seagate DiscWizard User Guide

Seagate DiscWizard™

User’s Guide

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction ........................................................................................... 8

1.1 What is Seagate DiscWizard? ............................................................................................. 8

1.2 New in Seagate DiscWizard ................................................................................................ 8

1.3 System requirements and supported media ......................................................................... 8

1.3.1 Minimum system requirements .................................................................................... 8

1.3.2 Supported operating systems ....................................................................................... 9

1.3.3 Supported file systems ................................................................................................ 9

1.3.4 Supported storage media ............................................................................................ 9

1.4 Technical support ............................................................................................................ 10

Chapter 2. Seagate DiscWizard installation and startup ...................................... 11

2.1 Installing Seagate DiscWizard ........................................................................................... 11

2.2 Extracting Seagate DiscWizard ......................................................................................... 12

2.3 Running Seagate DiscWizard ............................................................................................ 12

2.4 Upgrading from Previous Versions of Seagate DiscWizard .................................................. 12

2.5 Removing Seagate DiscWizard ......................................................................................... 12

Chapter 3. General information ............................................................................. 13

3.1 Disc/partition images ....................................................................................................... 13

3.2 Viewing disc and partition information ............................................................................... 13

Chapter 4. Using Seagate DiscWizard ................................................................... 14

4.1 Main program window ..................................................................................................... 14

4.2 Available operations ........................................................................................................ 17

Chapter 5. Creating image backup archives ......................................... ................ 19

5.1 The image backup procedure ........................................................................................... 19

5.1.1 My Computer image backup ...................................................................................... 19

5.1.2 Selecting the image backup destination ....................................................................... 20

5.1.3 Selecting the image backup options ............................................................................. 21

5.1.4 Providing a comment ................................................................................................. 21

5.1.5 Image backup process ............................................................................................... 21

5.2 Setting image backup options .......................................................................................... 22

5.2.1 Compression level ..................................................................................................... 22

5.2.2 Image backup priority ............................................................................................... 22

5.2.3 Archive-splitting ........................................................................................................ 23

5.2.4 Media components .................................................................................................... 23

5.2.5 Additional settings .................................................................................................... 24

Chapter 6. Restoring the image ba ckup data ........................................................ 25

6.1 Image restore under Windows or boot from CD? ............................................................... 25

6.1.1 Network settings in bootable medi a ............................................................................ 25

6.2 Restoring discs/partitions or files from images ................................................................... 25

6.2.1 Starting the Image Restore Data Wizard ..................................................................... 25

6.2.2 Archive selection ....................................................................................................... 25

6.2.3 Restoration type selection ......................................................................................... 26

6.2.4 Selecting Image Restore Destination .......................................................................... 27

6.2.5 Selecting a disc/partition to restore ............................................................................ 27

6.2.6 Selecting a target disc/partition .................................................................................. 28

6.2.7 Changing the restored partition type .......................................................................... 29

6.2.8 Changing the restored partition file system ................................................................. 30

6.2.9 Changing the restored partition size and location ......................................................... 30

6.2.10 Assigning a letter to the restored partition ................................................................. 31

6.2.11 Restoring several discs or partitions at once .............................................................. 31

6.2.12 Setting image restore options .................................................................................. 31

6.2.13 Image Restoration summary and executing restoration .............................................. 31

6.3 Setting image restore options ........................................................................................... 31

6.3.1 Files overwriting mode .............................................................................................. 32

6.3.2 Restoration priority ................................................................................................... 32

6.3.3 Additional settings .................................................................................................... 32

Chapter 7. Creating bootable media ..................................................................... 34

Chapter 8. Other operations .................................................................................. 37

8.1 Validating image backup archives ..................................................................................... 37

8.2 Viewing logs ................................................................................................................... 37

Chapter 9. Exploring archives and mounting images ........................................... 39

9.1 Exploring an archive ........................................................................................................ 39

9.2 Mounting an image ......................................................................................................... 40

9.3 Unmounting an image ..................................................................................................... 42

Chapter 10. Transferring the system to a new disc .............................. ................ 43

10.1 General information ....................................................................................................... 43

10.2 Security ........................................................................................................................ 44

10.3 Executing transfers ........................................................................................................ 44

10.3.1 Selecting Clone mode .............................................................................................. 44

10.3.2 Selecting source disc ............................................................................................... 44

10.3.3 Selecting destination disc ......................................................................................... 45

10.3.4 Partitioned destination disc ...................................................................................... 46

10.3.5 Old and new disc partition layout ............................................................................. 46

10.3.6 Selecting partition transfer method ........................................................................... 46

10.3.7 Partitioning the old disc ........................................................................................... 47

10.3.8 Old and new disc partition layouts ............................................................................ 48

10.3.9 Cloning summary .................................................................................................... 48

10.4 Cloning with manual partitioning ..................................................................................... 48

10.4.1 Old and new disc partition layouts ............................................................................ 48

Chapter 11. Adding a new hard disc ..................................................................... 51

11.1 Selecting a hard disc ...................................................................................................... 51

11.2 Creating new partitions .................................................................................................. 51

11.3 Disc add summary ......................................................................................................... 54

Appendix A. Partitions and file systems ................................................................ 55

A.1 Hard disc partitions .................................................................................................... 55

A.2 File systems .............................................................................................................. 55

A.2.1

FAT16 ............................................................................................................... 55

A.2.2

FAT32 ............................................................................................................... 56

A.2.3

NTFS ................................................................................................................ 56

Appendix B. Hard discs and BIOS setup ................................... ............................. 57

B.1 Installing hard discs in computers ............................................................................... 57

B.1.1

Installing a hard disc, general scheme ................................................................. 57

B.1.2

Motherboard sockets, IDE cable, power cable ....................................................... 57

B.1.3

Installation modes, jumpers ................................................................................ 58

B.2 BIOS ........................................................................................................................ 59

B.2.1

Setup utility ....................................................................................................... 59

B.2.2

Standard CMOS setup menu ............................................................................... 60

B.2.3

Arranging boot sequence, advanced CMOS setup menu ........................................ 61

B.2.4

AwardBIOS ....................................................................................................... 62

B.2.5

Hard disc initialization errors ............................................................................... 65

Appendix C. Startup Parameters ........................................................................... 67

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 What is Seagate DiscWizard?

Seagate DiscWizard makes it easy to work with your new Maxtor and Seagate disc drives. Seagate DiscWizard lets you quickly install your new disc drive, with wizards that guide you through the processes of creating and formatting partitions on your disc drive.

Seagate DiscWizard also lets you transfer your data to your new Seagate disc drive in minutes. The software migrates everything – your operating systems, applications, documents and personal setting – to your new disc drives just as you had them. After you migrate, you can keep using your PC just like before. You can then keep your old drive as an image backup or use Seagate DiscWizard to store your image backups.

Using powerful imaging technology, Seagate DiscWizard lets you create image backups of all the data on your computer, entire discs or individual partitions. The unique technology developed by Acronis and implemented in Seagate DiscWizard allows you to create exact, sector-by-sector disc image backups, including all operating systems, applications and configuration files, software updates, personal settings and all o f your data. If failure s occur that block access to information or affect system operation, or if you accidentally delete necessary files, you'll be able to use the image backup to easily restore the system and lost data.

You can store image backups on almost any PC storage device: local hard drives, network drives or a variety of IDE, SCSI, FireWire (IEEE-1394), USB (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0) an d PC Card (formerly called PCMCIA) removable media drives, as well as CD-R/RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R/RW, magneto-optical, Iomega Zip and Jaz drives.

Wizards and a user-friendly, Windows XP-styled interface will make your work more convenient. Just answer a few simple questions and let Seagate DiscWizard take care of everything else! When a system problem occurs, the software will get you up and running in short order.

1.2 New in Seagate DiscWizard

• Direct image backup to FTP servers

• Sector-by-sector images – You can create an exa ct sector-by-sector disc ima ge. This

feature is very useful when you need to backup corrupted disc drives or to make an image of a partition on which an important fi le has been deleted. This option lets you copy used and unused hard disc sectors.

• Restore absolute paths – You can restore data to a new place with entire folder

hierarchy.

• Shell extension for archive validation – You can validate your archive from Windows

workspace by clicking right mouse button on selected image backup file and choosing then correspo nding function.

1.3 System requirements and supported media

1.3.1 Minimum system requirements

Seagate DiscWizard requires the following hardware:

• At least one Seagate Technology or Maxtor disc drive

• Pentium processor or higher

• 128 MB RAM

• FDD or CD-RW drive for bootable media creation

• Mouse (recommended).

1.3.2 Supported operating systems

• Windows® 2000 Professional SP 4

• Windows® XP SP 2

• Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition

• Windows® Vista

Seagate DiscWizard also enables creation of a bootable diskette or CD-R/W that can back up and restore a disc/partition on a computer running any PC-based operating system including

Linux

1.3.3 Supported file systems

• FAT16/32

• NTFS

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Seagate DiscWizard can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach.

1.3.4 Supported storage medi a

• Hard disc drives

• Networked storage devices

• FTP servers*

• CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM**

• USB 1.0 / 2.0, FireWire (IEEE-1394) and PC card storage devices

• Floppy discs, ZIP®, Jaz® and other removable media

* An FTP server must allow passive mode for file transfers. Image Restore directly from FTP server requires the archive to consist of files of no more than 2GB. It is recommended that you change the source computer firewall settings to open Ports 20 and 21 for both TCP and UDP protocols and disable the Routing and Remote Access Windows service.

** Burned write-once discs cannot be read in Windows NT 4 without third-party software. Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without kernel patch.

1.4 Technical support

Seagate offers free self-service web support, email, and user-to-user forums support on your product.

Technical Support will answer technical and troubleshooting questions regarding your Seagate or Maxtor product during normal call center business hours.

To facilitate your Technical Support call and qualify your product for 30 or 90 days of complimentary phone support, you are required to register your product at:

www.onlineregister.com/seagate

Seagate also offers premium extended technical phone support options for Seagate and Maxtor customers residing in the U.S. For more information on the Extended Support or contact information see our Extended Support page

More information about contacting Seagate Technical Support is available at the following link:

. Complimentary phone support varies by product type.

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/installation_assistance

Chapter 2. Seagate DiscWizard installation and startup

2.1 Installing Seagate DiscWizard

To install Seagate DiscWizard:

• Run the Seagate DiscWizard setup file.

• In the Install Menu, select the program to install: Seagate DiscWizard.

• Follow the install wizard instructions on the screen*.

* No serial number is required for the installation process. Typical, Custom and Complete installation is available. Having pressed Custom, you can

choose to install, besides Seagate DiscWizard, Bootable Media Builder and Bart PE plug- in.

The default installation paths are:

Bootable Media Builder: C:\Program Files\Seagate\Disc Wizard Seagate DiscWizard: C:\Program Files\Seagate\DiscWizard BartPE: C:\Program Files\Seagate\DiscWizard\BartPE

With Bootable Media Builder you can create bootable discs (see details in

Creating bootable media

that contains a bootable CD. Installing the Bootable Media Builder will allow you to create bootable media or its ISO image at any time from the main program window or running Bootable Media Builder on its own.

The well-known Bart PE utility is used to boot into a Windows-like environment from CD. Applications are installed into Bart PE in the form of plug-ins. Choosing Bart PE plug-in installation (disabled by default) provides the ability to inclu de Seagate DiscWizard in a Bart PE plug-in tab. The plug-in files will be placed to the installation folder along with other

). You might not need this tool if you purchased a boxed product

Chapter 7.

program files. Seagate doe s not pr ovide techn ical suppo rt troub leshooting us ing t he Bart PE environment.

When installed, Seagate DiscWizard creates a new device in the Device Manager list (Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> Seagate Devices -> Seagate DiscWizard Image Backup Archive Explorer). Do not disable or uninstall this device, as it is necessary for connecting image archives as virtual discs (see

Exploring archives and mounting images

Chapter 9.

2.2 Extracting Seagate DiscWizard

When installing Seagate DiscWizard, you can save the setup (.msi) file on a local or network drive. This will help when modifying or recovering the existing component installation.

To save a setup file:

• Run the Seagate DiscWizard setup file.

• In the Install Menu, right-click on the program name and select Extract.

• Select a location for the setup file and click Save.

2.3 Running Seagate DiscWizard

You can run Seagate DiscWizard in Windows by selecting Start -> Programs -> Seagate

-> Seagate DiscWizard -> Seagate DiscWizard or clicking on the appropriate shortcut

on the desktop. If your disc data is totally corrupted and you cannot boot, load the standalone Seagate

DiscWizard version from the bootable media, supplied with the retail box or created by you using the Bootable Media Builder. Then you will be able to restore the disc from its previously created image.

2.4 Upgrading from Previous Versions of Seagate DiscWizard

If you already have Seagate DiscWizard installed, the new version will simply update it; there is no need to remove the old version and reinstall t he s oftware.

Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions, so if you roll back Seagate DiscWizard to an older version, you likely will have to re-create the archives using t he older version. We strongly recommend that you create new bootable media after each Seagate DiscWizard upgrade.

2.5 Removing Seagate DiscWizard

Select Start -> Settings -> Control panel -> Add or remove programs -> <Seagate DiscWizard> -> Remove. Then follow instructions on the screen. You may have to reboot

your computer afterwards to complete the task.

Chapter 3. General information

3.1 Disc/partition images

An image backup is a file or a grou p of files t hat contains a copy o f all infor mation stored on selected discs/partitions.

Backing up discs and partitions is performed in a special way: Seagate DiscWizard stores a sector-by-sector snapshot of the disc, which includes the operating system, registry, drivers, software applications and data files, as well as system areas hidden from the user. This procedure is called “creating a disc image,” and the resulting ba ck u p a r c hiv e is often called a disc/partition image.

Seagate DiscWizard stores only the portions of your hard disc that contain data (for supported file systems). Further, it does not back up swap file information (pagefile.sys under Windows NT/2000/XP) and hiberfil.sys (a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into hibernation). This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and restoration of the data.

A partition image includes all files and folders independent of their attributes (including hidden and system files), boot record, FAT (file allocation table), root and the zero track of the hard disc with master boot record (MBR).

A disc image includes images of all disc partitions as well as the zero track with master boot record (MBR).

By default, files in all Seagate DiscWizard image backup archives have a “.tib” extension. It is important to note that you can restore individual files and folders from disc/partition

image backups. To do so, mount the image as a virtual disc (see

archives and mounting images

disc drive.

) and copy the selected files and/or folders to your Seagat e

Chapter 9. Exploring

3.2 Viewing disc and partition information

You can change the way data is represented in all schemes you see in various wizards. To the right are three icons: Arrange Icons by, Choose Details and i (Display the

properties of the selected item), the last duplicated in the context menu invoked by right-clicking objects.

To sort messages by a particular column, click the header (another click will switch the messages to the opposite order) or Arrange Icons by button and select the column.

To select columns to view, right-click the headers line or left-click the Choose Details button. Then flag the columns you want to display.

If you click the i (Display the properties of the selected item) button, you will see the selected partition or disc properties window.

This window contains two panels. The left panel contains the properties tree and the right describes the selected property in detail. The disc information includes its physical parameters (connection type, device type, size, etc.); partition information includes both physical (sectors, location, etc.), and logical (file system, free space, assigned letter, etc.) parameters.

You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse.

Chapter 4. Using Seagate DiscWizard

4.1 Main program window

The main program window contains the menu, the toolbar and the main area. The main area contains operation icons, while the sidebar features the Category, Tools and Help panels.

Most of the operations are represented two times in different window areas, providing several ways to select them for more convenience. For example, you can start an operation or tool by clicking its icon in the main area or by selecting the same item from appropriat e category of the Operations or Tools menu.

The main window contains four operation icons:

• Image Backup and Image Restore – moves you to Image Backup and Image

Restore window where you can choose either to backup your hard disc data or to restore it from a previously created image in case the date is lost or corrupted:

• Disc Utilities – moves you to Disc Utilities wind ow where you can choose either to clone

existing disc or to add new one:

• Create Bootable Media – runs the bootable media creation procedure (for more details

see

Chapter 7. Creating bootable media

)

• Manage Image Backups – moves you to Manage Image Backups window where you

can explore your image backup, mount/unmount image or validate image backup:

Program menu

The program menu bar features the Operations, View, Tools and Help items. The Operations menu contains a list of the available operations:

• Image Backup – creates a backup of your hard disc data

• Image Restore – restores data from previously created image

• Validate Image Backup – runs the archive integrity-checking procedure

• Explore Image Backup – shows contents of an image backup

• Mount Image Backup – mounts disc/partition images as virtual drives

• Unmount Image Backup – unmounts (disconnects) virtual disc

The View menu contains items for managing the program window look:

• Toolbars – contains commands that control toolbar icons

• Common Task Bar – enables/disables the sidebar

• Status Bar – enables/disables the status bar

The Tools menu contains the following items:

• Create Bootable Media – runs the bootable media creation procedure

• Clone Disc – copies the data from one drive to another

• Add New Disc – partitions and formats a new drive as additional storage

• Show Log – open the Log Viewer window

• Options – open a window for editing default image backup/restore options, setting text

appearance (fonts) etc

The Help menu is used to invoke help and obtain information about Seagate DiscWizard.

Status bar

At the bottom of the main window, there is a status bar divided into two parts. The left side briefly describes the selected operation; the right side indicates operation progress and results. If you double-click on the operation results, you will see the logs window.

Taskbar notification area icon

During most of the operations, a special indicator icon appears in the Windows taskbar notification area (the right portion of the status bar with the clock). If you mouse over the icon, you will see a tool tip indicating the operatio n’s progress. This icon doesn’t depend on the main program window being open.

4.2 Available operations

You can perform the following operations on the computer.

• Back up and restore data, including system discs/partitions Click Image Backup or Image Restore, then follow the wizard’s instructions. See details

Chapter 5. Creating image backup

data

• Browse logs of Seagate DiscWizard operation Select Show Log tool in the Progr am Menu group or select the Show Log tool on the

sidebar to navigate to the Event Log window. See details in

• Set up image backup/restore options, such as image backup proce ss priority or files

overwriting mode.

Select Tools -> Options -> Default image backup options or Default image restoration options and make settings. See details in and

6.3 Setting image restore options.

• Validate image backup archives wherever they reside, be it local, network or removable

media

Click Validate Image Backup Archive oper ation in th e Program Menu or click Validate Image Backup Archive in the Manage Image Backups window, then follow the wizard’s instructions. See details in

• Explore any archive’s contents and restore individual files from any archive Click Explore Image Backup operation in the Program Menu or in Manage Image

Backups window and follow the wizard’s instructions. See details in