Hi, I'm posting my problem description here because PARAGON has not responded to my support request. Here is the problem description I sent to PARAGON initially: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sirs, I've been succesfully using Paragon Backup & Restore 2013 Free and 2014 Free software in making full system backups. That is until the latest version 14 Free v10.1.25.377. While testing the latest version I noticed that the old 'Back Up' and 'Restore' have been removed and only the New format 'Backup to VD' and 'Restore from VD' are available. In the previous versions I used the 'Back Up' and 'Restore' functions, and used recovery media to make full system backup restore. The problem that I run to during testing was that the partition table was altered during Restore. I used WinPE Recovery Media to restore the full system backup. After the restore everything seemed ok after starting Win7. Windows Disk Management did not show any differencies in partition table compared to the state during backup. Also my partition software; 'MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition 8.1.1', did not show any alterations to partition table. But when using Samsung Magician v4.5 to verify my Samsung 840 Pro SSD status, the partition table was altered. My SSD size is 238.47GB (net size). Before/during backup the partition table was: System Reserved - 100MB C: - Win7 - 100GB D: - Work - 94GB J: - CATIA - 20GB Unallocated - 24.37GB (used as Over Provisioning in Samsung Magician) After restoring the made VD Backup: Samsung Magician reported a 100GB unallocated space before C:, D: and J: drives. This does not make any sense, because the sum of drive space would be greater than the drive size. The Samsung magician can only manage unallocated space as over provisioning only if it is located after the last drive partition. So being I could not delete the 'ghost/non existing' unallocated space (100GB) before drive partitions. I tried to remedy the problem by changing Paragon Backup & Recovery 14 Free's partition setting from Vista to Inherit. Unforternately partition setting made no difference to the outcome after full backup restore. Maybe the Samsung Magician software is a bit finicky concerning partition table. But according to my test the latest P B&R 14 Free v10.1.25.377 does alter the partition table in some way that conflicts the Samsung Magician. Previous versions of P B&R work a ok (with partition setting as Vista). This in my mind proves that something has changed between earlier versions and current version of P B&R 14 Free. I hope you can find a solution to the problem in future releases of Paragon Backup&Recovery. Yours, Sakari Rajamäki Kotka FINLAND --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Has anyone else had similar problems with the latest Paragon backup&Recovery 14 Free v10.1.25.377? If so, do you have a fix to the problem? Yours rajamsa Kotka FINLAND
I don´t see any real problem. The Samsung program just misread the first partition. Report this to Samsung.
