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Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 5
What’s New in Partition Manager 14 ........................................................................................................... 5
Product Components ............................................................................................................. 6
Features Overview ................................................................................................................. 6
Features ..................................................................................................................................................... 6
User Friendly Fault Minimizing Interface ................................................................................................................................ 6
Backup Facilities ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Restore Facilities ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Boot Management Facilities ................................................................................................................................................... 7
Partition/Hard Disk Management Facilities ............................................................................................................................ 7
Auxiliary Facilities ................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Supported Technologies .............................................................................................................................. 8
Supported File Systems ............................................................................................................................... 9
Supported Media ........................................................................................................................................ 9
Getting Started ...................................................................................................................... 9
System Requirements ................................................................................................................................. 9
Installation ................................................................................................................................................ 10
First Start ................................................................................................................................................... 11
Building Recovery Media ............................................................................................................................ 12
Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery Media ............................................................................................. 12
Startup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 12
Boot menu ............................................................................................................................................................................ 13
Basic Concepts ..................................................................................................................... 15
pVHD Support ............................................................................................................................................ 15
GPT versus MBR ......................................................................................................................................... 15
uEFI Boot Challenges .................................................................................................................................. 16
Apple Boot Camp ....................................................................................................................................... 16
64-bit Support ............................................................................................................................................ 16
Drive Partitioning ....................................................................................................................................... 17
Windows Components ........................................................................................................ 17
Interface Overview .................................................................................................................................... 17
General Layout ...................................................................................................................................................................... 18
Tool Button ........................................................................................................................................................................... 19
