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 Professional User Manual Copyright© 1994-2014 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 2 Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 6 What’s New in Partition Manager 14 ........................................................................................................... 6 Product Components ............................................................................................................. 7 Features Overview ................................................................................................................. 7 Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface ................................................................................................................................ 7 Backup Facilities ...................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Restore Facilities ..................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Virtualization Facilities ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 Boot Management Facilities ................................................................................................................................................... 8 Partition/Hard Disk Management Facilities ............................................................................................................................ 8 File System Optimization Facilities ......................................................................................................................................... 9 Auxiliary Facilities ................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Supported Technologies .............................................................................................................................. 9 Supported Virtualization Software ............................................................................................................. 10 Supported virtual hard drive types ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Supported File Systems .............................................................................................................................. 11 Supported Media ....................................................................................................................................... 11 Getting Started .................................................................................................................... 11 System Requirements ................................................................................................................................ 11 Installation ................................................................................................................................................ 12 First Start ................................................................................................................................................... 13 Building Recovery Media ............................................................................................................................ 14 Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery Media ............................................................................................. 14 Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 14 Boot menu ............................................................................................................................................................................ 15 Booting from the WinPE Recovery Media ................................................................................................... 18 Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 Basic Concepts ..................................................................................................................... 19 pVHD Support ............................................................................................................................................ 19 Dynamic Disks ............................................................................................................................................ 19 GPT versus MBR ......................................................................................................................................... 20 uEFI Boot Challenges .................................................................................................................................. 20 Copyright© 1994-2014 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 3 Apple Boot Camp ....................................................................................................................................... 21 64-bit Support ............................................................................................................................................ 21 Drive Partitioning ....................................................................................................................................... 21 Windows Components ........................................................................................................ 22 Interface Overview .................................................................................................................................... 22 General Layout ...................................................................................................................................................................... 22 Tool Button ........................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Ribbon Panel ......................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Virtual Operations Bar .......................................................................................................................................................... 24 Express Mode Button ........................................................................................................................................................... 25 Disk Map ............................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Disk and Partitions List .......................................................................................................................................................... 25 Context-sensitive Menu ........................................................................................................................................................ 26 Properties Panel .................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Status Bar .............................................................................................................................................................................. 28 Settings Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 28 General Options .................................................................................................................................................................... 28 Backup Image Options .......................................................................................................................................................... 29 General Copy and Backup Options ....................................................................................................................................... 30 CD/DVD/BD Recording Options ............................................................................................................................................ 31 Hot Processing Options ......................................................................................................................................................... 32 Partitioning Options .............................................................................................................................................................. 32 E-Mail Options .....................................................................................................................................................................