Fest Track Master Boot Record MBR Iv Primary i 3 7 Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev intemal Hard Disk Driv First Hard Disk Track Fest Track Master Boot Record MBR F Local Disk E Primary B Local Disk 7 Primary CS Local Disk 7 Pamary 7 e Loca Disk 6 Pomary 7 Basic Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev intemal Hard Disk Driv B p The sze of objects to back up 499 9 GB Estimated archive size 7 2 GB You ve got the option to modify the default backup settings by marking the appropriate checkbox on this page 4 Onthe Backup Destination page select the Burn the data to CD or DVD option There are several ways the Wizard can store your data Please s archive Save data to local network drives
16. 60 e Hiding of any primary partition except selected at the moment Startup Express Launcher e Click the Boot Management button and then select Boot Manager Launcher e Inthe Main menu select Tools gt Setup Boot Manager e Onthe Common Tasks Bar click the Boot Manager Wizard item of the Wizards menu Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Hiding other primary partitions By marking this checkbox the program will automatically assign the hidden flag to all primary partitions of the hard disk s except the one selected to boot This will help to avoid any problems when dealing with different operating systems or different versions of one and the same OS as they will be unaware of each other 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 wt E w Cw o Normal mode tg n t a AS st ust u se Time to display the Boot Manager statup message Choose a hot key for startup Boot Manager e De
17. Archive name anc _lesi Estimated archive size 2 MB Space available on backup destination 38 GB The program automatically calculates size of the future archive and informs the user about AN 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 52 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 on the second page of the wizard When it is marked the next page enables to define e Whether the archive integrity will be controlled Checking archive integrity enables to guarantee that all backup images created with the A N program are 100 percent flawless Nevertheless if you decided not to control the archive integrity the backup operation would take about 3 5 less time e Whether image file names will be set automatically in complex archives e Compression level for the backup image including the No compression variant e Whether the archive will be split if yes you can set the maximum size for the archive files Splitting images enables to tackle issues caused by a file size limitation of some file AN systems e Whether the archive wi
18. DOS FAT16 partitions larger than 2GB are not reliably accessible under these operating systems 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 40 General Copy and Backup Options sas TENG Fy General copy and backup options Hot processing options Partition raw processing CD DVD recording options Copy Backup each partition sector by sector All sectors will be processed Parttioning options one by one feven unused sectors Requires more time to complete the Fie system conversion options Patom al copy E mail options This option is
19. Ext2FS Ext3FS ReiserFS file systems Besides it enables to access Paragon backups as regular folders to explorer their contents or to retrieve certain files Launcher To launch the Volume Explorer you should click Disk View tab in the Explorer Bar and then choose Volume Explorer Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 91 LII CD DVD Drives BAI O Hard Disks 5 7 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Devi 40GB S 1 Primary NTFS C 39 9 GB b amp 7 SRecycle Bin 4 15 2010 3 40 55 PM t e 4 20 2010 7 08 34 PM sare 4 20 2010 7 42 40 PM 5 om arc_ Refresh 4 20 2010 7 15 14 PM a ED Boot 4 15 2010 4 11 30 PM e E Documents and Settings 11 2 2006 5 02 03 AM C7 Program Fies 4 20 2010 4 18 27 PM P E ProgramData 4 19 2010 12 40 49 AM S E System Volume Information 4 20 2010 9 24 08 PM Call the popup menu for the selected file folder right click of the mouse button to export it to some other location local or network drive etc E Local Disk F E E Archives 3 amp Mew Volume H Available operation scenarios e Restoring separate files and folders from a backup File Transfer Wizard File Transfer Wizard is designed to make such operations as copying of separate files directories or burning of them to CD DVD as easy and convenient as possible It may be of particular use in case of a system malfunction caused either by a
20. Free space Free F Primary 217GB 146 GB 202 3 GB LU There is no unallocated space on the hard disk you have selected The wizard can only expand the volume C at the expence of some other volumes Please click the check box next to any volume to take free space from t 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 Your disk after the changes Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev 3 data Zz 1158GE NTFS Rt Sanct may size 353 371 896 Mi 283 776 MB 496 975 28 MB CI Curent volume size 384 1 GB The volume size has been increased on 101 1 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 75 The program enables to find and recover these partitions A restored partition will be fully functional as long as other partitions were no
21. G yj Backup Capsule Lus 9GB NTFS Mi 38 GE a Unallo Basic t Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual s SCSI Disk Dev 493 3 GE During the operation all contents of the destination disk will be deleted 7 Onthe next page of the wizard define the copy options In our case we d rather copy data with a proportional resize to occupy the entire disk Besides we recommend you to enable the surface test to make sure your new hard disk is flawless Choose copy options that sut best your task Copy options HDD raw copy Partitions raw copy Perform incremental copy Resize options Remove free blocks between partitions relative order intact Tip This can be very convenient when migrating to a larger hard disk Mark the checkbox to proportionally change the size of parttions while keeping ther 8 On the Revise Copy Results page review all parameters of the operation Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev sd eon MI ue JOLIE TALL d 4 5 A Basic Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk 7 Local Dx s Veo 173 GB FAT32 EE 1705ceNTES 71 6GE Proportional resize the copy wal take 500 GB 100 of target disk space Min Copy Size 627 5 MB Max Copy Size 500GB PE tannin al dan lk tele ED E E ESTO che dac dk aii anda partitions 9 Complete the wizard and then apply the pending changes Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Grou
22. Pending Operations m Launch the real execution of virtual operations Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 31 x Cancel all virtual operations on the List of Pending Operations Virtual mode is an effective way of protection from any troubles since no operations will 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 the user that there are unsaved changes by showing the following window N i There are unsaved changes Please use ep Apply command to commit them and X Discard command to permanently undo the changes You can view changes history via View Changes command and temporary undo or redo the operation by means of amp y Undo and e Redo commands Dont show this notification again Common Tasks Bar The Common Tasks Bar is located on the left side of the main window It is intended for easy access to the program s wizards The bar contains several tabs named Basic Partitioning Tasks Advanced Partitioning Tasks Copy and Migration Tasks Backup Tasks Tools and News and Documentation Each of these contains a separate button bar which can be folded by clicking it Basic Partitioning Tasks uc E Starting the Express Create Partition Wizard to create an NTFS partition and make ress Teale it ready for work Starting the Create Partition Wizard to crea
23. SCSI Disk Dev li Local Disk C MI 29 9G8 NTFS Volume size 40 958 MB 2 v 18261 MB 40 958 MB Free space before 0 37 MB 2 Obytes 22 693 35 MB Free space after 0 Bytes v Obytes 22 689 77 MB Sector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that don contain any data This allows you to keep the partitions content after move exactly as it was but will require more time In the opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the left by the drag and drop technique While doing this 3 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 want to move resize volume E You are about to move resze NTFS volume No label E Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev B 9 Unallocated 2316 GB t Local Disk E 268 3GB NTFS avy v v 274 790 514M8 Sie 101 MB 511 993 MB Free space before 0 97 MB Obytes 511 851 43 MB Free space after 123720192 MB t s Obytes 511 8361 MB Volume size Sector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that don contain any dats This allows you to keep the partbon s content after move exactly as t was but will require more tme l The Move Resize dialog offers a number of additional parameters that can als
24. 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 F Use OS buk in format routine Please select sectors per Custer B Yr e Use OS built in routine Mark the checkbox to restrict the available values according to the used OS e Whether the surface test will be performed 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 The amount of sectors per boot This parameter is available exclusively for FAT16 and FAT32 file systems Set the number of sectors to be reserved for the boot area on the partition with this spinner control Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 68 e The amount of root entries This parameter is available exclusively for FAT16 file system Set the maximum amount of files directories to be placed in the Root Directory on the FAT16 partition e The amount of sectors per cluster Define the Cluster Size for the formatted partition with this spinner control A N 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 confirm the operation 9 fees C Are you sure you want to format volume F 2 You are about to format vo
25. Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev intemal Hard Disk Drive ll Fest Hard Disk Track First Track Al Master Boot Record MBR 1 GF Local Disk C Primary N 7 Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev intemal Hard Disk Drive Fest Hard Disk Track First Track Master Boot Record MBR e Backup destination The wizard allows saving backup archives to local or network drives to physical partitions without drive letters assigned or burning them to CD DVDs You need to select a destination taking the estimated archive size and available space on the backup destination into account There are several ways the Wizard can store your data Please select how would you like to save the B BOB non n omn OZ BOR BOMOR R U HOS ROS DEOR BOR 22502 O2 2 3 BOSOR G 3 ROS ROS DEOR SOR ROS B RR Rcz pom m f Bum the data to CD or DVD 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 Select a folder where archive should be placed and soec y archive name Archive name wil be used as sub4older where backup data files wil be stoned Archive location G arc test X z Hame E My Computer a E Local Disk C H E Local Disk E 8 E Archives G i 7 images 200 0 1 162 2 Size Date Archive details
26. adjacent partition to merge with the target partition This partition wil be merged to the one you have selected on the previous page The content of the second parttion wil be placed in a folder inside the resulting fa tadeditent al per oon Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Soecfy a folder name to keco content of the selected partition L Folder Name merged partition content Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 72 Be particularly careful when selecting system partitions to process since the incorrect order in which two partitions have been chosen will result in inability to boot the operating system Result After the operation is completed the disk space of the two adjacent partitions will be consolidated Redistributing Unused Space between Partitions This operation can be accomplished either with the Express Resize Partitions Wizard or the Redistribute Free Space Wizard 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 There are several ways to start the Express Resize Partitions Wizard Express Launcher e Click the Partitioning button and then select Resize Partitions Launcher e Inthe Main menu select Wizards gt Express Resize Partitions e On the Common Tasks Bar click the Express Resize item of
27. any file or folder you want to restore from aid EZ Documents and Settings amp Eu Users s EX Detaut User GS LocalService 4 Gl Network Service F Go User Gel Appiication Data E Cookies Gl Desktop s Gl Fevontes EX Local Settings My Documerts rH woos Ga PrrtHood E Recent oP Ege xi To continue click Next Date size to restore 1 7 KB 7 On the How to Restore page specify the way the selected data will be restored In our case we d rather restore contents of the backup to its original location with replacing existing files as well Restore fies to Orgel location Y FOnginal location p i i i archived Spactic folder E TE Y e Please overview the restonee options You can natum to the comesponding page and change the options by cliking on title hyperlinks mimm rip te sram selected 1 Total data size 1 7 KB 1 743 Bytes Destination s Cy Space available on destination 148 1037 323 556 Bytes 9 On the next page of the wizard confirm the operation by selecting the appropriate option Ti Emra a E 10 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out by the program 11 After completing the operation close the wizard and then reboot the computer Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 137 This operation can also be accomplished under Windows
28. can restore all types of backup images created with the program It provides easy to understand instructions to configure and perform all the necessary Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 53 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 Startup There are several ways to start the Restore Wizard Express Launcher e Click the Backup and Rescue button and then select Restore Launcher e Inthe Main Menu select Wizards gt Restore e On the Common Tasks Bar click the Restore item of the Wizards menu e Inthe Toolbar click the Restore Wizard button Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the restore operation e A backup image to be restored The Browse for Archive page enables to find a backup image you need You can find the required image in the browser like window The section below i e Archive File Details will also display a short description of the selected image Look in Local Disk C iw X X6 Mame Size Date S E Local Disk C Br Kk ac 210410030357578 4 20 2010 8 08 34 PM OO ggg eee eran nnn eam TEST 0000000000000 4 20 2010 8 15 14 PM p Je Program Files 4 20 2010 5 18 27 PM ji TEMP 4 15 2010 10 36 10 PM J Users 4 15 2010 4 35 12 PM x Windows 4 15 2010 10 32 40 PM EWORK 4 20 2010 8 13 44 PM 7 Fi
29. choose from C 2 Search deleted partitions from sector 40 to sector 278RT The following paritions have been found File system Type Capacity Used Space Used T NTES Primary 19 9GB 95 3 MB Most likely the required partition will be found first If so you may abort the search operation by pressing the Stop search button After the operation is completed you receive a fully functional partition Installing a New Operating System Getting system 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 then format it to the specified file system type Our program offers a handy Install New OS Wizard to easily carry out all your computer ready to install a new operating system especially when it is going to be an additional OS in the is arather complicated task that implies quite a number of operations from allocating space to create a new partitioning that only enable to create a partition in case there is enough unallocated space on the disk and the necessary operations to install a new operating system Startup There are several ways to start the Install New OS Wizard Express Launcher Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 77 e Click the Boot Management button a
30. consistency Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 23 To use VSS it is necessary to have a mounted 300 MB NTFS partition Dynamic Disks As you probably know MS DOS Microsoft Windows 95 98 Me NT 2000 XP Vista Server 2003 2008 support four primary partitions per physical hard disk one of which can be extended Certainly there is the possibility to create logical drives within the extended partition Such types of disks are called basic Windows XP Professional Windows 2000 Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 2008 follow the same strategy You can have a maximum of four primary partitions one of which can be an extended partition with logical drives However these operating systems also introduce a new disk configuration type dynamic disk which must be understood to effectively configure and manage hard disks Dynamic disk is a physical disk that doesn t use partitions or logical drives Instead it contains only dynamic volumes Regardless of what format you use for the file system only Win2K computers can access dynamic volumes directly However computers that aren t running Win2K can access the dynamic volumes remotely when connected to the shared folders over the network Dynamic disks can co exist on a system with basic disks The only limitation is that you cannot mix Basic and Dynamic disks on the same hard drive There are five types of dynamic volumes simple uses free space from a single di
31. data While performing the operation it first checks 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 NTFS FAT32 FAT32 NTFS FAT16 NTFS FAT16 FAT32 Ext2 Ext3 In order to convert a file system you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Convert File System of Partition dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 81 e Select in the Main menu Partition gt Convert file system e Onthe Explorer bar click on the current file system type e Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map or on the Partition List then select the menu item Convert File System 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 9 eee Q Are you sure you want to convert system volume C You are about to convert file system on volume C No label NTFS four computer may no longer boot or work y wn Omec Please select new fie system veeg NEN
32. e Upload drivers manually If you know exactly what drivers your operating system is lacking to successfully start up you can manually provide them for the wizard e Do not upload drivers And finally you can just refuse providing 3 party drivers Upload drivers automatically from the provided driver repository Salact this option you ve got a folder with multiple diver packages and want all required drivers for the new hardware to be installed automatically Please note only the necessary divers wil be nserted to the selected OS i gt Upload drivers manually Select this option you know exactly what drivers are required to make the selected OS bootable on the new hardware lo Do not upload drivers Select this option you dont want to inset 3rd party divers to the selacted OS We prefer the wizard to decide what drivers are to be installed 7 Browse for a folder with drivers for the new hardware or type in a full path to it manually Please a folder that contains INF fles X programs Paragon Sotware progam Test Dives Browse 8 Apply the changes by confirming the operation Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 166 The Wizard has not applied your changes yet On this page you can ether accept or reconsider the AN changes Please note f you accept the changes the Wizard wil physically perform al operations so you wont be able lo interrupt this process or undo the change
33. environment Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 131 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 Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive 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 gt Normal Mode Hain recovery Safe Mode enuironment A Low Graphics Safe Mode amp Floppy disk Hard disk H MBER amp Find OSes on your hard disks 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 wi
34. explore a file system of any type and provide access to the necessary files and directories regardless of their security attributes Recovery Media Builder to create a bootable recovery media based on Linux DOS or WinPE 3 0 on a CD DVD disc or flash memory which can later be used to boot and recover your computer in case of an operating system failure Moreover with its help you can save data from partitions of your hard disk directly to compact discs or burn ISO images The utility supports various formats of laser discs CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R RW DVD R DVD R double layer Blu ray and can handle multi session burning Network Configuration Wizard to establish a network connection under Linux or WinPE 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 problems that can be a result of a human factor program error or a boot virus activity Boot Corrector is only available for the WinPE 3 0 or Linux DOS 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
35. hard disk to the computer 2 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive 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 Hain recouery d Safe Mode environment A Low Graphics Safe Mode amp Floppy disk amp Hard disk B MBER amp Find Ses on your hard disks Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 126 i 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 Paragon Partition Manager Restore Wizard File Transfer Wizard Boot Corrector Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions Start the command line Eject CD DVD Reboot the compu
36. heads and cylinders Below there is a list of available wizards If you click a corresponding record the appropriate wizard will be started All default values for the operation parameters will correspond to the disk s settings The list of wizards contains a detailed description of tasks that can be performed by the wizard This nullifies the possibility of selecting the wrong wizard Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 48 Logical Disk G Volume letter G Seral number 743 E 455F Volume label FAT 32 LINLOS Partition ID 0 08 FAT 32 Type Primary Total size 58 GB File system FAT32 Used space 57 GB Sectors per boot 35 Free space 1GB Sectors per cluster 8 Activity Inactive Hidden state Not hidden Create an i e of the ical disk Back up all the data this logical disk contains al Restore the logical disk from an image Warning This operation wil delete all the data on thes logical disk and replace them from the image you have chosen You may also be asked to restart your computer during this operation C 2 amp Create a copy of the partition A new partition wil be created and all the data vail be copied there You can create an exact copy or copy only the area that is occupied by data When you select a small sized bar i e corresponding to a logical disk the Explorer Bar will display information on it as well The page title will contain a drive letter which is assigned to the d
37. if the computer has several hard disks and then the required partition to format Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 67 On this page you can choose a volume you would like to format Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev t Local Disk C data Z 282 9 GB NTFS 217 GB NTFS Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Local Disk 433 3 GB NTFS Basic GPT Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev Be Unallocated 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 Your hard disk after the changes Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev i data Z 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
38. intended for copying only changes on the hard disk since a Defragmentation options previous copy operation The program performs comparison between a previous copy of the hard disk and ts current state Only sectors that are d ferert will be written to a new copy Skip OS aundiary files Choose this option to skip OS auxiliary fles ike pagefifle sys hiberfil sys etc This wil reduce operation tme and backup image size This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during copy and backup operations e Partition raw processing 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 Perform incremental copy Mark the checkbox to only copy changes on the hard disk from the moment of the last copy operation The program will perform comparison between a previous copy of the hard disk and its current state Only sectors that are different will be updated thus considerably decreasing the amount of data to write 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 41 CD DVD Recording Options Edit settings Gen
39. 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 single sector in the specified search area to get the most accurate results Choose how to look for the deleted partitions Quick search for partibons created by Vista or later OS Conventional search Thorough search v Show file systems search options Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Result 76 To know more on the available search methods please use the context sensitive hint system 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 Al known file systems FAT and FAT32 file systems J NTFS file system Linux Ext2 and Ex13 flle systems OS 2 HPFS file system Other unksted file system To begin search cick Next 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
40. 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 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved
41. its work e Convert a file system FAT16 32 NTFS Ext2 Ext3 without 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 change serial number partition ID volume label 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 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved File System Optimization Facilities 27 defragmentation strategies available to defragment FAT and NTFS file systems MFT defragmentation and shrinking to improve performance of NTFS Safe Defragmentation Mode to guarantee data loss free defragmentation of any version of NTFS and FAT Low free space defragmentation less than 196 of the free space required to successfully defragment almost full disks 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 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
42. of the Wizards menu any of the ways described earlier can also be used here 2 Onthe Restore Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Onthe Browse for Archive page specify the required archive e By clicking the Switch to File View link you can find the required image in the browser like window The section below i e Archive File Details will also display a short description of the selected image Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Look in Local Disk C um x R Sue Date 7 Local Disk C mee are 21041 4 20 2010 8 08 34 PM ei ae NEw 4 20 2010 8 42 40 PM Wee TEST 4 20 2010 8 15 14 PM j GE Jc Program Files 4 20 2010 5 18 27 PM J TEMP 4 15 2010 10 36 10 PM EF Users 4 15 2010 4 35 12 PM i jo Windows 4 15 2010 10 32 40 PM m E WORK 4 20 2010 8 13 44 PM Local Disk C No comment No label NTFS Total size 39 966 393GB Free space 30 GB C arc NEW are NEW PBF N To know more on the subject please consult the Viewing Image Properties chapter 4 Onthe Where to Restore page specify a hard disk then one of its partitions to restore the image to if several in your computer By default the program offers to restore the archive exactly where it belongs That s what we actually need Please select a place you would like to restore the archive to Note that f you select an existing hard disk or partition ts content wil b
43. operating efficiency as well as low hardware requirements Paragon Adaptive Restore technology to successfully migrate a Win2K physical system to a different hardware platform P2P 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 8 e Paragon Hot Resize technology to enlarge NTFS partitions system locked without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work e Paragon Restore with Shrink technology to restore a backup image to a free block of smaller size taking into account only the amount of actual data of the image e Paragon Smart Partition technology to securely perform hard disk partitioning operations of any complexity e Paragon BTE technology to set tasks for execution in the Windows blue screen mode thus saving from the need to use a bootable media when modifying system partitions e 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 in time copies of data known as shadow copies Developed by Microsoft in close cooperation with the leading copy backup
44. options Do not marga free blocks p Marge free blocks at tha and Of ihe diek Do not merge free blocks Td n i Merge free blocks at the beginning of the dsk Dialog Setup Initially the program suggests you just to remove references to the selected partition from the Partition Table Kame lt i Are you sure you want to delete volume F You are about to delete volume F No label NTFS Your computer may no longer boot or work correctly 7 Do not ask volume label next time iem 8 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 Do not 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 Advanced Partitioning Operations Here you can learn how to accomplish advanced partitioning operations merge redistribute free space undelete etc Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 71 Merging Partitions The Merge Partitions Wizard enables to consolidate the disk space which originally belongs to two adjacent partitions into a single larger partition The order in which two partitions have been chosen is importan
45. primary parbons regse nore INS Si CAS on Tr Bless all ad bas X ua mde c td n n uns J seectec paron we be Oeetec F you cnoose to Torna amp ister in Uus wizare Besides make sure no m b operating system nas aready been msiased on that parton 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 5096 of the unused space of an adjacent partition thus resizing it You can select ether a block of unalocated space of the disk or an exst ng patton unusec spac De servec to creme a new partbon Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev y Vista C 9 Unallocated 158 7GB NTFS pa 2412 GB C 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 ee eS SS SS ORO ED RR ED RA SOR ES RR mono Partition type Ex NTFS 7 Pasign the following dive letter E Surface test level None 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 u
46. restoring purposes will be deleted during the operation Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev E Local Disk C Wil 4133 3GB NTFS Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev i os gd o Local Disk 9 Bg 34GB FAT32 24GB NTFS 14G 22 GE E X o To help you get a clear cut picture of the operation outcome the program allows inspecting the resulted disk layout Restoring Partition e Size of the restored volume and free space before and after it on the disk Geometry Restore Options Please specfy the size of the restored partition 2470 36 MB 2470 MB Please specfy size of free space before the partition 0 A OMB 2434 MB Please specfy size of free space after the partition 0 0OMB 2434 MB e Drive letter assignment after restore The pull down list contains vacant drive letters that can be associated with the restored partition Assign the following drive letter F Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 55 Restoring Hard Disk e Copy data and resize partitions proportionally If this option is activated the program proportionally changes the size of partitions keeping their relative order intact The option can be useful when restoring to a larger hard disk e Perform surface test Define whether the surface test will be accomplished during the operation or not Your hard disk after the changes Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware
47. save the data 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 t USB or FireWare external drives and t a mounted network share You will be prompted to choose a location you want to save the archive to Burn data to CD DVD Choose this option if you want the Wizard to burn the data to CD or DVD You will be prampted to choose a CD or DVD RW 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 Optiarc CD R CDRW DVD R 9 Onthe Transfer Summary page check all parameters of the operation Click the Next button to accomplish the operation 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 COOOL TT TTT J Time elapsed 00 00 07 Time to finish 00 00 16 Copied sofar 5 0 Mb To copy 12 0 Mb Overall progress Creating compilation image Used burner DVD RW AD 7170A Vendor Optiarc Session opening Data burning 11 After the operation is completed close the wizard by pressing the appropriate button 12 Turn off the computer This operation can also be accomplished with the WinPE recovery
48. settings or the user documents 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 but only on a hard disk that uses the DOS partitioning scheme e According to the rules of the DOS partitioning scheme the following combinations of partitions cannot be created Two Extended Partitions on one hard disk Five or more Primary partitions on one hard disk If there is an Extended Partition on the disk only three Primary partitions are allowed 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
49. solution vendors on the market it is based on a snapshot technology concept e Microsoft Dynamic Disk simple spanned striped mirrored RAID 5 to offer more management flexibility without the partition limitation of basic disks Dynamic storage can be particularly beneficial for large scale businesses when dealing with many physical hard disks involving complex setup e 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 Supported File Systems e Full read write access to FAT16 FAT32 partitions e Full read write access to NTFS Basic and all five types of Dynamic Disks under Windows 95 98 ME Linux and PTS DOS Compressed NTFS files are also supported e Full read write access to Ext2FS Ext3FS Ext4FS partitions under all versions of Windows DOS 5 0 and later 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 up to 1 5 TB tested e IDE SCSI and SATA hard disks 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 hard disks e PC card storage devices MBR and GPT fl
50. 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 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 L
51. the Boot Manager startup message Choose a hot key for startup Boot Manager Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 155 12 Now restart the computer to make sure you have got a dual boot system Traditional way d This scenario implies that operating systems will be installed on different partitions to N provide better security and system independence Express Launcher Click the Partition Manager button and then Partition Manager In the main window select your hard disk on the Disk Map to make a block of free space on it 1 Local Disk E gt E Serial number No label Partition ID Pomary NTFS version NTF Volume Size gt 32 Partition size 8 Used space g Free space Activity Hidden state Move Resize Partition E e Resize or Move partition Format Partition 3 es This wizard helps you to format the selected partion Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev n Local Disk E 433 5 GB NTFS 2 Release some free space not less than 10 GB to install Windows XP from the partition To do that please call the context menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button and launch the Move Resize dialog Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 156 Are you sure you want to move resize system volume C You are about to move resize NTFS volume No label C Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S
52. the Wizards menu 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 space between as the right one will be selected automatically The wizard wil resize space between Local Disk C and data Z o Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Select left partition from a par of adjacent pations you woUG axe 1o res ze seiacted automabcany Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk C 569 6 CR rrr j w Ier cc 3 2D s e Resulted size of partitions Redistribute the unused space between the partitions with the slider or manually by entering the required value Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved gt n an a TM e8s 6 2oecty new 1265 OS seeciec paroons Selected part of Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Result After the operation is completed the unused space between the specified partitions will be redistributed according to your needs Available operation scenarios e Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space of an adjacent 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 sp
53. the boot area on the partition with this spinner control e The amount of root entries This parameter is available exclusively for FAT16 file system Set the maximum amount of files directories to be placed in the Root Directory on the FAT16 partition e The amount of sectors per cluster Define the Cluster Size for the formatted partition with this spinner control Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 69 Number of available options depends on the selected file system type Result After the operation is completed you receive a fully functional partition formatted to the specified file system Deleting Partitions With the Delete Partition Wizard or the Delete Partition Dialog you can delete a partition on a hard disk partitioned with the DOS partitioning scheme Unlike the majority of other utilities Windows Disk Manager included the program can not only remove references to the deleted partition from the Partition Table thus making it unavailable for the operating system but also enables to irreversibly destroy its data This feature will guarantee security of your personal information Wizard Startup There are several ways to start the Delete Partition Wizard Express Launcher e Click the Partitioning button and then select Delete Partition Launcher e Inthe Main menu select Wizards gt Delete Partition e Onthe Common Tasks bar click the Delete Partition item of the Wizards menu Dialog Sta
54. to set up the operation There are several ways to do it e Select in the Main menu Partition gt Modify gt Change Cluster Size Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 82 e On the Explorer bar click on the current sectors per cluster value 3 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 O8 mew Ave you sure you want to change cluster size for partition C Dureri cluster 26 i B sectors 4 KB 4 096 Bytes Smaller Custers may phos n Pt m pet 4 _ ail lt BARA wow ve me e ea e ye U 59 w w SK DOCC al s Please enter new cluster size in sectors EE The Cluster Size value is expressed in Sectors Per Cluster To get the Cluster Size in Kbytes divide it into half 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 In order to change a partition type you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Selecta primary or logical partition on the Disk Map 2 Callthe Make Partition Logical Primary dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it e Select in the Main menu Partition gt Modify gt Make Partit
55. 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 button and launch the corresponding dialog Click the Yes button to continue Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 160 LP E Are you sure you want to set the volume as inactive You are about to set the volume C No label NTFS as inactive You computer may no longer boot comectly 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 Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive 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 Paragon Partition Manager Restore Wiza
56. will be performed immediately after confirmation Extra Functionality This chapter describes the supplementary functionality available in the program View Partition Hard Disk Properties 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 There are several ways to get properties on a partition hard disk Launcher 1 Choose a partition hard disk on the Disk Map then select in the Main Menu Partition Hard Disk gt Properties Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 90 2 Call the popup menu for the selected partition hard disk right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Properties General File System info Advanced Local Disk C No label NTFS Primary 4999GB 536 868 814 848 Bytes 1 048 571 904 Sectors 93GB 1 10 016 497 664 Bytes 19 553 472 Sectors 490 6 GB 99 526 852 317 184 Bytes 1 029 008 432 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
57. 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 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 43 Switch between hot processing technologies Mark the checkbox to automatically switch between Paragon Hot Processing and Microsoft VSS if one of them is unavailable at the moment E Mail Options Q Edit settings General options pA I Backup image options E mail options Copy and backup options Hot processing options Specify your e mail account options CD DVD recording options Outgoing mail server SMTP Enter a server name h Parttioning options Operation dependency opbons User e mail address Virtual mode options File system conversion options SMTP port number 25 Iw My outgoing server requires authentication Defragmentation options User name Password Specify e mail notification options Iw Send E Mail notification on apply To Erter an emal address here Send mai in HTML format Send complete repot after applying operations Send graphical vi Select the operations you would like to be notfied about OK Cancel This
58. 12 Gb i Primary All contents on disk selected for restoring purposes will be deleted during the operation 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 IB asic Disk O Your partitions before operations 11 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out by the program Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 125 Operations bist Suboperation progress 1 Restore partition or disk OT Operation progress Time elapsed 00 00 16 Time to finish 00 26 24 Copied so far 192 0 Mb Read so far 192 8 Mb 24 0 Mb s To copy 14 0Gb Write solar 192 0 Mb 38 4 Mb s Overall progress Po Converting disk 0 to GPT Opening archive lea vista 0000p OH Restore Primary partition disk 0 from file r9 052 amp Tw d leo vista teo vista OO00p 000 Data writing Opening archive leo vista Q001p 000 Restore Primary partition 1 disk 0 from file r9 052 amp Tid leo vista lleo vista 0001p 000 Data writing 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
59. 2010 10 36 10 PM 4 15 2010 4 35 12 PM 4 15 2010 10 32 40 PM A 20 201081344PM 7 Local Disk C Ho comment i No label NTFS Teta size 393GB 385GB Free space 30 G8 C erc_HEW arc HEW PEF The section below i e Archive File Details displays a short description of the selected image including e Information on a type of the archive contents whether it is sector based or file based e Whether the archive is compressed or not e Whether the archive is password protected or not e The date when the archive was created Moreover on this page you ve got the possibility to create new folders delete existing files folders or map network drives by clicking the appropriate buttons The next page i e What to restore displays detailed information about the contents of the archive Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 50 S Restore Wizard What to restore Please select an archive tem to restore Please select one of the object s to restore Name File system Sae Used F Basic Hard Disk 1 Unknown Model 10GB Local Disk 7 ary Linux Swap 509 8 MB 4 KB Local Disk 4 Primary Linux Ex3 14GB 581MB 4 p New Volume F ar NTFS 24GB 356 1MB a E NEW VOLUME E nmary FAT32 14GB t Local Disk Volume label No label File system Linux Ext3 Total size 14GB Used space 58 1 MB Free space 1 3GB To select where to restore the selected ob
60. A handy Launcher to easily find and run the required tasks e Comprehensive wizards to simplify even the most complex operations e Resize partitions directly on the Disk Map with the drag and drop technique e Acontext sensitive hint system for all functions of the program e Previewing the resulting layout of hard disks before actually executing operations so called virtual operations Backup Facilities e Support of major techniques to store backup images Backup to local mounted unmounted without drive letter assigned partitions Backup to an external mounted storage to provide for a higher level of data protection and system independence Backup to external media CD DVD to guarantee a high level of data protection as long as the backup media is kept secure Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 6 Backup to a network drive to stand a better chance of success in case of a hard disk failure Restore Facilities e Restore an entire disk separate partitions or only files you need from the previously created backup image e Restore with Shrink to restore a backup image to a free block of smaller size taking into account only the amount of actual data of the image e Adaptive Restore to successfully migrate a Win2K physical system to a different hardware platform P2P by allowing automatic injection of all required drivers and the other actions crucial for a migration of this kind Copy Fa
61. BR 12 disci 13 Building Recovery IVledla i oa eno eio aa eoxe E bere UD qu iub vue cul ede Qa a reu edi OM EN uU Eel o uk Seville QU D UR UR a N 14 Booting from the Linux DOS Recovery Media cssscssscsssssscssccescceccnscccscceccsecccsecescsccusssesesescussseseseceussees 15 Booting from the WinPE Recovery Media cccscsccscscsccscscsccccccscnccccecscsccccccscsceccccscsceccecscscescccscncececcecscuces 18 Basic CODCO Ls ivevercent ie va nc tvE Le vod eu dies va E FUDegU e 0 cM COu vue PUT CU RR ONOKN NUM TIS Seg DOM dug OU ERU PT VE 20 System and Data Protections o opi ono PA Ode aao u Edu Eae nen EE em ev ea Pdis ga P s dea e QUNM EPI a nOn CERO RU RD D CENC 20 Paragon Hot Processing amp Volume Shadow Copy Servi e csscsccscccscsceccccscsccccccscsceccccscsceccccscscscsseccecces 21 Brad C TL TT T TULLIUM 23 GPT v rsus MBR eer d E 23 Apple Boot Cain Pee HC c a 24 GA DIU SUD DOM m TETTE IT ITI UI 24 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved CODY ODELALIONS T NN 24 Drive Parttionineg ooi rio peser Ca R ouo p c tabu esa vae oed ia tels a dere e duc Pixar esce a ice ts 25 Windows Components uses ase peus so ay bkn ro Ey S EROS ENMU a Pla SEU SuMSaE Ue a SYOENeu ME Rn ME UPEU EM I FR NP PESE 25 interface OV OCR VI OW mte
62. DM that originates from the UNIX mainframe systems Veritas Executive accommodates a simplified version of LDM to the Windows 2000 operating system Windows 2000 and XP support two quite different partitioning schemes the old DOS partitioning scheme and the new 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 174 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
63. Document All operations have been finished 12 After the operation is completed close the wizard by pressing the appropriate button 13 Turn off the computer N This operation can also be accomplished with the WinPE recovery environment 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 Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive 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 since it s the only mode that enables to burn CD DVD discs a Normal Mode Hain recovery d Safe Mode environment S Low Graphics Safe Mode amp Floppy disk Hard disk B MBER amp Find Ses on your hard disks A N 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 129 You can create delete and format hard disk Paragon Partition Manager partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which wil
64. IOS 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 N 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 Boot menu The Boot menu contains the following commands Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 16 Normal Mode Hain recouery d Safe Mode environment A Low Graphics Safe Mode amp Floppy disk Hard disk B MBER amp Find Ses 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 To move within the menu please
65. Launcher Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 62 e Inthe Main menu select Wizards gt Create Partition e Onthe Common Tasks bar click the Create Partition item of the Wizards menu Dialog Startup In order to start the operation you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a block of free space on the Disk Map 2 Call the Create Partition Dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it e Select in the Main Menu Partition gt Create Partition e Call the popup menu for the block of free space right click of the mouse button then select the menu item Create Partition 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 gt oo ba A oes Po noa The result you wil get aer applying the changes Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Q Local Disk C Q data Z 49 New V 2829 GB NTF 1085G8 NT 108 5GB NT Please select the method of new partition creation Aa q Smart Mode Use 182 1 GB to create a partition fore info 9o Advanced Mode Use 102 5GBto create a
66. OS it offers a number of crucial benefits e Upto 128 primary partitions for the Windows implementation only 4 in MBR e The maximum allowed partition size is 18 exabytes only 2 terabytes in MBR Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 24 e More reliable thanks to replication and cyclic redundancy check CRC protection of the partition table e Awell 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 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 A N 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 o
67. OSes on your hard disks 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 109 7 You can create delete and format hard disk Paragon Partition Manager partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start now Upon the start please T T select the drive and one of its partitions or its Restore Wizard free space Then ativate the Partition pull down menu and select one of the File Transfer Wizard partitioning operations Boot Corrector Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions Start the command line Eject CD DVD Reboot the computer Power off 4 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page select the Search for Windows installations to correct option Please choose the operation Search for Windows installations to correct Correct the Master Boot Record MBR Correct the partition boot record O Modify partition parameters O Correct boot parameters boot ini BCD To begin click Next 5 Onthe next page choose the required Windows installation from the list 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 i
68. Paracon Boa ake Heinrich von Stephan Str 5c 79100 Freiburg Germany sfraracon PARAGON Technologie GmbH Systemprogrammierung Tel 49 0 761 59018201 Fax 49 0 761 59018130 Internet www paragon software com 9 Email sales paragon software com Partition Manager Server User Manual Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Contents IEF OGUCTION eM c E EE 4 What s New in Partition Manager Server ccccscscccsscscsccccecscsccccccscsccccccscncescccecsceseccecscscescecscuceccecscscesssess 4 Product Components x ouincis iascai vereda edo dsa Ihtvsen au cu CE S VeVR Su E e VES C ose DIESE ENS P CN UEM C PRIMUS 5 Features OVETVICW et 5 KEV u cI IEEE NETTE E Utm 5 Supported TechnoloBgl65 i abeundi vga cud kd an eder aa Ead e ei devo eno vu Ire l n an DERRE CuR Medal suco EO E e Sed eT a ro eli vuv VM oa 7 Supported File Systeme e T ETSI DITE 8 Supported Mediasie a LUE ied indebido eda coii Foe Ps VIP do MS DT e PIE CO Ko E ERE Ed 8 Getting SEarteul us iiie oos nu alia sed va Vs a aea ad ei esse beue a v edv ione yov Ee devis abusu ed sua Ts eu Vau c aE E 8 Distribution ete 9 Contacting Paragon Technology GmbH 1 ecce esee esee eee eene ness eres sese sese ese tese ese ssesese se ssese seen 10 System Re guilremellls 5 15 9 34 d hola ee crar eue eara DiB OR Ea CE pde E Cao a eerte sea aa DiS Ee E NOE aiX E aoi SE Va es Ee Rd LEO LQUA CO Du Ma dE ES Ea va eM 11 Duci
69. RECYCLER System Volume Information Rename F6 New folder F7 Delete F3 File name Sae File type Image file Cancel 10 Edit the archive name if necessary Backup destination NENNEN Archive name Space available on destination 4 8 Gb Approximate archive size 17 5 Gb Please take into account values of the parameters Estimated archive size and Space 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 larchive ima DO pbf created 00806 05 13 42 39 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 This operation can also be accomplished with the WinPE recovery environment or under Windows Recovery Scenarios Fixing MBR after a boot virus attack Let s assume that the MBR Master Boot Record of your hard disk has been corrupted as a result of a boot virus attack thus your system fails to boot To fix the MBR of your hard disk please do the following Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 106 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment eit
70. RRRRRARRRRRRARRRRRRA Transiering ANINDOWS system to mntidiskdalMWINDOWS system tem 1 of 1 Alloperations 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 the WinPE recovery environment 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 This operation can be accomplished either with the Restore Wizard File Transfer Wizard or Volume Explorer Restore Wizard To restore separate files and folders from a backup image with the Restore Wizard please do the following 1 Start up the computer from our WinPE recovery media Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Once it has been loaded read the agreement and then mark the appropriate checkbox to accept Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 135 License Press Page Up and Page Down to scroll the text nd User License Agreement between PARAGON Technologie GmoH Synemprogramnrierung cer X 7 1nn PF j rieinrich vor Ssepnan Str 5
71. SS AY sona eim iE ELI MEINEM I EM MM IMEEM E EM aegoe ee 172 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Introduction Paragon Partition Manager Server is an integrated set of powerful tools that is specially designed to tackle most of the problems the user 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 optimize performance of NTFS and FAT file systems migrate the system to another hard disk etc 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 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 Server Next generation Adaptive Restore P2P Adjust OS to successfully migrate a Win2K physical system to a different hardware platform P2P by allowing automatic injection of all required drivers and the other actions crucial for a migration of this kind Smart Driver Injector to make the process of adding new drivers for P2P operations smooth and easy Selective Restore to easily extract files and folders from a backup image with the Restore Wizard without the need to restore the whole image Boot Corrector for W
72. Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev i Q Local Disk 7 E Local Disk i a Unalloc 4GB FAI SZ L is 3B NTFS 1405 cC st Hard Disk Restore Options Copy data and resize partitions proportionally in this mode the Wizard changes the size of partitions in the same proportion with keeping intact their relative order This option can be useful in restring an image of hard disk to a larger one Perform surface test Set this option f you want the Wizard to perform the surface test on the target hard disk In this case f the program finds bad and unreliable sectors 2 wil mark them as unusable ones All contents on the disk selected for restoring purposes will be deleted during the operation Result The wizard will restore the archived data and make it available to use in the operating system To make a Win2K operating system bootable on different hardware please additionally complete the P2P Adjust OS Wizard Available operation scenarios e Restoring a system partition from external media CD DVD e Restoring a system partition from a network drive e Restoring a system partition from a local drive e Restoring a dual boot Mac from an external USB drive e Copying of data from the corrupted system disk to another hard disk e Burning of data from the corrupted system disk to CD DVD e Copying of data from a backup to the corrupted system partition e Restoring separate files and folders from a backup Copy Tasks In this chapter you will fi
73. a 9 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 t USE ar FireWare external drives and to a mounted network share You will be prompted to choose a kx ation you wani to save the archive to Burn data to CD DVD Choose this option if you want the Wizard to burn the data to CD or DVD You will be prompted to choose a CD or DVD RW drive 9 Onthe Select Destination Path page select a hard disk to copy the data to by pressing the standard browse button Select path Space available on destination 8 6 Gb Total data size n a 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 128 Operations list Suboperation progress Eo ar TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTITTTITTD Operation progress TITITITITITITINITIDI Time elapsed 00 00 03 Time 1o finish 00 00 00 Copied so far 17 0 Mb Overall progress Transfering imntdisk hdal Documents and Settings User E Mail Database to lmnudisk hda2 E Mail Data Transfering mntidisk hdal Documents and Settings User My Documents to mntidisk hda2 My
74. a 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 CD 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 Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive 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 Main recovery amp Safe Mode environment A Low Graphics Safe Mode amp Floppy disk e Hard disk B HBR amp Find Ses on your hard disks By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period 3 Inthe Linux launch menu select Par
75. a driver for your disk controller your hard disks will be unavailable Please consult the Adding specific drivers scenario to know how to tackle this issue Sorry the wizard cannot continue N The Wizard has failed to find any OS that can be modified Please note the Wizard can only work with Microsoft Windows 2000 and later Depending on your system configuration and hardware some disks can be unavailable for the program 4 On the Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 165 5 Fromthe list of all found Windows based operating systems if several select one you need to adjust to your new hardware If you re willing to adjust them all just re launch this wizard for each ip vindows 2000 Local Disk C Molabe 1 8 GB Viindows XP s Local Disk DJ Mo bbe 4 8 GE The wizard can only work with Microsoft Windows 2000 and later operating systems 6 Choose whether you re going to add drivers for the new hardware to the selected operating system or not and the way it s to be done Actually you ve got three options e Upload drivers automatically from the provided driver repository Generally together with new hardware you get its drivers for different operating systems on removable media mostly CD or DVD By collecting all these drivers in one folder you can let the wizard automatically pick and install only those required for your OS recommended
76. ace and the unused space of other partitions By default the wizard adds to the target partition 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 There are several ways to start the Redistribute Free Space Wizard Launcher e Inthe Main menu select Wizards gt Redistribute Free Space e On the Common Tasks bar click the Redistribute Free Space item of the Wizards menu 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 74 Choose a volume to expand Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev gems BB o daa 2 282 9 GB NTFS Mi 217G8 NTFS 4 Capasty of the volume C is 282 9 GB The wizard can expand this volume up to 485 3 GB at the expence of other volumes e Partition to donate Choose any partition s not only adjacent to donate free space Select volumes to take space from Free space from that volume wil be used to enlarge the volume you have selected on the previous page Volume Fie system Type Capacty Used space
77. activating Configuring the Boot Manager 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 Configure Choose this op artar Settings page You will be able t gure Boot Manager appearances and E fenu optix Deactivate se this op deactivate E anager This emove Boot Manager and restore boot proce 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 61 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 by using the DOS partitioning scheme This operation can be accomplished either with the Create Partition Wizard or the Create Partition Dialog Besides there s the Express Create Partition Wizard that will analyze your disk subsystem to help you create an NTFS partition in the most appr
78. ard disks is the Disk Map It represents the actual state of the computer s hard disks Generally the hard disks are represented on the map by rectangular bars which also contain small sized bars The small sized bars represent logical disks partitions When you select a large sized bar the Explorer Bar displays information about the disk in a bright graphical form Basic Hard Disk 1 FUJITSU MPF3102AT Type Basic Hard Disk Drive Total size 356GB Sectors per track 63 Heads 255 Cylinders 1245 Create an image of the entire disk Back up all the data this hard disk contains All the partitions on thes disk will be added to the archive Rest im entire disk gy Warning This operation wil delete all the data on this hard disk All the parbbions will be replaced with ones from Ihe image you have chosen You may also be asked to restart your computer dunng the operation Copy the entire hard disk Create a copy of the entire hard disk Al the partitions on this disk wil be copied on the specified target disk The model and serial number of the disk serve as the title of the browsed page The disk layout is shown in form of a circular graph where the color of a sector corresponds to a file system of an appropriate partition On the right you may see a table which contains the following information e Type of hard disk basic or dynamic e Total size in GB e Information on geometry of the disk amount of sectors per track
79. ard 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 click on My Computer gt Manage gt Services gt find Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and make it active Set also to start it automatically 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 I get the following error Can t restore to current sel
80. artition iw r Convert File System T Defragment Partition T Defragment MFT Y Compact MFT Change Volume Label P i dao arttion List Hide Partition Loc RES Mark Partition as Inactive Basic Hard Disk 0 VI de 4 Make Partition Logical Disk Map Change Cluster Size Basic Hard Disk 0 Change Serial Number Change Partition ID A Local Disk C l 393 GB NTFS Downgrade NTFS version Sex p Change SID Test Surface V5 Check File System Integrity W NTFS a Edit View Sectors exe i Ki p Properties Move or resize the sel s 6 Atfirst 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 Are you sure you want to move resize volume F You are about to move resize NTFS volume Data F Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev ee Unallocated E Data F E gs E NTFS Volume size 14387114 MB w 94 MB 265 794 MB Free space before 121 923 00 MB Obytes 265 700 04 MB Free space after 0 Bytes v Obytes 265 700 04 MB F Sector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that dont contan any data This allows you to keep the partition s content after move exactly as was but wil require more time 7 Now you can resize the extended partition to take the block of free space out o
81. artitions and unp rtitioned space on this computer Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to an item in the list To set up Windows AP on the selected item press ENTER To create a partition in the unpartitioned space press C To delete the selected partition press BD 236591 AB Disk at Id on bus A on atapi ABE E Partitioni Inactive 0872 Boot Hanid s 60 AB 182417 AE free Part i E 49685 ME 19659 HE 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 launch the Boot Manager Setup wizard To do that please install our program once again but this time in Windows XP to activate Boot Manager To avoid double installation please use our WinPE recovery environment to activate Boot Manager 10 Click Boot Management and then select Boot Manager in the Express Launcher 11 Set up the Boot Manager wizard The most relevant option here is the possibility to hide other primary partitions except the one selected to boot and it is by all means should be activated to make Windows Vista and Windows XP unaware of each other The rest of 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 cpbons o9 Normal mode J Timeout for booting last used configuratic 15 seconds Time to display
82. ary Partition preview NTFS WinXP New size 1859 3067 Mb o er ji Free space before 0 1208 Mb Free space aher 0 1208 Mb E S Mb 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 115 View changes on Your partitions before operations LEN a Your partitions after operations 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 Restore partition or disk JDILLLLLLLLLLL Operation progres s heard 5 5 ll Time elapsed 00 01 10 Time to finish 00 06 36 Copied so far 290 0 Mb Read so far 366 0 Mb 5 7 Mb s To copy 1 5Gb Write so far 366 0 Mb 52 3 Mb s Overall progress CT 8 8 Lb LL 0 Restore Primary partition O disk 0 from file Z BP280508 PBF Data writing 12 After completing the operation close the wizard and then reboot the computer This operation can also be accomplished with the WinPE recovery environment A N To make a Win2K operating system bootable on different hardware please additionally complete the P2P Adjust OS Wizard Restoring a system partition from a network drive Let s assume that your computer fails to boot bec
83. ash memory etc Getting Started In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to get the product ready to use Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Distribution Paragon Partition Manager Server is distributed in two ways e Boxed package from Paragon Technology GmbH and resellers e Downloadable package over the Internet at the company s web site Distributive CD The boxed package includes a distributive CD that is in fact a bootable Linux DOS recovery environment with auto run of the Windows installation thus it can be used as a ready made solution see Booting from the Linux DOS Recovery Media But if you re going to run the Windows components you need to install them first see Installation If you want to download an update upgrade of the product it will be in form of the downloadable installation package as described in Online Distribution The WinPE recovery environment can only be obtained through the company s web service You will get the required download link after the product has been purchased Online Distribution Partition Manager Server purchased over the Internet will be in form of an MSI package After installing the product you can launch the Recovery Media Builder to build the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery media The WinPE recovery environment can only be obtained through the company s web service You will get the required download link after the product has be
84. ation dependency options 7 Enable initial Backup reminders Virtual mode options Choose this option to enable intial Backup reminders Initial Backup Fie system conversion options guarantee the safety of your data by backing up all on disk information E mail options ncludng standard bootstrap code and other system service structures before Defragmentation options performing any critical partitioning operation This section contains a set of general options that will be taken into account during any operation carried out with the program e Enable data loss protection Mark the checkbox to make the program work in the fail safe mode also referred to as the data loss protection mode which ensures reliability for operations by maintaining a special journal In case of a hardware malfunction power outage or an OS failure happened in the middle of a data sensitive operation resize move merge redistribute change cluster size etc the program will ask to insert the bootable recovery media and automatically complete the interrupted operation thus reviving the corrupted partition N It is strongly recommended to enable this option e Enable Initial Backup reminders If this option is marked the program will automatically offer to make a backup before accomplishing any critical partitioning operation thus minimizing the risk of data loss Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 38 Backup Image Options
85. ause of a virus attack or corruption of some system critical files But you ve got a backup of your hard disk on a remote backup server That s just enough to easily get your system back on track again To restore your system partition from a backup image located on a network drive please do the following 1 Start up the computer from our WinPE recovery media Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Once it has been loaded read the agreement and then mark the appropriate checkbox to accept Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 116 License Press Page Up and Page Down to scroll the text r License Agreement PARAGON Technologie Gra Systemorogrammierung m ts xr Peinnchvon S ephan 5 If you accept the terms of the agreement click the check box below v accept the terms in the License Agreement Decline If you do not agree with any conditions stated there you won t be able to use the program 3 Once you accept the agreement you will see the Universal Application Launcher Select the Restore Wizard 4 Onthe Restore Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 5 Onthe Browse for Archive page you need to specify the required backup image So you should take t
86. bility 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 J Use OS but in format routine Please select number of sectors per cluster 8 Please select number of root erines e Use OS built in routine Mark the option to restrict the available values according to the used OS e Whether the surface test will be performed 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 The amount of sectors per boot This parameter is available exclusively for FAT16 and FAT32 file systems Set the number of sectors to be reserved for the boot area on the partition with this spinner control e The amount of root entries This parameter is available exclusively for FAT16 file system Set the maximum amount of files directories to be placed in the Root Directory on the FAT16 partition 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 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 da
87. ble when the logarithmic type of the disk N layout is selected Explorer Bar The Explorer Bar is located in the center of the main window which emphasizes its importance The bar displays reference information including e The help system Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 34 e General information on the product including its name version and a list of helpful links e Detailed information about disks selected on the Disk Map e Volume Explorer utility e Disk Editor utility According to these categories the Explorer Bar has several tabs e Disk View which offers the user the following options Partition List to get a clear cut picture of the current state of the system hard disks partitions Disk Editor to view edit sectors of the selected partition hard disk Volume Explorer to browse and export contents of the selected partition hard disk Properties to view detailed information on the selected partition hard disk in the bright graphical form You can switch between these three components by clicking tabs on the left side of the N Explorer Bar e Help which contains the program help and general information on the product You can access the desired information by clicking on the appropriate tab The Explorer Bar is a fully functional embedded HTML browser which offers the possibility to address for example the company s website to look through important technical notes or download t
88. c 73100 Freiburg Germany If you accept the terms of the agreement click the check box below v accept the terms in the License Agreement aah n Recline If you do not agree with any conditions stated there you won t be able to use the program 3 Once you accept the agreement you will see the Universal Application Launcher Select the Restore Wizard 4 Onthe Restore Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 5 Onthe Browse for Archive page choose the required archive in the browser like window The Archive File Details section displays a short description of the selected image i Tie Fa SEIT SIT PR J eee ww Ow edv www ISU IW amp Vue ww tw Fm mg 0 310708 072009875 PBF 227KB 7 30 2008 3 20 10 PM EJ NU71eb 6d 16 43 0 4dce 8367 13 2c00585421200831070 7 20 2008 3 52 28 PM mg 0 310708 075228187 PBF 227KB 7 30 2008 3 52 28 PM CBR tye 17GB 7 30 2008 3 55 41 PM mg 2 310708 075228187 PBF 126GB 7 30 2008 3 57 46 PM E Local Disk No comment is available WinXP NTFS Total sze 29GB 1 9G8 Frae space 1020 7 MB 1F2cb0a5d2 20083107075228187Amg_1_310708_0752238187 PBF 6 On the next page specify what you need to extract from the backup by marking checkboxes next to the required data items At the right lower corner of the window you can see the resulted amount of the selected data Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 136 Cick the check box next to
89. can al the neccessary operations and t wil not be possible to undo the changes t may take some time to apply the changes You may also be asked to restart your computer during this process Would you like to apply your changes 7 Yes apply the changes physically No let me reconsider Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 142 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 System restart is required to complete the operation What would you like to do The coeration Redistribute partitions nesds exclusve access to the volume C and cannot be completed without system restart After restart the operation wil continue in boottime mode Do not tum off the computer until the operation E gt Restart the computer Please confirm restart of your computer The operation wil be continued sfer syemresat E gt Retry Manually close used files and retry the operation 7 Inthe Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment Suboperation progress Gparacon ee S D SOFTWARE GROUP Redistribute partitions E o Work timeo0 01 15 Time to fi
90. ccomplish the copy hard disk operation e The hard disk to copy Select a hard disk you want to copy On this page you can choose a hard disk you would like to copy All partitions from this hard disk wil be copied to the destination you wil choose on the nex page Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev i Local Disk C Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev Y 3 Local Disk E E Loc Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI D ery ft KI 120 iro 3 CENSU e The target hard disk Select a hard disk if several where all data of the source disk will be copied to Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 57 Select a target hard disk Al data from the source hard disk wil be copied there During copy operation target disk content will be deleted Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev wu Local Disk C Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev 4089 9 GEB NTFS Vul wl ls Te i e Copy parameters The wizard enables to specify the following options Choose copy options that suit best your task Copy options HOD raw Copy Partitions raw copy Perform incremental copy Change masks for files to exclude from copy Resize options Remove free blocks between partitions Copy data and resize partitions proportionally Mark the checkbox to copy the hard disk in the secfordy sectormode thus ignor
91. ce Check File System Integrity Edit View Sectors Change SID Browse Partition Make logical Properties Defragmentation Navigate through TAB and Merge with 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 remm TEA Ee Ra GO nam Ae Formal Partition Alt F Delete Partition Alt D Move Resize Partition Alt Z File Sy Convert File System Unhide Unmournt Change Cluster Size Change Volume Label Change Serial Number Change Partition ID Change SID Test Surface Check File System Integrity Edit View Sectors Make logic al D amiasmcm Phal am Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 162 6 You will be notified after the operations are completed Operations list Suboperation progress 1 Set partition flags BRRRRARRRRRRARRRRRRRRRRRRRRARRRRARARIE Operation progress BRRRRRRRRRRRARBRARRARRRRRRRRRRARRARRBRARRRN Time elapsed 00 00 26 Time finish Overall progress Rebuilding partitions info All operations have been finished 7 Restart the computer System Migration Scenarios Migrating system to another hard disk Clone HDD Let s assume that you ve bought a new hard disk It s faster and of much hi
92. ce available on destination 90 6 GB 526 821 834 752 Bytes Overwrite existing files io P amp C Result After the operation is completed the required data will be placed into the specified destination Available operation scenarios e Copying of data from the corrupted system disk to another hard disk e Burning of data from the corrupted system disk to CD DVD e Copying of data from a backup to the corrupted system partition e Restoring separate files and folders from a backup 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 Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Add Drive Letter dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Partition Assign Drive Letter Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Assign Drive Letter 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 94 EN Assign a drive letter This allows access to the volume by using the dive letter assigned The assignment is not recommended the volume contain
93. cilities e Partition hard disk copy to successfully transfer all on disk information including standard bootstrap code and other system service structures thus maintaining the operating system s working capability AN Copy functionality can also be used as an alternative way of data protection 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 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
94. complete The point is to provide a coherent state of all open files and databases involved in a process taking into account that applications may still keep writing to disks As a result an online data processing cannot boast high operating speed Our program supports both offline and online methods of data processing As far as online method is concerned it offers its own hot processing algorithm together with the possibility to use snapshot technologies provided by the Microsoft VSS framework Paragon Hot Processing Technology Paragon Hot Processing is an online copy backup technology for Windows NT family operating systems Developed back in 2001 nowadays it is integrated with all copy backup solutions offered by the company Paragon Hot Processing is not exactly a snapshot technology though it has much in common with it During an online copy backup the program uses the kernel mode driver HOTCORE SYS to intercept and control disk write activity of applications and the operating system The hotcore driver as an integral part of the program is installed during the setup procedure that s why the system reboot is required to complete the setup procedure For the most part the driver is in the idle mode until it is activated with the program While in this mode it bypasses any calls having no effect on the overall system performance but a few kilobytes of the system memory Paragon Hot Processing technology offers copy backup of locked partition
95. d and then select the Export item Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 138 A LII CD DVD Drives E Hard Disks 7 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Devi 40GB S E 1 Primary NTFS C 39 9 GB H E SRecycle Bin 4 15 2010 3 40 55 PM ER 4 20 2010 7 08 34 PM s E arc 4 20 2010 7 42 40 PM s Eac_1 Refresh 4 20 2010 7 15 14 PM E Boot 4 15 2010 4 11 30 PM E Documents and Settings 11 2 2006 5 02 03 AM E Program Fies 4 20 2010 4 18 27 PM E ProgramData 4 19 2010 12 40 49 AM E System Volume Information 4 20 2010 9 24 08 PM 4 Select a place on the disk where the file folder will be extracted to Lock in Local Disk C amp g xx 5 Click the OK button to accomplish the operation N 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
96. d disk number O0 wil be lost after this operation Your computer may no longer boot correctly No 3 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Converting Dynamic MBR to Basic The program allows you to convert a dynamic MBR disk containing simple volumes into a basic one while keeping its contents intact In order to convert a dynamic MBR disk into basic you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a dynamic MBR disk containing simple volumes on the Disk Map 2 Call the Convert to Basic dialog selecting in the Main Menu Hard Disk gt Convert to Basic 3 Set the required number of primary partitions if necessary According to the DOS partitioning scheme a hard disk can have up to four Primary partitions If there is an Extended partition on the disk only three primary partitions are allowed That is why if a dynamic disk contains several simple volumes the program enables to choose the number of primary partitions The rest of them if any will automatically be converted to logical disks within the Extended partition Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 87 9 es Convert dynamic hard disc to basic f the disc has more than four simple volumes the first three of them wil become primary partitions and the rest wil be converted to the logical ones The hard disk after convert Basic Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev H New Volume H The resu
97. d partitions hard disks the program uses a kernel mode hotcore driver thus the system reboot is required to complete the installation procedure First Start To start Paragon Partition Manager Server under Windows please click the Windows Start button and then select Programs gt Paragon Partition Manager Server gt Paragon Partition Manager The program provides wide opportunities in the field of hard disk structure modification so 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 eas F ne QE Paragon Partition Manager 11 Server Edition Colo Es Paracon SOFTWARE GROUP GROUP Paragon Partition Manager 11 paragon E Partitioning Partitioning What would you like to do Migration Create Partition Create a new partition and set its properties Backup and Rescue Delete Partition Delete existing partition and al data contains Boot Management Resize Partitions Move border of adjacent partitions of the same type both logical or both primary to redistribute space between them Note this wizard covers
98. do it e Select in the Main menu Partition gt Modify gt Downgrade NTFS Version e On the Explorer bar click on the current NTFS version Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 95 e Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map or on the Partition List then select the menu item Downgrade NTFS Version 3 Decrease version of the selected NTFS partition by selecting the one you need from the pull down list Eam Pre you sure you want to downgrade NTFS version for volume C Curent NTFS version is 3 01 Windows XP Select new NTFS version BRR ds d 4 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation 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 Launcher 1 Select a partition or a block of free space on the Disk Map 2 Callthe Test Surface dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Partition Test Surface Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Test Surface 3 From the pull down list choose the level of the surfac
99. e Restore Wizard select the drive and one of its partitions or its free space Then ativate the Partition pulldown menu and select one of the File Transfer Wizard partitioning operations Boot Corrector L1 Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions zi e Stan the command line Eject CD DVD Reboot the computer Power off OO 6 Onthe 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 Select archive leo vista pbf 8 Onthe Image Properties page make sure that you select the correct image by viewing the provided information about the archive Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 124 Basic Disk 0 Size 112 Gb Primary FAT16 200 Mb 15 0 Mb No label Primary Apple HFS 5a 9 b 14 2 Gb leopard Primary NTFS 56 6 Gb 10 9 Gb No label Archive details Type Image of the hard disk Arhive name 9 052 8d leo_vistafleo_vista pbi Created 2008 May 29 Thd 21 16 51 To continue restore process click Next 9 Onthe next page specify a hard disk to restore the image to Basic Disk 0 VMware Virtual IDE Hard Driye Bask Disk 1 2A 279 Gb HTFS otis4thackup NTFS 4bp Basi Disk 0 Size 1
100. e additional requirements if you want to use advanced features e Network card to send retrieve data to from a network computer Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 12 e Recordable CD DVD drive to burn data to compact discs e External USB hard drive to store backup data Installation As we have already mentioned only Windows components of the product require installation So to install Paragon Partition Manager Server under Windows please do the following 1 RunSetup Application Click on the MSI file This application will guide you through the process of the program installation The setup utility is compiled with the InstallShield SDK hence it contains the standard user interface and set of installation steps In case there is some previous version of the program installed on the computer the N program will offer the user to uninstall it first 2 Starting Setup The Welcome page informs that the application is being installed Click the Next button to continue 3 Confirm License Agreement The License Agreement page displays the Paragon License Agreement Read the agreement and then select the appropriate option to accept If you do not agree with any conditions stated there the installation process will be interrupted By clicking the Print button the License Agreement may also be printed out 4 Provide Registration Information On the Registration page you are to provide your product key a
101. e before the patton C 0MB 343 437 MB Please specty size of free space after the partition 0 0MB 349443 MB Please select file system for new partition Please enter new volume labe New Volume Please specfy dave letter F 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 Asaresult 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 SCSI Disk Dev Vista C New Volume F 158 7 GB NTFS 341 2 GB NTFS 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 158 Are you sure you want to hide the partition You are about to hide partition E Mew Volume NTFS Hiding the partiti cause drive letters to be changed Hiding of the system partition 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 ju
102. e check Test suface of volume C Testing volume surface allows to find bad blocks and other problems Please select a surface test level CEN 4 The operation will be performed 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 Launcher Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 96 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Check File System Integrity dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Partition gt Check File System Integrity Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Check File System Integrity 3 Initially the program suggests some consistent values for all parameters In most cases you can just press the Yes button to confirm the operation O faea Check volume C No label NTFS for errors Please note that check operation needs exclusive access to the volume You may be asked to restart your computer to complete the operation Check disk options Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors to e Scan for and attempt to recover bad sectors Mark the checkbox to additionally proces
103. e deleted and replaced wth the one from the archive Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Q Local Disk C MB 499 sce NTFS All contents on the partition selected for restoring purposes will be deleted during the operation 5 Onthe Restore Results page you can see the resulted disk layout Besides there s the possibility to change size of the partition and its location if necessary as well as assign a particular drive letter Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Please specify the size of the restored partition 511998 gt 8 19 MB 511838 MB Please specify sre of free space before the partition U OMB 503779 MB Please specify sire of free space mte the partition 0 OMB 503779 MB Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 121 6 Complete the wizard and then apply the pending changes 7 The program will require the system restart to accomplish the operation in a special boot up mode Click the appropriate button to agree System restart is required to complete the operation What would you like to do The operation Restore partition or disk needs exclusive access to the volume C and cannot be completed without system restart After restart the operation wil continue in boot me mode Do not tum off the computer until the EN Restart the computer Please confirm restart
104. e left pane by pressing the appropriate buttons Clipboard Source Name Source Path Local Disk F iS X sg CT images F mages l Name o CU Wh 5y 5 E d hibefi sys bn a pageto Sys 4 somecmd cmd 6 DVD RW Drive DJ 3 5 Local Disk E 7 Local Disk F e s d System Volume information Total data size 132 8 KB Files directories deleted from the Clipboard remain intact on source disks Destination to store the object s The File Transfer Wizard allows copying data to local or network drives to physical partitions without drive letters assigned or burning them to CD DVDs Choose the way the data will be stored Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 93 There are several ways the Wizard can stone your data Plese select how would you like to save the data P Sene dala to locsl netwoek drives Leennrte existing fles Save data to physical partitions Bum the data to CD or DVD e Revision of changes The Transfer Summary page provides structurally divided information on all the actions made in the wizard Check the changes and come back to any step of the wizard if necessary by following the required hyperlink Please overview the transfer options You can retum to the comespondng page and change the options by clicking on title hyperinks Obiects to transfer Object s selected 1 Total data size 132 8 KB 136 024 Bytes Transfer destination Destination path Spa
105. e mode but graphically simpler SE Partition Manager 11 You can create delete and Simple Restore Wizard format hard disk partitions fa File Transfer Wizard using this program which Boot Corrector will start now Upon the start please m Start the command line select the driue and one of EP Reboot the computer its partitions or its free space Then activate the Partition pull down menu and select one of the partitioning operations Booting from the WinPE Recovery Media The WinPE recovery environment can be a real alternative to the Linux DOS recovery environment Providing nearly the same level of functionality it offers an excellent hardware support and the same interface as the Windows version does Startup To start working with the WinPE recovery environment please take the following steps 1 Start up the computer from our WinPE recovery media Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board BIOS is set up to boot from CD USB first 2 Once it has been loaded you will see the License Agreement Read the agreement and then mark the appropriate checkbox to accept If you do not agree with any conditions stated there you won t be able to use the program Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software G
106. e 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 If this is the case you can do your job either with the Install New OS Wizard a specially designed tool for that or traditionally with a number of the corresponding wizards and dialogs Install New OS Wizard This scenario implies that operating systems will be installed on different partitions to provide better security and system independence Express Launcher 1 Click Boot Management and then select Install New OS in the Express Launcher 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 153 3 Select the appropriate option to create a new primary partition on your hard disk r p c nee wOUG you ke to install an Operating system aas mes i E wart to create a new pimay partition to instal OS A new partition wil be created by using unallocated space of your hard disk or unused space of existing he most preferable way as no system or user s data wil be affected dunng the installation t m A panbpons cst OR D process I m Ad m m c warnt to use an exsung pamary patton to matali U5 case creabon of a new par ary patton is not posse There are areacy four pameary partbons on tne r b o d m E ry P n gt i jj of OR COSrSOre you are tree to 0660 any OF Goss
107. eal some of them to simplify the interface management All panels are separated by vertical and horizontal expandable sliders allowing the user to customize the screen layout Main Menu The Main Menu provides access to the entire functionality of the program The available functions are as listed below Recovery Media Builder Restore the system even when the current operating system cannot boot anymore Undo the last virtual Cancel the last virtual operation on the List of Pending Operations operation Redo the last virtual Cancel the last undo virtual operation on the List of Pending Operations operation Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 28 Express Resize Partitions Increase free space on one partition by up taking the unused space of an adjacent partition Convert to Basic MBR Convert a basic or a dynamic GPT disk containing simple volume s into a basic MBR disk Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 29 Change Serial Number Change serial number of the selected partition Downgrade NTFS version Decrease version of the selected NTFS partition Change Partition ID Change identifier of the selected partition Make Partition Primary Make the selected partition Primary Make Partition Logical Make the selected partition Logical Test Surface Test surface of the selected partition block of free space Check File System Check the
108. ect CD DVD Reboot the computer Power off 4 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page select the Correct the Master Boot Record MBR option Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 107 Please choose the operation Search for Windows installations to correct Correct the Master Boot Record MBR CJ Correct the partition boot record O Modify partition parameters CJ Correct boot parameters boat ini BCD To begin click Next 5 Onthe next page choose the required hard disk from the pull down list if several and then select the Update the MBR executable code option Please choose the hard disk ta correct boot problems Please point out the operation fo perform Q view the MER 9 Update the MBR executable code C Reorder primary panions change slots 6 Confirm the operation j A Update the MBR executable code of the Basic Disk 0 40 0 Gb 7 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 Reporting You have successfully completed boot correction To view the repor on the operations performed click Report Report Report Paragon Boot Corrector s Report Operations performed Operation 1 Correct the Master Boot Record Hard disk targeted Basic Disk
109. ection 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 I set up a timetable for a task but it fails to execute Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 172 There can be a number of reasons for that Windows Task Scheduler does not 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 syste
110. eed The user may define how fast a CD DVD will be recorded minimum normal and maximum Besides there is an automatic mode when the program will set the most appropriate speed for every CD DVD e Bootable ISO image That s the image to be placed together with the backup data By default the program offers its own bootable ISO image which contains a Linux DOS recovery environment However the user is free to use any bootable ISO image e CD DVD boot capability The program enables to choose whether any recorded CD DVD will be bootable or only the first one for a session or without that function at all e Folder where the ISO image is to be placed When the user decides not to physically burn a CD DVD but create an ISO image file this very folder will be used to contain these images Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 42 Hot Processing Options Edit settin General options s Deio ieu pr coii CA Hot processing options Copy and backup options HOt processing options Iv Enable hot processing CD DVD recording options Hot processing technology Partitioning options Operation dependency options Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service Virtual mode options Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service is a reliable technology designed Fie system conversion options to back up volumes being locked by numerous active transactions of VSS E mail options supporting applications Microsoft VSS technology require
111. eese Are you sure you want to set the volume as active You are about to set the volume F No label NTFS as active F 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 will 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 Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Hide Unhide Partition Dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Partition Hide Unhide Partition Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Hide Unhide Partition 3 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation It is strongly recommended not to hide the system partition Otherwise your operating system will fail to boot Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 84 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 i
112. en purchased Registration Paragon Technology GmbH provides a wide range of online services through its web portal www paragon software com support e Registration of new users e Registration of purchased products for registered users e Available around the clock downloading center where registered users can get product updates upgrades as well as all the necessary documentation e Downloadable free demo versions and open documentation for all users A N It is recommended to use Internet Explorer 5 or any compatible browser To register as a new user To register as a new user please do the following 1 Run an Internet browser and visit the page www paragon software com my account 2 Click Create of the Create a Paragon Account section 3 Fill out a registration form Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 10 4 Click Register The most important field in the form is an E mail address as it serves as a login to enter the system Besides your access password will be sent to this address as well To register a new product If you are a registered user and would like to register Partition Manager Server please do the following 1 Run an Internet browser and visit the page www paragon software com my account In the Email field of the Authorization section enter an E mail used for registration In the Password field enter a password received after registration Click Sig
113. eral Layout When you start the program the first component that is displayed is called the Launcher It enables to run wizards and dialogs to specify program settings to visualize the operating environment and the hard disk configuration Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 26 The Launcher s window can be conditionally subdivided into several sections that differ in their purpose and functionality Ya Chita Wizards Hard Disk Partition Vie je X0 7 CIRI Volume letter C Serial number AE18 AEDA 18AD D2 Volume label No label Partition ID x07 NTFS Type Primary NTFS version 301 File system NTFS Volume Size 333GB Root entries 41522 Partition size 335 GB Sectors per boot 8 Used space 96GB Sectors per cluster 3 le 303GB E Common i Tasks Bar EP Mose Renize Partition _Bachap Tasia iW Name E Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI 399GB NTFS BP Reiser j a No changes p 1 Main Menu 2 Tool Bar 3 Virtual Operations Bar 4 Common Tasks Bar 5 Explorer Bar Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 6 Disk Map 7 Partition List 8 Properties Bar 9 Legend Bar 10 Status Bar A number of panels offer similar functionality with a synchronized layout The program enables to conc
114. eral options wn Bodo tes Ax cola CD DVD recording options Copy and backup options Hot processing options Bum every CD DVD disk to the end D recording options Choose this option allow the disk to be copied by third party tools Parttioning options Recording speed Operation dependency opbons Virtual mode options Select speed automatically Fie system conversion options Auto recording speed Choose this option to allow the recorder to choose the E mail options best speed Defragmentation options Boot options Specify a bootable ISO image to place on CD or DVD along with backup data MSO bootcd iso Browse Specify how you would like to boot from CD or DVD Boot from any CD or DVD ISO image folder j Browse Please select a folder to place ISO images to when CD or DVD ISO maker is used OK Cancel This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during CD DVD burn operations e Burn every CD DVD to the end By default the program does not create ISO 9660 compliant burning sessions as it processes data on the fly and can only estimate the resulted session size That s why no third party tool will get access to the recorded data To tackle the issue mark the checkbox to make the program create a standard Disk at Once session It may slow down the burning process as every CD DVD will be recorded up to the end no matter how much actual information to contain e Recording sp
115. estoring 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 1 Start up the computer from our Linux DOS recovery media Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive 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 H Normal Mode Hain recovery Safe Mode environment A Low Graphics Safe Mode E Floppy disk Hard disk 4 HBR amp Find OSes on your hard disks By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period 5 nthe Linux launch menu select the Restore Wizard Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 123 You can create delete and format hard disk Paragon Partition Manager partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start now Upon the start pleas
116. everal on the Disk Map Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 143 E Basic GPT Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev uos Disk 0 0h Unalocetes 473BFFBDh 2 Choose a space donor partition and then call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog IS S A IL INR SR UT I Disk View Help Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev Format Partition Delete Partition Y f Convert File System F Defragment Partition gt Defragment MFT Y Compact MFT Change Volume Label Partition List Hide Partition Loc Ai este Mark Partition as Inactive Basic Hard Disk 0 VI E 4 Make Partition Logical Disk Map Change Cluster Size hot Bine Taaie fh Change Serial Number Change Partition ID H Local Disk C 39 9 GB NTFS Downgrade NTFS version Sec Change SID Test Surface E Check File System Integrity 4 NTs a Edit View Sectors me ut Poste ay anne Men omer Properties Move or resize the sel iss 3 n the 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 conti
117. f almost any end user However that is not the case when dealing with servers processing large 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 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 Copy Operations Hard drive duplication nowadays is becoming highly popular among PC users That is due to some definite advantage
118. f it Call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog 8 In the opened dialog shift the edge of the extended partition to the right Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 146 Q oo mies ove resize extended partition on disk 0 Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev 9 Unallocated Bg Data F I Q TEMP G hys BM 140 4 Ge NTFS MI 100 7GBFAT32 Volume siza 247 038 6C MB fe 247 038 MB 366 565 MB Free space before 121 330 84 ME Obytes 121 330 84 MB REIS Sh gs d n ris ad Free space ate U Biss T r Sector lo sector move Select this option to move partition artas that dont contain any data This allows you to keep the partitions content after move exactly as E was but wil require more time 9 The block of free space has been released Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Ap Unall Data F TEM 100 1368 140 4 GB NT 100 7 10 Now you need to move the second primary partition just the way we did it with the logical partition to make the block of free space adjoin the system partition Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev e p Data F 119GB 100 1404 GB NT 11 Finally increase size of the system partition Call the context menu for it right click of the mouse bu
119. f partitions In order to modify enumeration of the primary partitions you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a hard disk on the Disk Map 2 Call the Change Primary Slot dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Hard Disk Change Primary Slot Call the popup menu for the selected hard disk right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Change Primary Slot Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 89 Er Are you sure you want to change primary slots order You are about to change pamary slots order on Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Your computer may no Fie System Volume label FAT32 No label NTF Ne abe NEW VOLUME No label Local Disk F Volume label No label Total size 24GB File system NTFS Used space 36 3 MB Free space 23GB Stat sector 7261380 End sector 12321854 3 Inthe opened dialog you can see the current enumeration of the primary partitions of the selected hard disk in the Partition Table To help you distinguish partitions from one another the program provides the following parameters for every partition Slot Volume Partition type File system Partition size Volume label There are two buttons on the right to move the selected partition up and down within the primary part of the Partition Table 4 The operation
120. f the Pagefile sys or and Hiberfile sys checkbox as these files are only needed for the current Windows session Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 167 d Defragment volume C Defragmentaion may improve perfomance of your system For locked volumes however this operation wil require the system restart Directories placement Put drectones Sort options Sort by size Do not sort Sort by modification time Do nat a 4 C za Le ak The Defragment 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 5 Start the operation by clicking the Yes button Extra Scenarios for WinPE Adding specific drivers Our WinPE 3 0 based recovery environment offers excellent hardware support Anyway you ve got the option to add drivers for specific hardware with a handy dialog To add drivers for specific hardware please do the following 1 Once you accept the agreement you will see the Universal Application Launcher Click Load Drivers 2 Inthe opened dialog browse for an INF file of the required driver package located on a floppy disk local disk CD DVD or a network share Then click the Open button to initiate the operation ga Poaenern Z7 Hare Sine Date qa serwer 2 H fee aA MT 3 25 2007 6 43 53 AM m 4 16 2008 3 15 50 AM 4
121. ftware Group All rights reserved 103 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 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 Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive 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 Paragon Partition Manager Restore Wizard File Transfer Wizard Boot Corrector Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions Stan the command line Eject CD DVD Reboot the computer Power off You can create delete and format hard disk partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start now Upon the start please select the drive and one of its partitions or its free space Then activate the Partition pull down menu and select one of the partitioning operations 5 Launch the Backup Wizard by selecting in the Main Menu of the program Wizards Backup Wizard C
122. g FAT and NTFS file systems By default the program takes locale regional settings from the system Problems might occur however because of Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 46 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 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 An incorrectly chosen codepage will certainly result in corruption of non English file N 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 Defragmentation Options Q Edit settings F E General options Backup ma
123. ge options Copy and backup options Hot processing options Defragmentation mode CD DVD recording options Safe mode recommended Parttioning options Operation dependency options Slow but reliable In this mode the program requires free space on the defragmented at the moment partition to guarantee protection of your data in case of a power outage hardware malfunction or a system failure F Defragmentation options Virtual mode options Fie system conversion options E mail options Defragmentation options In this section you may set the preferable defragmentation mode e Fast mode Partitions will be defragmented rather fast a 10 30 gain depending on the fragmentation level but a power outage hardware malfunction or a system failure during the operation might lead to the data loss e Safe mode To guarantee protection of your data during the operation the program will allocate some free space not less than the on disk largest file on the defragmented at the moment partition to make a duplicate of every processed file Thus we strongly recommend you to use this very mode Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 47 Getting Information on Disks and Backup Images The program provides some helpful tools to get information on the properties of disks and peculiarities of existing backup images Viewing Disk Properties The main tool to view in depth information on the properties of h
124. ges You may also be asked to restart pour computer dung this process Whould you like bo apply your changes CO No let me reconsider 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 System restart is required to complete the operation What would you like to do The operation Redistibute partitions needs exclusive access to the volume C and cannot be completed vathoul system restat Aftes restart the operation wal continue m boot iree mode Do not turn off the computer until the operation Ep Restart the computer Please confirm restart of pour computer The operabion vall be continued alter system restart Ep Retry Manually close used hies and retry the operation 7 Inthe Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 152 suboperation progress sfraracon m SOFTWARE GROUP Redistribute partitions Work timeo0 01 15 Time to finishoo 00 05 Done 0 77 Mb Read 72 Hb 4 0 Mb s All Q Mb WHrite o0 0 Mb O 0 Mb s Overall progress Quick data moving Flushing sustem buffers please walt M
125. gher capacity than your current system disk so it s quite natural you start thinking about system migration We can help you do that To migrate your system from one hard disk to another please do the following Launcher 1 Connect both source and destination disks to the computer 2 Turn on the computer 3 Click the Copy Disk item of the Wizards menu any of the ways described earlier can also be used here 4 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 5 Onthe Select Hard Disk to Copy page select a source disk a hard disk you want to copy On this page you can choose a hard disk you would like to copy All partitions from this hard disk will be copied to the destination you will choose on the next page Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev q Q Local Disk C OG nsxvrrrceo 433 3 GB NTI E E E NO RUN REN MU RN M I R Q Local Disk E Yeacic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev l z p sa ot 34 GB FAT32 T4 GB NTFS 6 Onthe Select Target Hard Disk page select a destination disk a hard disk to copy contents of the source disk Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 163 Select a target hard disk All data from the source hard disk will be copied there During copy operation target Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SC5I Msk Dev ll o Local Disk C 493 3 GB NTFS Basic Hard Disk 2 VMware rn RRR I ae chives
126. hard disks Cdb log Contains low level information on the CD DVD devices used in the system BioNTlog txt It is an OS dependent supplementary log file derived from Bioxx dll It may contain Or valuable information on Windows family operating systems Bio95log txt Log files do not contain any confidential information on the operating system settings or the user documents A N 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 call the View Logs dialog in the Main Menu Tools gt View Log Files Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 99 Gerson operations Started 9 9 2009 at 12 40 12 AM Freshed at are une Started 9 2 2009 at 1240045 AM Finished at 12 41 21 Started 9 32 2009 at 17 47 11 AM Finished at 12 44 25 Started 9 32 2009 at 1245004 AM Finished at 12 45 12 Started 3 3 2009 at 1245 39 AM Finishisd at 1 26 51 _ Started 3 2 2009 at 3 17 40 AM Finished at 3 21 28 AM No operations have been found Tor the selected session
127. he following steps to do that e Select Network as a backup destination Lock in E Network e x LI Disk Drives ed Ewer a iL Application 0 SCD Drive E PARAGON 5 Beat X fF Backus Capsules BM Backup Capsule on Hard Disk 0 E Network places e Mapa network disk where your archives are placed Call the Map Network Drive dialog by clicking the appropriate button Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 117 Mes Metwork Drive Remote location mapping Anetwok shee 0 Map to diwe better Ira i E l Make permanent caonnectian amp Connect as user Sze Da Ad xl 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 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 You can also map a network disk with Network Configurator e Choose the required archive in the browser like window The Archive File Details section displays a short description of the selected image Er Net Backup p 780508 103 150968 PRF arc c 28050810 3150968 00b3p 00 arc 280508103150968 0Q00p pfm
128. he 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 140 2 Express Create Partition Wizard Creating the partition The Wizard is now creating the partition EE System restart is required to complete the operation What would you like to do The operation Move partition needs exclusive access to the volume C and cannot be completed without system restait Alter restart the operation wil continue in boottime mode Do not tum off the computer until the operation completes amp Restart the computer Please confim restart of your computer The operation wil be continued after system restat mp Retry Manually close used files and retry the operation The operation cannot be completed without restat because some fies are in use and prevent exclusive access to the volume Vy i 1 9 5 n the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment Hove partition X ee Work timeO0 01 53 Time to finisho o 02 48 Done 0 2 MB Read 88 MB 1 0 MB s All Q MB Hrite 0 0 MB O O0 MBs Overall progress om L
129. he latest updates without having to close the program The program help is also HTML oriented You can read it and follow external links from to get additional information To easily navigate through browsed pages the program provides the following functionality BUTTON FUNCTIONALITY Return to the previously browsed page Open the next browsed page 2e Stop loading the current page Refresh the contents of the current page Partition List The Partition List is another helpful tool that enables you to get a clear cut picture of the current state of the system hard disks partitions Partitions are sorted according to their starting position For every item of the list there is the possibility to call the context sensitive popup menu with available operations Besides the program provides detailed information on all hard disks partitions found in the system including the following properties Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 35 Name Volume label if exists Partition type Primary Extended Logical File system type Size Amount of used and unused free space Start End cylinder Start End head Start End sector Free size in sectors bytes Active Inactive attribute Hidden Unhidden attribute You may customize outlook of the Partition List by clicking on the arrow icon on the top right side of the panel JE Please select properties to display Please selec
130. hem 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 you are going to use network resources first launch the Network Configuration Wizard to N establish a network connection e Log Saver helps to collect and send the necessary log files to the Technical Support e View the mounted partitions the list of all mounted partitions will be displayed DOS i e one after another primary partitions at first Thus mounted partitions may have different drive letters from Windows The Linux DOS recovery environment assigns drive letters to partitions the way it is done in e Eject CD DVD e Command Line allows experienced users to execute any operation e Reboot the computer Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 18 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 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 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 Saf
131. her on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive 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 ka Normal Mode amp Safe Mode environment A Low Graphics Safe Mode amp Floppy disk e Hard disk H MBR amp Find es on your hard disks 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 You can create delete and format hard disk Paragon Partition Manager partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start now Upon the start please Restore Wizard select the drive and one of its partitions or its free space Then activate the Partition pulldown menu and select one of the File Transfer Wizard partitioning operations Boot Corrector Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions Oli BWA Stan the command line OBOE Ej
132. hoose a source CD DVD dive Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 15 You can get an ISO image of our WinPE 3 0 recovery environment through the company s web service 6 Select the required thumb drive from the list of flash memory devices available in the system at the moment if several Ayalable drives Deve Supported Formats drive S4 00 MB 7 You will have to confirm the operation WARNING As a result of this operation ALL DATA on the flash memory media will be ERASED Click OK if you agree or Cancel if you do not Cancel 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 Recovery Media Builder can help you prepare the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment either on a CD DVD disc or a thumb drive To automatically boot from the recovery media please make sure the on board B
133. ht click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Change Partition ID 3 Seta new ID for the selected partition Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Are you sure you want to change system ID of the partition F Current system ID is OxO7 NTFS Changing system ID might prevent some operating systems from working with the partition 9 Please select predefined ID from the kst AA e UXU NTFS Please enter ID manually e Predefined ID Select from the pull down list the required ID e Enter ID manually With the spinner control set the required ID value It has to be a 1 2 digit hexadecimal number 4 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Change Serial Number of a Partition FAT16 FAT32 and NTFS file systems include the Serial Number parameter A partition s serial number is saved in the boot sector Its value is generated while formatting The program enables to modify the serial number parameter for FAT16 FAT32 or NTFS partitions without re formatting In order to change a serial number you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Change Partition Serial Number dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Partition Modify Change Serial Number Onthe Explorer Bar click on the current serial number 3 Enter a new serial numbe
134. ic GPT Hard Disk 0 VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive Select left partition from a pair of adjacent partitions pou would like to resize Fight adjacent partition wall be selected automatically Retamed Basic GPT Hard Disk 0 VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive I B Local Disk WinXP C melon 565 GB NTFS On the disk map you can also see the GPT service partition called EFI as well as a 128 A N 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 151 Please specily new sizes of selected partitions Selected part of Hetamed Basic GPT Hard Disk 0 VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive Right volume size 41250MB gt MB 72895 MB gt MB 5 On the next page of the wizard you need to confirm the operation by selecting the appropriate option The Wizard has not applied your changes yet On this page you can ether accept or A reconsider the changes Please note that f you accept the changes the Wizard val physically perform all the neccessary operations and A vall not be possible to undo the changes It may take some lie to apply the chan
135. imary 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 65 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 A N 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 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 The pull down list contains vacant drive letters that can be associated with the newly formatted partition In addition there is the possi
136. inPE to fix most of the system boot problems not only with the Linux and PTS DOS bootable recovery environments but WinPE 3 0 as well The latest Linux kernel to enjoy support of a wider range of hardware configurations including the brand new Intel ICH9 chipset WinPE 3 0 based bootable recovery environment to enjoy support of a wider range of hardware configurations with the option to add drivers for specific hardware on the fly More flexibility for online data processing techniques to provide for easier configuration for both Paragon Hot Processing and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS Better support for 64 bit platforms to reboot your computer to one of the three special modes Windows native Linux or DOS to automatically complete operations which cannot be accomplished under 64 bit Windows Better support for GUID Partition Table GPT to back up and restore not only single GPT volumes but entire disks including the option of resize during the restore operation Better support for the Apple Boot Camp Configuration with the option not only to back up and restore this kind of configurations but to copy single volumes or entire disks with resize Better support for Linux ExtFS starting from Ext2FS up to the brand new Ext4FS Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Product Components In order to cope with different tasks the product contains several components e Windows based set of utili
137. indows XP will make Windows Vista non bootable 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 To avoid double installation please use our WinPE recovery environment 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 most relevant option here is the possibility to hide other primary partitions except the one selected to boot and it is by all means should be activated to make Windows Vista and Windows XP unaware of each other The rest of 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 opbons Normal mode V Timeout for booting last used configuration 15 seconde it Hidden mode Time to display the BootManager startup message 15 seconds Choose a hot key for startup Boot Manager Fi dw 15 Now restart the computer to make sure you have got a dual boot system Windows XP Windows Vista If you ve got Windows XP and are willing to try the latest Windows Vista but not sure your favorite applications will flawlessly work on it the best way out is to leave the time proved Windows XP intact and install Windows Vista for studying purposes As this very situation is very close
138. ing ts formation structure e g unallocated space or unused sectors of existing partitions wil be processed as well This can help to avoid problems with hidden data created by certain appbcations or the system administrator However 2 wil take more time to accomplish the operation Copy options HDD raw copy to copy the 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 Partition raw copy to copy the on disk partitions 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 Perform incremental copy to only copy changes on the hard disk from the moment of the last copy operation The program will perform comparison between a previous copy of the hard disk and its current state Only sectors that are different will be updated thus considerably decreasing the amount of data to write Resize options Remove free blocks between partitions not to keep blocks of free space between partitions on the targeted hard disk Copy data and resize partitions proportionally to make the program pr
139. ion Logical Primary e Onthe Explorer bar click on the current partition type Are you sure you want to make the partition logical You are about to make the partition C No label NTFS looce Yas The Make Primary gt Logical option is only available when the selected partition is adjacent 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 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Changing Partition Attributes This chapter explains how you can change partition attributes Active flag Hidden flag Partition ID Volume Label etc Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 83 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 Launcher 1 Select a primary partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Mark Partition Active Inactive Dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Partition Mark Partition as Active Inactive Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Mark Partition as Active Inactive 9
140. ion procedure previously installed operating systems Please launch the Boot Manager Setup Wizard after The program will update your MBR so most likely you won t be able to start up any of the the installation has been completed to fix this issue Available operation scenarios e Creating Dual Boot Systems 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 Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Move Resize Partition dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it e Select in the Main menu Partition gt Move Resize Partition e On the Explorer bar click on the current total size value e Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map or on the Partition List then select the menu item Move Resize Partition 3 Define parameters of the operation EE Are you sure you want to move resize system volume C You are about to move resze NTFS volume No label C Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev ve SQ tion areas that dont contain any data This allows you to keep the partitions content after move exactly as t was but wil require more time e Volume size Define size in Mb of the modified partition Copyright 1994 2010 Parago
141. is partition will later act as a space donor The wizard wil resize space between Local Disk C snd New Volume E on Basic Hard Disk 0 Select left partition from a pair of adjacent partitions you would like to resize Fight sdiacent pattion will be selected automaticaly Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev e New Volume E 450 3 GB NTFS If you ve got more than two partitions on your 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 Plaasa spac y new sizes of selected partitions Selected part of Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev 49 New Volume E Wi 2503GB NTFS Left volume size Fight volume size 40624MB MB 1 471368 MB MB 5 On the next page of the wizard you need to confirm the operation by selecting the appropriate option The Wizard has not applied your changes yet On this page you can either accept or reconsider the changes Please note that F you sccect the changes the Wizard wil physically pe
142. isk The disk layout graph will be colored in accordance with the volume ratio of the used space to the free space the light colored sector The table on the right will contain the following information e Volume label if available e Type of the logical disk e File system represented by the color of the graph and the selected bar e Total size used space and free space in GB or MB Below there is a list of wizards which may be called for this disk All default values of parameters will correspond to the disk settings Viewing Image Properties General information on backup archives can be obtained with the help of the Restore Wizard Using the Restore Wizard There are several ways to launch the Restore Wizard e Inthe Main menu select Wizards gt Restore e n Common Tasks bar click the Restore item of the Wizards menu e Select a hard disk partition and then click the Restore an image of the entire disk Restore the logical disk from an image link on the Explorer Bar page At first the wizard displays the Welcome page simply click the Next button at the foot of the dialog window The next page refers to Browse for Archive You can find the required image in the browser like window Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 49 Sue Dee E Local Disk C F Ji am 210410030357578 4 20 2010 8 0834 PM PR acc NEW 4 20 2010 24260 PM E 4 20 2010 8 15 14 PM 4 20 2010 1827 PM 2 15
143. isk 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dew Partition type Volume label New Volumes Assign the following dive latter 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 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 3 You are about to create a new partition in Unallocated 19 9 GB area Please select size Basic Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Create new partition as TTE Please specify new partibon size 20479 gt 7 ME 20 479 MB Please specify size of free space before the parttien 0 OMB 20 465 MB Please specify size of free space giterthe partition 0 OMB 20472 MB Please select fle system for new partition NTFS Please enter new volume label New Volume Please specify dive letter H v More options e Define whether the partition will be Pr
144. isk and partition presentation You can hide or show the bar with the appropriate Main Menu item View Disk Map Legend When it is activated it can be found at the bottom of the Explorer Bar The program distinguishes between the following types of known file systems FAT16 32 NTFS Linux Ext2 3 4 Linux ReiserFS Apple HFS Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 37 Status Bar This is the bottom part of the main window The Status Bar displays menu hints for each item the cursor points to The user can hide or show the bar with the appropriate Main Menu item View Status Bar Settings Overview The Settings dialog is available from the Main Menu Tools 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 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 V Edit settings General options oS General options Backup image options Copy and backup options Hot processing options Iv Enable data loss protection CD DVD recording options Choose this option to ensure that no data wil be lost if system unexpectedly Partitioning options goes down because of power shortage etc Oper
145. jectis click Next Data size to restore 1 4 GB If you want to restore the image contents click the Next button In order to cancel click the Cancel button Data Backup and Rescue In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to establish a reliable data protection system Creating Backup Images We have already mentioned that the most prevalent way to protect valuable data is to create backup copies backup images in terms of the program of it Startup There are several ways to start the Sector Backup Wizard Express Launcher e Click the Backup and Rescue button and then select Backup Launcher e Inthe Main Menu select Wizards gt Back up a Disk or Partition e On the Common Tasks Bar click the Back up a Disk or Partition item of the Wizards menu e Inthe Toolbar click the Back up a Disk or Partition button 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 extended or logical In case of backing up an entire disk you ve got the possibility to include into the image Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 51 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 R Lll My Computer My Computer li Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware
146. l start now Upon the start please select the drive and one of its partitions or its free space Then ativate the Partition pull down menu and select one of the File Transfer Wizard partitioning operations Restore Wizard Boot Corrector Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions Start the command line Eject CD DVD Reboot the computer Power off 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 n Disk 0 Wink X My computer Mf Root dir Mf MyComputer My computer Mf mnt Mounted resources lt imnudisk Local disks W media Removable disks a IDE CD DVD NECVMWa VMware IDE CORI i CON 1 w D NTFS 1 on isk 0 Application lt gt E BackupCapsule 2 on Disk 0 UFSD di Pau TIL FG JASS F 3 6 Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipboard by pressing the left arrow button Clipboard Source C Imntdiskhdal Documents and Settin 73 Imntidiskhdal Documents and Serin o O Application Data C3 Cookies D Desktop gt E Mail Database gt Tada sce n Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 130 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 ip
147. ld our WinPE 3 0 based recovery environment on a thumb drive 1 Plug in a thumb drive of at least 250 MBs in size Please note all data on that drive will be deleted Launch the Recovery Media Builder There are several ways to do it e Inthe Main Menu select Tools gt Recovery Media Builder e On the Common Tasks Bar click the Recovery Media Builder item of the Wizards menu On the Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button Select the Flash Memory option o Hash Memory Select this option to create the recovery environment on a flash memory media Thus you wil get all recovery features available in the program on a compact relable and fast device recommended CD DVD Select this option to create the recovery environment on a CD DVD Thus you will also get a bootable CD or DVD with all recovery features avaiable in the program ndispensable in case your computer does not support booting from USB drives 5 Select the User specified CD DVD image iso file option then browse for an ISO image of our WinPE 3 0 recovery environment or manually type in a full path to it By selecting the Typical option you can build our Linux DOS recovery environment which we highly recommend you to do as well Typical Use the standard Recovery Media image supplied with the program 9 User specified CD DVD image iso file Use CD DVD image from specific location E Downloads Paragon winpe20 BR 10 Sute ea ram iso Browse Copy from a CD DVD C
148. les of type Archive iles Archive Hle Details Name Local Disk C Volume label No label File system NTFS Total size 399GB Used space 336GB Free space 30GB File C arc NEW arc NEW PBF Moreover on this page you ve got the possibility to create new folders delete existing files folders or map network drives by clicking the appropriate buttons Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 54 To know more on the subject please consult the Viewing Image Properties chapter Sector Backup Restore e Data to restore You ve got the option to restore not only the entire archive but separate items of it the so called selective restore functionality by marking checkboxes next to the data items you need Please select one of the objectis to restore Name Type Fie system Size Used 3 E Basic Hard Disk 1 Unknown Model intemal Hard Disk Drive 10GB E Local Disk 7 Primary Linux Swap2 509 8 MB 4 C Local Disk 7 Primary Linux Ext3 14GB 581MB 3 e New Volume F Prmary NTFS 24GB 3563MB a Hiv System Volume infoem H P NEW VOLUME E Primary FAT32 34GB 4 KB Archive Details Name New Volume F Volume label New Volume Fie system NTFS Total size 24GB Used space 356 3 MB Free space 2GB To select where to restore the selected objectis cick Next Data size to restore 132 8 KB e A place to restore Selecting the destination please note all contents on the disk selected for
149. ll actions carried out by the program Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 150 Operations list Suboperation progress 1 Move partition Cd 2 Move partition Operation progress Ti Timeelapsed 00 00 58 Time to finish 01 35 42 Copied so far 248 5 Mb Read so far 365 9 Mb 7 8 Mb s To copy 7 9Gb Write so far 251 2 Mb 46 0 Mb s Overall progress Li __ Data moving Creating new partition Moving drive dev sdad on hard disk 0 Scanning data structure may be a few minutes Restart enabled Data blocks calculating Quick data moving 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 partitions To increase size of the Windows partition by taking unused space from the Mac partition please do the following Express Launcher 1 Click the Partitioning button and then select Resize Partitions 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 wl resize space between Local Disk 7 and Wins P C on Retained Bat
150. ll be protected by password e Whether the selected disk or the selected partition will be copied in the sector to sector mode including unused sectors as well e Whether the OS auxiliary files pagefile sys hyberfil sys will be included in the backup image e Recording speed when the user wants to burn the backup image onto CD DVDs e ISO image folder where the archive that is to be recorded on a disc is placed e Whether the operation will be performed without rebooting the system The program needs to reboot the system in order to have exclusive access to processing data In a Windows environment this is difficult to achieve because even when all the other applications are closed the system service programs are still running However there is a way to avoid rebooting The mode of processing the backup operation without rebooting is named Hot Processing You can also define specific parameters for the Hot Processing mode Result After the backup operation is completed you receive an image of the selected disk or the selected partition 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 external media CD DVD 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
151. lting basic hard disk can have no more than 1 primary partitions Please select how many pemary partitions the basic disk should have The program can only process dynamic disks containing solid simple volumes without extension Converting GPT to Basic MBR The program allows you to convert a basic or a dynamic GPT disk containing simple volumes into a basic MBR disk while keeping its contents intact In order to convert a basic or a dynamic GPT disk into a basic MBR disk you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a basic or a dynamic GPT disk containing simple volumes on the Disk Map 2 Call the Convert to Basic MBR Hard Disk dialog selecting in the Main Menu Hard Disk Convert to Basic IMBR Hard Disk 3 Setthe required number of primary partitions if necessary According to the DOS partitioning scheme a hard disk can have up to four Primary partitions If there is an Extended partition on the disk only three primary partitions are allowed That is why if a GPT disk contains several volumes the program enables to choose the number of primary partitions The rest of them if any will automatically be converted to logical disks within the Extended partition Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Convert the basic GPT hard disk to a basic MBR hard disk f there are more than four volumes on the disk only the first three may become primary and the rest logical The hard disk after c
152. lume F No label NTFS Your computer may no longer boot or work correctly P Please select new file system FATIG m Please enter new volume label New Volume x Moreopbons Format 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 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 J Use Q5 built in format routine Please select number of sectors per cluster 128 Please select number of sectors per boot Restore defaults e Use OS built in routine Mark the checkbox to restrict the available values according to the used OS e Whether the surface test will be performed 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 The amount of sectors per boot This parameter is available exclusively for FAT16 and FAT32 file systems Set the number of sectors to be reserved for
153. ly prepared backup image into a CD DVD drive the BIOS must be enabled to boot the system from the CD DVD device This scenario implies that you have got a bootable archive on your CD DVD In case the backup image is stored on several CD DVD disks please insert the first one 2 Restart the computer 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 v Normal Mode Hain recovery amp Safe Mode environment amp Low Graphics Safe Mode Floppy disk Hard disk B MBER amp Find OSes on your hard disks Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 113 By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second idle period 4 n the PTS DOS launch menu select the Restore Wizard You can find the same wizard in Linux as well es 7 Provides Restore for hard disks partitions All El Paragon Partition Manager drives including NTFS are already mounted ase di e etc tis possible to ejectyour Restore Wizard CDROM i File Transfer Wizard Boot Co
154. m independence e You can place a backup image to external media CD DVD to guarantee a high level of data protection as long as the backup media is kept secure e You can place a backup image to a network drive to stand a better chance of success in case of a hard disk failure Moreover by storing it on a special purpose server you may be pretty sure nothing will happen to it Adaptive Restore Windows family operating systems are notorious for their excessive sensibility to hardware especially when it turns to replacement of such a crucial device as HDD controller or motherboard actually Windows will most likely fail to boot as a result of this operation With our technology available in the P2P Adjust OS Wizard you can make your Windows bootable on some other computer by allowing automatic injection of all required drivers and the other actions crucial for a migration of this kind Actually this operation for Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 and Windows Vista 7 Server 2008 differs a bit so does the wizard s work algorithm Adaptive Restore for Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 It actually implies three operations e Providing the ability to change the Windows kernel settings to the most suitable for your new configuration The program will automatically add all available Windows HAL and kernels to the boot menu the boot ini file to choose the required platform in case your system fails to boot Uniprocessor Multiprocessor or Old legacy PC
155. mages that will be used by default e Enable image splitting Mark the checkbox to automatically split every backup image to volumes of a particular size Splitting images enables to tackle problems caused by a maximum file size limitation of some file systems e Maximum split size With the spinner control you can specify a maximum size for backup volumes Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 39 Partitioning Options Q Edit settings amp Partitioning Options Backup image options Copy and backup options Hot processing options Enable 64 KB clusters for FAT16 CD DVD recording options Choose this option to enable 64 KB clusters for FAT16 partitions With this setting you wil be able to create FAT16 partitions wth capacity up to 4 GB Operation dependency options Please note that only Windows NT family systems wil be able to access Virtual mode options such parttions Fie system conversion options Confirmations E mail options V Ask for volume label before partition delete Defragmentation options Ask confimation when converting FAT16 to FAT32 This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during partitioning operations e Enable 64 KB cluster size for FAT16 Mark the checkbox to enable 64KB clusters for FAT16 partitions Thus you will be able to create FAT16 partitions up to 4GB in size Due to the maximum cluster size of 32KB for Windows 95 98 ME or MS
156. ms 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 space 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 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 Par
157. n Software Group All rights reserved 80 e Free space before Define the partition position in Mb relative to the beginning 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 N partition will automatically be converted to FAT32 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
158. n in If the user name and password are valid you will get to your account Click Register new product of the Products section Enter your product serial number in the Serial Number field You can find it in the product box or obtain from your reseller Click Next On the next page you will be asked to provide some additional data Also you will need to decide whether you want to get confirmation on registering the product by E mail or not Click Next and then click Finish That is all The product is now registered How to Download Updates Upgrades Downloading of updates upgrades can be fulfilled in the following way 1 Run an Internet browser and visit the page www paragon software com my account In the Email field of the Authorization section enter an E mail used for registration In the Password field enter a password received after registration Click Sign in If the user name and password are valid you will get to your account Select My Downloads of the Products section to see what updates are available for you Select the desired update and click Download Contacting Paragon Technology GmbH If you have any questions about the company products please do not hesitate to contact Paragon Technology GmbH Service Contact Visit Paragon GmbH web site WWW paragon software com Registration amp updates web service WWW paragon software com support Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights re
159. nd all the information necessary to make a copy of a hard disk or a separate partition Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 56 Cloning Hard Disks You can clone a hard disk of any file system During the hard disk copying process the program moves controlling records of used partitioning scheme the bootstrap code and on disk partitions That s why this operation cannot be substituted by simply copying all on disk partitions The program offers the Copy Hard Disk Wizard that can help to clone a hard disk Copy Hard Disk Wizard The Copy Hard Disk Wizard is a traditional like wizard By going through its steps you configure all the necessary settings to launch the copy 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 A N You need at least two hard disks to carry out this operation Startup There are several ways to start the Copy Hard Disk Wizard Express Launcher e Click the Copying and Migration button and then select Disk Migration Launcher e Inthe Main Menu select Wizards gt Copy Hard Disk e On the Common Tasks Bar click the Copy Hard Disk item of the Wizards menu e Inthe Toolbar click the Copy Hard Disk button Setup The wizard offers the following steps to a
160. nd serial number 5 Provide Customer Information On the Customer Information page you are to provide the standard 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 6 Select an Installation Folder The Destination Folder page allows you to choose a folder where the program will be installed By default the installation folder will be created as C Program Files Paragon Software Paragon Partition Manager Server To select another folder click the Change button After you have selected the required folder click the Next button to continue Do not install the program on network drives Do not use Terminal Server sessions to install N and run the program In both cases the program functionality will be limited 7 Confirm Installation On the Ready to Install the Program page click the Install button to start the installation or the Back button to return to any of the previous pages and modify the installation settings 8 CopyingFiles The Copying Files page shows the overall progress of the installation Click the Cancel button to abort the setup 9 Finishing the Installation The Final page reports the end of the setup process Click the Finish button to complete the wizard Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 13 j To accomplish online backup copy of locke
161. nd then select Install New OS Launcher e Inthe Main menu select Wizards gt Install New OS e On the Common Tasks bar click the Install New OS item of the Wizards menu 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 Where would you like to mstall an operating system want to create a new primary partition to install OS A new parbhon wall be created by using unallocated space of your hard disk or unused space of easting partibions It is the most preferable way at no system or users data wil be affected dunng the instaBabon process C want to use an existing pamary partition to install OS In case creahon of a new primary partibon is not possible there are already four primary partitions on the disk ot not desirable you are free to select any of existing primary partitions Please note that all data on the selected partition wil be deleted you choose to format it later in thes wizard Besides make sure no operating system has already been mnstalled on that partion A N 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
162. nishoo 00 05 Done 0 77 Mb Read 72 Hb 4 0 Mb s ALL Oo Mb Write 0 0 Hb 0 0 Mb s Overall progress P n Se X ELE ABELEIEET TAT um Quick data moving Flushing system buffers please wait Hodifying drive t on hard disk O Checking parameters Scanning dir structure Scanning data structure may be a few minutes step 1 sten 2 Ja not reset or turn off your computer to avoid the data loss Iperation in progress press ESC or Ctrl C to interrupt operation 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 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 Express Launcher Click the Partition Manager button and then Partition Manager 1 In the main window select the required hard disk if s
163. nstallations Program has searched for valid Windows installations on your computer The results of the search you can see below Status 5 refer lo A system partition you can edit the Boot ini file B a boot partition you can correct the System Registry IN Partition Status System root Type 1 Disk 0 Partition 0 5B WINDOWS For the highlighted Windows installation pease point aut the operation 1o perform Correct drive leners in the System Registry Edit the Boot ini file Q Correct the partition boot record Adjust O5 to boot on mew hardware To continue click Next Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 110 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 timeoutz 10 defaults multi Okdisk lrdisk partition IN WINDOWS loperatimg systems multicodisk iOrdisk 0 partition IAWINDOWS Paragon VMWare Windows XP Partition 01 fastdetect T sene sample _ 7 Ifthe Boot ini file does not contain any mistake please return to the Correct Windows Installations 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 refer io a system partiti
164. nue Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 144 Are you sure you want to move resize volume G You are about to move resze FAT32 volume TEMP G Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev Volume size 10316739 MB 86 MB 164 156 MB Free space before 60 582 55 MB t Obytes 164 070 09 MB Free space after 0 Bytes O bytes 164 070 09 MB Select this option to move parttion areas that dont contain any data This allows you to keep the partition s content after move exactly as t was but wil require more time 4 Now you ve got a block of free space to add to the system partition You cannot do it directly however but by carrying out a number of extra move resize operations Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev A Data F 1 Wi 20068 NTFS 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 the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 0 VMware VMware Vitual S SCS Disk Dev Format Partition Delete P
165. o 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 SCSI Disk Dev Vista C Unallocated 3412 GB Wi ise 7Gentrs 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 157 Are you sure you want to create a new partition on disk 0 You are about to create a new partition in Unallocated 18 3 GB area Please select size Primary partition Please specify new partition size hag34 7 MB 18 834 MB Please specify size of free space before the partition 0 0MB 18 826 MB Please specify size of free space afterthe partition 0 2 0MB 18 826MB Please select file system for new partition NTFS Please enter new volume label New Volume Please specify drive letter E More options 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 Click the Yes button to continue Create new parttion as oT Please specfy new parttion size 349451 gt 7MB 349 451 MB Please specfy size of free spac
166. odifying drive t on hard disk O Checking parameters Scanning dir structure Scanning data structure may be a few minutes step 1 step 2 Jo not reset or turn off your computer to avoid the data loss peration in progress press ESC or Ctrl C to interrupt operation After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see that your system partition is bigger now Creating Dual Boot Systems For Windows computers Release of Windows Vista has given a new impetus to the problem of establishing a dual boot system In this connection we decided to consider two the most frequently used situations a rank and file user may face i e Windows Vista Windows XP and Windows XP Windows Vista Please note that for reasons of better security and system independence these operating systems will be installed on different partitions That is why we need to hide the first system partition before installation of the second OS Windows Vista Windows XP Suppose you have got Windows Vista coming with your brand new computer Everything is great except one thing your favourite applications simply reject to work correctly on it Software updates are expected to release in the near future but you cannot wait any more Thus the best way out is to leave Windows Vista intact and install the time proved Windows XP Most likely you have only one hard disk with only one partition th
167. of your computer The operation wil be continued after system restart Manually close used files and retry the operation The operation cannot be completed without restart because some files are in use and prevent exclusive access to the volume i 8 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out by the program Suboperation progress HISTAERR LE TENER ECI UP Restore partition or disk am A O Hork timeo00 00 55 Time to finishoo 00 25 Done 521 MB Read 532 MB 35 2 MB s All 8 71 GB Hrite 532 MB 53 2 MB s Overall progress Loading Paragon Engine Copyright Copyright 1388 2009 Paragon Technologie GmbH All rights reserved Please walt Universal File Sustem Driver initialization Getting partitions info Flushing sustem buffers please wait Restore s partition disk 0 fron dile Gi arc sustem arc sustem PEF Data riting To avoid data loss please do not reset or turn off the computer Operation in progress press ESC or Ctrl C to interrupt operation After completing the operation the program will automatically reboot the computer Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 122 This operation can also be accomplished with the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environments To make a Win2K operating system bootable on different hardware please additionally complete the P2P Adjust OS Wizard R
168. om the backup image Tools ex File Transfer Wizard M Boot Manager Wizard wr Install new OS wizard Starting the File Transfer Wizard to transfer data from any media Besides it provides access to Paragon backups as regular folders to browse through their contents or copy required files Starting the Boot Manager Setup Wizard to easily manage several operating systems on one computer Starting the Install New OS Wizard to install a new operating system Help and Documentation UG Partition Manager Help Qn About Partition Manager Launching the help system you can also do it by pressing F1 Opening the page which contains information about the program This page will be displayed in the Explorer Bar Disk Map The Disk Map is displayed in the Explorer Bar when the Disk View tab is selected It is located either at the top or at the bottom of the window depending on the state of the Disk Map Location option Main Menu View gt Disk Map Location 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 33 Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk C 499 9 GB NTFS
169. on you can edit the Boot ini file B a boot partition you can correct the System Registry N Panton Status System root 1 Disk 0 Partition 0 S B WINDOWS WinXP For the highlighted Windows installation please paint out the operation to perform Correct drive leners in the System Registry Edit the Boot ini file Correct the partition boot record Adjust OS to boot on new hardware To continue click Next 8 Onthe 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 111 Partitions Lis1 Leners Map Below you can choose a hard disk drive and see all partitions on it Information about drive letters assigned io these partitions is taken from the System Registry of the Windows installation selected Basic Disk 400 Gb VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive Volume label Size Drive letters NTFS WinXP 30Gb C NTFS Application 9 8Gb E BackupCapsul Ho label 10 0 Gb Hone Free 17 2 Gb Hone 9 Click the Edit Letters button to correct an existing drive letter or assign a new one in the Windows System Registry Partitions List Drive letters it Information about drive letters Wi the Windows installation selected Basic Disk
170. only basic resize scenarios if resize operation can be camed out with Express 24 Resize Wizard please switch to Partition Manager main launcher right Partition Manager Click on a partibon you would like to resize and select Move Resize Partition Merge Partitions Support Contacts Merge two adjacent partitions with the same file system and the same type primary to primary or logical to logical To start up the traditional Launcher please click the Partition Manager button and then Partition Manager To know more on how to handle the product s interface and accomplish typical operations Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 14 please consult the Windows Components chapter Building Recovery Media Recovery Media Builder can help you accomplish the following operations Prepare the Linux DOS recovery environment included in the installation package on external media CD DVD or flash memory to boot and run utilities under Linux or PTS DOS and that way to get access to your hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes strongly recommended Prepare a custom Linux DOS recovery environment by adding any data you like to the standard image Prepare a bootable recovery environment from any ISO image including our WinPE 3 0 image strongly recommended Create from the master CD the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environment on a CD DVD disc or flash memory Below you can find how to bui
171. onvert Basic Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev p New Volume H The resuted hard disk should have at least 1 primary partition s Please select how many primary partitions you need The program can only process dynamic GPT disks containing solid simple volumes without N extension Changing Primary Slot Different operating systems apply different approaches to enumeration of the primary partitions In Linux In Linux every partition has a special symbolic name that encodes a hard disk containing a partition and a partition itself Partitions are addressed and accessed by using their symbolic names Symbolic names are automatically generated by Linux in accordance with the order of hard disks in BIOS and the order of partition records in the Partition Table Thus changing enumeration of the primary partitions can lead to changing of paths to some important resources In DOS The last versions of MS DOS use a rather sophisticated algorithm for a drive letter assignment A drive letter which is assigned to a partition depends on the order of records in the Partition Table Thus changing enumeration of the primary partitions affects the drive letters assignment In early versions of MS DOS it could even lead to the unavailability of a partition The program provides the ability to change enumeration of the primary partitions This feature will allow you to fix problems concerning an inappropriate order o
172. operation Send graphical view of the disk sub system before and after apply Activate the option to allow the program to attach two pictures of the disk layout made before and after the operation is completed By clicking the link at the bottom of the window you can jump to the Operation Dependency Options Operation Dependency Options Q Edit settings General options 3 Backup image options 2 Operation dependency options Copy and backup options Hot processing options Please select a task to be camed out when one or more of the following CD DVD recording options operations are committed Partitioning options Perform the task Send emal notification v Virtual mode options Fie system conversion options v Adjust OS to boot on new hardware E mail opbons Iw Adjust OS to boot on virtual hardware Defragmentation options M Backup partition or disk IW Boot record correction M Change NTFS version Iw Change SID IV Check file system IV Compact SMFT IV Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic Iw Copy partition M Copy partition with files exclusion Select al Clear all Restore defauts OK Cancel This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account when the Send e mail notification on apply function is enabled By marking unmarking a checkbox opposite the required operation you can choose whether to receive an e mail notification on its completion or not You won t be notified if an operation
173. oportionally change the size of partitions keeping their relative order intact The option can be useful when upgrading the hard disk to a larger one Verification options This section allows you to define whether the Surface and or the Writing verification tests will be accomplished during the operation Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 58 Result After the operation is completed you receive a fully functional duplicate of the existing hard disk To make a Win2K operating system bootable on different hardware please additionally complete the P2P Adjust OS Wizard Available operation scenarios e Migrating system to another hard disk Clone HDD Cloning Partitions You can duplicate partitions to protect oneself from downtime in case of a system malfunction or for cloning sample partitions The program enables to duplicate all partition data including files the exact structure of directories and file system metadata location of files security information access quotas etc The Copy Partition Wizard will help you copy a partition of any file system 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 Startup There are several ways to start the Copy Partition Wizard Expre
174. opriate place of your hard disk by up taking all the unallocated disk space if any and or an innocuous slice of the unused space of an adjacent partition and then make it available in the system by assigning a drive letter Restrictions 1 Donotuse the Create Partition function in order to undelete the last deleted partition 2 The program cannot create new partitions on Dynamic Disks The current version of the program supports only hard disks that use the DOS partitioning scheme in Windows 2000 and XP these disks are named Basic Disks 3 According to the rules of the DOS partitioning scheme the following combinations of partitions cannot be created Two Extended Partitions on one hard disk A Five or more Primary partitions on one hard disk fthere is an Extended Partition on the disk only three Primary partitions are allowed 4 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 Express Create Partition Wizard Startup There are several ways to start the Express Create Partition Wizard Launcher e Inthe Main menu select Wizards gt Express Create Partition e Onthe Common Tasks bar click the Express Create item of the Wizards menu Create Partition Wizard Startup There are several ways to start the Create Partition Wizard Express Launcher e Click the Partitioning button and then select Create Partition
175. opyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 104 ard Disk Partition Changes Kreti puL Copy Hard Disk Basic Hard Disk 0 v LL COP Hard Dis Backup Wizard Restore wi d Undelete Partitions Express Resize Wiz ard nual IDE Hard Drive Free artition Bask Hard DiskO S File Transfer Wizard 0 c Priman Boot Corrector 29GB 167G 1 D Primar 79 2 MB 204C Network Configurator 6 On the Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 7 On the What to back up page select your Mac hard disk Primary Apple HFS 549Gb 14 2 Gb leopard No 3 m Prim ary NTFS 6 6 Gb 10 5 Gb Ho Label Yes 8 Onthe 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 9 Save data to any local drives or a network share Choose this option if you wanito save your data to loc al mounted or physical partition t USB or FireWare external drives and io a mounted network share You will be prompted to choose a location you want ip save the archive to Burn data to CD DVD Choose this option if you want the Wiz ard 10 burn the archive to CD or DVD You will be prompted to choose a CD or DVD RW drive 9 Select an external USB drive as a backup destination Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 105 Specify image file to create 53
176. ork Drive Remote location mapping Map to dive letter Z Make permanent connection x Connect ms user Click the standard browse button to browse for the required network share or manually enter a path to it Definea 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 6 Edit the archive name if necessary Please specify the archive name Archive name wil be used as a subfolder where backup data files wil be stored Archive detais Archive name ec 030909071001085 Estimated archive size 44GB Space avalable on backup destination 38 GB available on backup destination if the archive size exceeds the available space another Please take into account values of the parameters Estimated archive size and Space network drive needs to be selected 7 Add comments to your backup describing its contents Please enter a short comment to describe the archive 8 Onthe Backup Summary page review all parameters of the operation and modify them if necessary Click the Next button to start the backup process This operation can also be accomplished with the Linux DOS or WinPE recovery environments Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon So
177. ou can easily map network shares To manually set up a network connection and map a network share please do the following 1 Once you accept the agreement you will see the Universal Application Launcher Click Configure Network 2 In the opened dialog provide an IP address a network mask default gateway etc for your network device rial PRO 1000 MT Network Connection Obtain an IP address automatica v Use the following IP address 4 Click Map Network Drive and provide all the necessary information to map a network share in the opened dialog Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 169 Remote location mapping A network share Map to drive letter D Make pe z Connect as user Wo Had e Click the standard browse button to browse for the required network share or manually enter a path to it e Define a letter from the pull down list of available drive letters e 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 By clicking Disconnect Drive you can delete an existing network share if necessary 5 Click the Network identification tab to change a network name of your computer generated automatically and a workgroup name Computer Hame Workgroup Primary ONS suffix m T MININT S6SDQE WORKGROUP
178. p All rights reserved D Apply pending changes Do not show this message again Yes No 10 When copying is completed shut down the computer 11 Disconnect physically the source hard disk 12 Boot the computer from the destination hard disk complete the P2P Adjust OS Wizard Making system bootable on different hardware P2P Adjust OS Let s assume you had to migrate to a new hardware platform You just connected your system hard disk to the brand new PC and tried to start up the operating system you do know for sure now that this operation had been doomed to failure from the very beginning With our program you can easily tackle this naughty problem But before you start please make sure the following conditions are met e You ve got drivers for the new hardware ready to use not zipped or in exe files e Your OS is unrolled on the new computer not in a backup image To recover bootability after migrating your physical system to different hardware please do the following 1 Start up the computer from our WinPE media 2 Onceithas been loaded read the agreement and then mark the appropriate checkbox to accept A N If you do not agree with any conditions stated there you won t be able to use the program 3 Once you accept the agreement you will see the Universal Application Launcher Launch P2P Adjust OS Wizard Our WinPE 3 0 based environment offers excellent hardware support However in case it doesn t have
179. partition from image AIR Bask DiskO Size 1l Copy panition Alt C 0 C Prima 86 2 1 ow Prima create ann 99 Forma AltF Delete Alt D Wipe partition ARW Clear free space Re cp ellMoye Unmount Modify Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 149 6 In the 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 C TES Vista 64 New size 8323 45434 Mb M mao Free space before 0 37111 Mb g _ je Free space after 0 37111 Mb 3 fan jim 7 Now you ve got a block of free space to add to your data partition Basic E HTES rj D HI F5 Data 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 Partition preview io NTFS Data New size 8 102101 Mb Free space before 0 102093 Mb Free space after 0 102093 Mb S 10 Apply the pending changes Applying changes A 2 pending operations Apply changes Apply h You have pending op 11 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on a
180. patton More infec The number of available methods depends on your disk layout A N 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 63 On this page you can select hard disk and the place where to create a new parttion Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dew a i 9 Local Disk C data Z 282 9 GB NTFS 217 GB NTFS Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dew Local Disk 7 Plats Dg E ITE i u a ee ee Imi Basic GPT Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev LUN Unallocated pe Thee partition will be created here Use the buttons to move the marker or drag marker by mouse A new partition wil be created where l tha marker is z By default the program allows you to create a new partition only as the last primary or as the last logical drive within the extended partition However by activating the advance A N mode on the first page of the wizard you can remove this re
181. pport requests to the Paragon Support Team In case of having difficulties with handling the program you with the help of this very function can address the company support engineers and provide them with all the information they need such as the disk layout performed operations etc in order to tackle the encountered 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 Launcher 1 Call the Send Log Files dialog in the Main Menu Tools gt Send Log Files 2 Provide a customer name and a product serial number 3 Give a detailed description on the encountered problem Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 98 Send loq files Send log files Please enter shot descripion of your problem and send log files to support Serial Number Isfde 654ec ad5fc 7daf8 237a2 Help 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 Log files are simple textual files that can be opened by any text editor There are several log files automatically generated by the program Stubact log Contains in depth information on parameters and performance of all operations carried out by the program Pwlog txt Besides brief overview on operations it also contains detailed information about the state of all
182. ppropriate option Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 119 Vould you like to apply your changes 7 ee RR Gn ee GR RON HORA ee ee Rom cx sa cx nc cm re aom regcm ceo acm rn aom No let me reconsider 10 In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out by the program Restoring from archive Time eapsed 00 00 17 Tima remaining 00 03 45 Operations details Restore Primary pat disk 0 from fle Z arc_280508103150968 eec_22050810 150962_0000p 000 D Data wing 4 gt Shutdown system on complete Mark the checkbox at the bottom of the window to automatically switch off the computer on the successful accomplishment of the restore operation 11 After completing the operation close the wizard and then reboot the computer This operation can also be accomplished with the Linux DOS recovery environment N To make a Win2K operating system bootable on different hardware please additionally complete the P2P Adjust OS Wizard Restoring a system partition from a local drive Let s assume that your operating system gives trouble after having installed brand new software But you ve got a backup of the system partition on a local disk That s just enough to easily roll it back to the point when run smoothly To restore your system partition from a backup image located on a local disk please do the following Launcher 1 Click the Restore item
183. r for the selected partition It should contain 8 hexadecimal figures 0 9 or A F The operation cannot proceed until you enter all 8 symbols EE Are you sure you want to change serial number of volume F Your computer may no longer boot or work comectiy Feasa enter new serial number in hexadecimal format ZED8 7D16 D87C DD351 4 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 86 Hard Disk Management In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to carry hard disk operations supported by the program Update MBR Convert to Basic Change Primary Slot 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 Launcher 1 Select a hard disk on the Disk Map 2 Call the Update MBR dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Hard Disk Update MBR Call the popup menu for the selected hard disk right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Update MBR o a 4 Ave you sure you want to update master boot record Current MBR contents for har
184. rd File Transfer Wizard Boot Corrector Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions eii GRG Stan the command line Eject CD DVD Reboot the computer Power aff OO You can create delete and format hard disk partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start now Upon the start please select the drive and one of its partitions or its free space Then activate the Partition pull down menu and select one of the partitioning operations 3 Inthe main window select your non bootable Windows partition on the Disk Map Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 161 Bask Disk O VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive 250 Gb C NTFS Vista A Bask Disk O Size 250 Gb 0 cC Primary NTFS 200 Gb 1 7 Gb 159 Gb Vista 1 Di Primary FAT 32 49 7 Gb 249 Mb 49 6 Gb Ha label 4 Unhide the partition by calling the context menu for it right click of the mouse button and then selecting Unhide wd Disk 0 Size 40 0 GB Back Up Partition Alt B Burn Partition on CD or DVD is didi Restore Partition Alt R Copy Partition Alt C Format Partition Alt F Delete Partition Alt D Move Resize Partition Alt Convert File System Unmount n Set inactive Modify Change Cluster Size Change Volume Label Change Serial Number Change Partition ID Test Surfa
185. rector A Start the command line be Reboot the computer 5 On the Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 6 Onthe What to Restore page you can see a list of available images if several Most likely the required archive will be there too If not click the standard browse button to find it When you find your image double click on it to proceed Select Image 2008 May 27145255 ar 270506145209571 PBF 2008 May 28 0603534 BP28 508 PRF 7 Onthe Image Properties page make sure that you select the correct image by viewing the provided information about the archive Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 114 Partition preview Image of the partition IJBP280508 PBF A006 May 28 Wed 08 03 54 File system NTFS Drive Letter in Volume label WinXP Size capacity 30 Gb 3 216 052 224 b Used space 18Gb 60 4 Free space 1 2 Gb 39 Secors C luster 8 On the next page specify a hard disk then one of its partitions to restore the image to if several in your computer By default the program offers to restore the archive exactly where it belongs That s what we actually need Applic ation BackupCapsule 100Gb No Label Free 17 2 Gb All contents on the partition selected for restoring purposes will be deleted during the operation 9 On the Partition Start and Size page you can change size of the partition and its location if necess
186. requires the system restart Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 45 Virtual Mode Options Set this option on to camry out all the operations virtually You wil be able to commit the changes or rollback all of them or the last one If you File system conversion options Defrag fragmentation options Set this option on to automatically close the progress dialog after committing OK Cancel Es 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 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 Edit settings 9 e 28 File system conversion options Select a time zone GMT Greenwich Mean Time Dublin Edinburgh London Lisbon This language wil be used to specify national symbols in fle names Confirm settings before NTFS FAT FAT32 conversion Choose this option to make the program to allow to customize these settings each time when converting file systems This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account when convertin
187. rivers to the latest version of OS Microsoft highly recommends that you install an operating system on a separate partition 3 Please note drivers are not cached during selection That s why if you select a driver to add to the system but it s already unavailable during the operation the program will end the operation with an error Paragon Hot Processing amp Volume Shadow Copy Service Offline versus Online Data Processing In the course of time there have been developed various methods of data processing Despite different work concept all of them can be divided into two principal groups offline cold and online hot data processing techniques Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 22 As the name infers offline data processing can only be accomplished when the data is in consistent state the operating system and all the applications are completely shut down Actually it is the most preferable way of image creation or data cloning since software can obtain an exclusive right to process data that guaranties high level of operating efficiency However the offline data processing is absolutely out of question when dealing with 24 7 production environments In contrast online data processing enables to create a consistent snapshot even as the data is currently modified It is particularly useful for systems with high availability requirements but it won t be accomplished until all active transactions are
188. roup All rights reserved 19 PARAGON Technologie Gro Systemprogramrierung Heinrich i on Stephan Str 5 c 79100 Freiburg Germany 3 Once you accept the agreement you will see the Universal Application Launcher In general it enables to run components of the product load drivers for undefined hardware or establish a network connection Paragon Partition Manager 11 Partitioning wo Partitioning T What would you like to do Copying and a ww 5s Create Partition Create a new partition and set ts properties CHAT ana Delete Partition Rescue Delete existing partition and all data tt contains FS Boot Management Resize Partitions Move border of adjacent partitions of the same type both logical or both primary to redistribute space between them Note this wizard covers only basic resize scenarios f resize operation cant le cahi cct aids Eads Mka Wise N eae right click on a partition you would like to resize and select Move Resize Partition A Tools Merge Partitions S Merge two adjacent partitions with the same file system and the same type primary to primary or Q Partition Manager logical to logical y Support Contacts 3 B Restart 8 Shutdown 4 Click on the required operation to start Hints on the selected at the moment item will help you make the right choice 5 Consult the help system by pressing ALT F1 to know more on the subject Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Sof
189. rtup In order to start the operation you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Delete Partition Dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it e Select in the Main Menu Partition gt Delete Partition e Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button then select the menu item Delete Partition 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 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Qn this page you can choose a volume you would ike to delete Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev IH data Z 217 GB NTFS Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev F Local Disk E 499 9GB NTFS Basic GPT Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev fil Unallocated 569 B GB A You are about to destroy a bootable partition 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
190. s k may take some tme to apply the changes You may also be asked to restart your computer during this process Would you like to apply your changes RE C No let m reconsider After the operation is completed your system will be bootable on the new hardware Hard Disk Optimization To defragment an NTFS or FAT partition please do the following Launcher You must have administrator s privileges to accomplish defragmentation of the system 1 2 4 partition Click the Partition Manager button and then Partition Manager in the Express Launcher In the main window select a partition you want to defragment on the Disk Map Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev New Volume F 341 2 GB NTFS Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware Local Disk E 268 3 GB NTFS Launch the Defragment Partition dialog by calling the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button and then selecting the menu item Defragment Partition Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev 152 7GB NTFS D Analyze Fragmentation Basic Hard Disk 1 VM Defragment MFT Local Disk E C t MFT 262 3 GB NTFS BF compa Test Surface Basic GPT Hard Disk 4 Bus Br i Check File System Integrity sk Dev Properties In the opened dialog define settings of the operation To improve the performance we recommend you to mark the Do not save content o
191. s a fle system not supported by your operating system Assign the following dive letter as e 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 Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Remove Drive Letter dialog to define appropriate settings There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Partition Remove Drive Letter Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Remove Drive Letter 3 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Modifying drive letter of the system partition will result in inability to boot the operating system i N b After having processed partitions with installed software some programs may not run properly Downgrade NTFS Version With our program you can decrease version of an existing NTFS partition This feature can be particularly useful when for instance dealing with different versions of the Windows NT family operating systems In order to start the operation you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Downgrade NTFS Version dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to
192. s and hard disks under Windows NT family operating systems providing both high operating efficiency as well as low hardware requirements It is not recommended to use Paragon Hot Processing with active SQL Server Exchange or N Oracle databases since the backup image contents may be corrupted Volume Shadow Copy Service Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS is designed to provide the copy backup infrastructure for the Microsoft Windows XP Vista Server 2003 2008 operating systems It offers a reliable mechanism to create consistent point in 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 Initiated by a VSS aware copy backup utility VSS creates snapshots for the selected volumes and represents them as virtual read only devices called volume shadow copies Once the shadow copies are created the copy backup utility starts processing the data while applications keep writing to original volumes Unlike Paragon Hot Processing the VSS technology provides a unique possibility to make a synchronous snapshot of multiple volumes This very feature can be particularly beneficial when backing up active SQL Server 2003 Exchange 2003 or Oracle databases located on multiple volumes the way it is recommended by Microsoft to improve the level of database performance and reliability thus providing 100 percent data
193. s it can offer First of all many people clone hard disks just to back up data for security reasons The present day copy utilities enable to successfully transfer all on disk information including standard bootstrap code and other system service structures thus maintaining the operating system s working capability In case of a system malfunction the user can get the system back on track in minutes No additional configuration is required what is very convenient The second possible application is the upgrade of a hard disk to a new one The capacity of a modern hard drive doubles every two years thus opening up new possibilities for software developers As a result programs become more complicated and require considerable amount of free space One day the user realizes that there is no more free space left on the hard disk and the only way out is to upgrade Usually that means that besides purchasing a new hard disk Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 25 the user is to face a large re installation procedure spanning several days of tedious work But all of this can be avoided just by copying the contents of the old hard disk to a new one proportionally resizing the partitions And the last but not least is the copying of hard disks for cloning purposes It may be of great use when setting up similar computers There is no need for a system administrator to install an operating system from scratch on every one of
194. s over 300 MB Defragmentation options of free space on any mounted NTFS volume for temporary data This technology is provided for Windows XP and newest Windows versions but unavailable for old versions of Windows 98 ME NT 2000 Additional options C Abways use hot processing fe Use hot processing only when partition is locked Hot processing temporary drive C ow Number of attempts to start VSS 3 Timeout between attempts n seconds 120 E Switch between Hot Processing technologies OK Cancel In this section you may configure the hot processing 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
195. s sectors marked bad in the file system metadata for the purpose of their possible recovery 4 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 Launcher 1 Select a hard disk partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Edit View Sectors dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it A Click the Disk View tab and then choose Disk Editor Select in the Main Menu Partition Hard Disk Edit View Sectors Call the popup menu for the selected partition hard disk right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Edit View Sectors Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 97 Edit sectors on Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Current sectoris Oof 1 048 575 933 OxOO000000000 33 3 P4 A ga l Ox0000000010 M fc EJ ad 5 04 OD 1 u HPh E Ox0000000020 Ed 07 i c i Mae A OxOooo0o0000030 e2 3 1l 10 OO AnI V UEF EF Ox0000000040 ba i 13 J 55 An U r Uiu x OOU OS5O 7 10 60 80 z t pF f
196. s used for notification purposes only In order to change a partition label you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Change Volume Label dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Partition Modify Change Volume Label On the Explorer Bar click on the current volume label Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button on the Disk Map then select the menu item Change Volume Label 3 Enter a label for the selected partition Are you sure you want to change label on volume F Please specify a volume label for easier recognition of your volume Please enter new volume label New Volume 4 The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation Change Partition ID Partition ID is a file system identifier It is saved in the Partition Table and is used to quickly detect a partition of the supported type By manually changing its value you can manipulate accessibility of partitions In order to change a partition ID you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Change Partition ID dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it Select in the Main Menu Partition Modify Change Partition ID Onthe Explorer Bar click on the current partition ID Call the popup menu for the selected partition rig
197. section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during the Send log files and Send e mail notification operations 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 User e mail address Specify an e mail address that has been assigned by the Internet Service Provider or organization s e mail administrator My outgoing server requires authentication Activate the option to allow the program to make authentication on the server before sending messages 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 Send e mail notification on apply Specify an e mail to send notifications on the carried out operations Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 44 Send mail in HTML format Activate the option to create messages in the HTML format instead of plain text Send complete report after applying operations Activate the option to create an in depth report on the carried out operations and send it after performing the last
198. sed for the drive identification Q5 labels will be displayed in the Boot Manager s startup menu to help you boot the required operating system OS label Windows XP 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 distributive CD but press ESC when the following message appears Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 154 distributive LD YDYUD and press any key to continue Esc to abort the action Please make sure your BIOS is set up to boot from CD DVD All the mentioned above operations can also be accomplished with the WinPE recovery environment 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 p
199. selected partition for possible file system errors Integrity ri Toolbar Manage the Tool Bar representation show hide standard and navigation IEEE buttons text labels and large icons Disk Map Location Select whether the Disk Map will be located on the top of the main window or at the bottom Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 30 Hep Open the Help system you can also do it by pressing F1 Open the dialog with information about the program JN The Main Menu contents available at the moment may vary depending on the selected __ object Tool Bar The Toolbar provides fast access to the most frequently used operations FUNCTIONALITY Create an image of a hard disk or partition Resize two adjacent partitions Copy a hard disk Defragment the selected partition Open the Help system 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 operations BUTTON FUNCTIONALITY ry Cancel the last virtual operation on the List of Pending Operations Cancel the last undo virtual operation on the List of Pending Operations OQ Display the List of
200. served 11 Knowledge Base amp Technical Support kb paragon software com Pre sale information sales paragon software com System Requirements Windows based set of utilities To use the Windows utilities you should install them first But before that please make sure your computer meets the following minimum system requirements e Operating systems Windows 2000 XP Vista 7 Server 2000 2003 2008 and XP SP2 Vista 7 Server 2003 2008 64 bit e Internet Explorer 5 0 or higher e Intel Pentium CPU or its equivalent with 300 MHz processor clock speed e 128 MB of RAM 256 recommended e Hard disk drive with 460 MB of available space e SVGA video adapter and monitor e Mouse Linux DOS based recovery environment To use the Linux DOS recovery environment on your computer it doesn t matter what operating system is installed please make sure that it meets the following minimum system requirements e IBM AT compatible computer with i486 or higher CPU e 256 MB of RAM e SVGA compatible monitor e Mouse recommended WinPE based recovery environment To use the WinPE based recovery environment on your computer it doesn t matter what operating system is installed please make sure that it meets the following minimum system requirements e Intel Pentium III CPU or its equivalent with 1000 MHz processor clock speed e Atleast 512 MB of RAM e SVGA compatible monitor e Mouse recommended Additional requirements There may b
201. sk spanned created from free disk space that is linked together from multiple disks striped a volume the data of which is interleaved across two or more physical disks mirrored a fault tolerant volume the data of which is duplicated on two physical disks and RAID 5 volumes a fault tolerant volume the data of which is striped across an array of three or more disks With dynamic storage you can perform disk and volume management without the need to restart Windows Limitations e Dynamic disks are not supported on portable computers e Dynamic disks are not supported on Windows XP Home Edition based computers e You cannot create mirrored volumes or RAID 5 volumes on Windows XP Home Edition Windows XP Professional or Windows XP 64 Bit Edition based computers Thus the dynamic disk is a new way of looking at hard disk configuration Dynamic disks offer you more management flexibility without the partition limitation of basic disks Dynamic disks can contain an unlimited number of volumes but they cannot contain partitions or logical drives Dynamic storage can be particularly beneficial for large scale businesses when dealing with many physical hard disks involving complex setup 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 by Intel to replace the outdated PC BI
202. ss Launcher e Click the Copying and Migration button and then select Copy Partition Launcher e Inthe Main Menu select Wizards gt Copy Partition e On the Common Tasks Bar click the Copy Partition item of the Wizards menu e Inthe Toolbar click the Copy Partition button Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the copy partition operation e The partition to copy Select a partition you want to copy On this page you can choose a volume to copy Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev a Local Disk C 499 9 GB NTFS Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev Local Dis 9 B Unallo 24GBNTFS _ 14G 242 GE e Destination disk Select a hard disk with enough unallocated space to perform the operation Local Disk E 34GB FAT32 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 59 The wizard wil create a copy of Local Disk F from Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev The copy wil be created on Basic Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev Please select where to create a copy Basic Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev The program enables to copy a partition to a block of free space which is smaller than the N partition itself taking into account only actual amount of data e Copy parameters The wizard enables to specify the following options Basic Hard Disk 3
203. st 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 STOP cODO021a Fatal e initial sess7 system Error B system has been shut down All the mentioned above operations can also be accomplished with the WinPE recovery environment 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 159 The Following unpartaitionsei LE RTI CE E Th pe i Use the UP T T ur T HL r7 2m on pn E m i m r Li rom LH lo zet up Windows al E EELE i T gh he ot bee hie ll Io AN Installation of W
204. striction 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 Your hard disk before the changes Basic GPT Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev J g Unallocated 565 8 GB Your hard disk after the changes Basic GPT Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev New volume cumert size ig 553 B GE Min Volume Size 0 Bytes Max Volume Size 565 2 GB If a partition to resize is locked and cannot be processed the wizard makes the system N 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 64 Your hard disk aer the changes Basic GPT Hard D
205. t 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 Undelete Partition Wizard Startup There are several ways to start the Undelete Partition Wizard e Inthe Main Menu select Wizards gt Undelete Partitions e Onthe Common Tasks Bar click the Undelete Partition item of the Wizards menu e Select a block of free space on the Disk Map and click the Recover Lost Partitions item on the page that appears in the Explorer Bar e Call the popup menu for the block of free space right click of the mouse button then select the menu item Recover Lost Partitions 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 Chick the check box next te any hard disk drive or free block you want to examine Name Type E My Computer My Computer 3 V 7 Basic Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev intemal Hard Di ei Unallocated Free space The summary size of fragmenti to analyze is 133 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
206. t properties you would lke to display in the Disks and Partitions view ame Sue pedas FS Size actors Usad sectors Start sectors End sectors Stat CHS hex End CHSihex Type u MM File system Volume label Parttion size Size Used J J i 4 4 Li Jj i mee pecias Fee Active PHA By marking a checkbox opposite the required item you can choose whether to display it or not Besides you can change its order by pressing the Move up or Move down buttons If you don t need the Disk Map please click the shown below icon to disable it Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 36 Disk Map N Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk C 39 9 GB NTFS Properties Bar The Properties Bar provides information on the selected at the moment partition hard disk For a hard disk Model Serial number Type of hard disk basic or dynamic Total size in GB Information on geometry of the disk amount of sectors per track heads and cylinders For a partition e Drive letter assigned to the disk Volume label if available Type of the logical disk File system represented by the color of the graph and the selected bar e Total size used space and free space in GB or MB Besides you can modify practically any partition property by clicking on the required value Legend Bar The Legend Bar explains the color scheme used for d
207. t 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 There are several ways to start the Merge Partitions Wizard Express Launcher e Click the Partitioning button and then select Merge Partitions Launcher e Inthe Main menu select Wizards gt Merge Partitions e On the Common Tasks bar click the Merge Partitions item of the Wizards menu Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e The partition to expand Select a partition the size of which you need to increase by up taking contents of an adjacent partition M Pu j 7 On this page you can choose a partition that wil be expanded to include adiacent partition Please note that f amp s i a a i ea T i j i possible to select only FAT FAT32 or NTFS partitions You wil not be able to proceed futher no adacent partitions of these types are present on the disk 3 Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev data Z 292 9 GB NTFS 217 GB NTFS e The partition to merge with Choose the second partition for the merge operation the contents of which will be placed in a folder on the resulted joined partition By default the program offers an easy to understand folder name to store files of the second partition which however can be customized Select an
208. ta Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 66 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 NTFS Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 Linux Swap v 2 This operation can be accomplished either with the Format Partition Wizard or the Format Partition Dialog Wizard Startup There are several ways to start the Format Partition Wizard Express Launcher e Click the Partitioning button and then select Format Partition Launcher e Inthe Main menu select Wizards gt Format Partition e Onthe Common Tasks bar click the Format Partition item of the Wizards menu Dialog Startup In order to start the operation you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Format Partition Dialog to set up the operation There are several ways to do it e Select in the Main Menu Partition gt Format Partition e Call the popup menu for the selected partition right click of the mouse button then select the menu item Format Partition Wizard Setup The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation e Partition to format Select a hard disk
209. 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 171 5 need to copy a partition But when selecting a place where to make a copy always get a crossed circle sign no matter 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 6 Icannot 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 7 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 8 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 9 I cannot back up my hard disk to an external h
210. te a partition of any file system Create Partition d Starting the Format Partition Wizard to format an existing partition to one of the Format Partition file systems supported by the program dz Starting the Delete Partition Wizard to delete a partition of any file system we Delete Partition Advanced Partitioning Tasks m Starting the Express Resize Partitions Wizard to redistribute free space between Express Resize two adjacent partitions Starting the Merge Partitions Wizard to merge adjacent partitions of NTFS FAT amp Merge Partitions l FAT32 file systems Starting the Redistribute Free Space Wizard to redistribute available disk space of p Redistribute Free Space M existing partitions Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved Undelete Partitions 32 Starting the Undelete Partitions Wizard to recover accidentally deleted partitions Copy and Migration Tasks d Copy Hard Disk S Copy Partition V P2P Adjust OS Starting the Copy Hard Disk Wizard to copy a hard disk Starting the Copy Partition Wizard to copy a partition Starting the P2P Adjust OS Wizard to make your system bootable on different hardware Backup Tasks E Back up Disk or Fartition Restore Disk or Partition Starting the Sector Backup Wizard to create an archive of a hard disk or separate partitions Starting the Restore Wizard to restore a hard disk separate partition or files fr
211. ter Power off A Z 2 E z You can create delete and format hard disk partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start now Upon the start please select the drive and one of its partitions or its free space Then activate the Partition pull down menu and select one of the partitioning operations 5 Onthe 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 Source d My computer Root din WI MyComputer My computer WI mnt Mounted resources Ww imnudisk Local disks W media Removable disks 4b IDE CD DVD NECVMWa VMware IDE COR DA NTFS lon Ps 0 Applicaton lt S gt E BackupCapsule 2 on Disk 0 UFSD di 7 Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipboard by pressing the left arrow button Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 127 Clipboard 73 Imntdisk hdal Documents and Settin 3 jmntdisk hdal Documents and Serin O Application Data L3 Cookies O Desktop 3 E Mail Database G Favorites O Local Settings v gt Totaldata size nja Delete F amp Click the Calc button to estimate the resulted data size 8 Onthe 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 dat
212. the restore procedure to let Windows Vista 7 or 2008 Server automatically find and install any lacking driver with no action from your side required what is very convenient Anyway not all drivers can be found in the built in driver repositories especially when you ve got to do with specific SCSI or Serial ATA controllers For situations of this kind you ve got the option to inject any 3 party driver either by providing a path to your own driver repository collection of all drivers to your hardware devices located in one folder for the program automatically pick and install only those drivers required for your OS recommended or manually specifying drivers critical for the guaranteed startup of your system on the new hardware Adaptive Restore Application Let s consider a number of situations when the Adaptive Restore feature can help you out e f you need to upgrade to newer hardware while keeping all your programs and settings intact e If you need to replace failed hardware and cannot find an exact match for your original system specifications Known Issues 1 After transferring Microsoft Vista and later versions to different hardware you will need to re activate license of the system It s normal behavior as these systems keep tracking any change of hardware Re activation is legally justified in this case as you transfer your system to another PC 2 If you ve installed several operating systems on one partition we can only add d
213. them It is enough just to configure one and then clone it to the others 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 up 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
214. ties 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 e 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 disks However there can be some difficulties with detecting new hardware DOS in its turn has no 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 e WinPE based recovery environment Especially for keen followers of Windows our product also offers a WinPE 3 0 based bootable media Unlike the Linux DOS recovery environment it can boast an excellent hardware support and the same interface as the Windows version can However its system requirements are much tougher Features Overview This chapter dwells upon key benefits and technical highlights of the product Key Features Let us list some of the key features User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface e Graphical representation of the data to gain a better understanding e
215. tition Manager You can find it in PTS DOS as well Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 148 You can create delete and format hard disk Paragon Partition Manager partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start now Upon the start please select the drive and one of its partitions or its I free space Then activate the Partition I pull down menu and select one of the File Transfer Wizard partitioning operations Restore Wizard Boot Corrector Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions Start the command line Eject CD DVD Reboot the computer Power off i d Li e O 4 Inthe main window select the required hard disk if several on the Disk Map Hard Disk Partition Opermions Wizards Help Bask Disk 0 VMware Vir iage of hal ge of hard Disk from itk D AIFS Data Bask Disk 0 Model VMware Virtual Size 120 Gb N Volume File System Basic Disk 0 Size 120 Gb 0 cC Primary NTFS 444Gb amp 1Gb 36 2 Gb 1 D Primary NTFS 75 6 Gb 4 9 Mb 75 6 Gb 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 Bask Disk 0 VMware Virtual 120 Gb C NTFS Vista 64_ D NTFS Data Create an image of partition Alt B Burn an image of partition io CODWYD Restore
216. tition s name depending on the chosen task Click the check box next to any hard disk drive or partition you want to back up Name Type 3 Gj My Computer My Computer B F Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev intemal Hard Disk Driv EA First Hard Disk Track Frst Track Master Boot Record MBR c Primary r Basic Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev intemal Hard Disk Driv E First Hard Disk Track Fest Track e Master Boot Record MBR E Loca Disk E Primary Local Disk Prmary L5 Local Disk 7 Primary Local Disk Primary 7 Basic Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual S SCS Disk Dev intemal Hard Disk Driv B b Estimated archive size 7 2 GB You ve got the option to modify the default backup settings by marking the appropriate N checkbox on this page 4 Onthe Backup Destination page select the Save data to local network drives option There are several ways the Wizard can store your data Please select how would you like to save the archive C Bumthe data to CD or DVD 5 Mapa network disk to place your backup image to Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 102 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 sub4older where backup data fles will be stored Archive Cac 030909071551273 x wv Nama G Map Netw
217. titioning scheme Modern hardware uses an advanced scheme for the linear addressing of sectors which assumes that all on disk sectors are continuously enumerated from O To allow backward compatibility with older standards modern hard disks can additionally emulate 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 173 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 Ox10 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
218. to install new operating system Basic Hard Disk 0 Maxtor 7Y250P0 Basic Hard Disk 1 ST3160815AS EN ns 19 634 GB NTFS t 1633 GB NTFS E 66 GB NTFS N Your computer may fail if any other OS has already been installed on the selected partition e Partition properties Yes want to formal the partition Partition type G PNTFS v Astign the following drive letter TIE Surface test levet Mone w 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 S labels wil be displaved in the Boot Managers startup menu to help you boot the required operating OS labe Windows H Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 79 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 installat
219. tton to launch the Move Resize dialog 12 In the opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the right thus increasing its size Are you sure you want to move resize system volume C You are about to move resize NTFS volume No label C Basic Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk C 158 7 GB NTFS Volume sze 16254731 MB s 11 690 MB 162 548 MB Free space before 0 97 MB v Obytes 150 868 20 MB Free space after 0 Bytes Obytes 150 860 39 MB Sector to sector move Select this option to move partbon areas that dont contain any data This allows you to Keep the parttion s content after move exactly as t was but wil require more time 13 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 147 e Apply pending changes Do not show this message again Yes No 14 The program will require the system restart to accomplish the operation in a special boot up mode Click the appropriate button to agree 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 Vist
220. tware Group All rights reserved 20 Our WinPE 3 0 based recovery environment offers excellent hardware support However in N case it doesn t have a driver for your disk controller your hard disks will be unavailable Please consult the Adding specific drivers scenario to know how to tackle this issue Basic Concepts This chapter explains terms and ideas that show how the program works To understand these helps to obtain a general notion of the operation performance and makes it easier for the user to operate the program System and Data Protection The data protection issue is a growing cause of worrying for more and more people today Indeed it is hardly to find a person who will be particularly happy when all precious information on the hard disk is irreversible lost as a result of its malfunction So how this tragedy can be prevented Backup Storage Our program supports major present day techniques of storing backup images Let s take a closer look at them all to understand what kind of storage is able to provide better security e You can place a backup image to a local mounted or unmounted without drive letter assigned partition Despite the fact that it is the most convenient way try not to use it You can delete your backup just by accident or lose it as a result of a hardware malfunction or a virus attack e You can place a backup image to an external mounted storage to provide for a higher level of data protection and syste
221. use the arrow keys of the computer keyboard 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 way Will affect the program functionality If this is the case please wait a bit and everything will be OK Normal Mode When the Normal mode is selected the Linux launch menu appears Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 17 or You can create delete and format hard disk Paragon Partition Manager partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start now Upon the start please Restore Wizard select the drive and one of its partitions or its free space Then activate the Partition pull down menu and select one of the File Transfer Wizard partitioning operations Boot Corrector Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions Le e Stan the command line Eject CD DVD Heboot the computer Power off Og e Partition Manager enables to copy and back up separate partitions or entire hard disks carry out partitioning operations etc e Simple Restore Wizard allows restoring hard disks and partitions e Express Resize Wizard enables to increase free space on one partition by up taking the unused space of an adjacent partition e File Transfer Wizard allows coping files folders to another disk or a partition as well as recording t
222. use unallocated space of the disk if any and unused space of existing partitions to create a new partition Dn thes page vou can choose a hard dek if several where pou would like to create a new pimay partition Basic Hard Disk 0 Maxtor 7Y250PU 9j U 7r rf rmmermm lad af Eja LR Basic Hard Disk 1 5 T 3160815345 Be B o 05 Bee 13 534GB NTFS 66 GE NTFS 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 78 Tou can select ether a block of unallocabed space from the desk or an existing partition For which the unused space wall be used to create new parhhon Basic Hard Disk O Maxtor 7r 250P0 il aC 51 6 GB No New volume curent size i 51 6 GB Min Volume Size Bytes E Max Volume Sire 156 5 GB In case the second option has been marked the wizard enables to choose an existing primary partition to install a new operating system On this page you can choose an esasting primary partition where you would like
223. uster hM 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 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 N 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 Changing Cluster Size Cluster size is one of the crucial parameters of any file system Its value implicitly affects the performance of the files input output activity since it defines the size of the file system metadata Besides the so called waste space factor also depends on the cluster size In order to change the cluster size of a partition you should take the following steps Launcher 1 Select a partition on the Disk Map 2 Call the Change Cluster Size dialog
224. utton 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 data 9 Save data to any local drives or a network share Choose this option if you want to save your data to local mounted or physk al partition t USE or FireWarne external drives and to a mounted network share You will be prompted to choose a kx ation you wani to save the archive to C2 Burn data to CD DVD Choose this option if you want the Wizard to burn the data to CD or DVD You will be prompted ta choose a CD or DVD RW drive 9 Onthe Select Destination Path page select your system disk to copy the data to by pressing the standard browse button Select path Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 134 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 progres s I Transfer user data ALELEE LETTE EET E Operation progress GECCE E T E Time elapsed 00 00 04 Time to finish 00 00 00 Copied so far O 9 Mb Overall progress BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
225. virus attack or files corruption in order to get the system back on track again Besides it provides access to Paragon backups as regular folders to browse through their contents or copy required files Startup There are several ways to start the File Transfer Wizard Express Launcher e Click the Backup and Rescue button and then select Transfer Files Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 92 Launcher Setup Select in the Main Menu Tools File Transfer Wizard Select the Transfer Files item of the Wizards menu on the Common Tasks Bar The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the transfer operation Place to look for files directories Select a source disk from the pull down list in the left pane of the page The program enables to process both mounted and unmounted without drive letter assigned partitions Besides it is possible to map a network drive Source 2 Local Disk C d EA 4 n S DVD RW Drive D a Local Disk E Local Disk F E Archives G 7 New Volume H Physical partitions NEW VOLUME Disk 1 a Network places CT Network Object s of operation Choose files directories you want to copy and place them to Clipboard by pressing the Add button To delete a file directory from the Clipboard select it in the Clipboard pane and press the Remove button You can also create a new folder rename or irreversibly delete existing files directories of th
226. without ACPI You can later remove them from the menu either under Windows or with Boot Corrector Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 21 If you ve got a 64 bit operating system no options will be added to the boot menu e Automatic replacement of the boot critical drivers HDD controller PS 2 and USB mouse and keyboard to the default Windows drivers to provide the maximum level of compatibility Once your Windows starts up it will initiate reconfiguration of all Plug n Play devices so we do recommend you to provide the latest drivers for your motherboard and processor at this step as it can considerably improve the overall performance of your system e The option to inject 3rd party drivers to guarantee your system will start up on the new hardware Actually you ve got two options either provide a path to your own driver repository collection of all drivers to your hardware devices located in one folder for the program automatically pick and install only those drivers required for your OS recommended or manually specify drivers critical for the guaranteed startup of your system on the new hardware Adaptive Restore for Windows Vista 7 Server 2008 It is based on the fact that these operating systems do not delete their distributive driver repositories after the setup but simply make them inactive in the Windows Registry So thanks to our technology these driver repositories can be made available during
227. y T m on dih alas m m La ad D y T Getting partitions info Flushing systes buffers please wait Flushing sustem buffers please wait Modifying drive t on hard disk Checking parameters Checking files and directories To avoid data loss please do not reset or turn off the computer Operation in progress press ESC or Ctrl C to interrupt operation 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 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 Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 141 To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from an adjacent partition please do the following Express Launcher 1 Click the Partitioning button and then select Resize Partitions 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Click on your system partition By doing that the wizard will automatically select an adjacent partition as well Th
228. 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 will 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 Gen
229. zard in PTS DOS as well Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 132 z You can create delete and format hard disk Paragon Partition Manager partitions using Paragon Partition Manager which will start naw Upon the start please inet MA Eu select the drive and one of its partitions or its Restore Wizard free space Then ativate the Partition pull down menu and select one of the File Transfer Wizard partitioning operations Boot Corrector Network Configurator Log Saver View the mounted partitions Start the command line Eject CD DVD Reboot the computer Power off 4 Onthe 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 Source amr 290508E1345627 531 C3 DIFF 1285651347 10000000 oe arc 280508134 27531 PBF ij arc 280508134627531 pfm C cane and Settings C Program Files C RECYCLER C3 System volume Information WINDOWS S chiles sv igz j AUTOEXEC BAT ij NTDETECT COM kr boot ini E nildr Copyright 1994 2010 Paragon Software Group All rights reserved 133 7 Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipboard by pressing the left arrow button Clipboard 7 MINDOWS system Jmntdisk hda2 B O provisioning Q pss D repair O security D srhasst O system L3 system32 fj 001947 1mp fj ARJ PIF Total data size 904 Kb Click the Calc b

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