Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1 manual

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El nombre proviene de la palabra latina “instructio”, es decir, ordenar. Por lo tanto, en un manual Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1 se puede encontrar la descripción de las etapas de actuación. El propósito de un manual es enseñar, facilitar el encendido o el uso de un dispositivo o la realización de acciones concretas. Un manual de instrucciones también es una fuente de información acerca de un objeto o un servicio, es una pista.

Desafortunadamente pocos usuarios destinan su tiempo a leer manuales Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1, sin embargo, un buen manual nos permite, no solo conocer una cantidad de funcionalidades adicionales del dispositivo comprado, sino también evitar la mayoría de fallos.

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Sobre todo, un manual de instrucciones Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1 debe contener:
- información acerca de las especificaciones técnicas del dispositivo Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1
- nombre de fabricante y año de fabricación del dispositivo Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1
- condiciones de uso, configuración y mantenimiento del dispositivo Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1
- marcas de seguridad y certificados que confirmen su concordancia con determinadas normativas

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Normalmente es por la falta de tiempo y seguridad acerca de las funcionalidades determinadas de los dispositivos comprados. Desafortunadamente la conexión y el encendido de Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1 no es suficiente. El manual de instrucciones siempre contiene una serie de indicaciones acerca de determinadas funcionalidades, normas de seguridad, consejos de mantenimiento (incluso qué productos usar), fallos eventuales de Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1 y maneras de solucionar los problemas que puedan ocurrir durante su uso. Al final, en un manual se pueden encontrar los detalles de servicio técnico Paragon en caso de que las soluciones propuestas no hayan funcionado. Actualmente gozan de éxito manuales de instrucciones en forma de animaciones interesantes o vídeo manuales que llegan al usuario mucho mejor que en forma de un folleto. Este tipo de manual ayuda a que el usuario vea el vídeo entero sin saltarse las especificaciones y las descripciones técnicas complicadas de Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1, como se suele hacer teniendo una versión en papel.

¿Por qué vale la pena leer los manuales de instrucciones?

Sobre todo es en ellos donde encontraremos las respuestas acerca de la construcción, las posibilidades del dispositivo Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1, el uso de determinados accesorios y una serie de informaciones que permiten aprovechar completamente sus funciones y comodidades.

Tras una compra exitosa de un equipo o un dispositivo, vale la pena dedicar un momento para familiarizarse con cada parte del manual Paragon PSG-161-SEG-TLB1. Actualmente se preparan y traducen con dedicación, para que no solo sean comprensibles para los usuarios, sino que también cumplan su función básica de información y ayuda.

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    PA RAGON Technologie G mbH, Systempr ogrammie rung Heinrich-von-Steph an-Str. 5c  791 00 Freiburg, G ermany Tel. +49 (0) 761 59018201  Fax +49 ( 0) 761 590 18130 Internet www.parag on-software.c om  Email sales@p aragon-sof tware.com Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. P ar t it i on Ma nag er ™ S er v[...]

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    2 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 4 What’s New in Partition M anager Server .......................................................................................[...]

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    3 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Copy Operations ........................................................................................................................................ 24 Drive Partitioning .....................................................................................................[...]

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    4 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Introduction Paragon Partition Manag er™ Server is an in tegrated s et of powerful to ols that is specially designed t o tackle most of the problems the user might face whil e using PC. A hig hly intelligent pr ogram engin e together with built-in advanced recovery faciliti[...]

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    5 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Product Compone nts In order to cope with di fferent tasks, th e product c ontains several c omponents:  Windows based se t of utilities is the crucial part of the product. With the help of an easy to use launcher you may find and run task s of any c omplexity in the field[...]

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    6 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. - Backup to a networ k drive to stand a b etter chance of success in case of a hard disk failu re. Restore Facilities  Restore an entire di sk , separa te partitions or onl y files you nee d from the previ ously created bac kup imag e.  Restore with Sh rink to restore a[...]

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    7 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. File System Optim ization Facilities  27 defragmentation strategies availabl e to defrag ment FAT and NTFS file systems.  MFT defragmentat ion and shrinkin g to improve perf ormance of NTFS .  Safe Defragmenta tion Mode to guarant ee data loss f ree defragmen tation [...]

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    8 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Paragon Hot Resi ze™ technology t o enlarge NTFS par titions (syste m, locked) without rebooting Windows an d interrupting its work.  Paragon Restore with Shrink™ technol ogy to restor e a backup i mage to a free bl ock of small er size taking in to account only th[...]

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    9 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Distribution Paragon Partition Manag er Server is dist ributed in two ways :  Boxed package fro m Paragon Te chnology GmbH and resellers  Downloadable package over the Int ernet at the c ompany’s web -site Distributive CD The boxed package inclu des a distribu tive CD[...]

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    10 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 4. Click Register . The most impor tant field in the f orm is an E-mail address, as it serves as a login to ent er the system. B esides y our access password will be sent to this add ress as well. To register a new product If you are a regist ered user an d would like to r e[...]

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    11 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Knowledge Ba se & Technica l Support kb.paragon-software. com Pre-sale information sales@paragon-soft ware.com System Requiremen ts Windows based set of ut ilities To use the Windows utili ties, y ou should install the m first. But before that, please make sure your comp[...]

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    12 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Recordable CD/DVD drive to burn data to compact dis cs  External USB hard driv e to store backup data. Installation As we have alread y mention ed only Windows c omponents of the product require install ation. So to install Parag on Partition Manager Se rver un der Wi[...]

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    13 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. To accomplish on line back up/copy of locked partitio ns/hard disks the program uses a kernel mode ho tcore drive r, thus the syste m reboot is requ ired to comp lete the instal lation procedure. First Start To start Paragon Partition Manager Ser ver under Win dows, please c[...]

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    14 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. please consult th e Windows Components cha pter. Building Recov ery Media Recovery Media Bu ilder can help you accomplish the f ollowing operati ons:  Prepare the Linux/ DOS recovery environment (included in the ins tallation packa ge) on external media (CD, DVD, or flash[...]

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    15 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. You can get an ISO image of o ur WinPE 3.0 recove ry environment th rough the company’s web servic e. 6. Select the required thumb d rive from the list of flash me mory devices a vailable in the s ystem at th e moment (if several). 7. You will have to c onfirm the op erati[...]

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    16 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Normal Mode . Bo ot into the Linux n ormal mod e. This mode uses the full set of drivers (recomm ended);  Safe Mo de . Boot into the PTS DOS mode. This mode c an be used as an alt ernative of the Linux normal m o d e if it fails to work properl y;  Low-Graphics Sa [...]

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    17 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Partition Man ager (enable s to copy and back up separate parti tions or entire har d disks, carry out parti tioning operations, etc.) ;  Simple Restore W izard (allows rest oring hard disk s and partitions) ;  Express Resize W izard (enables t o increase free spa [...]

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    18 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Power off the compu ter . To move within the menu, please use the arro w keys of the computer k eyboard. Safe Mode When the Safe m ode is selected, the PTS DOS launch menu appear s. It has nearl y the sa me functionalit y as for th e Normal mode exc ept the Network Confi[...]

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    19 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 3. Once you accept the agreement, y ou will see the Universal Applicati on Launcher. In general it enables t o run components of the product, load dri vers for undefin ed hardware or establish a networ k connection. 4. Click on the required operation to s tart. Hints on the [...]

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    20 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Our WinPE 3.0 based recovery en vironment offe rs excellent ha rdware support. Howe ver in case it doesn’t ha ve a driv er for your disk con troller, yo ur hard disks will be una vailable. Please consult the Adding specific drive rs scenario to kn ow how to ta ckle this is[...]

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    21 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. If you’ve got a 6 4 -bit operating sy stem, no op tions will be added to the boot menu .  Automatic rep lacement of the boot critical dri vers (HDD controller, PS/2 and US B mouse and keyboard) t o the default Windows dri vers to provide the maxi mum leve l of compatibi[...]

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    22 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. As the name infers, offline data proc essing can only be accomplished wh en the data is in c onsistent state (the oper ating system and all the applications are completel y shut down). Actuall y it is the m ost preferabl e way of imag e creation or data cloning, since s oftw[...]

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    23 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. To use VSS it is necessary t o have a mou nted 300 MB + NTFS parti tion. Dynamic Disks As you probably kno w, MS-DOS, Micr osoft Windows 95/98/Me/N T/2000/XP /Vista/Server 20 03/2008 sup port four primary partiti ons per physical hard disk, one of which can be extended. Cert[...]

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    24 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  More reliable thanks to repli cation and cyclic redundan cy check (CRC) pr otection of the partition tabl e;  A well defined and fully self-identifying partition form at (data critical to the platform op eration is l ocated in partitions, but no t in un-partitioned or[...]

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    25 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. the user is to face a la rge re-installati on procedure sp anning several days of tedi ous work. But all of this can be avoided just by copying the c ontents of the old hard disk to a new one pr oportionall y resizing the partiti ons. And the last but not least is the c opyi[...]

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    26 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. The Launcher’s wind ow can be conditi onally subd ivided into se veral sections tha t differ in th eir purpose an d functionality: 1. Main Menu 2. Tool Bar 3. Virtual Operati ons Bar 4. Common Tasks Bar 5. Explorer Bar[...]

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    27 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. Disk Map 7. Partition List 8. Properties Bar 9 . Legend Bar 10 . Status Bar A number of panels offer similar functi onality wi th a synchronized la yout. The pr ogram enables t o conceal s ome of them to simplify the in terface m anagement. All panels are separat ed by ve[...]

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    28 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Express Create Par tition… Create an NTFS partiti on and make it r eady for w ork Create Par tition… Create a partition of any file sys tem Format Partitio n… Format a partition of any file sys tem Delete Partitio n… Delete a partiti on of any file syste m Express Re[...]

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    29 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Convert File Sys tem… Convert file syste m of the select ed partition Assign Drive Let ter… Assign drive lett er to the selected pa rtition Remove Drive Letter … Remove drive l etter for th e selected parti tion Hide Partition… Make the selected par titio n unavailab[...]

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    30 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Help Help Open the Help syste m (you can als o do it by pressing F 1) About Open the dialog with information abou t the progra m The Main Menu contents availab le at the momen t may var y depending on th e se lec ted object. Tool Bar The Toolbar provid es fast access to the [...]

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    31 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Cancel all virtual operations on th e List of Pendin g Operations Virtual mode is an effective way of protect ion from an y troubles, since no opera tions will be executed un til clicking t he Apply button for confir mation, thus giving a seco nd chance to weigh all pros and[...]

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    32 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Starting the Und elete Parti tions Wizard to rec over accid entally deleted par titions. Copy and Migration Tasks Starting the Copy Har d Disk Wizard to copy a hard disk. Starting the Copy Par tition Wiz ard to copy a partiti on. Starting the P2P Adjus t OS Wizard to make yo[...]

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    33 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Large-sized bars disp lay the following inf ormati on about physical di sks:  Manufacture r,  Model. Small-sized bars displa y the following inf ormation ab out logical dis ks:  Serial number,  Drive letter,  Total size,  File system. Furthermore, it is p o[...]

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    34 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  General information on the produ ct including its name, version and a list of h elpful links;  Detailed informati on about disks sel ected on the Disk Map ;  Volume Explorer utility;  Disk Editor utility. According to these categori es the Explorer B ar has seve[...]

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    35 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. - Name, - Volume label (if exists), - Partition t ype (Primar y/Extended /Logical) , - File syste m type, - Size, - Amount of used and un used (free) space, - Start/End cylin der, - Start/End h ead, - Start/End sect or - Free size in sectors/byte s - Active/Inacti ve attribu[...]

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    36 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Properties Bar The Properties Bar p rovides infor mation on the selec ted at th e moment partiti on/hard disk: For a hard disk  Model,  Serial number,  Type of hard disk (basic or d ynamic),  Total size (in GB),  Information on ge ometry of the disk (amount of[...]

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    37 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Status Bar This is the bottom par t of the main window. The Statu s Bar displays menu hints, for ea ch item the cursor poin ts to. The user can hide ( or show) the bar with the appr opriate Main Menu item: View > Status Bar. Settings Overview The Settings dialog is availa[...]

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    38 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Backup Image Optio ns This section contains a set of options that will be taken into ac count during restore operati ons:  Control archive inte grity . Mark the checkbox to guarantee that all bac kup imag es created with th e program are 100 percent flawless. If you decid[...]

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    39 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Partitioning Optio ns This section contains a set of options that will be tak en into account during partit ioning opera tions:  Enable 64 KB clu ster size fo r FAT16 . Mark the chec kbox to enable 64KB clusters for FAT16 partiti ons. Thus you will be able t o create FAT1[...]

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    40 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. General Copy a nd Backup Optio ns This section contains a set of options that will be tak en into account during copy and backup opera tions:  Partition raw pro cessing . Mark the ch eckbox to cop y a partiti on in the sector- by -sector mode to suc cessfully process unkn[...]

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    41 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. CD/DVD Recordin g Options This section contains a set of options that will be tak en into account during CD/D VD burn operati ons:  Burn every CD/DVD to the end . By default, the pr ogram d oes not create ISO 9660 compliant burning sessi ons, as it processes da ta on-the-[...]

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    42 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Hot Process ing Options In this section you may config ure the hot processing m ode:  Enable hot pro cessing . Mark the checkb ox to enable the so called h ot data pro cessing mode tha t is specially designed to process da ta without r estarting y our operatin g system. ?[...]

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    43 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Switch between hot pro cessin g technolo gies . Mark t he checkbox t o automatically swi tch between P aragon Hot Processing and Microsoft VSS if one of them is una vailable at th e moment. E-Mail Options This section contains a set of options that will be taken into ac [...]

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    44 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. - Send mail in HTML format . Activa te the option t o create messages in the HTM L format instead of plain tex t. - Send complete repo rt afte r applying opera tions . Activate the option to creat e an in-depth repor t on the carried out operati ons and send it aft er perfor[...]

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    45 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Virtual Mode Op tions In this section you may config ure the virtual mode:  Allow virtual mode . Mark th e checkbox to enable the virtual mode. It is an eff ective way of protection fr om any troubles, since no operation will be executed until confirmation, thus gi ving y[...]

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    46 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. different standard s for file names and file time sta mps (Created, Modified and L ast Access Time) of NTFS and FA Txx file systems. To tackle probl ems of that kind you can manuall y set:  Time zone to use du ring the convert operation. NTFS keeps file time stamps in G M[...]

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    47 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Getting Informa t ion on Disks an d Backup Images The program pr ovides som e helpful tools t o get informati on on the proper ties of disks and peculiar ities of existing backup images. Viewing Disk P roperties The main tool t o view in-depth infor mation on the pr operties[...]

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    48 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. When you select a s mall-sized bar (i.e. corresponding to a logical dis k) the Expl orer Bar will displa y informati on on it as well. The page ti tle will con tain a drive le tter, which is assigned to the disk. The di sk layout graph will be colored in accordance with the [...]

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    49 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. The section below (i. e. Archive File Details) displa ys a short de scription of the selected i mage, includin g:  Information on a type of the arch ive conten ts (whether it is s ector-based or file-based),  Whether the archi ve is compress ed or not,  Whether the [...]

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    50 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. If you want to res tore the i mage contents, click the Next but ton. In order to cancel, click the Cancel but ton. Data Backup and R escue In this chapter y ou will find all the inf ormati on necessary to establish a reliable d ata protecti on system. Creating Backup I mages[...]

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    51 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. such disk elements a s the Mast er Boot Record (MBR) and the first track of the hard disk. This can be very he lpful for serious disk re covery procedure s.  Backup destina tion . The wiz ard allows saving bac kup archives to local or net work drives, t o physical parti t[...]

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    52 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. In addition, there is the possib ility to make further detailed set tings (alth ough the default values will do in m ost cases). To activate the ad vance mode, you need to mark th e appropriate option on the second page of the wizard. When it is marked, the next pag e enable[...]

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    53 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. settings. Moreover you can get an in-depth d escriptio n to any setting, c ontrol, or field of the wizard just by clicking the hint button and then the object you need. Startup There are several wa ys to s tart the Restore Wizard: Express Laun cher  Click the Backup and R[...]

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    54 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. To know more on the subject, p lease consult the Viewin g Image Prope rties chapter. Sector Backup Res tore  Data to restore . You’ve got the option to restor e not only the entire archiv e, but separate ite ms of it (the s o called selecti ve restore functionalit y) by[...]

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    55 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Restoring Hard Disk:  Copy data and resize partit ions proportiona lly . If this option is ac tivated, the pro gram proportionall y changes the size of partitions keepi ng their relative order intact. The option can be useful when restoring to a larger hard disk.  Perf[...]

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    56 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Cloning Hard Disk s You can clone a hard dis k o f any file syste m. During th e hard disk cop ying process , the program moves contr olling records of used parti tioning schem e, the bootstrap c ode and on- disk partiti ons. That’s wh y this operation cannot be substitute[...]

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    57 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Copy parameters . The wizard enab les to specify the f ollowing options: Copy options - HDD raw copy to copy the hard disk in the sect or- by -sector mode, thus ign oring its in formation structur e (e.g . unallocated space or unused sectors of existing parti tions will [...]

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    58 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Result After the operati on is comp leted, you receive a fully functional du plicate of the existing hard disk. To make a Win 2K+ operating s ystem boota ble on diffe rent hardware, plea se ad ditionally complete the P2P Adjust OS Wizard . Available opera tion scenar ios: ?[...]

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    59 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. The program ena bles to co py a partition to a block of free space, wh ich is small er t ha n the partition itse lf, taking into account on ly actual amo unt of data .  Copy parameters . The wizard enab les to specify the f ollowing options: - Partition size . Define the [...]

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    60 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Hiding of any pri mary partition e xcept select ed at the moment. Startup Express Laun cher  Click the Boot Man agemen t button and then selec t Boot Man ager . Launcher  In the Main menu : select Tools > Setup Boot Manage r …  On the Common Tasks Bar: clic[...]

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    61 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Creating Dual Boot System s Partition Manag ement In this chapter y ou will find all the inf ormati on necessary to car ry out partiti oning operations supp orted by the program. Basic Partitionin g Operations Here you can learn h ow to acco mplish basic partiti oning op[...]

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    62 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  In the Main menu : select Wizards > Create Partit ion…  On the Common Tasks bar: click the Create Partitio n item of the Wizards menu. Dialog Startup In order to start the operation y ou should tak e the following steps: Launcher 1. Select a block of fre e space [...]

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    63 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. By default, the pro gram all ows you to crea te a new pa rtition only as the last pri mary or as the last logical dri ve withi n the extend ed partition. Ho wever, by activat ing the ad vance mode on the firs t page of the wizard you can remo ve this restriction that in its [...]

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    64 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. - Partition type . Fr om the p ull-down list select a fil e system the ne wly created p artition will b e formatted t o, otherwise the parti tion will rem ain unformatted (s o that it will not be r eady to us e). - Volume label . Ent er a label for the selected par tition in[...]

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    65 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Free space after . Defin e the a mount of trailing free space (in Mb) at the end of the new partition. Partition size and position may also be defined by us ing the drag- and -drop techniqu e. To do that, just carr y out the requ ired operation o n the Disk M ap. The vir[...]

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    66 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Formatting Partiti ons Any partition should contain some fil e system to be us ed for keepi ng data. The process of installing a fil e system is commonly known as formatting . A huge variety of file systems have been developed these days. Supported File Systems The program p[...]

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    67 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. As a result of thi s operatio n contents of the selected partition will be lost.  Partition prope rties . On the next page of the wizard you can set the f ollowing pa rtition param eters: - Partition type . Fr om the p ull-down list select the desired file s ystem type. I[...]

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    68 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  The amount of roo t entries . This parame ter is availab le exclusively f or FAT16 file system. Set the maximum amount of files/direc tories to be placed in the Ro ot Directory on th e FAT16 par tition.  The amount of sec tors per clus ter . Define the Clus ter Size f[...]

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    69 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Number of availab le option s depends on the selected file sy stem type. Result After the operati on is comp leted you recei ve a fully functional partiti on for matted to the specified file system. Deleting Partitions With the Delete Partition Wiz ard or the Del ete Partiti[...]

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    70 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. As a result of thi s operatio n contents of the selected partition will be lost.  Merge free blocks . As a result of the operation you may get se veral blocks of the unallocated space on the hard disk. So choose wheth er to merg e them all and place at the begin ning of t[...]

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    71 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Merging Partition s The Merge Parti tions Wizar d enables to cons olidate the disk spa ce, which originally bel ongs to two adjacent partitions, into a single, larger partitio n. The order, in which two p artitions have been chose n, is important since all con tents of the s[...]

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    72 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Be particularl y careful when selecting syste m partitio ns to process, s ince the incorrect order, in which t wo partitio ns have been cho sen, will result in inabil ity to boot t he operating system. Result After the operati on is comp leted the disk spa ce of the two adja[...]

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    73 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Result After the operati on is comp leted the unused spac e between th e specified pa rtitions will be redistributed a ccording to your needs. Available opera tion scenar ios:  Increasing size of a system p artition by taking unused spa ce of an adjacent parti tion  Re[...]

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    74 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Partition to do nate . Choose any par tition(s) (not only adjacent) to donate free space.  Partition size . By defau lt, the progra m leaves 5 0% of the un used space on a parti tion and rem oves another 50% to add it to the targe t partition. Ho wever, the siz e to t[...]

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    75 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. The program enab les to find and recover these parti tions. A re stored partition will be full y functional, as l ong as other partitions were no t created, mov ed or exceeded the disk space occupied by that partition. That is why the pr ogram offers this function only for b[...]

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    76 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. To know more on the availa ble search metho ds, please use th e context sen sitive hint system.  File system filte r . By default, the wizard will search for all known file systems. H owever, b y clicking on the appropriate opti on on the second pag e of the wizard , you [...]

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    77 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Click the Boot Man agemen t button and then selec t Install New OS . Launcher  In the Main menu : select Wizards > Install New OS…  On the Common Tasks bar: click the Install New OS ite m of the Wizard s menu. Setup The wizard offers the following steps to acc[...]

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    78 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. - In case the sec ond option has been marked, the wiza rd enables t o choose an exi sting primary partiti on to install a new operating system. Your computer may fail if an y other OS has al ready bee n installed on the selecte d partition.  Partition prope rties . - Part[...]

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    79 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Result As the final step the wizard will offer you to insert a distributive CD/DVD of the n ew operating s ystem and r estart the computer to launch the ins tallation pr ocedure. The program will update your MBR, so most like ly you won’t be able to start up an y of the pr[...]

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    80 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Free space before . Defin e the partiti on position (in Mb) relative to the beginnin g of the available rang e of disk space.  Free space after . Defin e the a mount of trailing free space (in Mb) at the end of the availabl e range of dis k space.  Sector to sector[...]

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    81 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Select in the Main menu: Partit ion > Convert f ile system…  On the Explorer bar: click on the curren t file sys tem type.  Call the popup m enu for the sel ected partiti on (right click of the mouse button ) on the Disk Map or on the Partition List, then sel [...]

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    82 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  On the Explorer bar: click on the curren t sect ors per cluster value. 3. Define the cluster size for the partiti on. This para meter can have a pr ofound effe ct on the overall p erforma nce. In a nutshell, larger cluster s waste more spa ce, but ge nerally provide for [...]

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    83 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Mark Partition Active/Ina ctive The program enab les to set an active /inactive flag for primary partiti ons of a hard disk. By d efault, an opera ting system will boot only if its partition is active or bootabl e. In order to mark a par tition activ e/inactive you should ta[...]

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    84 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Set Label of a Partition The Partition Lab el is a sma ll textual field (up to 11 cha racters) that is lo cated in th e partition's boot sect or. It is detectable by any par titioning tool and is used for notification pu rposes only. In order to change a par tition labe[...]

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    85 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Predefined ID . S elect from the pull-down lis t the requi red ID.  Enter ID manuall y . With the spinn er control set th e required ID value. It has t o be a 1-2 digit hexadecimal nu mber. 4. The operation will b e performed im mediately after confirmation. Change Se[...]

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    86 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Hard Disk Manag ement In this chapter y ou will find all the inf ormati on necessary to car ry hard disk operations supp orted by the pr ogram (Update MBR, Con vert to Basic, Cha nge Pri mary Slot). Updating MBR The program enab les to overwrit e the current bo otable code i[...]

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    87 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. The program can only proc ess dynamic disk s containi ng solid simple volumes ( without extension). Converting GPT to Basic MBR The program all ows you to convert a basic or a dynami c GPT disk contain ing simple v olumes into a basic MBR disk while keeping its contents in t[...]

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    88 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. The program can only proc ess dynamic GPT disk s containing solid simple volumes (withou t extension). Changing Primar y Slot Different operating systems apply diff erent approach es to enu meration of the p rimary partiti ons. In Linux: In Linux, every partiti on has a spec[...]

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    89 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 3. In the opened dial og you can see the current enu meration of the prim ary partiti ons of the sel ected hard disk in the Partition Table. To help you distinguish partiti ons from on e another, the pr ogram pr ovides the following parameters for every partition: - Slot - V[...]

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    90 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 2. Call the popup m enu for the sel ected partiti on/hard disk (righ t click of the mouse bu tton) on the Disk Map , then select the menu item : Properties… In the opened dial og information will be gr ouped according to its pr operties, thu s by clicking tabs you can g et[...]

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    91 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Call the popup m enu for the sel ected file/folder (right click of the mouse bu tton) to expor t it to some other location (local or network drive, etc .). Available opera tion scenar ios:  Restoring separa te files and folders from a backup File Transfer W izard File Tra[...]

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    92 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Launcher  Select in the Main Menu: Too ls > File Transfe r Wizard .  Select the Transfer Fi les item of th e Wizards m enu on the Comm on Tasks Bar. Setup The wizard offers the following steps to acco mplish the transfer operation:  Place to look fo r files/direc[...]

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    93 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Revision of cha nges . The Transfer Sum mary page pr ovides structurall y divided in formation on all the action s made in the wizard . Check the chan ges and com e back to any step of the wizard (if necessary) by following the required hyperlink. Result After the operat[...]

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    94 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. However you can manually define the required lett er by selecting it from the pu ll-down list of availabl e drive letters. 4. The operation will b e performed i mmediately after confir mation. Remove Drive Lett er In order to un-mount a partition you should take the f ollowi[...]

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    95 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Call the popup m enu for the sel ected partiti on (right click of the mouse button ) on the Disk Map or on the Partition List, then sel ect th e menu item: Downgrad e NTFS Version… 3. Decrease version of the sel ected NTFS partiti on by selecting the one you ne ed from[...]

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    96 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 1. Select a partition on the Disk Map 2. Call the Check Fil e System I ntegrity dialog t o set up the operati on. There are several ways to do it: - Select in the Main Menu: Partit ion > Check File S ystem Inte grity - Call the popup m enu for the sel ected partiti on (ri[...]

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    97 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Careless use of th e Edit Sectors fun ction may resul t in the irrever sible data corruption . Send Log Files The program enab les to simpli fy the procedure of sendin g support requests t o the Paragon Supp ort Team. In case of having difficulties with handli ng the program[...]

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    98 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. By clicking the S end button the buil t-in mail client will generate a template r equest with atta ched co mpressed log files and then send it t o the Paragon Supp ort Team. Log Files Log files are si mple textual files that can be opened by any text editor. Ther e are sever[...]

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    99 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Typical Scenari os This chapter lists a number of the most frequently used scenarios that may be ac complished with the program. Y ou can find here useful rec ommendations and des criptions of operations. Backup Scenari os Backing up a hard disk or pa rtition to external med[...]

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    100 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. You’ve got the o ption to m odify the defa ult backup settings by marking the ap prop riate checkbox on this page. 4. On the Backup Destination pag e, select the Burn the d ata to CD or DVD option. 5. Select a recordable device on the list of available CD /DVD devices and[...]

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    101 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 7. On the Backup Sum mary page re view all para meters of the op eration and modif y them if nece ssary. Click t he Next button to start the backup proc ess. This operation can al so be accomplished with the Lin ux/DOS or WinPE re covery environments. Backing up a hard disk[...]

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    102 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. - Call the Map Ne twork Drive dialog b y clicking the ap propriate button; - Click the standard br owse bu tton [...] to browse for the required ne twork share or manually enter a path to it; - Define a letter fro m the pu ll-down list of available drive letters ; - Mark th[...]

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    103 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Backing up a dual boot Mac to a n external USB drive To back up a dual b oot Mac (Ma c OS X and Win dows XP/Vista /7 ) and then place the resulted i mage to an external USB drive, please do th e followi ng: 1. Start up the comput er from our Linux/DOS recover y media. Recov[...]

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    104 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. On the Wizard's Wel come page, click the N ext button. 7. On the What to ba ck up page, sel ect your Mac hard di sk. 8. On the Backup Destination pag e, select the Save data to any loca l drive or a ne twork sha re option. 9. Select an external USB drive as a backup[...]

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    105 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 10. Edi t the archive na me if necessar y. Please take into a ccount va lues of the parameter s Estimated archive size an d Spa ce available on ba ckup destin ation - if the archive size e xceeds the availab le space , another drive needs to be selected. 11. Ad d comments t[...]

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    106 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 1. Start up the comput er from our Linux/DOS re covery media. Recovery Media Builder can help you prep are the L inux/DOS o r WinPE recover y environment e ither on a CD/DVD d isc or a thu mb drive. To automaticall y boot from the re covery media please make sure the on-boa[...]

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    107 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 5. On the next page cho ose the required hard disk fro m the pull-down list (if se veral) and then s elect the Update the MBR executa ble code option. 6. Confirm the opera tion. 7. After the operati on is comp leted click the Rep ort butt on to see a well inf ormative sum m[...]

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    108 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 9. Reboot the computer. Fixing Windows start up ability Let’s assume that du e to an un known reason y our Windows fails t o c omplete the star tup procedure. At fir st e verything seems quite OK, you can see the standard star tup messages on the screen, but at some momen[...]

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    109 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 4. On the Wizard's Wel come page, select the Sea rch for Wind ows installation s to co rrect o pti on. 5. On the next page cho ose the required Windows insta llation from the list of found installations (if s everal), t hen select the Edit th e Boot.ini file option. If[...]

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    110 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. Examine the file – maybe that’s wher e the probl em is. If it c ontains a mistak e, correct it by using the appr opriate buttons. 7. If the Boot.ini file d oes not contain any mistak e, pleas e return to the Corr ect Win dows Installati ons page to correct drive l et[...]

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    111 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 9. Click the Edit Let ters button to corr ect an existing drive letter or assign a ne w one in the Windo ws System Registry. 10. Once you’ve assigned the appropria te drive lett er, close the dial og, then clic k the Ap ply button. 11. Confir m the operation. 12. Af ter t[...]

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    112 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 13. Cli ck the Finish button to close Boot Corrector. 14. Rebo ot the computer. Restoring a syste m partition from ex ternal media (CD/DVD) Let’s assume that your comp uter fails to boot be cause of a virus a ttack or corrup tion of s ome system critical files. But you’[...]

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    113 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. By default the No rmal Mod e will be automat ically in itiated after a 1 0 se cond idle pe riod. 4. In the PTS DOS launch menu selec t the Restore Wizar d. You can fin d the same wi zard in Linux as well. 5. On the Wizard's Wel come page, click the N ext button. 6. On [...]

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    114 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 8. On the next page specif y a hard disk, then one of its p artitions to res tore the i mage to (if s everal in your computer). By d efault, the prog ram offers to restore the archive e xactly where i t belongs. That’ s what we actually need. All contents on the partitio [...]

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    115 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 11. In the Progress wind ow you can see in real-time a de tailed repor t on all actions carried out by the program. 12. Af ter completing th e operation cl ose the wizard , and then rebo ot the computer. This operation can also be accomplished with the WinPE recover y envir[...]

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    116 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. If you do not ag ree with a ny conditions s tated there, you won’t be ab le to use t he program. 3. Once you accept the agreement, y ou will see the Universal Appli cation Launcher. Select the Restor e Wizard. 4. On the Restore Wizard 's Welcome page, click the Ne xt[...]

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    117 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. - Click the standard br owse bu tton [...] to browse f or the required ne twork share or manually enter a path to it; - Define a letter from the pu ll-down list of available drive letters; - Click the Connect as user b utton at the foot of the dialog page to specif y a user[...]

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    118 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 7. On the Where t o Restore page specif y a hard dis k, then one of its partitions to restore the imag e to (if se veral in your computer). By default, the pr ogram offers to restore the ar chive exactly wh ere it belongs. That’s what we actually need. All contents on the[...]

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    119 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 10. In the Progress wind ow you can see in real-time a de tailed repor t on all actions carried out by the program. Mark the checkb ox at the b ottom of the wind ow to automaticall y switch off the computer on the successful accomplishment of the restore opera tion. 11. Af [...]

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    120 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. To know more on the subject, p lease consult the Viewing Image Prope rties chapter. 4. On the Where t o Restore page specif y a hard dis k, then one of its partitions to restore the image t o (if several in your computer). By default, the pr ogram offers to restore the ar c[...]

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    121 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. Complete the wizard and then app ly the pending changes. 7. The program will requ ire th e system restart to accomp lish the operati on in a speci al boot-up mode. Click the appropriate button to agree. 8. In the Progress wind ow yo u can see in real-time a de tailed rep[...]

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    122 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. This operation can also be accomplished with the Linux/DOS or WinPE re covery environments. To make a Win 2K+ operating s ystem boota ble on diffe rent hardware, plea se ad ditionally complete the P2P Adjust OS Wizard . Restoring a dual b oot Mac fr om an external USB drive[...]

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    123 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. On the Wizard's Wel come page, click the N ext button. 7. On the What to Rest ore pag e, click the standard browse butt on [...] to find the r equired archi ve. When done , do uble click on it to selec t. 8. On the Image Pr operties pag e, make sure that you select [...]

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    124 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 9. On the next page specif y a hard disk t o restore th e image t o. All contents on disk select ed for restoring purpo ses wi ll be deleted during the operation. 10. On the R estore Sum mary page y ou can see y our hard disk layout before and afte r the operation. Clic k t[...]

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    125 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 12. Af ter completing th e operation cl ose the wizard, and t hen reboot the co mputer. Copying of data from t he cor rupted system disk to another har d disk To retrieve valuable inform ation from your hard dis k and copy it to another hard disk when the system fails to bo[...]

  • Página 126

    126 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. By default the No rmal Mod e will be automat ically in itiated after a 1 0 second id le period. 4. In the Linux laun ch menu select the File Transf er Wizard. You can find the sam e wizard in PTS DOS as well. 5. On the Wizard's Wel come page, click the N ext button. 6.[...]

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    127 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Click the Calc but ton to estimate the resulted data siz e. 8. On the Select Destin ation Type, ch oose the way the da ta will be st ored. Select the Save data to any lo cal drive or a network sha re item. 9. On the Select Destin ation P ath page, select a hard disk to cop [...]

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    128 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 12. Af ter the operati on is completed, cl ose the wiz ard by p ressing the appr opriate button. 13. Turn off the computer. This operation can also be accomplished with the Wi nPE recovery env ironment. Burning of data from t he cor rupted system disk to CD/DVD To retrieve [...]

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    129 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 4. On the Wizard's Wel come page, click the N ext button. 5. Select a disk where the files y ou need are stor ed from the pull-down list in the righ t pane of the pag e. 6. Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipb oard by pressing the left arr ow-button.[...]

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    130 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Click the Calc button to estimate the resulted data siz e. 7. On the Select Destin ation Type, ch oose the way the da ta will be st ored. Select the Burn data to CD/DVD ite m. 8. On the Choose a Rec order p age, select a rec order from th e list of available devices and the[...]

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    131 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Copying of data fro m a backup to the co rrupted system partition The system fails t o boot since s ome files are damaged. If you hav e a backup of the sys tem partition, you can rec opy these files to mak e the syst em be operable again : 1. Start up the comput er from our[...]

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    132 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 4. On the Wizard's Wel come page, click the N ext button. 5. Select a disk where the syst em backup is stored fr om the pull-d own list in the righ t pane of the page. 6. Double click on the r equire d backup to open.[...]

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    133 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 7. Select files you want to copy and place them to Clipb oard by pressing the left arr ow-button. Click the Calc but ton to estimate the resulted data siz e. 8. On the Select Destin ation Type, ch oose the way the da ta will be st ored. Select the Save data to any lo cal dr[...]

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    134 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 10. On the Transfer Sum mary pag e check all para meters of the operati on. Click the Next button to a ccomplish the operation. 11. In the Progress wind ow you can see in real-time a det ailed report on all actions c arried out by the pr ogram. 12. Af ter the operati on is [...]

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    135 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. If you do not ag ree with a ny conditions s tated there, you won’t be ab le to use t he program. 3. Once you accept the agreement, y ou will see the Universal Appli cation Launcher. Select the Restor e Wizard. 4. On the Restore Wizard 's Welcome page, click the Ne xt[...]

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    136 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 7. On the How to Res tore page specif y the way th e selected data will be rest ored. In our case we’d rather rest ore contents of the backup to its original l ocation with r eplacing existing fil es as well. 8. On the Restore Su mmary pag e review all para meters of the [...]

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    137 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. This operation can also be accomplished under Wind ows. Volume Explore r To restore separat e files an d folders from a backup i mage with V olume Explorer, please do the following: Launcher 1. Click the Disk Vie w tab and then ch oose Volume Expl orer ; 2. Browse for the r[...]

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    138 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 4. Select a place on the disk where the file/folder will b e extrac ted to. 5. Click the OK butt on to accomplish the operation. The current vers ion of the p rogram does not en able to acces s file archives with Volume Explorer. Resize Scenarios Creating a new partition to[...]

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    139 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 1. Click the Express Create Partit ion item of the Wizards menu (an y of the wa ys describ ed earlier can als o be used here). 2. On the Wizard's Wel come page, click the N ext button. 3. Choose a method you find the most suitable t o create the parti tion. The wizard [...]

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    140 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 5. In the Progress wind ow yo u can see in real-time a de tailed repor t on all actions carried out at the moment. After completing th e opera tion your computer will be automatically re started back t o Windows wher e yo u c an see the newly created NTFS p artiti on. Now y[...]

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    141 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. To increase size of a system parti tion by takin g unused space fro m an adjacent partition, pl ease do the foll owing: Express Laun cher 1. Click the Partitionin g button and then select Resize Partitions . 2. On the Wizard's Wel come page, click the Next but ton. 3. [...]

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    142 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. That’s basically it. By clicking the Next button th e wizard will star t modifying your disk layout. If y ou’ve got to do with the system parti tion resize, lik e we do in our case, you will b e asked to rest art your compu ter in a special boot-up mode to acc omplis[...]

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    143 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 2. Choose a space d onor partition and then call the cont ext menu for i t (right click of the mouse butt on) to launch the Move/Resiz e dialog. 3. In the opened dial og shift the edge of the partition to the right by the drag-and-d rop techniq ue. While doing this, free sp[...]

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    144 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 4. Now you’ve got a block of free spac e to add to the s ystem partiti on. You cann ot do it directl y however, but by carrying out a nu mber of e xtra move/resiz e operation s. 5. Since the block of free space is within the extend ed partition, you need to tak e it out f[...]

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    145 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. At first shift the rig ht edge of the partition t o the right, then d o the same with the left edge. Make sure the partition size has be en left u nchanged. 7. Now you can resiz e the ext ended partition t o take the block of free space out of it. Call the context menu f[...]

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    146 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 9. The block of free spac e has been rel eased. 10. N ow you need to m ove the sec ond primary parti tion just the way we did it with t he logical partiti on to make the block of free space adj oin the sys tem partition. 11. Fi nally increase size of the system partition. C[...]

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    147 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 14. The progra m will require the sys tem restart to accomp lish the operation in a special b oot-up mode. Click the appropriate button to agree. Shrinking a syste m partition to incr ease size of a data partition Let’s assume you’ ve got tw o partitions on your hard di[...]

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    148 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 4. In the main windo w select the required hard disk (if several) on the Disk Map. 5. Choose your syst em partition and then call the c ontext menu for it (righ t click of the mouse bu tton) to launc h the Move/Resiz e dialog.[...]

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    149 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. In the opened dial og set a new size for the par tition by moving the slider or by entering the exact value in t he appropriate field. Whi le doin g this, free space fro m the partition will be released (displ ayed in aqua-green). Click OK to continue. 7. Now you’ve go[...]

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    150 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Resizing partitio ns of Apple Boot Cam p Let’s assume you’r e a Boot Camp user who’s g ot Windows XP as the s econd operatin g system. Initial ly allocated spac e for the Wind ows partition has turned out to be insufficient for your current need s. The only way out is[...]

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    151 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 5. On the next page of the wiz ard you need to confir m the operation by selectin g the appropriat e option. 6. That’s basically it. By clicking the Next button th e wizard will star t modifyin g your disk lay out. If you’ve go t to do with the system parti tion resize,[...]

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    152 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. After completing th e opera tion your computer will be automatically re started back t o Windows where you can see that your system partiti on is bigg er now. Creating Dual Boo t Systems For Windows comput ers Release of Wind ows Vista has given a new impetus t o the proble[...]

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    153 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 3. Select the appropria te option to cr eate a new pri mary partition on your hard disk . 4. On the next page of the wiz ard, define size of the new partition. If the selected hard disk contains bl ocks of free space, the wizard will automaticall y merg e them all a nd allo[...]

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    154 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. All the mention ed above o perations can al so be accomplishe d with the WinP E recovery environment. 8. Install Windows XP on the newly created partiti on. We w on’t go into details as for its install ation, as y ou can find all the necessary inf ormati on in documentati[...]

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    155 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 12. N ow restart the co mputer to mak e sure you ha ve got a dual b oot system. Traditional w ay This scenario impl ies that o perating systems will be insta lled on different partitions to provide better se curity an d system inde pendence. Express Laun cher Click the Part[...]

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    156 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 3. In the opened dial og shift the edge of the partition to the left by the drag-and-drop te chnique. While d oing thi s, free space fro m the partition will b e released (displayed in aqua-green). You can also do it manually by entering the exact size of free space . Click[...]

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    157 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. Define parameter s of the f uture partition. By all means it has to be primary and since w e are going t o install Windows XP, th e most preferable file systems ar e NTFS and FAT32. Click the Yes button to continue. The Create Partition dialog offers a number of ad ditio[...]

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    158 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Hiding of the s ystem partit ion will make OS non-bootab le, what is quite no rmal. 9. Apply all introduc ed changes. By default, our program works in the virtual mode of e xecution, so you have to confirm all operati ons to let the pr ogram acc omplish them. To do tha t, j[...]

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    159 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Installation of Wind ows X P will make Wind ows Vista non-bootable. 12. Laun ch the Boot Manager Setup wizard . As your Win dows Vista is non-bootable any more, you need to ins tall our program once agai n, but this ti me in Windo ws XP to activa te Boot Manager. To avoid d[...]

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    160 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Reviving the syste m partition In case you are n ot able or not willing to comple te the m en tioned abo ve scenario s, but have alread y reached the point when all changes are applied and e verything is read y to install the second OS, pl ease do the f ollowing to make you[...]

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    161 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 4. Unhide the partition b y callin g the context menu f or it (right click of the m ouse button) and then s electing Unhide . 5. Only for the Windo ws XP + Wind ows Vista scenari o you need to make the syste m partition active as well by calling the conte xt menu for it (ri[...]

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    162 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 6. You will be notified after th e operations are completed. 7. Restart the comput er. System Migrati o n Scenarios Migrating syste m to another har d disk (Clo ne HDD) Let’s assume that you’ve bough t a new hard disk. It’s faster and of much higher capacity than your[...]

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    163 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. During the ope ration all con tents of the dest ination disk wi ll be deleted. 7. On the next page of th e wizard, defin e the copy options. In our cas e we’d rather copy data with a pr oportional resize to occup y the entire disk. Besides w e recommen d you to enable the[...]

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    164 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 10. When copying is co mpleted, shu t down the compute r. 11. Disc onnect (physicall y) the source hard disk. 12. Boot th e computer fr om the destinati on hard dis k. To make a Win 2K+ operating s ystem boota ble on diffe rent hardware, plea se ad ditionally complete the P[...]

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    165 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 5. From the list of all found Wind ows based operating s ystems (if several) sele ct one you ne ed to adjust to y our new hardware. If you’re willin g to adjust them all, ju st re-launch this wizard f or each. The wizard can on ly work with Microsoft W indows 2 000 and la[...]

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    166 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. After the operati on is completed y our syste m will be bootable on the new hard ware. Hard Disk Optimizat ion To defragment an NTFS or FAT partiti on, please do th e following : Launcher You must have a dministrato r’s privileges to accompli sh defragmentat ion of the sy[...]

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    167 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. The Defragment Part ition dialog offe rs a number of additiona l parameters tha t can also be of help. However he re we pa y attention to the most relevant to fu lfill our task. 5. Start the operati on by clickin g the Yes button. Extra Scenarios f or WinPE Adding specific [...]

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    168 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 3. You will be notified on the successful a ccomplish ment of the operati on. Click Yes to load an other driver or No to close the dialog. Our WinPE 3.0 reco very environ ment is 32-based, thu s you need to use 32-bit drivers for injection. Configuring netwo rk If your loca[...]

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    169 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d.  Click the standard br owse bu tton [...] to browse for the required ne twork share or manually enter a path to it;  Define a letter fro m the pul l-down list of availabl e drive letters ;  Click the Connect a s user button a t the foot of the dial og page to speci[...]

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    170 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Log files do not contain any confide ntial information o n the operating s ystem settings o r the user document s. Troubleshoot er Here you can find answ ers to the most frequently asked questi ons that might ari se while using the progra m. 1. I try to run an operati on, b[...]

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    171 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. 5. I need to copy a parti tion. But when s electing a plac e where to make a copy, I always get a crossed circle sign no matter which partiti on is selected. The program enab les to copy a partiti on only to a blo ck of un- partition ed space. If you don’t have a block of[...]

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    172 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. There can be a nu mber of r easons for that : - Windows Task Schedu ler d oes not work pr operly. Check whether it is so or not by scheduling a simple task (call Notepad through schedu ling ); - You don’t have per mission to write t o the select ed backup destinati on. Gl[...]

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    173 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. A method of hiding a partition c onsists in chan ging the partition ID value saved in the P artition Table. Th is is achieved by XOR-ing the partiti on ID with a 0 x10 hexadeci mal value. Master File Table (MF T) is a relational databa se that c onsists of rows of file reco[...]

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    174 Copyright© 1994 -2010 Paragon Soft ware G roup. All r ights reserve d. Root Directory is the top-level direct ory of a forma tted logical dri ve to include ot her files and dir ectories. In modern file systems (Ext2/Ex t3, NTFS an d even FAT32) it do es not differ fro m other direc tories. This is n ot the case f or old FAT12 and FAT16 file sy[...]