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™ 15 Professional User Manual Copyright© 1994-2014 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 2 Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 6 What’s New in Partition Manager 15 ........................................................................................................... 6 Product Components ............................................................................................................. 6 Features Overview ................................................................................................................. 7 Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface ................................................................................................................................ 7 Backup Facilities ...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Restore Facilities ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Virtualization Facilities ............................................................................................................................................................ 7 Boot Management Facilities ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Partition/Hard Disk Management Facilities ............................................................................................................................ 8 File System Optimization Facilities ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Auxiliary Facilities ................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Supported Technologies .............................................................................................................................. 9 Supported Virtualization Software .............................................................................................................. 9 Supported virtual hard drive types ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Supported File Systems .............................................................................................................................. 10 Supported Media ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Getting Started .................................................................................................................... 10 System Requirements ................................................................................................................................ 10 Installation ................................................................................................................................................ 11 First Start ................................................................................................................................................... 12 Building Recovery Media ............................................................................................................................ 13 Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery Media ............................................................................................. 13 Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Boot menu ............................................................................................................................................................................ 14 Booting from the WinPE Recovery Media ................................................................................................... 16 Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Basic Concepts ..................................................................................................................... 17 pVHD Support ............................................................................................................................................ 17 Dynamic Disks ............................................................................................................................................ 18 GPT versus MBR ......................................................................................................................................... 19 uEFI Boot Challenges .................................................................................................................................. 19 Copyright© 1994-2014 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 3 Apple Boot Camp ....................................................................................................................................... 19 64-bit Support ............................................................................................................................................ 20 Drive Partitioning ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Windows Components ........................................................................................................ 20 Interface Overview .................................................................................................................................... 21 General Layout ...................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Tool Button ........................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Ribbon Panel ......................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Set View Button .................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Virtual Operations Bar .......................................................................................................................................................... 23 Express Mode Button ........................................................................................................................................................... 23 Disk Map ............................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Disk and Partitions List .......................................................................................................................................................... 24 Context-sensitive Menu ........................................................................................................................................................ 25 Properties Panel .................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Status Bar .............................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Settings Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 26 General Options .................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Backup Image Options .......................................................................................................................................................... 28 General Copy and Backup Options ....................................................................................................................................... 29 CD/DVD/BD Recording Options ............................................................................................................................................ 29 Hot Processing Options ......................................................................................................................................................... 30 VD Container Options ..........................................................................................................................................................