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] Hard Disk Manager™ 14 Business User Manual Copyright© 1994-2013 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 2 Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 8 What’s New in Hard Disk Manager 14 ......................................................................................................... 8 Product Components ............................................................................................................. 9 Features Overview ............................................................................................................... 10 Features .................................................................................................................................................... 10 User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface .............................................................................................................................. 10 Backup Facilities .................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Restore Facilities ................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Copy Facilities ....................................................................................................................................................................... 12 Boot Management Facilities ................................................................................................................................................. 12 Partition/Hard Disk Management Facilities .......................................................................................................................... 12 File System Optimization Facilities ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Wipe Facilities ....................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Automatization Facilities ...................................................................................................................................................... 13 Auxiliary Facilities ................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Supported Data Erasure Algorithms ........................................................................................................... 13 Supported Technologies ............................................................................................................................. 14 Supported File Systems .............................................................................................................................. 14 Supported Media ....................................................................................................................................... 15 Getting Started .................................................................................................................... 15 System Requirements ................................................................................................................................ 15 Installation ................................................................................................................................................ 16 First Start ................................................................................................................................................... 18 Building Recovery Media ............................................................................................................................ 18 Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery Media ............................................................................................. 19 Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 Boot menu ............................................................................................................................................................................ 19 Booting from the WinPE Recovery Media ................................................................................................... 22 Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 22 Basic Concepts ..................................................................................................................... 23 System and Data Protection ....................................................................................................................... 23 File Backup versus Sector Backup ......................................................................................................................................... 23 Backup Types ........................................................................................................................................................................ 24 Copyright© 1994-2013 Paragon Software GmbH. All rights reserved. 3 Backup Storage ..................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Adaptive Restore .................................................................................................................................................................. 27 Paragon Hot Processing & Volume Shadow Copy Service ............................................................................ 29 Offline versus Online Data Processing .................................................................................................................................. 29 Paragon Hot Processing Technology .................................................................................................................................... 29 Volume Shadow Copy Service .............................................................................................................................................. 30 pVHD Support ............................................................................................................................................ 30 Dynamic Disks ............................................................................................................................................ 30 GPT versus MBR ......................................................................................................................................... 31 uEFI Boot Challenges .................................................................................................................................. 31 Apple Boot Camp ....................................................................................................................................... 32 64-bit Support ............................................................................................................................................ 32 Copy Operations ........................................................................................................................................ 33 Drive Partitioning ....................................................................................................................................... 33 Data Sanitization........................................................................................................................................ 34 Data Security Standards ............................................................................................................................. 34 Scheduling ................................................................................................................................................. 35 Windows BitLocker .................................................................................................................................... 35 Windows Components ........................................................................................................ 36 Interface Overview .................................................................................................................................... 36 General Layout ...................................................................................................................................................................... 36 Tool Button ........................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Ribbon Panel ......................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Virtual Operations Bar .........................................................................................................................................................