Hard Disk Manager 8.5™ User Manual Hard Disk Manager 8.5™ 2 User Manual CONTENTS 1 Introduction................................................................................................................... 4 2 Key Features.................................................................................................................. 4 3 Hard Disk Manager Editions....................................................................................... 5 4 Installation ..................................................................................................................... 6 4.1 Package Contents.................................................................................................................................6 4.2 Minimum System Requirements ........................................................................................................6 4.3 Installation Procedure .........................................................................................................................7 5 Basic Concepts............................................................................................................... 8 5.1 Drive Partitioning ................................................................................................................................8 5.2 Backup Operations ..............................................................................................................................9 5.3 Differential Backup..............................................................................................................................9 5.4 Paragon Hot Processing & Volume Shadow Copy Service............................................................10 5.5 Dynamic Disks....................................................................................................................................11 5.6 64-bit Support.....................................................................................................................................12 5.7 Copy Operations ................................................................................................................................12 5.8 Scheduling...........................................................................................................................................13 6 Interface Overview...................................................................................................... 13 6.1 General Layout...................................................................................................................................13 6.2 Main Menu .........................................................................................................................................14 6.3 Tool Bar ..............................................................................................................................................17 6.4 Virtual Operations Bar......................................................................................................................18 6.5 Common Tasks Bar ...........................................................................................................................18 6.6 Disk Map.............................................................................................................................................20 6.7 Explorer Bar.......................................................................................................................................21 6.8 List of Partitions.................................................................................................................................22 6.9 Legend Bar .........................................................................................................................................23 6.10 Status Bar ...........................................................................................................................................23 7 Settings Overview........................................................................................................ 24 7.1 General Options .................................................................................................................................24 7.2 Backup Image Options ......................................................................................................................25 7.3 Partitioning Options ..........................................................................................................................25 7.4 File System Conversion Options.......................................................................................................26 7.5 General Copy and Backup Options .................................................................................................27 7.6 CD/DVD Recording Options.............................................................................................................28 7.7 Hot Processing Options .....................................................................................................................29 7.8 Virtual Mode Options........................................................................................................................30 7.9 E-Mail Options...................................................................................................................................30 7.10 Password Protection Options............................................................................................................31 7.11 Operation Dependency Options........................................................................................................32 7.12 Run during Backup Options.............................................................................................................33 8 How to Protect Data.................................................................................................... 34 8.1 Getting Information about Disks and their Images........................................................................34 8.2 Backup a Disk.....................................................................................................................................40 8.3 Differential Backup............................................................................................................................42 8.4 Cyclic Backup.....................................................................................................................................43 8.5 Backup a Dynamic Disk 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Hard Disk Manager 8.5™ 3 User Manual 8.6 Synthetic Backup ...............................................................................................................................45 8.7 Storing Backup Images onto External Media .................................................................................46 8.8 Storing Backup Images on a Network Drive...................................................................................47 8.9 Using the Backup Capsule ................................................................................................................47 8.10 Backup Capsule on a Disk with only one Partition ........................................................................49 8.11 Restoring a Disk from the Image......................................................................................................50 8.12 Using the Simple Restore Wizard.....................................................................................................52 8.13 Restoring the System Disk.................................................................................................................53 8.14 Restoring Separate Files and Folders from an Image ....................................................................53 8.15 Restoring Dynamic Volumes.............................................................................................................54 8.16 Build Recovery Media .......................................................................................................................56 9 Copy Tasks................................................................................................................... 57 9.1 Copy Hard Disk..................................................................................................................................57 9.2 One Button Copy Wizard..................................................................................................................59 9.3 Copy Partition ....................................................................................................................................60 10 Scheduling Operations................................................................................................ 62 10.1 Save to Scheduler ...............................................................................................................................67 11 Scripting.......................................................................................................................68 12 Partition Management................................................................................................ 69 12.1 Basic Partitioning Operations...........................................................................................................69