Paragon Technologie GmbH Systemprogrammierung Leo-Wohleb-Straße 8 79098 Freiburg, Germany Tel. +49 (0) 761 59018201 Fax +49 (0) 761 59018130 Internet www.paragon-software.com Email [email protected] Drive Copy™ 15 Professional User Manual Copyright© 1994-2017 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 2 Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 6 What’s New in Drive Copy 15 .......................................................................................................................6 Product Components................................................................................................................. 6 Features Overview .................................................................................................................... 7 Features ......................................................................................................................................................7 User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface .......................................................................................................................... 7 Backup Facilities .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Restore Facilities ............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Copy Facilities .................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Virtualization Facilities ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 Partition/Hard Disk Management Facilities ...................................................................................................................... 8 Automatization Facilities ................................................................................................................................................. 8 Auxiliary Facilities ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 Supported Technologies ...............................................................................................................................9 Supported Virtualization Software ............................................................................................................. 10 Supported virtual hard drive types................................................................................................................................. 10 Supported virtual machines for P2V scenarios ............................................................................................................... 10 Supported File Systems .............................................................................................................................. 10 Supported Media ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Getting Started ........................................................................................................................ 11 System Requirements ................................................................................................................................ 11 Installation ................................................................................................................................................ 12 First Start ................................................................................................................................................... 13 Building Recovery Media............................................................................................................................ 13 Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery Media ............................................................................................. 14 Startup .......................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Boot menu .................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Booting from the WinPE Recovery Media ................................................................................................... 16 Startup .......................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Basic Concepts ......................................................................................................................... 18 System and Data Protection ....................................................................................................................... 18 Sector Backup ................................................................................................................................................................ 18 Backup Storage .............................................................................................................................................................. 18 Copyright© 1994-2017 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 3 Adaptive Restore ........................................................................................................................................................... 18 System Virtualization ................................................................................................................................. 20 Dynamic Disks............................................................................................................................................ 20 pVHD Support ............................................................................................................................................ 21 GPT versus MBR ......................................................................................................................................... 22 uEFI Boot Challenges .................................................................................................................................. 22 Apple Boot Camp ....................................................................................................................................... 22 64-bit Support............................................................................................................................................ 23 Copy Operations ........................................................................................................................................ 23 Drive Partitioning ....................................................................................................................................... 23 Scheduling ................................................................................................................................................. 24 Windows Components ............................................................................................................ 24 Interface Overview .................................................................................................................................... 24 General Layout .............................................................................................................................................................. 24 Home Button ................................................................................................................................................................. 25 Ribbon Panel ................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Virtual Operations Bar ................................................................................................................................................... 26 Express Mode Button .................................................................................................................................................... 26 Disk Map ....................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Disk and Partitions List................................................................................................................................................... 27 Context-sensitive Menu ................................................................................................................................................. 28 Properties Panel ............................................................................................................................................................ 29 Status Bar ...................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Settings Overview .....................................................................................................................................