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™ 14 Special Edition for XP User Manual Copyright© 1994-2014 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 2 Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 5 What’s New in Partition Manager 14 ........................................................................................................... 5 Product Components ............................................................................................................. 6 Features Overview ................................................................................................................. 6 Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface ................................................................................................................................ 6 Backup Facilities ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Restore Facilities ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Boot Management Facilities ................................................................................................................................................... 7 Partition/Hard Disk Management Facilities ............................................................................................................................ 7 Auxiliary Facilities ................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Supported Technologies .............................................................................................................................. 8 Supported File Systems ............................................................................................................................... 8 Supported Media ........................................................................................................................................ 9 Getting Started ...................................................................................................................... 9 System Requirements ................................................................................................................................. 9 Installation ................................................................................................................................................ 10 First Start ................................................................................................................................................... 11 Building Recovery Media ............................................................................................................................ 11 Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery Media ............................................................................................. 11 Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Boot menu ............................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Basic Concepts ..................................................................................................................... 14 pVHD Support ............................................................................................................................................ 15 GPT versus MBR ......................................................................................................................................... 15 uEFI Boot Challenges .................................................................................................................................. 15 Apple Boot Camp ....................................................................................................................................... 16 64-bit Support ............................................................................................................................................ 16 Drive Partitioning ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Windows Components ........................................................................................................ 17 Interface Overview .................................................................................................................................... 17 General Layout ...................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Tool Button ........................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Copyright© 1994-2014 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 3 Ribbon Panel ......................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Virtual Operations Bar .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Express Mode Button ........................................................................................................................................................... 20 Disk Map ............................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Disk and Partitions List .......................................................................................................................................................... 20 Context-sensitive Menu ........................................................................................................................................................ 21 Properties Panel .................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Status Bar .............................................................................................................................................................................. 23 Settings Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 23 General Options .................................................................................................................................................................... 23 General Copy and Backup Options ....................................................................................................................................... 24 Hot Processing Options ......................................................................................................................................................... 25 Partitioning Options .............................................................................................................................................................. 26 E-Mail Options ...................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Virtual Mode Options ........................................................................................................................................................... 27 File System Conversion Options ........................................................................................................................................... 27 Log Files Options ................................................................................................................................................................... 28 Viewing Disk Properties ............................................................................................................................. 29 Data Backup and Rescue ............................................................................................................................ 29 Creating Backup Images ........................................................................................................................................................ 29 Restoring System and Data ................................................................................................................................................... 30 Boot Management ..................................................................................................................................... 31 Partition Management ..............................................................................................................................