I made sure that I selected the correct drive. I unchecked drive D:\ so it wouldn't back it up as well. It asked what did I want to back up, and I selected 3 items, the boot sector, the reserved partition and Drive C\ Now I reopened Paragon and selected backup again. Last I completely defragged the drive so it was 100% fragment free. Next I ran every scan that I have, AVG, SuperAntiSpyware, CCleaner, and Malwarebytes. That got the size of my C:\ drive down to about 175 Gigs. Once I had gotten it adjusted to the correct size and seen that I now had enough space to backup my boot drive, I backed out, and cleaned up the drive.moving several games from C:\ to D:\ notably The Elder Scrolls Online and The Secret World which totaled 70 Gigabytes of disk space between them. My Drive contained 2 partitions, C:\Windows 8 and D:\Games, the recovery capsule became a 3rd hidden partition, it doesn't have a drive letter or show in Windows Explorer. Note that if you chose to have the recovery partition on a drive other than the drive that Windows is on, it will warn you that the partition won't be bootable. Make it as big as the data on your C:\ drive and you won't have a problem since it will be compressed. I did this twice because of the adjustment.īut you should look at the size of the partition you want to back up at the time you set it up the first time. It does this by restarting your computer and booting into what I assume is Linux and then reboots back into Windows when it's finished. I made the mistake of letting it use it's default setting and later discovered that it wasn't big enough to hold my C:\ drive but it will let you come back later and change it by using a simple slider. The first thing it did was lead me through the process of setting up the Recovery Capsule, or recovery partition. Instead of asking you to choose a location the save a backup file to (you can still do it that way) it offers to create a bootable backup partition, much like you would get on a new laptop.Īfter installing the software I clicked go to advanced options, and got the familiar interface instead of the Windows 8 big colored blocks. I was surprised to see that there is quite a change from the one I used previously. Yesterday I upgraded my Paragon backup software to the 2014 edition. I thought that some people might be interested in this.
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