Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5...

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5...

Have seen this on a magazine. Any one used it? Found a thread about version 8 but it would not work on vista

PS Hope I am in right place

 

hello,
this is my mainbackup app and it works fine on vista

 

Installing now,found out it does work on vista as you say

 

Hi
How do I make the recovery cd? There is a recovery media builder and also a seperate recovery cd 'unpack and burn wizard' around 47 MB which I have burnt to a cd.

Now mine is SE Special Edition and does not have the Recovery CD builder built in to the application.Instead this is provided as a separate application. I am puzzled?

 

Hello,
i think you have missed the point.
double click on the unpack and burn wizard and follow the wizard.
this will prompt you to insert a blank cd and create a linux based recocvery cd.
where are you storing your backups?
internal drive?
external drive?
or somewhere else?

 

Hi

I what way

I did that

.but this is not bootable. How do i create a bootable recovery cd

on an external drive 500 GB

 

if you stick the cd in the drive and reboot do you get any prompts to press any key to boot from cd?
if not im guessing your bios has been setup to boot from hard drive first which is why the cd appears to be unbootable.
you need to read your motherboard manual if you have one to find out how to put the hard drive second prority and have the cd/dvd drive as first prority.
do the steps above first then if the linux based cd doesnt see your external drive i will assit you.

the linux based recovery cd isnt very good at seeing external usb hard drives but the windows based cd is.

 

The check recovery disc says the linux based recovery cd is not bootable so i did not get around to changing the bios. First I want to make a bootable cd EDIT I have now made a bootable recovery disc with the recovery media builder

 

thats weird but i have never used the wizard in the program to check the recovery disc.
but my linux recovery disc and vistape recovery discs boot fine so i dono.
maybe try a different brand of cd?

 

Is the unpack and burn a linux disc? Which is the windows one, the one made by recovery media builder? This is only around 7MB while the other is 47

 

to get the windows based recovery cd you have the ask paragon support very nicely to make you a vistape recovery cd
if they do it comes in the form of a .iso file that you use a special option in your cd burning software to burn it to a disc so its bootable.

 

HI

Its different for me as i got the Special Edition free on a mag and there are some differences between that and the commercial edition. But I have made a bootable recovery CD. Just have to figure out the rest of it.Thanks for your help

 

No problem
as i said if the linux based recovery cd doesnt see your external Hard drive send me a PM.

 

Which one is the linux based recovery cd? Is it the Is the unpack and burn one? That is not bootable according to the check. But I made a bootable cd with the recovery media builder

 

both are linux based.
both should be bootable.
the one created with the pack and burn wizard contains more functions.

 

The one created with the pack and burn wizard is not bootable for me,must be just the different versions

 

Here's some reviews to look at . http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2259186,00.asp

 

Hi

Interesting reading, thanks.

 

can you do screenshot of the linux bootable cd working please?