Partition Manager™ 2013 Free
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1. operation The first component that will be displayed is called the Express Launcher Thanks to a well thought out categorization and hint system it provides quick and easy access to wizards and utilities that we consider worth using on a regular basis With its help you can also start up the traditional launcher the help system or go to the program s home page Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved KD Paragon Partition Manager 2013 Free Paragon Partition Manager i Create New Partition Resize Partitions Log Saver User Manual PARTITION MANAGER FREE A CHECK FOR UPDATES SWITCH TO FULL SCALE LAUNCHER OR GET SUPPORT Format Partition Upgrade to HARD DISK MANAGER 12 SUITE NTFS HFS Converter Delete Partition Basic Concepts This chapter explains terms and ideas that show how the program works To understand these helps to obtain a general notion of the operation performance and makes it easier for the user to operate the program Apple Boot Camp Boot Camp is a special utility to help you set up a dual boot system Mac OS X and 32 bit Windows XP Vista on Intel based Macs It enables to securely re partition your hard disk resize an existing HFS partition to create a separate partition for Windows and then launch the installation process With Boot Camp all the necessary drivers will be at your disposal Moreover after Windows has been installed it will serve as a boot manager to choose2. the License Agreement may also be printed out 4 Select an Installation Folder The Destination Folder page allows you to choose a folder where the program will be installed By default the installation folder will be created as C Program Files Paragon Paragon Partition Manager 2013 To select another folder click the Change button After you have selected the required folder click the Next button to continue Do not install the program on network drives Do not use Terminal Server sessions to install and run the program In both cases the program functionality will be limited 5 Confirm Installation On the Ready to Install the Program page click the Install button to start the installation or the Back button to return to any of the previous pages and modify the installation settings 6 Copying Files The Copying Files page shows the overall progress of the installation Click the Cancel button to abort the setup 7 Finishing the Installation The Final page reports the end of the setup process Click the Finish button to complete the wizard First Start To start Paragon Partition Manager 2013 under Windows please click the Windows Start button and then select Programs gt Paragon Partition Manager 2013 gt Paragon Partition Manager The program provides wide opportunities in the field of hard disk structure modification so just to be on the safe side please make a backup of your data before carrying out any
3. Bytes A 0 bytes 307 104 MB E Sectorto sector move Select this option to move partition areas that dont contain any data This allows you to keep the partition s content after move exactly as it was but will require more time 7 Now you can resize the extended partition to take the block of free space out of it Call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog Call a context menu for the extended partition with the blue border not the logical one 8 Inthe opened dialog shift the edge of the extended partition to the right Are you sure you want to move resize extended partition on disk 3 Basic MBR Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev i Unallocated New Volu NEW VOLUME 163 1 GE 148 6 GB NTFS 182 2 GB FAT32 Volume size 338 770 MB 338 770 MB 511 998 MB Free space before 173 228MB fie Obytes 173 228 MB Free space after 0 Bytes 0 ME Sector to sector move Select this option to mowe partition areas that dont contain any data This allows you to keep the partitions content after move exactly as it was but will require more time 9 The block of free space has been released Basic MBR Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev NEW VOLU 170 3 GE NTFS 160 4 GE FAT32 10 Now you need to move the second primary partition just the way we did it with the logical partition to make the b
4. Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev ji Local Disk 2 New Volume G 177 5GB NTFS 322 3 GB NTFS Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 11 If you ve got more than two partitions on your hard disk and a partition you need to increase is surrounded by other partitions you ve got the choice to choose which partition will act as a space donor Just click on the left partition of the pair as the right one will be selected automatically 4 Increase size of the system partition with the slider or manually by entering the required value Please note when you change size of one partition the size of the other will be changed as well thus redistributing the unused space between the partitions Please specity new sizes of selected partitions Selected part of Basic MBER Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev 265 2 GB NTFS Left volume size Right volume size 35563MB S MB 271636 MB MB 5 On the next page of the wizard you need to confirm the operation by selecting the appropriate option The Wizard has not applied your changes yet On this page you can either A accept or reconsider the changes Please note that f you accept the changes the Wizard will physically petor all the neccessary operations and it will not be possible to undo the changes t may take some time to apply the changes You may also be asked to restart your computer durin
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6. sectors The triad of values Sectors per Track Tracks per Cylinder Amount of Cylinders is usually named the Hard Disk Geometry or C H S geometry Tracks and cylinders are enumerated from 0 while sectors are enumerated from 1 These disk parameters play an essential role in the DOS Partitioning scheme Modern hardware uses an advanced scheme for the linear addressing of sectors which assumes that all on disk sectors are continuously enumerated from 0 To allow backward compatibility with older standards modern hard disks can additionally emulate the C H S geometry Hidden Partition The concept of a hidden partition was introduced in the IBM OS 2 Boot Manager By default an operating system does not mount a hidden partition thus preventing access to its contents A method of hiding a partition consists in changing the partition ID value saved in the Partition Table This is achieved by XOR ing the partition ID with a 0x10 hexadecimal value Master File Table MFT is a relational database that consists of rows of file records and columns of file attributes It contains at least one entry for every file on an NTFS volume including the MFT itself MFT is similar to a FAT table ina FAT file system MBR amp 1st track of the hard disk is the Oth sector of the disk MBR Master Boot Record contains important information about the disk layout The used partitioning scheme The starting records of the Partition Tab
7. ISOFTWARE GROUP G PARAGON Software GmbH Earacen Pa racon Heinrich von Stephan Str 5c 79100 Freiburg Germany Tel 49 0 761 59018201 Fax 49 0 761 59018130 Internet www paragon software com Email sales paragon software com Partition Manager 2013 Free User Manual Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved Contents MOUGU ON es sccecssuseuscsssaneesacacsnscdieeessecseassuceadsnscenvenssseseuecorsstieseessssecesussincssasaesevsaseiacseseeseenensess 3 What s New in Partition Manager 2013 sssisccescuasiscsccnevescuaasedsseuneseeeuaneeduseunevencusnsedsseuneseeeuantedsseuneseseuuarecseeunese 3 Features OV CIVIC W ciroen sner E E E E EEEN 3 FO ACU sereoo N E E E E E 3 User Friendly Fault Minimizing Inter aCE sssrin E EEE E Eiti 3 Partition Hard Disk Management Facilities maiensasnieiiisns Tanninen n T T TT 3 S pported Technologie S sssrinin ranr Nan EONA ENE E ENEE 4 SUD DOFECS FING SVSTCINNS eieaa a EE TE E EE E E AA E TEE AES 4 SUM OE SCI Oa aaa eric esac sacs ca aes oun bietoe ce se catsaeaenents acauenansectesuasecatewess lt te aueserdeiucnesnctateaes 4 CUES SUA O e E E E E E AE AT 5 SWERE UNO NENES pirre n beac saetcsesencasccauncunscaswca tees ueassswaceeascceueaveswatucasees seeueueacedentesteavesesses 5 Installa tiO erann E E E ET R E E E R E E RN 5 AE a E E E E E E E E teres 6 BASIC C OMCCGS oirr rere r E E O A 7 Appie BOOE CAM D na E OT EE oer dacsdusseandaecieeacaesten e 7 od DE SUN ON
8. TFS Please select the method of new partition creation Take all unallocated space at the end of the disk r Smart Mode Use 146 4 GB to create a partition More info Advanced Mode Use 88 7 GB to create a partition More info The number of available methods depends on your disk layout To learn more on the way the wizard works please click the corresponding link on the first page of the wizard 4 That s basically it By clicking the Next button the wizard will start modifying your disk layout If you ve got to do with the system partition resize like we do in our case you will be asked to restart your computer in a special boot up mode to accomplish the operation So click the appropriate button to agree Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 10 cB Express Create Partition Wizard Creating the partition a Express Create Partition Wizard system restart is required to complete the operation What would you like to do The operation Move partition needs exclusive access to the volume C and cannot be completed without system restart After restart the operation will continue in boottime mode Do not tum off the computer until the operation completes Manually close used files and retry the operation Cancel The operation cannot be completed without restart because some files are in use and prevent exclusive access to the volume What files prevent operatio
9. a special boot up mode Click the appropriate button to agree Resizing partitions of Apple Boot Camp Let s assume you re a Boot Camp user who s got Windows XP as the second operating system Initially allocated space for the Windows partition has turned out to be insufficient for your current needs The only way out is to take some space from your Mac partition thus redistributing the unused space between the partitions To increase size of the Windows partition by taking unused space from the Mac partition please do the following 1 Click the Express Resize Partitions item of the Wizards menu 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 The wizard will automatically select Windows the NTFS file system and Mac the Apple HFS file system partitions of your Boot Camp configuration Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 16 The wizard will resize space between leopard and Local Disk C on Basic GPT Hard Disk 0 Vidware Virtual IGE Hard Drive Select left partition from a pair of adjacent partitions you would like to resize Aight adjacent partition Will be selected automatically Basic GPT Hard Disk 0 YH ware Virtual IDE Hard Drive g leopard E Loc 73 8 GE Apple HFS 31 5 GE W On the disk map you can also see the GPT service partition called EFI as well as a 128 megabyte free block between Mac and Windows partitions made with Boot Camp It s just for your i
10. e Some 32 bit applications make the transition to the 64 bit environment seamlessly others do not For instance system level utilities and programs that provide direct hardware access are likely to fail Our program offers a full fledged support of the 64 bit architecture providing fault tolerant work for such system dependent modules as Hot Processing Drive Partitioning As you probably know a hard drive is to be split into one or more partitions since it cannot hold data until it is carved up and space is set aside for an operating system Until recently most PCs used to have just one partition which filled the entire hard disk and contained an OS The situation has changed however thanks to new cost effective high capacity hard drives thus opening up numerous possibilities for PC users such as editing video archiving music backing up CD images etc Huge increase in space is great but it poses a number of problems most important of which are effective data organization and speed Large drives are always going to take longer to search than smaller volumes and an operating system is going to have its work cut out both finding and organizing files It is for this reason that many people decide to invest in multiple hard drives but there is an easy solution drive partitioning Partitioning lets you divide a single physical drive into a number of logical drives each of which servers as a container with its own drive letter and volume lab
11. el thus enabling the operating system to process data more efficiently Besides partitioning makes it possible to organize data so that it is easy to find and manage You can set aside for instance 40 GB of a 160 GB hard drive for the OS 70 GB for storing video and another 50 GB for your favorite music collections to provide transparent data storage It is also worth mentioning to that with a hard drive properly partitioned such routine operations as files de fragmentation or consistency check will not be that annoying and time consuming any more By detaching the OS from the rest of the data you can tackle one more crucial issue in case of a system malfunction you can get the system back on track in minutes by recovering it from a backup image located on the other partition of the hard drive But that is not all drive partitioning may be used for If you are willing to play games in Windows while browsing the Internet in Linux 100 percent sure that no virus will attack your PC drive partitioning is a necessity In order to run several OSs on a single hard drive you are to create a corresponding number of partitions to effectively delineate the boundaries of each OS Typical Scenarios This chapter lists a number of the most frequently used scenarios that may be accomplished with the program You can find here useful recommendations and descriptions of operations Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved Resi
12. elect the first logical partition and then call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog Disk map Disk and partitions list Name Size Sectors FS Size sectors Used secte Basic MBR Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk C 1DD4AC28h 1F518FFFh 17CE3I E data 7 Basic MBR Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Unallocated E F Ettended Partition New Volume H TEMP 1 Basic MBR Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual SCSI Disk Dev New Volume G Unallocated Move or resize the selected partition Format Partition Delete Partition Mowe Resize Partition Convert File System Change Volume Label Remove Drive Letter Hide Partition Mark Partition as Active Test Surface Check File System Integrity Properties 6 At first shift the right edge of the partition to the right then do the same with the left edge Make sure the partition size has been left unchanged Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 14 i Are you sure you want to move resize volume F You are about to mowe resize NTFS volume New Volume F Basic MER Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev ED Unallocated 166 GB Volume size 137 154 MB f 93 MB 307 199 MB Free space before 170 005MB H iw Obytes 307 105 MB Free space after O
13. en trying to back up to a network share get the following error i o error or can t open create file Please check whether you ve got a permission to write to the selected destination or not 13 When trying to restore a backup archive get the following error Can t restore to current selection or Archive does not fit Most likely you re trying to restore a backup of the whole hard disk to a partition or vice versa 14 set up a timetable for a task but it fails to execute There can be a number of reasons for that Windows Task Scheduler does not work properly Check whether it is so or not by scheduling a simple task call Notepad through scheduling You don t have permission to write to the selected backup destination Glossary Active Partition is a partition from which an x86 based computer starts up The active partition must be a primary partition on a basic disk If you use Windows exclusively the active partition can be the same as the system volume In the DOS partitioning scheme only primary partitions can be active due to limitations of the standard bootstrap Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 19 The term backup originates from the time when the best way to protect valuable information was to store it in form of archives on external media It s become now a general notion to mean making duplications of data for protection purposes Bootable Archive is created by add
14. ere are known several partitioning schemes The most popular of them is the so called DOS partitioning scheme It was introduced by IBM and Microsoft to use multiple partitions in the disk subsystems on IBM PC compatible computers Another popular partitioning scheme is the so called Logical Disks Model LDM that originates from the UNIX mainframe systems Veritas Executive accommodates a simplified version of LDM to the Windows 2000 operating system Windows 2000 and XP support two quite different partitioning schemes the old DOS partitioning scheme and the new Dynamic Disk Management DDM The problem is that earlier versions of Windows do not support DDM In addition most hard disk utilities do not support it as well Recovery Media is a CD DVD disc a USB flash card or even a floppy disk from which you can boot for maintenance or recovery purposes Root Directory is the top level directory of a formatted logical drive to include other files and directories In modern file systems Ext2 Ext3 NTFS and even FAT32 it does not differ from other directories This is not the case for old FAT12 and FAT16 file systems Serial Number In the DOS partitioning scheme every hard disk and every partition has a 32 bit serial number represented by an 8 figure hexadecimal value It is stored in the MBR and its value is assigned when the MBR sector is initialized by Microsoft standard disk managing tools such as Windows Disk Administrator and the FDISK uti
15. g and drop technique While doing this free space from the partition will be released displayed in aqua green You can also do it manually by entering the exact size of free space Click the Yes button to continue Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 13 e Are you sure you want to move resize volume H You are about to move resize FATS2 volume TEMP H Basic MBR Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Unallocated 325 6 GB Volume size 383 362MB f 1 186 MB 716 799 MB Free space before 333 437 MB 0 bytes 715 611 MB Free space after 0 Bytes alf O bytes 715 612 MB E Sector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that dont contain any data This allows you to keep the partitions content after move exactly as it was but will require more time 4 Now you ve got a block of free space to add to the system partition You cannot do it directly however but by carrying out a number of extra move resize operations Basic MBR Hard Disk 3 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Ne a NEW VOLUME 113 46 182 2 GB FAT32 5 Since the block of free space is within the extended partition you need to take it out first The program enables to resize the extended partition only when there s a block of free space adjoining its borders In our case it s between two logical disks So we need to move it To do that please s
16. g its work Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 4 e Convert a file system FAT16 32 NTFS Apple HFS without reformatting e Mount a partition assign a drive letter of any file system type to make it available for your operating system e Modify file system parameters make active inactive hide unhide etc Supported Technologies Along with using innovative technologies from outside Paragon has developed a number of its own original technologies that make its products unique and attractive for customers e Paragon Power Shield technology to provide data consistency in case of a hardware malfunction power outages or an operating system failure e Paragon UFSD technology to browse partitions of any file system including hidden and unmounted modify and copy files and folders etc e Paragon Hot Resize technology to enlarge NTFS partitions system locked without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work e Paragon Smart Partition technology to securely perform hard disk partitioning operations of any complexity e Paragon BTE technology to set tasks for execution during the system restart thus saving from the need to use a bootable media when modifying system partitions e Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS to provide the copy backup infrastructure for the Microsoft Windows XP Vista 7 Server 2003 2008 operating systems It offers a reliable mechanism to create consistent p
17. g this process Would you like to apply your changes Yes apply the changes physically 6 That s basically it By clicking the Next button the wizard will start modifying your disk layout If you ve got to do with the system partition resize like we do in our case you will be asked to restart your computer in a special boot up mode to accomplish the operation So click the appropriate button to agree system restart is required to complete the operation What would you like to do The operation Redistiibute partitions needs exclusive access to the volume C and cannot be completed without system restart After restart the operation will continue in boottime mode Do not tum off the computer until the operation completes Retry Manually close used files and retry the operation Cancel 7 Inthe Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see that your system partition is bigger now Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 12 Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space from any other Let s assume you ve got several partitions on your hard disk After installing a number of resource consuming applications and system updates your system partition has started to suffer from the lack of free space But one of your part
18. ing a special bootable section when backing up the data to CD DVDs Thus you will be able to restore the data from these archives without having to run the program but by simply booting from these CD DVDs Cluster is the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated to hold a file All file systems used by Windows organize hard disks based on clusters which consist of one or more contiguous sectors The smaller the cluster size the more efficiently a disk stores information If no cluster size is specified during formatting Windows picks defaults based on the size of the volume These defaults are selected to reduce the amount of space that is lost and the amount of fragmentation on the volume A cluster is also called an allocation unit Extended Partition is a partition type you create only on a basic MBR Master Boot Record disk Extended partition is used if you want to create more than four volumes on a disk since it may contain multiple logical drives File System Metadata The servicing structures of a file system which contain information about allocating files and directories security information etc are named the file system metadata It is invisible for users and regular applications because its accidental modification usually makes a partition unusable Hard Disk Geometry Traditionally the usable space of a hard disk is logically divided into cylinders cylinders are divided into tracks or heads and tracks are divided into
19. itions has a plenty of redundant space That s just enough to make your system partition suffer no more To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from any other on disk partition please do the following 1 In the main window select the required hard disk if several on the Disk Map y Hp MWe Y a A i eu WIT wue 7 Disk map Basic MBR Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk C E Data 1 TEMP K 05GB NTFS IRSGENTA B 140GB FAT 2 Choose a space donor partition and then call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog Disk map Disk and partitions list Name Size sectors FS Size sectors Use Basic MBR Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev Local Disk C 1DD4AC28h 1F518FFFh daa Z 1F10852Ch 1F2E57FFh Basic MBR Hard Disk 1 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk Dev amp Unallocated 1A32BFFFh Oh E F Extended Partition Oh Oh 6 New Volume H FAEFADOh FB1C7FFh eet Format Partition Basic MBR Hard Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual S SCSI Disk De ee ElETE FAMICOM New Volume G amp Unallocated Move Resize Partition Convert File System Change Volume Label Remove Drive Letter Hide Partition Test Surface E Check File System Integrity Properties Move or resize the selected partition 3 Inthe opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the right by the dra
20. kage e Operating systems Windows XP 32 and 64 bit Windows Vista 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 32 and 64 bit Windows 8 32 and 64 bit e Internet Explorer 5 0 or higher e Intel Pentium CPU or its equivalent with 300 MHz processor clock speed e 128 MB of RAM 256 recommended e Hard disk drive with 250 MB of available space e SVGA video adapter and monitor e Keyboard e Mouse i During the installation additional free space up to 1GB will be required Installation To install Paragon Partition Manager 2013 please do the following 1 Run Setup Application Click on the MSI file This application will guide you through the process of the program installation The setup utility is compiled with the InstallShield SDK hence it contains the standard user interface and set of installation steps program will offer the user to uninstall it first In case there is some previous version of the program installed on the computer the 2 Starting Setup The Welcome page informs that the application is being installed Click the Next button to continue 3 Confirm License Agreement The License Agreement page displays the Paragon License Agreement Read the agreement and then select the appropriate option to accept If you do not agree with any conditions stated Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 6 there the installation process will be interrupted By clicking the Print button
21. le The standard bootstrap code or the initial code of boot managers disk overlay software or boot viruses Generally the Oth sector is used for similar purposes in all existing partitioning schemes The MBR capacity is not sufficient to contain sophisticated boot programs That s why the on boot software is allowed to use the entire Oth track of the disk For example boot managing utilities such as LILO GRUB and Paragon Boot Manager are located in the Oth track Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 20 Partition ID or File system ID is a file system identifier that is placed in the partition It is used to quickly detect partitions of supported types A number of operating systems completely rely on it to distinguish supported partitions Partition ID is saved in appropriate entries of the Partition Table and takes only 1 byte of space Partition Label or Volume Label is a small textual field up to 11 characters that is located in the partition s boot sector This value is used for notification purposes only It is detectable by any partitioning tool including the DOS FDISK utility Modern operating systems save it within a file system e g as a special hidden file Thus it is able to contain a relatively large amount of text in multiple languages Partitioning Scheme is a set of rules constraints and format of the on disk structures to keep information on partitions located on a hard disk Th
22. lity In fact a hard disk s serial number is not important for most operating systems and software It is known that Windows NT 2000 and XP store its value in the database of assigned drive letters A partition s serial number is stored in its boot sector in FAT16 FAT32 and NFTS file systems Its value is assigned when the partition is formatted It does not play an important role for most operating systems and software as well Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved
23. lock of free space adjoin the system partition Basic MER Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev New Volum NEW VOLUME 0 144 7 GB NTFS 177 5 GB FAT32 Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 15 11 Finally increase size of the system partition Call the context menu for it right click of the mouse button to launch the Move Resize dialog 12 In the opened dialog shift the edge of the partition to the right thus increasing its size e Are you sure you want to move resize system volume C You are about to move resize NTFS volume No label C Basic MBR Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Volume size 181 860 MB A 12 184 MB 181 860 MB Free space before 0 Bytes A bytes 169 674 MB Free space after 0 Bytes A 0 bytes 165 674 MB E Sector to sector move Select this option to move partition areas that dont contain any data This allows you ta keep the partitions content after move exactly as it was but will require more time 13 Apply all introduced changes By default our program works in the virtual mode of execution so you have to confirm all operations to let the program accomplish them To do that just click the Apply button on the Virtual Operations Bar 2 Partition Manager Apply pending changes E Do not show this message again 14 The program will require the system restart to accomplish the operation in
24. n completion 5 Inthe Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see the newly created NTFS partition Now you ve got a place to keep your stuff apart from Windows Increasing size of a system partition by taking unused space of an adjacent partition Let s assume you ve got several partitions on your hard disk After installing a number of resource consuming applications and system updates your system partition has started to suffer from the lack of free space But an adjacent partition has a plenty of redundant space That s just enough to make your system partition suffer no more To increase size of a system partition by taking unused space from an adjacent partition please do the following 1 Click the Express Resize Partitions item of the Wizards menu 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Click on your system partition By doing that the wizard will automatically select an adjacent partition as well This partition will later act as a space donor The wizard will resize space between Local Disk C and New Volume G on Basic MER Hard Disk 0 VMware Viware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev Select left partition from a pair of adjacent partitions you would like to resize Right adjacent partition will be selected automatically Basic MBA Hard
25. nformation 4 Increase size of your Windows partition with the slider or manually by entering the required value Please note when you change size of one partition the size of the other will be changed as well thus redistributing the unused space between the partitions Please specify new sizes of selected partitions Selected part of Basic GPT Hard Disk 0 VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive Local Disk C E E 53 9 Ge NTFS Left volume size Right valume size 5276 MB ME 61384 ME MB 5 On the next page of the wizard you need to confirm the operation by selecting the appropriate option The Wizard has not applied your changes yet On this page you can either A accept or reconsider the changes Please note that if you accept the changes the wizard will physically perform all the neccessary operations and it will not be possible to undo the changes It may take some time to apply the changes ou may aleo be asked to restart pour computer during this process Would pou like to apply your changes No let me reconsider 6 That s basically it By clicking the Next button the wizard will start modifying your disk layout If you ve got to do with the system partition resize like we do in our case you will be asked to restart your computer in a special boot up mode to accomplish the operation So click the appropriate button to agree Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All righ
26. oint in time copies of data known as shadow copies Developed by Microsoft in close cooperation with the leading copy backup solution vendors on the market it is based on a snapshot technology concept e GUID Partition Table GPT It is the next generation of a hard disk partitioning scheme developed to lift restrictions of the old MBR GPT disks are now supported by Windows Vista 7 Server 2008 Mac OS X and Linux Supported File Systems e Full read write access to FAT16 FAT32 partitions e Full read write access to NTFS Basic Disks Compressed NTFS files are also supported e Limited read write access to Apple HFS partitions Unfortunately support of non Roman characters for the HFS file system is unavailable at l the moment The company is about to implement it in the nearest future Supported Media e Support of both MBR and GPT hard disks 2 2TB disks included e IDE SCSI and SATA hard disks e SSD Solid State Drive e AFD Advanced Format Drive e Non 512B sector size drives e CD R CD RW DVD R DVD R DVD RW DVD RW DVD R DVD R double layer and also Blu ray discs e FireWire i e IEEE1394 USB 1 0 USB 2 0 USB 3 0 hard disks Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 5 e PC card storage devices MBR and GPT flash memory etc Getting Started In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to get the product ready to use System Requirements For the Windows installation pac
27. te a new partition on a dynamic disk e The program allows creating new partitions only within blocks of un partitioned space It cannot convert a free space on an existing partition to a new partition cannot copy a partition There can be a number of reasons for that The source or target disk you select is a dynamic disk 4 primary partitions or three primary partitions and an extended one already exist on the target disk need to copy a partition But when selecting a place where to make a copy always get a crossed circle sign no matter which partition is selected The program enables to copy a partition only to a block of un partitioned space If you don t have a block of free space on your hard disk please delete or reduce an existing partition to accomplish the operation cannot do anything with my USB flash drive get a crossed circle sign when trying to select any area on it Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 18 Some USB flash drives don t have the MBR Master Boot Record that s the cause of your problem To fix the issue please use the Update MBR function of our program or fixmbr of the Windows installation disc to write a standard code to your flash drive 7 When trying to back up my system the program asks to restart the computer Most likely the Hot Processing mode is disabled Please make it active in the program settings 8 When backing up a partition with
28. the VSS Volume Shadow Copy Service mode the program throws VSS could not be started for processed volume Most likely you try to back up a FAT32 partition which is not supported by VSS Please use the Paragon Hot Processing mode instead 9 cannot back up my hard disk to an external hard drive Once started the operation is aborted with the following error Hard Disk management Error Code 0x1100a What is wrong here The problem is that the Microsoft VSS service is set as the default Hot Processing mode in the program But this service has not been started in your WindowsXP Windows2003 Vista Please start this service right click on My Computer gt Manage gt Services gt find Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service and make it active Set also to Start it automatically 10 When running a backup operation with the Paragon Hot Processing mode enabled get an error error code 0x1200e Internal error during Hot Backup Most likely your hard disk contains bad blocks Please fix the issue with your HDD manufacturer s tool You can find a name of the tool you need here http kb paragon software com 11 When running a backup operation with the Microsoft VSS mode enabled get the following error error code 0x12016 VSS can t read volume data Most likely your hard disk contains bad blocks Please fix the issue with your HDD manufacturer s tool You can find a name of the tool you need here http kb paragon software com 12 Wh
29. ts reserved a 17 system restart is required to complete the operation What would you like ta da The operation Redistibute partitions needs exclusive access to the volume C and cannot be completed without system restart After restart the operation will continue in boot timne mode Do not turn off the computer until the operation completes gt Retry Manually close used files and retry the operation Cancel In the Progress window you can see in real time a detailed report on all actions carried out at the moment After completing the operation your computer will be automatically restarted back to Windows where you can see that your system partition is bigger now Troubleshooter Here you can find answers to the most frequently asked questions that might arise while using the program 1 try to run an operation but the program claims my partition is in use and suggests restarting the computer There are a number of operations that cannot be performed while your partition is in use or locked in other words Please agree to reboot your machine to make the program accomplish the operation in a special boot up mode run an operation and restart the machine as required but it just boots back into Windows without accomplishing the operation Please run chkdsk f for the partition in question cannot create a new partition on the disk There can be a number of reasons for that e The program cannot crea
30. user friendly interface e Support of GPT disks create format delete resize operations e Convert NTFS lt gt HFS file systems without reformatting Features Overview This chapter dwells upon key benefits and technical highlights of the product Features Let us list some of the features User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface e Graphical representation of the data to gain a better understanding e A handy Launcher to easily find and run the required tasks e Comprehensive wizards to simplify even the most complex operations e A context sensitive hint system for all functions of the program e Previewing the resulting layout of hard disks before actually executing operations so called virtual operations Partition Hard Disk Management Facilities e Basic functions for initializing partitioning and formatting hard disks create format delete Instead of the standard Windows disk tools the program supports all popular file systems e Express Create Partition Wizard to create a new partition in the most appropriate place of a hard disk format it to NTFS and then make it available in the system by assigning a drive letter e Express Resize Partitions Wizard to increase free space on one partition by up taking the unused space of an adjacent partition of a hard disk including partitions of Apple Boot Camp e NTFS hot resize upward to enlarge an NTFS partition system locked without rebooting Windows and interruptin
31. what operating system to start up It is strongly recommended not to modify the hard disk configuration with Windows Disk Manager Otherwise it may lead to unexpected consequences right up to BSOD and inability to boot in Windows XP Vista Please use our program to correctly update both MBR and GPT 64 bit Support The bulk of software today is written for a 32 bit processor It can meet the requirements of almost any end user However that is not the case when dealing with servers processing large amounts of data with complex calculations of very large numbers That is where 64 bit architecture comes into play Copyright 1994 2013 Paragon Software GmbH All rights reserved 8 It can boast improved scalability for business applications that enables to support more customer databases and more simultaneous users on each server Besides a 64 bit kernel can access more system resources such as memory allocation per user A 64 bit processor can handle over 4 billion times more memory addresses than a 32 bit processor With these resources even a very large database can be cached in memory Although many business applications run without problems on 32 bit systems others have grown so complex that they use up the 4 GB memory limitation of a 32 bit address space With this large amount of data fewer memory resources are available to meet memory needs On a 64 bit server most queries are able to perform in the buffers available to the databas
32. ze Scenarios Creating a new partition to detach operating system from the rest of data Let s assume that you re a rank and file user who is most likely to have only one hard disk with only one partition the only partition is always system To secure yourself against a system malfunction or a virus attack you ve got nothing to do but make a backup of the whole partition which besides the operating system itself contains all your family photos favorite films and music program distributives whatever As a result you ll get a very huge backup image You can easily tackle this issue however by detaching your operating system from the rest of data To create a new partition on your hard disk please do the following 1 Click the Express Create Partition item of the Wizards menu 2 Onthe Wizard s Welcome page click the Next button 3 Choose a method you find the most suitable to create the partition The wizard is especially designed to minimize your participation in finding an appropriate place for it and its resulted size The only thing you re to do is to choose between several modes The most relevant thing here is the amount of space that will be allocated for that partition For easy perception you can see the resulted disk layout on the disk map by selecting this or that mode The result you will get after applying the changes Basic MBR Hard Disk 0 VMware VMware Virtual 5 SCS Disk Dev i i i New Volume F 470 7 GB N
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