Paragon hard disk manager suite 157/18/2023 If your machines boots from the CD you'll see the screens below. Assuming you're going to backup to an external hard drive, make sure it's attached and running before rebooting. Put the stand-alone CD in your CD drive (or bootable flashdrive in a USB port) and reboot your system. Each machine is different, so get someone to show you how to boot your machine from the recovery media and write down the steps. It may require changing the CMOS settings, or figuring out the trick to get your particular machine to boot from other than your harddrive. Many have trouble booting from the stand-alone CD or bootable USB flashdrive. See System Protection and Deleting Shadow Copies for more infomation. This will make the size of the archive smaller, but since you'll loose all your currect backup points, only do this if your system is running OK. Recommendation 3: Before starting your backup, consider deleting all your system protection restore points. This new version of Paragon automatically creates a folder for the archive based on the name of the archive. For example, one of my desktop computers is named "Wings", so to backup its C drive I might name the archive "Wings-C150124" (dates in the YYMMDD format sort correctly alphabetically). Recommendation 2: Name the archive based on the name of the computer and the date of the backup. some programs, can't deal with the period in the folder name). but don't use something like 1.5T to indicate a one and a half TB drive. On my internal drives I create a folder with a name like #Name-D2TB (where Name is the name of the machine, D is the drive letter and I follow this by the size of the drive. I now label my external drives with different colors it easy to tell them apart at a glance, see Labelling Your External Drives. Create a folder like this on both your external backup drives and any drives internal to your system. Name this folder so it sorts near the top (I usually start the name with a # sign). Recommendation 1: Before starting be sure there is a folder at the top level of EACH of your drives that uniquely identifies the drive. ![]() the advantage is that it loads MUCH faster than a CD, alternatively, you can also make a bootable CD from the ISO file. I now recommend saving it as an ISO file, and then using a program called ISO2USB to create a bootable USB flash drive. ![]() Start this program and use it to create the bootable recovery media. Starting with about the 2014 version, they only send you a link to download one program. Be sure to create the Media! You'll need it should you ever need to restore a backup, but it is the program I recommend using to create your complete system backup. One to download the Windows product, and a second to a program that creates the Recovery Media. In the past they sent you two links when you bought Paragon. This is what they called the WinPE based Recovery Media. It happened to me more than once while testing various backup programs, you restore what claimed to be a successful backup to a new drive and it either will not boot, or will not run properly after booting.Īs I said, be sure to use the stand-alone version of Paragon. There are lots of system backup programs that run under windows, but if Windows is running other processes are scribbling on hard drive and there's a very real chance they can corrupt the backup, which you'll never know until you try to restore and it's too late!. The reason I like both of these is that they can run stand-alone. I also tried Clonezilla, which is free but I think the user interface is too difficult for most users. Versions of Paragon after 2010 are easier to use and backup faster. ![]() One program I can recommend is Paragon Hard Disk Manager. You notice I said WHEN, not IF, because sooner or later it's going to happen to you. In my discussion of Complete System Backup I recommended using a stand-alone program that creates a complete backup of your C drive which can be easily restored to a newly formatted hard drive when your C drive fails or becomes hopelessly corrupted by a virus. Backup Programs: Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 (or 14) Suite by Wren McMainsĪfter reviewing, click for a two page Summary of the Backup Steps you can print.
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