- 1 - Paragon Hard Disk Manager 6.0 Getting Started Guide - 2 - Contents CONTENTS.........................................................................................................................2 1 INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................12 1.1 How to Use this Guide ........................................................................................................................................12 1.2 Contacting Paragon Technology GMBH..........................................................................................................12 1.3 Hard Disk Manager 6.0 key features ................................................................................................................12 2 INSTALLING HARD DISK MANAGER.......................................................................14 2.1 Minimum System Requirements .......................................................................................................................14 2.1.1 Comments.....................................................................................................................................................14 2.1.1.1 Memory requirements...............................................................................................................................14 2.1.1.2 CD/DVD recordable drives ......................................................................................................................14 2.2 Package Contents................................................................................................................................................14 2.3 Installing Paragon Hard Disk Manager ...........................................................................................................15 2.3.1 Downloadable installation package ..............................................................................................................15 2.3.2 Comments.....................................................................................................................................................18 2.3.2.1 Acceptable Installation locations ..............................................................................................................18 2.3.2.2 Installing the program on the NTFS partition...........................................................................................19 2.3.2.3 User privileges..........................................................................................................................................19 2.3.2.4 No concluding system reboot is required..................................................................................................19 2.4 Registering and Updating Hard Disk Manager ...............................................................................................19 2.4.1 Paragon E-Service System............................................................................................................................19 2.4.2 Registering in the E-Service System.............................................................................................................20 2.4.3 Registering new products in the E-Service System ......................................................................................20 2.4.4 Downloading updates ...................................................................................................................................20 2.4.5 Updating and Upgrading registered products ...............................................................................................20 2.5 Uninstalling Hard Disk Manager ......................................................................................................................20 3 HARD DISK MANAGER FUNCTIONALITY................................................................21 3.1 Functionality overview .......................................................................................................................................21 3.1.1 Known filesystems........................................................................................................................................21 3.1.2 Fast copying algorithm .................................................................................................................................21 3.1.2.1 Fast copying mode....................................................................................................................................21 3.1.2.2 Sector-to-sector copying mode .................................................................................................................21 Advantages ......................................................................................................................................................22 3.1.3 Virtual operations .........................................................................................................................................22 3.1.3.1 Immediate Execution mode ......................................................................................................................22 3.1.3.2 Virtual Execution mode............................................................................................................................22 3.1.3.3 Smart mode for virtual operations ............................................................................................................22 3.1.4 Incremental Backup functionality extension.................................................................................................23 3.2 Interface overview ..............................................................................................................................................23 3.2.1 Interface Layout............................................................................................................................................23 3.2.1.1 Tree Layout panel.....................................................................................................................................24 3.2.1.2 List of Partitions .......................................................................................................................................24 3.2.1.3 UDP Layout panel ....................................................................................................................................24 3.2.1.4 Archives List panel...................................................................................................................................24 - 3 - 3.2.1.5 Legend panel.............................................................................................................................................24 3.2.1.6 Main Toolbar ............................................................................................................................................25 3.2.1.7 Virtual Operations Toolbar.......................................................................................................................25 3.2.1.8 Status Bar..................................................................................................................................................25 3.2.1.9 Main Menu................................................................................................................................................25 3.2.2 UDP controls ................................................................................................................................................27 3.2.2.1 Indication of partition parameters.............................................................................................................27 3.2.2.2 UDP control activity .................................................................................................................................27 3.3 Settings overview ................................................................................................................................................28 3.3.1 General Page.................................................................................................................................................28 3.3.1.1 Verify data written....................................................................................................................................28 3.3.1.2 Copy all sectors 1:1...................................................................................................................................29 3.3.1.3 FAT 64K clusters for NT..........................................................................................................................29 3.3.1.4 Do not hide target primary partitions after copy/restore...........................................................................29 3.3.1.5 Try to access non-BIOS cylinders ............................................................................................................29 3.3.1.6 Do not ask volume label before deleting ..................................................................................................29 3.3.1.7 Convert FAT16 to FAT32 automatically..................................................................................................29 3.3.1.8 Data loss protection ..................................................................................................................................30 3.3.1.9 1-based numeration of hard disks .............................................................................................................30