PARAGON Hard Disk Manager VERSION 17 User Manual Paragon Technologie GmbH Systemprogrammierung Leo-Wohleb-Straße 8 79098 Freiburg, Germany Tel. +49 (0) 761 59018201 Fax +49 (0) 761 59018130 Web www.paragon-software.com E-Mail [email protected] 2 Table of Contents Product Overview ............................................................................................................................... 4 Getting Started ................................................................................................................................... 5 Product Components .................................................................................................................................... 5 System Requirements ................................................................................................................................... 5 Installation ................................................................................................................................................... 6 First Start ..................................................................................................................................................... 6 Changing Program Settings ............................................................................................................... 10 Application Settings ............................................................................................................................................. 10 E-mail Settings ..................................................................................................................................................... 10 Notifications Settings .......................................................................................................................................... 11 Reporting Settings ............................................................................................................................................... 11 Building Recovery Media .................................................................................................................. 13 Booting from Recovery Media .......................................................................................................... 17 Protecting System and Data .............................................................................................................. 19 Backup Tasks .............................................................................................................................................. 19 Configuring Backup Job ....................................................................................................................................... 19 Managing Backup Jobs ........................................................................................................................................ 30 Pinning a Backup Image ...................................................................................................................................... 31 Checking Backup Integrity ................................................................................................................................... 32 Hyper-V Backup technology ................................................................................................................................ 33 Restore Tasks ............................................................................................................................................. 34 Exporting Individual Files from Backup ............................................................................................................... 34 Restore Hyper-V machines .................................................................................................................................. 36 Restoring a File-level Backup ............................................................................................................................... 37 Restoring a Volume-level Backup ........................................................................................................................ 40 Restoring from an Isolated Backup Image .......................................................................................................... 42 Mounting a Backup Image ................................................................................................................................... 43 Restoring a Failed System ................................................................................................................................... 45 Fixing Boot Problems ........................................................................................................................................... 48 Transferring Files between Storages ................................................................................................................... 50 Managing Partitions and Disks .......................................................................................................... 52 Basic Partitioning Tasks .............................................................................................................................. 52 Creating a Partition ............................................................................................................................................. 52 Formatting a Partition ......................................................................................................................................... 53 Deleting a Partition.............................................................................................................................................. 54 Moving/Resizing a Partition ................................................................................................................................ 55 Undeleting a Partition ......................................................................................................................................... 56 Converting File System ........................................................................................................................................ 57 Changing Volume Label ....................................................................................................................................... 58 Changing Drive Letter .......................................................................................................................................... 59 Hiding/Unhiding Partition ................................................................................................................................... 60 Making Partition Active/Inactive ......................................................................................................................... 60 Updating MBR ..................................................................................................................................................... 60 Getting Disk/Partition Properties ........................................................................................................................ 61 Copyright© 1994-2020 Paragon Software Group. All rights reserved. 3 Complex Partitioning Tasks ......................................................................................................................... 62 Splitting a Partition .............................................................................................................................................. 62 Expanding a Partition .......................................................................................................................................... 64 Merging Partitions ............................................................................................................................................... 65 Advanced Partitioning Tasks ....................................................................................................................... 66 Changing Cluster Size .......................................................................................................................................... 66 Converting to Logical/Primary ............................................................................................................................. 66 Changing Serial Number ...................................................................................................................................... 67 Change Primary Slots ........................................................................................................................................... 67 Converting a Partition Table ................................................................................................................................ 69 Editing Disk Sectors ............................................................................................................................................. 70 NTFS Optimization ...................................................................................................................................... 71 Compacting MFT ................................................................................................................................................. 71 Defragmenting MFT ............................................................................................................................................ 72 Partitioning Virtual Disks ...........................................................................................................................