PARAGON Software GmbH Heinrich-von-Stephan-Str. 5c 79100 Freiburg, Germany Tel. +49 (0) 761 59018201 Fax +49 (0) 761 59018130 Internet www.paragon-software.com Email [email protected] Partition Manager™ 12 Home User Manual Copyright© 1994-2013 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 2 Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 5 What’s New in Partition Manager 12 ........................................................................................................... 5 Product Components ............................................................................................................. 5 Features Overview ................................................................................................................. 5 Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface ................................................................................................................................ 5 Backup Facilities ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Restore Facilities ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Boot Management Facilities ................................................................................................................................................... 6 Partition/Hard Disk Management Facilities ............................................................................................................................ 6 Auxiliary Facilities ................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Supported Technologies .............................................................................................................................. 7 Supported File Systems ............................................................................................................................... 8 Supported Media ........................................................................................................................................ 8 Getting Started ...................................................................................................................... 8 System Requirements ................................................................................................................................. 8 Installation ................................................................................................................................................. 9 First Start ................................................................................................................................................... 10 Building Recovery Media ............................................................................................................................ 11 Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery Media ............................................................................................. 12 Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Boot menu ............................................................................................................................................................................ 13 Basic Concepts ..................................................................................................................... 15 GPT versus MBR ......................................................................................................................................... 15 Apple Boot Camp ....................................................................................................................................... 15 64-bit Support ............................................................................................................................................ 16 Drive Partitioning ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Windows Components ........................................................................................................ 16 Interface Overview .................................................................................................................................... 17 General Layout ...................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Main Menu ........................................................................................................................................................................... 18 Tool Bar ................................................................................................................................................................................. 20 Virtual Operations Bar .......................................................................................................................................................... 21 Copyright© 1994-2013 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 3 Common Tasks Bar ............................................................................................................................................................... 21 Disk Map ............................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Explorer Bar .......................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Partition List .......................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Properties Bar ....................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Legend Bar ............................................................................................................................................................................ 26 Status Bar .............................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Settings Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 26 General Options .................................................................................................................................................................... 27 General Copy and Backup Options ....................................................................................................................................... 28 Hot Processing Options ......................................................................................................................................................... 29 Partitioning Options .............................................................................................................................................................. 29 E-Mail Options ...................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Virtual Mode Options ........................................................................................................................................................... 30 File System Conversion Options ........................................................................................................................................... 31 Log Files Options ................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Viewing Disk Properties ............................................................................................................................. 32 Data Backup and Rescue ............................................................................................................................ 34 Creating Backup Images ........................................................................................................................................................ 34 Restoring System and Data ................................................................................................................................................... 35 Boot Management ..................................................................................................................................... 36 Partition Management ............................................................................................................................... 37 Basic Partitioning Operations ..............................................................................................................................................