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</font></span></font></span><b>Enable data loss protection</b>. Mark the checkbox to
make the program work in the <i>fail-safe</i> mode (also referred to as
the <i>data-loss protection</i> mode), which ensures reliability for operations
by maintaining a special journal. In case of a hardware malfunction, power
outage or an OS failure happened in the middle of a data-sensitive operation
(resize, move, merge, redistribute, change <A class="glossterm" href="javascript:kadovTextPopup(this)" id="HotSpot40296">cluster</A><span class=glosstext style="display: 'none';" id=POPUP40296 > is the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated to hold a file. All file systems used by Windows organize hard disks based on clusters, which consist of one or more contiguous sectors. The smaller the cluster size, the more efficiently a disk stores information. If no cluster size is specified during formatting, Windows picks defaults based on the size of the volume. These defaults are selected to reduce the amount of space that is lost and the amount of fragmentation on the volume. A cluster is also called an allocation unit.</span> size, etc.), the program
will ask to insert the bootable Recovery CD and automatically complete
the interrupted operation, thus reviving the corrupted partition.</p>
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</font></span><b>Enable Initial <A class="glossterm" href="javascript:kadovTextPopup(this)" id="HotSpot47265">Backup</A><span class=glosstext style="display: 'none';" id=POPUP47265 > 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.</span> reminders</b>. If this option is marked,
the program will automatically offer to make a backup before accomplishing
any critical partitioning operation, thus minimizing the risk of data
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</font></span></font></span><b>Surface test level.</b> Here you can define the surface
check level to make the program find bad and non-stable sectors before
any write operation and mark them unusable in the <A class="glossterm" href="javascript:kadovTextPopup(this)" id="HotSpot36542">file system metadata</A><span class=glosstext style="display: 'none';" id=POPUP36542 > The servicing structures of a file system, which contain information about allocating files and directories, security information etc, are named the file system metadata. It is invisible for users and regular applications because its accidental modification usually makes a partition unusable.</span>.</p>
<h3><a name=_General_Copy_and></a>General Copy and Backup Options </h3>