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The Image can be restored on other hard disks, which makes Please notice capital "Special remarks" (WIN NT) HDCOPY 1.1 - copying Hard disks of any size - supports long file names - supports Windows 95 and OS/2 HPFS filesystem - runs with any DOS Version - Backup and Restore from - Commandline Input for batch programming - backup on multiple destination media's with adjustable filesize HDCOPY Pro 1.1 - all features of HDCOPY 1.1 plus you get a wide range of additional features - ultimate service tool - easy to reconstructure hard disks - together with the image you can create a restore program that allows you to - combining different partitions from different source hard disks - quick partitioning of Harddisk, of all known structures and formating - copying partitions from one Harddisk to another and being able to vary the partitionsize at the same time - data compression for a minimum of resource utilisation and quick execution In make ------- - HDCOPY with full OS/2 structure, creating and resizing of HPFS partitions - HDCOPY with full Windows NT structure, creating and resizing of NTFS partitions - resizing DOS partitions with no loss of data List of Files ============= if you do not have all files according to your version and the list below, please contact us, or download a new version from your Web Site listed below. File Explanation Version ------------------------------------------------------------------ HDCOPY.EXE main program all HDCOPY.OVR overlay file for HDCOPY all HDCOPY.BIN necessary for enhanced restore of HDCOPY Pro HDCOPY Pro HDCOPY.CFG Configurationfile for HDCOPY, to all save several informations HDCOPY.DAT necessary for enhanced restore of HDCOPY Pro HDCOPY Pro HDCOPY.CMP Informationfile for compression HDCOPY Pro HDORDER.TXT ordering form all HELP.TXT This Text all BACKALL.BAT example backup batch file for command line input all RESTALL.BAT example restore batch file for command line input all RESTALL.MAK Make file for RESTALL.BAT all Special remarks =============== 1. In general We recommend using scandisk (DOS) or other programs that examine the harddisk, before using HDCOPY. 2. Using HDCOPY with Windows NT Due to the security level C2 from Windows NT, the direct disk access is limited, therefore we recommend using a DOS bootdisk, to reinsure all data is saved, copied or restored. 3. Writing the backup into the same partition that is being saved If the backup is written to the same partition that is being saved, it is possible, HDCOPY reports Cluster failure. This error is caused be the Image file which is still open, but not completed. In most cases you will only have to retry this action. You can avoid this mistake by changing the "buffers" entry in the CONFIG.SYS (BUFFERS=32,0). Should the mistake still accure, please run scandisk. 4. Using HDCOPY with Windows 95 There are no known problems using HDCOPY with Windows 95. We still recommend using single MS-DOS mode, because of the Windows swap file and it also will run faster, because no other processes can disturb. 5. Panasonic Laptops with Hibernation partition Please notice that the hibernation partition of Panasonic (Type 132) must be in second place of the partition table. User Manual =========== List of contents 1. Start-up Screen 1.1 Programstart 1.2 License number 2. Main Menu 2.1 Working Mode 2.1.1 Backup 2.1.2 Standard Restore 2.1.3 Enhanced Restore 2.1.4 Copy Partition 2.2 Options 2.2.1 Harddisks 2.2.2 Backup Mode 2.2.3 HD Protection 2.2.4 Last Track 2.2.5 Image File Size 2.2.6 Datacompression 2.3 Help 2.3.1 HDCOPY Information 2.3.2 Ordering Form 2.3.3 Command line mode 2.3.4 HDCOPY Shareware 2.3.5 HDCOPY Address 2.4 End 2.4.1 End Program 2.4.2 Command Shell 1. Start-up Screen ----------------- On the Start-up Screen the Version and the License number is displayed. Please have these information's at your finger tips, if you have any questions. We can only make correct and precise statement, if we have these information's. In some cases a "usage period" is also displayed. 1.1 Programstart To start the program, you only need to press the "ENTER" key. The Main Menu will be displayed. 1.2 License Number The license Number allows the change of the program status. By entering the License Number, that you received from us, the program will now let you do all actions you are registered for. The same procedure with Updates, you can receive from the HDCOPY Homepage (listed below). 2. Main Menu ------------- Use the cursor keys to navigate through the menu and the "ENTER" key to select specified action. In the screen "actual preferences already chosen options are displayed. This allows you to confirm the settings immediately. In every menu the "ESC" key will bring you back to the Main Menu or at least one screen back. 2.1 Working Mode 2.1.1 Backup a.) Selecting the partition The current Harddisk structure is displayed in a screen. Within this screen you will find all Harddisks listed from 0 to 7 and the partitions on every harddisk numbered from 1 to 8. This method is used to display all found Harddisks and all partitions. (When using DOS or Windows 95, NTFS or HPFS partitions are not shown as logical drives) by using the cursor keys you can either choose all partitions of one Harddisk or a single partition of one Harddisk. Notice: Only one selection at a time is possible b.) Choosing the destination directory for the Image You can enter the destination directory in the screen. Creating new directories is also supported. By pressing the "F5" Key, a Screen with existing directories and logical drives is shown. The current directory and total number of image files in this directory is show in the first row. The "F10" key will take you back to the previous screen, using the selected directory. A new directory can be created be pressing the "F7" key. c.) Description of the current Backup After choosing the destination directory, you are prompted to enter a description with a maximum length of 20 characters. This description is shown when restoring from an Image File. d.) Backup Screen In this screen, the current process of the backup is displayed. The backup can be stopped, be pressing the "ESC" key. e.) Creating the Restore program (Only HDCOPY Pro) The Pro Version has the feature to create a restore program. You can give the restore program away with the Image you have created, as often as you want to. Other people will now be able to restore the Image without having a HDCOPY license. Notice: The restore program is only capable of "Standard Restore Features" f.) Creating the Batch and Make file for the restore. (Only HDCOPY Pro) The Pro Version can automatically create a Batch and Make file for the standard restore After the backup process a information screen appears. You are brought back to the Main Menu. 2.1.2 Standard Restore a.) Choosing the Harddisk for restore The destination Harddisk is chosen by entering the physical Harddisk number (0=first, 1=second) b.) Choosing the Image directory In the Screen, you have also the possibility, to create a new directory With the F5 key you open a Screen were the already existing directories are displayed. In the first row, the current directory and image files are shown. Use the cursor keys, to select the desired file. To make the selection, press the F10 key. c.) The shown information refer to the made backup. Type, size date of backup and description are displayed. If it was a complete Backup, type 0 is shown with the comment "complete" and date of backup. All included partitions are shown without the date of backup. Use the cursor keys to choose, or if you want to change the directory, use the F5 key. (explained in chapter 2.1.2 a). To make your selection complete, use the ENTER key to confirm. When a complete backup is chosen, your are asked if the existing data can be overwritten. You can only restore single partitions, if the media can be erased or there is sufficient space on the destination media. d.) restore Screen In the now following restore screen, the progress and action of the restore process is displayed. Use the ESC key to stop process. Caution: If the restore process is stopped, the data is not completely restored and the media can not be used. After the restore has successfully been completed, a notice screen appears. The computer must now be restarted. This automatically happens, when you leave the program. Do not write data to the restored media before restarting, because the operating system does not know the new partitioning. 2.1.3 Enhanced Restore Choosing the new partition structure The new partitioning of the Harddisk can completely be made in this screen. Creating, erasing, repartitioning, deleting of single partitions can be made in this screen. a.) F2 deleting single partitions (only HDCOPY Pro) After pressing the F2 key, you are prompted to select the partition you want to delete. Use ESC to abort. b.) F3 Erase all partitions All existing partitions are erased and all free disk space is shown as one area. If no partitions are selected, there are no changes made to the harddisk. c.) F4 Change Drive By choosing this point, you can read a new disk or restore the default settings of the previous disk. To choose the destination harddisk you must enter the physical disk number (0=first harddisk, 1=second harddisk) d.) F5 Source In this screen you can select the data which you wish to restore. The key control is explained under 2.1.2 a-c. The size of the restore partition can also be fitted and the location within the free area can be selected. Partitions that are created using the restore function are marked with a "R". e.) F7 Creating new partitions (only HDCOPY Pro) It is possible to create new partitions by selecting this menu. You must enter type, size in MB, the location within the free area and weather it is a primary partition or a logical drive within a enhanced partition. Up to now it is only possible to create MS-DOS 16 Bit FAT (FAT16) completely. Other partition types can only be created using size and location of the partition. The partition must be formatted from the operating system. List of known partition types Partitions where the structure is unknown can be backuped and restored without a loss of data. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Type NR. naming explanation ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 free variable for free partitions can not be created using HDCOPY 1 12 BIT (DOS) little DOS partition (up to 10 MB) 2,3 XENIX UNIX, structure unknown 4 16 BIT (DOS) FAT16 partition smaller than 32 MB 5 extended DOS This is automatically created if extended partition exists. 6 BIG DOS DOS partition (FAT16) larger than 32 MB 7 NTFS Microsoft's New technology file OS/2 HPFS system, or IBM's High performance file system structure unknown 8,9 AIX UNIX, structure unknown 10 OS/2 Bootmanager Is created using OS/2, structure unknown 11,12 VFAT 32 new 32 BIT format from Microsoft for big partitions, structure unknown 18 Compaq Service Service partition for Compaq Computers 22 BIG DOS covert BIG DOS Partition covert by Bootmanager from OS/2 23 HPFS covert HPFS (high performance file system), covert by BootManager, structure unknown 100 Novell structure unknown 132 Panasonic Hibernation save partition for hibernation mode, either FAT12 or FAT16 struc- ture depending on size and model number f.) F8 activate bootpartition You are prompted to activate the partition which is used to boot the computer. Only select partition that can be started. g.) F9 change partition size The size of FAT16 partitions (type 4 and 6) can be changed during the restore process. This means you can enhance the size of the source partition. The maximum size of the partition depends on the size of the source partition and the free space on the destination media. h.) F10 start restore After pressing F10 the restore process is started. The partitions are processed one after another. After the process is completed the new partition structure is created and the mark for the start partition is set. ************************************************************************* REMEMBER !!! If the restore process is cancelled the data is not complete and the partition or harddisk can not be used. ************************************************************************* After successfully finishing the restore process, a notice screen is shown. The computer must know be restarted. This automatically happens, when you leave the program. 2.1.4 copying partitions This option allows you to copy your harddisk. You do not have to create an image and you don't need additional hardware. Just buy a new harddisk with larger capacity and copy your installed programs and data to your new harddisk. A split screen is displayed, the source is shown on the left side, the destination is displayed on the right side. a.) F1 Source The screen as explained under 2.1.1 appears If the complete source harddisk is chosen, the structure is automatically created ion the destination media. All partitions are copied separately. b.) F4 destination disk You are prompted to enter the destination disk. Normally the destination partitions is the first one. c.) F5 creating destination partition If you wish to partition the destination disk before you start copying, you have the possibility to do this with this feature. Proceed the same way as explained under 2.3 enhanced restore. The only exception is that you can not restore data. d.) F6 destination partition You are prompted to enter the destination partition. e.) F10 Start After pressing the F10 key, the copy process is started. After successfully finishing the restore process, a notice screen is shown. The computer must now be restarted. This automatically happens, when you leave the program. ************************************************************************* REMEMBER !!! If the restore process is cancelled the data is not complete and the partition or harddisk can not be used. ************************************************************************* 2.2 Options 2.2.1 Harddisks The screen is explained in chapter 2.1.1. It only displays the structure. 2.2.2 backup mode You can change the backup mode, so that partitions were the structure is known, are also copied 1:1. If you select this feature, you can only restore the partition without changing the size or structure. 2.2.3 HD Protection To prevent an unwished write to a Harddisk can set here a write protection for HDCOPY to the harddisk. This Flag will written in the Partitionsector at position: 187h. ------------ This Write Protection is only for HDCOPY -------------- Until this time are no incompatibilties known. If you have any problems with a program, please contact us. 2.2.4 Last Track Under DOS the last track from a harddisk is not used. (Displayed in HDCOPY as free partition) New operating systems uses this track and also under DOS or FAT16 and FAT32 partitions this trak can be used. The using of the last track with HDCOPY can here switched. It will spend up to 8 MBytes more space on the Harddisk ( 256 heads, 63 sectors). Some Harddisk tools (like Norton Disk Doctor) will diplay an error with those partitions, but works normaly. 2.2.5 Image file size Sometime it is useful to limit the filesize of the image, for example to bring the files on a CD-R. Therefor the filesize can adjust here. The maximum filesize under DOS is 2047 MBytes. The image will dispence to several files with counted extensions, up to 149 files. (HDIMAGE1.IMG, HDIMAGE1.000, HDIMAGE1.001 ... HDIMAGE1.148) 2.2.6 Datacompression This point switch the datacompression for Backup on/off. At the Restore the compression is get from the imagefile. 2.3 Help Here you can find Help to most program parts. 2.3.1 HDCOPY info A screen is displayed with this text. You can scroll the text using the cursor keys. To print the text to LPT1: just press F1. 2.3.2 Ordering form The ordering form is displayed and can be printed by pressing F1. 2.3.3 Command line The command line mode allows you to automate the backup process, without having to enter any additional answers. a.) Backup For the automated process you need to enter four parameters 1. -B for backup 2. LW:0 to LW:7 to select source media 3. PA:0 to PA:8 to select partition, PA:0 means all partition 4. destination directory where should the data be saved to The order of parameters can be made as wanted . If one parameter is not logically, the backup process can not be completed, the main menu is shown. Example: HDCOPY -B LW:0 PA:1 D:\ The first partition of harddisk 0 is backuped into a file in the root directory of drive d:. The file HDIMAGEx.IMG is created. (x is replaced by a number between 1 and 9, the smallest number is used, if it doesn't already exists. b.) Restore To run an automatic restore it is necessary to create a "make" file. After you have created the "make" file, you start HDCOPY with two parameters. 1. -R for restore 2. filename complete path and file name of the make file The structure of the make file can include following command lines. 1. line HDCOPY make file to restore (recognition of the make file, by the command) last line HDCOPY make end Beginning with the second line, following commands are possible. The order of appearance can not be changed. Remark and empty line can NOT be included. Line Description Drive=x Drive to be restored, x must be replaced by 0-7 In every make file you can only place the drive command once Keyboard=x x is replaced by either 0 or 1. If this parameter is set to x=1, the program will stop when a mistake accures. Aktion=x Copy harddisks, with batch commands, it is only possible to copy complete harddisks Sourcedrive=x Sourcedrive=0 to 7 Destinationdrive=x Destinationdrive=0 to 7 Aktion=L delete partitions Number=x number of the partition to be deleted Aktion=R A restore is done from a backup File=xxxx File to be restored with complete path Index=x position of the partition on the source drive (x=0..8) Index = 0 : no additional information's are needed, complete restore Index > 0 single partitions need following parameters partition=x x must be replaced by 1...8, replace the specified partition Where=x x=1 partition is created at the beginning of the free area Size=x size of the partition in MB Boot=x Set boot partition ; Remark lines In a make file you can include a any number of commands. 2.3.4 Info Shareware Version A screen is displayed with the difference between the shareware and commercial Version. 2.3.5 HDCOPY address A screen with the address, where to order HDCOPY is displayed 2.4 End Here you will find program parts that are needed to end the program 2.4.1 Program End The program ends. If the restore process has been chosen, the computer will restart. 2.4.2 Command Shell With this menu, you can start a new DOS prompt. With this option it is possible to start another program while you run HDCOPY. It is not possible to select this menu, if restore has been processed. More information and orders To order, please print order form and send it via Fax, mail or E-mail. Büroservice Heike Holst Hauptstraße 99 21629 Neu Wulmstorf Tel: +49/40 700 120 91 FAX: +49/40 700 120 92 Office Hours Mondays to Friday 9.00-12.00 E-mail : info@hdcopy.com Homepage: http://www.hdcopy.com Notice: The used names and registered trademarks are not are still protected by the international copyright laws. All further use of these names is strictly prohibited.