Distribution

Paragon Drive Backup The term backup originates from the time when the best way to protect valuable information was to store it in form of archives on external media. It's become now a general notion to mean making duplications of data for protection purposes. 9.0 is distributed in two ways:

q       Boxed package from Paragon Technology GmbH and resellers

q       Downloadable package over the Internet at the company’s web-site

Distributive CD

The boxed package includes a distributive CD that is in fact a bootable Linux/DOS Recovery CD with auto-run of the Windows installation, thus it can be used as a ready-made solution (see Booting from the Linux/DOS Recovery CD). But if you’re going to run the Windows components, you need to install them first (see Installing the Program under Windows).

If you want to download an update/upgrade of the product, it will be in form of the downloadable installation package as described in Online Distribution).

Online Distribution

Drive Backup 9.0 purchased over the Internet will be in form of an MSI package. After installing the product you can launch the Recovery Media is a CD/DVD disc, a USB flash card or even a floppy disk from which you can boot for maintenance or recovery purposes. Builder to burn the Linux/DOS Recovery CD.

Registration

Paragon Technology GmbH provides a wide range of online services through its web-service - KB (Knowledge Base):

q       Registration of new users;

q       Registration of purchased products for registered users;

q       Available around-the-clock downloading center, where registered users can get product updates/upgrades as well as all the necessary documentation;

q       Downloadable free demo versions and open documentation for all users.

To enter the Knowledge Base, please visit the web-site: http://kb.paragon-software.com/.

To Register as a New User

To register as a new user, simply do the following:

1. Run the Internet browser and visit the page: http://kb.paragon-software.com/;

2. Select Registration in the menu;

3. On the renewed page, select your country and language;

4. Fill out the registration form.

To Register a New Product

If you are a registered user and would like to register Drive Backup 9.0, simply do the following:

1. Click Login in the menu;

2. On the Login page, in the User Name field, enter an E-mail, which you have used for registration;

3. In the Password field enter the password you received with registration confirmation. Click the Submit button;

4. If the user name and password are valid, you will enter the system;

5. In the opened menu click the Product Registration item to see a list of all registered products with a new registration form;

6. Select Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 from the list of products;

7. Type in your product serial number In the DOS partitioning scheme, every hard disk and every partition has a 32-bit serial number represented by an 8-figure hexadecimal value. It is stored in the MBR and its value is assigned when the MBR sector is initialized by Microsoft standard disk managing tools, such as Windows Disk Administrator and the FDISK utility. In fact, a hard disk's serial number is not important for most operating systems and software. It is known that Windows NT, 2000 and XP store its value in the database of assigned drive letters. A partition's serial number is stored in its boot sector (in FAT16, FAT32 and NFTS file systems). Its value is assigned when the partition is formatted. It does not play an important role for most operating systems and software as well. in the Serial Number field. Click the Submit button.

That is all. You will receive a confirmation by E-mail.

How to Download Updates/Upgrades

Downloading of updates/upgrades can be fulfilled in the following way:

1. Enter the Paragon Software web-service;

2. In the menu click the Download Update to see what updates are available for you;

3. Select the desired update and click the Download button.