Paragon PSG-161-PRG-VL5 User Manual

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10 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 4. Click Register. The most important field in the form is an E-mail address, as

100 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. You’ve got the option to modify the default backup settings by marking the app

101 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 7. On the Backup Summary page review all parameters of the operation and modif

102 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. - Call the Map Network Drive dialog by clicking the appropriate button; - Cli

103 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Backing up a dual boot Mac to an external USB drive To back up a dual boot Mac (

104 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6. On the Wizard's Welcome page, click the Next button. 7. On the What t

105 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 10. Edit the archive name if necessary. Please take into account values of th

106 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 1. Start up the computer from our Linux/DOS recovery media. Recovery Media Bui

107 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 5. On the next page choose the required hard disk from the pull-down list (if

108 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 9. Reboot the computer. Fixing Windows startup ability Let’s assume that due to

109 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 4. On the Wizard's Welcome page, select the Search for Windows installati

11 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Knowledge Base & Technical Support kb.paragon-software.com Pre-sale informati

110 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6. Examine the file – maybe that’s where the problem is. If it contains a mista

111 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 9. Click the Edit Letters button to correct an existing drive letter or assign

112 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 13. Click the Finish button to close Boot Corrector. 14. Reboot the computer. R

113 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second id

114 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 8. On the next page specify a hard disk, then one of its partitions to restore

115 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 11. In the Progress window you can see in real-time a detailed report on all ac

116 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. If you do not agree with any conditions stated there, you won’t be able to use

117 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. - Click the standard browse button [...] to browse for the required network sha

118 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 7. On the Where to Restore page specify a hard disk, then one of its partition

119 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 10. In the Progress window you can see in real-time a detailed report on all ac

12 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Recordable CD/DVD drive to burn data to compact discs  External USB hard dri

120 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. To know more on the subject, please consult the Viewing Image Properties chapt

121 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6. Complete the wizard and then apply the pending changes. 7. The program wil

122 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. This operation can also be accomplished with the Linux/DOS or WinPE recovery en

123 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6. On the Wizard's Welcome page, click the Next button. 7. On the What t

124 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 9. On the next page specify a hard disk to restore the image to. All content

125 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 12. After completing the operation close the wizard, and then reboot the comput

126 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. By default the Normal Mode will be automatically initiated after a 10 second id

127 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Click the Calc button to estimate the resulted data size. 8. On the Select Des

128 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 12. After the operation is completed, close the wizard by pressing the appropri

129 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 4. On the Wizard's Welcome page, click the Next button. 5. Select a disk

13 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. To accomplish online backup/copy of locked partitions/hard disks the program use

130 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Click the Calc button to estimate the resulted data size. 7. On the Select Dest

131 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Copying of data from a backup to the corrupted system partition The system fails

132 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 4. On the Wizard's Welcome page, click the Next button. 5. Select a disk

133 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 7. Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipboard by pressing the le

134 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 10. On the Transfer Summary page check all parameters of the operation. Click th

135 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. If you do not agree with any conditions stated there, you won’t be able to use

136 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 7. On the How to Restore page specify the way the selected data will be restor

137 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. This operation can also be accomplished under Windows. Volume Explorer To resto

138 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 4. Select a place on the disk where the file/folder will be extracted to. 5.

139 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 1. Click the Express Create Partition item of the Wizards menu (any of the ways

14 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. please consult the Windows Components chapter. Building Recovery Media Recovery M

140 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 5. In the Progress window you can see in real-time a detailed report on all ac

141 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from an adjacent p

142 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6. That’s basically it. By clicking the Next button the wizard will start modif

143 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 2. Choose a space donor partition and then call the context menu for it (right

144 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 4. Now you’ve got a block of free space to add to the system partition. You ca

145 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6. At first shift the right edge of the partition to the right, then do the sa

146 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 9. The block of free space has been released. 10. Now you need to move the se

147 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 14. The program will require the system restart to accomplish the operation in

148 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 4. In the main window select the required hard disk (if several) on the Disk M

149 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6. In the opened dialog set a new size for the partition by moving the slider o

15 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. You can get an ISO image of our WinPE 3.0 recovery environment through the compa

150 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Resizing partitions of Apple Boot Camp Let’s assume you’re a Boot Camp user who

151 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 5. On the next page of the wizard you need to confirm the operation by selecti

152 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted ba

153 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 3. Select the appropriate option to create a new primary partition on your hard

154 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. All the mentioned above operations can also be accomplished with the WinPE reco

155 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 12. Now restart the computer to make sure you have got a dual boot system. Tradi

156 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 3. In the opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the left by the dra

157 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6. Define parameters of the future partition. By all means it has to be primar

158 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Hiding of the system partition will make OS non-bootable, what is quite normal

159 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Installation of Windows XP will make Windows Vista non-bootable. 12. Launch th

16 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Normal Mode. Boot into the Linux normal mode. This mode uses the full set of

160 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Reviving the system partition In case you are not able or not willing to comple

161 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 4. Unhide the partition by calling the context menu for it (right click of the

162 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 6. You will be notified after the operations are completed. 7. Restart the co

163 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. During the operation all contents of the destination disk will be deleted. 7.

164 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 10. When copying is completed, shut down the computer. 11. Disconnect (physical

165 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 5. From the list of all found Windows based operating systems (if several) sele

166 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. After the operation is completed your system will be bootable on the new hardwa

167 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. The Defragment Partition dialog offers a number of additional parameters that

168 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 3. You will be notified on the successful accomplishment of the operation. Clic

169 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Click the standard browse button [...] to browse for the required network sh

17 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Partition Manager (enables to copy and back up separate partitions or entire

170 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Log files do not contain any confidential information on the operating system

171 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 5. I need to copy a partition. But when selecting a place where to make a copy,

172 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. There can be a number of reasons for that: - Windows Task Scheduler does not wor

173 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. A method of hiding a partition consists in changing the partition ID value saved

174 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Root Directory is the top-level directory of a formatted logical drive to includ

18 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Power off the computer. To move within the menu, please use the arrow keys of

19 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 3. Once you accept the agreement, you will see the Universal Application Launch

2 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Contents Introduction ...

20 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Our WinPE 3.0 based recovery environment offers excellent hardware support. Howe

21 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. If you’ve got a 64-bit operating system, no options will be added to the boot me

22 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. As the name infers, offline data processing can only be accomplished when the dat

23 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. To use VSS it is necessary to have a mounted 300 MB+ NTFS partition. Dynamic Dis

24 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  More reliable thanks to replication and cyclic redundancy check (CRC) protecti

25 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. the user is to face a large re-installation procedure spanning several days of te

26 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. The Launcher’s window can be conditionally subdivided into several sections that

27 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 n

28 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Express Create Partition… Create an NTFS partition and make it ready for work Cre

29 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Convert File System… Convert file system of the selected partition Assign Drive L

3 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Copy Operations ...

30 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Help Help Open the Help system (you can also do it by pressing F1) About Open the

31 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Cancel all virtual operations on the List of Pending Operations Virtual mode i

32 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Starting the Undelete Partitions Wizard to recover accidentally deleted partitio

33 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Large-sized bars display the following information about physical disks:  Manu

34 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  General information on the product including its name, version and a list of h

35 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. - Name, - Volume label (if exists), - Partition type (Primary/Extended /

36 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Properties Bar The Properties Bar provides information on the selected at the mo

37 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Status Bar This is the bottom part of the main window. The Status Bar displays me

38 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Backup Image Options This section contains a set of options that will be taken

39 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Partitioning Options This section contains a set of options that will be taken i

4 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Introduction Paragon Partition Manager™ Server is an integrated set of powerful t

40 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. General Copy and Backup Options This section contains a set of options that wil

41 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. CD/DVD Recording Options This section contains a set of options that will be ta

42 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Hot Processing Options In this section you may configure the hot processing mod

43 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Switch between hot processing technologies. Mark the checkbox to automatically

44 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. - Send mail in HTML format. Activate the option to create messages in the HTML fo

45 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Virtual Mode Options In this section you may configure the virtual mode:  Allo

46 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. different standards for file names and file time stamps (Created, Modified and La

47 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Getting Information on Disks and Backup Images The program provides some helpful

48 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. When you select a small-sized bar (i.e. corresponding to a logical disk) the Exp

49 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. The section below (i.e. Archive File Details) displays a short description of th

5 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Product Components In order to cope with different tasks, the product contains sev

50 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. If you want to restore the image contents, click the Next button. In order to ca

51 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. such disk elements as the Master Boot Record (MBR) and the first track of the har

52 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. In addition, there is the possibility to make further detailed settings (although

53 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. settings. Moreover you can get an in-depth description to any setting, control, o

54 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. To know more on the subject, please consult the Viewing Image Properties chapter

55 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Restoring Hard Disk:  Copy data and resize partitions proportionally. If this o

56 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Cloning Hard Disks You can clone a hard disk of any file system. During the hard

57 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Copy parameters. The wizard enables to specify the following options: Copy o

58 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Result After the operation is completed, you receive a fully functional duplicate

59 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. The program enables to copy a partition to a block of free space, which is smal

6 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. - Backup to a network drive to stand a better chance of success in case of a hard

60 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Hiding of any primary partition except selected at the moment. Startup Express

61 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Creating Dual Boot Systems Partition Management In this chapter you will find

62 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  In the Main menu: select Wizards > Create Partition…  On the Common Tasks

63 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. By default, the program allows you to create a new partition only as the last p

64 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. - Partition type. From the pull-down list select a file system the newly created

65 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Free space after. Define the amount of trailing free space (in Mb) at the end

66 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Formatting Partitions Any partition should contain some file system to be used f

67 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. As a result of this operation contents of the selected partition will be lost.

68 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  The amount of root entries. This parameter is available exclusively for FAT16

69 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Number of available options depends on the selected file system type. Result Aft

7 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. File System Optimization Facilities  27 defragmentation strategies available to

70 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. As a result of this operation contents of the selected partition will be lost.

71 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Merging Partitions The Merge Partitions Wizard enables to consolidate the disk sp

72 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Be particularly careful when selecting system partitions to process, since the i

73 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Result After the operation is completed the unused space between the specified p

74 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Partition to donate. Choose any partition(s) (not only adjacent) to donate fr

75 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. The program enables to find and recover these partitions. A restored partition wi

76 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. To know more on the available search methods, please use the context sensitive h

77 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Click the Boot Management button and then select Install New OS. Launcher  I

78 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. - In case the second option has been marked, the wizard enables to choose an exi

79 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Result As the final step the wizard will offer you to insert a distributive CD/DV

8 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Paragon Hot Resize™ technology to enlarge NTFS partitions (system, locked) with

80 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Free space before. Define the partition position (in Mb) relative to the begin

81 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Select in the Main menu: Partition > Convert file system…  On the Explore

82 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  On the Explorer bar: click on the current sectors per cluster value. 3. Defin

83 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Mark Partition Active/Inactive The program enables to set an active/inactive flag

84 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Set Label of a Partition The Partition Label is a small textual field (up to 11 c

85 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Predefined ID. Select from the pull-down list the required ID.  Enter ID ma

86 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Hard Disk Management In this chapter you will find all the information necessary

87 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. The program can only process dynamic disks containing solid simple volumes (wit

88 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. The program can only process dynamic GPT disks containing solid simple volumes

89 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 3. In the opened dialog you can see the current enumeration of the primary part

9 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Distribution Paragon Partition Manager Server is distributed in two ways:  Boxed

90 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 2. Call the popup menu for the selected partition/hard disk (right click of the

91 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Call the popup menu for the selected file/folder (right click of the mouse butto

92 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Launcher  Select in the Main Menu: Tools > File Transfer Wizard.  Select t

93 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Revision of changes. The Transfer Summary page provides structurally divided

94 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. However you can manually define the required letter by selecting it from the pul

95 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved.  Call the popup menu for the selected partition (right click of the mouse butto

96 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 1. Select a partition on the Disk Map 2. Call the Check File System Integrity d

97 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Careless use of the Edit Sectors function may result in the irreversible data c

98 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. By clicking the Send button the built-in mail client will generate a template re

99 Copyright© 1994-2010 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. Typical Scenarios This chapter lists a number of the most frequently used scenar