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PowerUtilities

User’s Guide

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4.9 MANUAL UPGRADE ....................................................................... 35

CHAPTER 5. HARD DISK ERROR CORRECTION ...........................................36

5.1 BEGINNING TO WORK WITH THE PROGRAM ACRONIS DISKEDITOR36

5.2 MAIN WINDOW OF THE PROGRAM ................................................37

5.3 WORKING IN MULT-IWINDOWS MODE.......................................... 38

5.4 EDIT HARD DISKS.......................................................................... 40

5.5 WRITE BLOCK TO A FILE AND READ FROM A FILE........................ 42

5.6 VIEW.............................................................................................. 43

5.7 SEARCH .........................................................................................44

5.8 WORKING WITH DIFFERENT ENCODINGS...................................... 45

5.9 OTHER ACRONIS DISKEDITOR CAPABILITIES ............................... 46

CHAPTER 6. DISK DATA WIPING .................................................................. 47

6.1 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ON HARD DISKS: STORAGE AND ACCESS

.......................................................................................................47

6.1.1 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: DESTRUCTION..........................................47

6.1.2 DATA DELETION BY MEANS OF AN OPERATING SYSTEMS........................48

6.1.3 GUARANTEED DESTRUCTION OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION: STANDARDS

.................................................................................................................49

6.2 WORKING WITH ACRONIS DRIVECLEANSER SOFTWARE.............. 50

6.2.1 RESULTS OF THE WIPING SCRIPT EXECUTION...........................................55

6.3 CREATING CUSTOM ALGORITHMS ................................................ 56

APPENDIX A. HARD DISK WIPING ALGORITHMS..........................................57

A.1 INFORMATION WIPING ALGORITHMS FUNCTIONING PRINCIPLES.57

A.2 ALGORITHMS USED BY ACRONIS PRIVACYEXPERT AND

DRIVECLEANSER .....................................................................................58

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Acronis PowerUtilities

1.1 About Acronis PowerUtilities

Acronis PowerUtilities, the long-anticipated utilities suite from the technology

leader Acronis, includes four of the most popular system utilities available in

one box:

• Acronis PrivacyExpert, the powerful privacy utility that keeps

computing and surfing history completely private.

• Acronis MigrateEasy, the preeminent hard disk drive migration tool

available today.

• Acronis DiskEditor, the technically advanced tool designed to edit

your hard disk and its partition data manually.

• Acronis DriveCleanser, the proven solution to securely obliterate hard

disks clean.

Compute and Surf Without a Trace!

Acronis PrivacyExpert provides you with complete confidentiality while

working with a stand-alone or networked personal computer (PC). The

confidentiality that Acronis PrivacyExpert delivers allows you to clean-up

trace data and Windows by removing any evidence of your work or Internet

activities.

Unlike other software Acronis PrivacyExpert also increases PC performance

by cleaning out temporary files.

Acronis PrivacyExpert is PC performance improvement as a result of hard

disk cleanup from numerous temporary files.

Upgrade Your Hard Disk Drive in Minutes!

It’s finally time – you’ve put it off as long as possible, but it’s now time to

upgrade to a new larger hard disk drive. And if you’re like most, you’re not

excited. You think you’re in for a large project spanning several days of

tedious work. Luckily for you, there’s Acronis MigrateEasy, the award-winning

solution that migrates all your computer data and system files to a new hard

disk drive in minutes, while keeping all operating systems and applications

fully functional. Why take days upgrading, when you can use Acronis

MigrateEasy and be finished in minutes?

With Acronis MigrateEasy, you don’t have to be a computer scientist to

upgrade to a new hard disk drive. Simply make a few choices when

prompted, and Acronis MigrateEasy will take care of everything

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automatically. It will even show you a preview of the migration can be

completely assured of file and system transfer. Within minutes, your data,

including applications and operating systems, will be safely on your new

large hard disk drive and ready to go!

Hard Disk Problem? Not Any More

Quite often problems can arise with hard disk drives that cannot be solved

without a technically advanced disk editor. Such problems include: back-up,

copying, and/or recover important data areas of a hard drive; search and/or

extraction of information that was removed by accident or lost due to

different soft- and hardware failures or virus attack. Acronis DiskEditor, with

booting up from a diskette, works even if your operating system does not.

Securely Obliterate Your Hard Disks

Getting rid of an old PC, upgrading to a new hard drive, returning a leased

computer, or redeploying a PC within your company? It is truly imperative to

completely destroy all data from the old hard disk.

Your confidential data should not only be safeguarded according to the strict

rules, but it should also be reliably and completely destroyed when needed.

You think you have deleted all the financial, corporate, and personal files,

and even formatted and deleted hard disk partitions – but are they really

gone from the drive? The answer is NO!

Acronis DriveCleanser guarantees the complete destruction of data on

selected partitions and/or entire disks with extremely simple Windows XP-

style interface and straight-forward actions.

1.2 About the Acronis PowerUtilities User’s Guide

This Guide briefly describes the main features of Acronis PowerUtilities suite

components, including the following chapters:

• Chapter 2 «Installing and Starting to Work with Acronis

PowerUtilities» - installing, recovering and removing various suite

components;

• Chapter 3 «Cleaning User Activity Traces From a Computer» -

working with Acronis PrivacyExpert: setting up and executing variants

of complex PC and system cleanup;

• Chapter 4 «Migrating Data to a New Hard Disk» - working with

Acronis MigrateEasy: preparing a hard disk for installation and

automatic migration of the complete data set, including operating

system, applications, documents, etc.;

• Chapter 5 «Hard Disk Error Correction» - working with Acronis

DiskEditor: low-level access to hard disk sectors, searching disk for

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data, operating with sector byte blocks, browsing and editing the

Master Boot Record and boot sectors, File Allocation Table;

• Chapter 6 «Disk Data Wiping» - working with Acronis DriveCleanser:

guaranteed wiping of confidential data on an obsolete or unused disk,

data wiping algorithms;

• Appendix A. «Hard Disk Wiping Algorithms» - the necessity of strict

hard disk data wiping algorithms and the detailed description of

algorithms integrated into Acronis PrivacyExpert and Acronis

DriveCleanser.

1.3 Software Usage Conditions

The conditions of Acronis PowerUtilities software usage are described in the

«License agreement», included in this package. The supplied registration

card is the confirmation of your legal purchase and usage of Acronis

PowerUtilities software. Each registration card has its own unique registration

number.

Based on current legislation the «License agreement» is considered a

contract between a user and a software manufacturer. This contract has the

legal effect and its violation may entail a court examination.

Illegal use and distribution of software will be prosecuted.

1.4 Technical Support

Users of legally purchased and registered copies of Acronis PowerUtilities

receive free technical support from the Acronis Inc. In case you have

problems with installation or using the software, that cannot be solved with

this guide or readme, please e-mail the technical support. You will also need

to send us you the registration number for Acronis PowerUtilities. This

number is written on a registration card, supplied with this package.

Support URL:

http://www.acronis.com/support/

E-mail: support@acronis.com

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Installing and Starting to Work with Acronis PowerUtilities

Chapter 2. Installing and Starting to Work

with Acronis PowerUtilities

2.1 Acronis PowerUtilities System Package

Acronis PowerUtilities system package includes:

• an installation disc,

• this guide,

• license agreement,

• registration card,

• advertising materials.

2.2 Hardware and Software Requirements

To take a full advantage of Acronis PowerUtilities one should have:

• a PC-compatible computer with a Pentium CPU or similar,

• 32 MB RAM,

• VGA monitor,

• a mouse (recommended),

• free disk space for archive files.

2.3 Installing Acronis PowerUtilities Components

To install Acronis PowerUtilities suite component, please, insert the CD-ROM

into the drive, select the needed component and run the installer. Please,

carefully follow all the instructions.

Having answered Acronis PowerUtilities component installation wizard

questions, you will be prompted to create a bootable CD-R/W or diskettes (if

you purchased Acronis PowerUtilities on a bootable CD, you can skip this

step).

2.4 Recovering Acronis PowerUtilities Components

If a component of Acronis PowerUtilities failed to install or run, please,

execute the installation program again. The software will determine that the

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component has already been installed to your PC and prompt you to recover

(update) or completely remove it from the disk.

In the component installation wizard select Recover/update Acronis

<component> and click Next. All necessary files will be copied to your hard

disk again to properly restore software.

2.5 Removing Acronis PowerUtilities Components

To remove a component select Acronis Æ <component> Æ Remove

<component> from the Programs menu. You will see a prompt to confirm

removal of the software from your PC hard disk.

Click Yes to confirm removal. The selected component of Acronis

PowerUtilities suite will be completely removed from the PC hard disk.

2.6 Acronis PowerUtilities Suite Interface

The user interface of Acronis PowerUtilities suite features standard Windows

graphical user interface (GUI) elements. Please pay close attention to setting

and executing clean-up variants.

2.7 Running a Suite Component

To run a suite component select Programs Æ Acronis Æ <component> from

the Start menu. For example, select Programs Æ Acronis Æ Acronis

PrivacyExpert to run Acronis PrivacyExpert.

In some cases you will be prompted to load a component from a bootable

diskette or CD-R/W, that was created during the component installation.

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Cleaning User Activity Traces From a Computer

Chapter 3. Cleaning User Activity Traces

From a Computer

Clean-up of user PC activity traces is performed by Acronis PrivacyExpert, a

part of Acronis PowerUtilities suite.

Acronis PrivacyExpert is controlled from the main window. It is shown on the

screen after selecting Acronis Æ PrivacyExpert Æ PrivacyExpert from the

Programs menu. The Acronis PrivacyExpert main window is a Windows dialog

box split into two parts:

• The right part contains grouped lists of main PC cleanup variants

user may execute with Acronis PrivacyExpert;

• The left part of the window, or sidebar, is an element, that was

introduced in the Windows XP. It contains grouped actions that can

be performed on objects in the right part of the window.

Main window Acronis PrivacyExpert

Clean-up variants are executed, set, scheduled, and renamed with the help

of corresponding items of the main menu, toolbar, sidebar, and context

menus.

3.1 Software Logical Organization: Sections

Logically Acronis PrivacyExpert consists of several parts, each enabling the

user to perform (1) specific variants of complex PC clean-up from PC activity

evidence or (2) clean-up separate system components.

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3.1.1 Complex PC Clean-up

In the One Click Clean-up section, shown by default in the right part of the

Acronis PrivacyExpert main window, the user has access to icons of three

pre-defined complex PC clean-up.

If you need to perform:

1. entire PC clean-up, including Windows system section and sections related

to working on the Internet, execute Entire PC Clean-up;

2. clean-up of sections related to working on the Internet only, execute Internet

Clean-up;

3. Windows system section and user files/folders cleanup, execute System

Cleanup.

Attention! Described clean-up variants are fully set-up by default and ready for

immediate work once Acronis PrivacyExpert is installed. They were specifically created

for the ma

ority of users to take advanta

e of them without understandin

all the

complex settin

details. Any of these variants can be executed by a click of the

mouse!

3.1.2 Cleaning Separate System Components

Internet Components and System Components sections allow you to

perform a quick clean-up of separate system components once you have

taken specific actions on your PC.

For example, you need to clean-up the browser cache from garbage after

visiting a dubious content site and remove its URL from the list of visited

sites, etc. This will not take much time compare to a full, complex clean-up.

If you need to perform:

1. a quick clean-up of only separate components of Windows system

sections and separate user files/folders, execute one of the clean-up

variants from the Components section;

2. a quick clean-up of only separate Windows components, related to

working on the Internet, execute a variant from the Internet

Components section.

Separate components clean-up takes less time than complex cleanup of

entire Windows sections.

All PC clean-up variants as well as separate components cleanup are

executed manually or by schedule and are set universally (see 3.2

«Executing PC Clean-up Manually», 3.5 «Executing Scheduled PC Clean-up»,

3.3 «Clean-up Settings») and differ only by the number of settings..

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3.2 Executing PC Clean-up Manually

There are three ways of manually executing complex PC and component

clean-up.

PC or separate component clean-up, previously selected from the right part

of the Acronis PrivacyExpert main window, can be executed by:

1. mouse-clicking Start Now! in the Acronis PrivacyExpert main window

sidebar;

2. selecting Clean-up Æ Start Now! from the main menu;

3. selecting Start Now! from the task context menu.

If you are unable to see the clean-up variant or components to clean in the

workspace, please scroll down to make it visible.

3.3 Clean-up Settings

3.3.1 Clean-up Settings

By changing clean-up settings, you can set Acronis PrivacyExpert for your

personal needs. For example: you can select an algorithm of guaranteed

data destruction that suits you by speed and reliability, enter the type of

temporary files to clean, directly select browser used, disable separate

component clean-up, etc. This will enable Acronis PrivacyExpert to clean your

PC at maximum speed and performance.

Settings are described below.

3.3.2 Clean-up Settings Editor

Having selected a clean-up variant by mouse-clicking from the right part of

the Acronis PrivacyExpert main window, and then Properties from the sidebar

Edit list, you invoke the settings editor. You can also do this by selecting a

clean-up variant and Clean-up Æ Properties from the main menu. Finally, the

settings editor can be invoked from the context menu of a clean-up variant

by selecting Properties.

3.3.3 Setting PC Component Clean-up with the Editor

Below you can see the opened settings editor featuring two groups of

components to clean that belong to the Entire PC Clean-up. There are two

of such groups:

• Internet Clean-up – this group includes clean-up of sections related to

working in the Internet,

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• System Clean-up – this group includes Windows system section and

user files/folders clean-up.

If you need to set up component clean-up:

1. select the component from the left part of the editor and check the

Enable <component name> box;

The description of a component to clean

2. set component clean-up; for this consecutively select each component

clean-up setting or set-up as necessary (selecting/entering clean-up

algorithm, file type, Internet browser, etc.);

«Files» setting

3. to save your settings click Apply. To discard changes click Cancel.

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If you need to:

1. clean-up Internet cache (last visited pages list) from all files (lists,

elements), downloaded from specific Internet address (site), enter

addresses or their parts separated by semicolon, for example like:

*cnn*;*formula1*

As a result all files downloaded from

www.cnn.com, www.formula1.com

will be deleted.

2. clean-up Internet cache from only specific file types downloaded from

specific Internet address (site), enter addresses separated by semicolon,

for example like:

*cnn*.jpg;*cnn*.gif;*formula1*.jpg;*formula1*.gif

As a result only *.jpg, *.gif files will be deleted, and, for example, *.html

files will remain in cache.

Entering the Internet addresses list, you can browse files (visited pages)

selected according to the list. To do this click

Show URLs. You will see the

window with selected addresses. They will be deleted during at the selected

component clean-up.

3.4.2 System Component Clean-up Settings

«Data Destruction Algorithm» and «Files» settings are common for system

component cleanup.

«Data destruction algorithm» Setting

Having selected «Data Destruction Algorithm» setting you can change the

security level provided by PC clean-up and clean-up speed.

For detailed information about data destruction algorithms see 3.7 «Data

Clean-up Algorithms» and Appendix A. «Hard Disk Wiping Algorithms».

The highest level security algorithms are always very slow, and vice versa,

the quickest algorithms provide less reliability and security.

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Having mouse-clicked a setting name, you will see its available element in

the right part of the editor – the selection of data destruction algorithms.

Selecting a data destruction algorithm

Mouse-clicking the drop-down list in the right part of the editor, you will see

all data destruction algorithms available in Acronis PrivacyExpert.

If you need to ensure:

1. the top security for wiping PC activity evidence, select Peter Gutmann’s

algorithm (35 data destruction cycles), but remember that it’s very slow;

2. the medium level of security at an average speed of clean-up, select VSITR

or Bruce Schneier’s algorithm (7 data destruction cycles);

3. the fast PC clean-up, with less security in mind, select any of 1-3-pass

algorithms (see A.2 «Algorithms Used by Acronis PrivacyExpert and »).

«Files» Setting

The «Files» setting is meant to provide temporary file names to clean with

Acronis PrivacyExpert (from Windows Recycle Bin and from system and user

folders) and is actually a search string.

In the Windows operating system, a search string might represent a full or

partial file name. A search string may contain any alphanumeric symbols,

including comma, * and ? symbols, and can have values similar to the

following :

• *.* – to delete all files from the Recycle Bin – with any file names

and extensions;

• *.doc – to delete files with specific extension – Microsoft document

files in this case;

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• read*.* – to delete all files with any extensions, and names beginning

with «read»;

• read?.* – to delete all files having 5-letter names and any extensions,

names beginning with «read», the fifth letter is random.

For example, the last search string will result in removal of read1.txt,

ready.doc files, but readyness.txt will remain since it has a longer pre-fix

name (excluding the extension).

You can enter several different search strings separated by semicolon, for

example:

*.bak; *.tmp; *.~~~;

and so on. All files with names corresponding to at least one of the search

strings will be deleted.

Attention! The length of a search string with full or partial names is almost infinite!

You may enter any number of filenames or their parts like *.tmp, read?.* separated

by semicolon.

The «Files» setting has four system components to clean: Recycle Bin,

Temporary Files, Custom Folders/Files, and Find Files List.

«Files» setting

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If you need to:

1. delete only specific file types from the Recycle Bin (system or user

folder), enter filenames separated by semicolon, for example, as follows:

*.jpg; *.gif;

2. delete only specific filenames from the Recycle Bin (system or user

folder), enter names, for example, as follows:

read*.txt.

This will result in removal of read!.txt, readme.txt, read1.txt, etc. files,

while read.doc, readme.doc, etc. will remain.

3. delete only specific length filenames from the Recycle Bin (system or

user folder), enter filename, for example, as follows:

read?.txt.

As a result files read!.txt, read1.txt, read2.txt, etc. will be deleted, while

read.doc, readme.doc, etc. will remain.

By entering filenames, you can browse the files selected by Acronis

PrivacyExpert. To do this click

Show Files. You will see a window containing

selected files. These files are set for destruction when you invoke the clean-up.

«Computers» Setting

The «Computers» setting is meant to clean-up the registry from search

strings for finding computers in the local network. These strings keep

information on what interested you in the network. So they should also be

deleted to maintain full confidentiality.

«Computers» setting is the same as «Files». «Computers» setting is a string

that can contain any number of full or partial computer names separated by

semicolons. The deletion of computer search strings is based on a comparison

with the «Computers» setting according to Windows rules (see ««Files»

Setting»).

If you simply need to delete all local network computer search strings (suitable

for the most cases):

1. select Find Computer List;

2. check the Enable the Find Computer List cleaning box;

3. select «Computers» setting; leave its default value unchanged – *.

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As a result all computer search strings will be deleted from the registry.

«Computers» setting

On entering «Computers» setting value you can browse the search strings

kept in the registry selected by Acronis PrivacyExpert. To do this click

Show

Computers. You will see the window with full and partial computer names

searched for in the network. They will be deleted at the registry clean-up.

3.5 Executing Scheduled PC Clean-up

Each PC clean-up variant of Acronis PrivacyExpert can be executed either

manually or automatically as scheduled.

Having set PC clean-up as a daily procedure, to be performed for example, at

the end of workday before powering the PC off, you can be sure that all

evidence of your PC and Internet activity will be reliably removed each day.

Acronis PrivacyExpert features a built-in scheduler.

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3.5.1 Invoking the Scheduler

Having mouse-clicked a cleanup variant in the right part of the Acronis

PrivacyExpert main window, and selected Schedule in the sidebar Clean-up

list, you invoke the scheduler. You can also do this by selecting a clean-up

variant and Clean-up Æ Schedule from the main menu. Finally, you can invoke

the scheduler from the clean-up variant context menu-selecting Schedule.

Scheduler

3.5.2 Scheduler Settings

Scheduler provides the user with flexible capabilities for automatic execution

of any PC clean-up variant.

If you need to perform automatic PC clean-up:

1. daily at specific time, only during workdays or periodically – over several

days, set the switch on the 1

scheduler page to Daily;

2. weekly at specific time and weekdays, say Tuesday and Friday, or

periodically – in two or three weeks, etc., set the switch on the 1

scheduler page to Weekly;

3. monthly at specific time and day; the ability to execute clean-up on, for

example, the <first, second, third, fourth, last> <weekday> (Monday,

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday), set the switch

on the 1

scheduler page to Monthly;

4. once at specific time (hours: minutes) and date (day-month-year), set

the switch on the 1

scheduler page to One time only;

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5. in all of the above click Next and set additional execution settings on the

scheduler page.

If you need automatic PC clean-up:

1. at PC start-up, set the switch on the 1

scheduler page to When my

computer starts;

2. at shutdown, the switch on the 1

scheduler page to When my computer

shuts down.

If you need to disable automatic scheduled execution:

1. invoke the scheduler again;

2. on the 1

scheduler page set the switch to Disable scheduled clean-up.

3.6 Renaming Clean-up Variants

Enabling/disabling separate component clean-up and selecting clean-up

settings, you set-up and customize your PC clean-up variant(s) as needed.

That said, you may want to rename a variant to better represent PC clean-up

contents.

If you want to rename a PC (or separate component) clean-up variant you can do

this by following one of three methods:

1. mouse-clicking Rename on the sidebar;

2. selecting Clean-up Æ Rename from the main menu;

3. selecting Rename from the context menu of a PC (component) cleanup

variant.

As a result of any of these actions you will see the Rename Item window

enabling you to enter a new name for PC or component clean-up variant.

3.7 Data Clean-up Algorithms

Unlike most software providing the confidentiality of PC and Internet activity,

Acronis PrivacyExpert not only deletes Windows sections (files, folders,

registry components, etc.), it also performs a thorough low-level clean-up of

hard disk sectors containing Windows components selected for cleaning.

Trace Windows data and files are cleaned with the help of integrated data

destruction algorithms. Acronis PrivacyExpert provides the user with eight

algorithms. Five of the eight meet the most popular national data destruction

standards:

(1) American: DoD 5220.22-M,

(2) American: NAVSO P-5239-26 (RLL),

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7. clean the last visited pages and last used documents list;

8. delete the evidence of searching for files on connected disks, for

networked computers, for information on the Internet;

9. clean Internet cache;

10. delete cookies

11. delete downloaded components;

12. clean Internet history and last visited pages list.

Entire PC clean-up is executed by a mouse-click on its name in the right part

of the main window (for other execution methods see sections 3.2, 3.5).

3.8.2 System Clean-up

If you need to wipe the evidence of your PC activity from its system sections,

use the System clean-up. Executing it allows you to:

1. clean Windows registry from user activity traces;

2. delete temporary files from standard Windows folders;

3. delete any file types from user folders on any disks connected to a PC;

4. clean Windows Recycle Bin;

5. clean Windows swap file;

6. clean hard disk free space;

7. clean last used documents list;

8. delete the evidence of searching for files on connected disks, for

networked computers, for information on the Internet.

System cleanup can be executed by mouse-clicking the cleanup variant in the

right part of the main window (for other execution methods see sections 3.2, 3.5).

3.8.3 Internet Clean-up

If you need to wipe the evidence of your Internet activity, use Internet

cleanup. This variant allows you:

1. clean-up Internet cache;

2. delete cookies;

3. delete downloaded components;

4. clean Internet history and last visited pages list.

Internet clean-up can be executed by mouse-clicking its name in the right

part of the main window (for other execution methods see sections 3.2, 3.5).

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3.9 A Fast Cleanup of Separate System Components

Acronis PrivacyExpert enables you to perform a fast clean-up of separate system

components. For example, you can clean just the Last Visited Pages or cookies.

A separate component is cleaned faster than a complex PC clean-up.

Separate component clean-up is performed from Internet Components and

System Components sections (see 3.1.2 «Cleaning Separate System

Components»). Setting up and executing the clean-up is similar to complex

clean-up set-up and execution.

Please note that the detailed description of Acronis PrivacyExpert actions for

each specific component clean-up case (how and what files and folders,

system or registry sections are cleaned from what data types) are included in

the .pdf file on the installation CD-ROM.

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Migrating Data to a New Hard Disk

Chapter 4. Migrating Data

to a New Hard Disk

You can migrate your data from the old hard disk to a new one with the help

of Acronis MigrateEasy, a part or the Acronis PowerUtilities suite.

4.1 Preparing for Migration

To use the Acronis MigrateEasy application effectively you have to know at

least the basics of hard disks and how the computer works with them. Below

we will provide only the most necessary information, without covering the

technical details of inner structure of hard disks.

If you have difficulties with understanding what the application does to hard

disks, please refer to Appendices at the end of this Guide. Those appendices

contain both information on hard disk organization and on how data are

stored on it.

At the end of the Guide you will find a Glossary with explanations of terms

from this Guide that may be unknown or unclear to you.

4.2 Hard Disk Partitions and File Systems.

It would be quite inconvenient if you could only access the entire hard disk,

so a mechanism was created that allows you to divide the hard disk into

several parts for storing different types data or operating systems. This is

done by partitioning hard disks into partitions.

An operating system provides the user with ability to work with data by

supporting some type of file system on a partition. Most operating systems

support several file systems. For example, Windows 98/Me support FAT16

and FAT32 file systems, Windows NT/2000/XP support both FAT16/32 and

NTFS file systems. The popular Linux operating system supports Ext2, Ext3,

and ReiserFS (and some other) file systems.

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Acronis MigrateEasy works only with hard disks and the partitions contained on

them. This means that:

1. You will never see files, nor folders while working with MigrateEasy, but

only hard disks, their partitions, and the properties of both (disk

numbers, letters, capacities and sizes, etc);

2. When moving all your data to a new disk, MigrateEasy works not with

files and folders, but with more basic disk structure elements.

For more details on hard disk partitions and their usa

e by operatin

systems, see

the Guide Appendix in the .pdf file on the installation CD-ROM.

4.3 Installing a Hard Disk on Your Computer

To upgrade the disk subsystem of your computer you need to install the new

disk in the PC case and plug it into power supply block and mother board.

Before installing and fixing the hard disk you have to install a jumper on a

special connector of the disk board to which power and data cables attach.

Usually the jumper on your old disk is installed in the Master position. To

upgrade the disk first you have to install the new disk as Slave and later

position the jumper based on how you are going to use it (Master if the disk

will be the boot disk, or Slave if it will be just an extra storage).

More details of hard disk hardware installation can be found in the Guide Appendix in

the .pdf file on the installation CD-ROM.

4.4 BIOS Set-up

It is not enough to properly position jumpers on the hard disk and connect it

to power supply and data cables, you must also properly configure your hard

disk in BIOS (Basic Input/Output System).

You can enter the BIOS setup program by pressing the key combination that

is displayed right after you turn on your computer.

Hard disks can be configured in the Standard CMOS Set-up section of the

BIOS set-up menu. If you have set the hard disk jumper to Slave and have

connected the data cable to the Primary IDE plug of the motherboard, it may

only be necessary to set the TYPE and MODE parameters for the Primary

Slave disk to Auto (this information is usually sufficient for BIOS to properly

detect and configure modern hard disks.)

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After the new disk is configured in BIOS, save the settings.

For more details about BIOS set-up and possible errors (including error messa

es)

see the Guide Appendix in the .pdf file on the installation CD-ROM.

4.5 Starting Work with Acronis MigrateEasy

To start a migration process under Windows, select Start Æ Programs Æ

Acronis Æ MigrateEasy Æ Acronis MigrateEasy.

If you do not have a Windows operating system installed, you should create

a bootable diskette or CD-R/W, and re-boot your PC from it, to start a

migration process. Further steps will be the same.

All operations with hard disks are done according to scenarios that are

created as a result of user’s choices and actions. Before you actually run a

scenario, no real changes are made to the existing configuration. You can

return to previous stages of scenario creation and change the parameters at

any stage of the program.

The program can work only if two or more hard disks are installed on your

computer. This means that if you have only one hard disk, you get the

following message:

The next Wizard page is the page that actually starts the work on

transferring data to the new hard disk. Let us first describe the main

scenarios of working with MigrateEasy.

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4.6 Migration Scenarios

Before starting the program, you have to know for sure, what you can expect

from it. Below we describe the details of each of possible work scenarios.

Here we will list only the main scenarios and their outcomes.

4.6.1 Auto Upgrade

The results of auto upgrade scenario are as follows:

1. An exact copy of the source disk is created on the destination disk. It

means that literally everything is copied:

• Disk partitions, file system types, volume labels;

• All folders and files, installed operating systems and applications.

If the capacity of the new disk is larger than that of the old one,

partitions from the old disk are transferred to the new one with

proportional increase in size.

2. Destination disk is made bootable (if of course the source disk was

bootable in the first place) and active.

3. All data remains intact on the source disk!

4.6.2 Manual Upgrade

Manual upgrade provides you with more flexibility. You can choose how to use the

new disk and what to do with data on the old hard disk drive.

1. First you can choose from one of two main ways to configure the new

hard disk:

• The disk is installed as a boot disk;

• The disk is installed as additional data storage.

2. Next you have to define the way to transfer partitions and data.

MigrateEasy offers you the following options:

• Partitions and data are transferred «as is»;

• Disk space on the new disk is distributed proportionally among the

partitions that are transferred from the old disk;

• Manual.

3. You can also choose what to do with the old disk:

• Leave partitions (and data) on the old disk;

• Delete partitions (and data) from the old disk.

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If you decide to transfer partitions to the new disk and delete them from the

old one, you can repartition the old disk to use it for some other purposes.

Transferring partitions «as is» means that for each partition of the old disk

an exact copy is created on the new disk, i.e. the type, size, file system, and

label of the partition remain the same.

«Disk space on the new disk is distributed proportionally» means that if the

capacity of the new disk is larger than that of the old one, a copy is created

on the new disk for each of partitions on the old disk, but the size of each

partition is increased proportionally to the ratio between the new and old

disk capacities, so that the partitions occupy all the destination disk.

4.7 Auto Upgrade

The automatic upgrade will make an exact copy of your old hard disk by

proportionally resizing all partitions to match your new hard disk size. This

function is suitable for most users.

You get to the Upgrade Mode page right after the welcome page.

Select upgrade mode (Auto/Manual)

Switch the radio button on this page to the Auto position and press the

Next button.

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Then you must specify which disk the data is transferred from.

Select source hard disk

Markings on this page help you to understand which disk should be the

source and which the destination one (check for disk numbers, volume

labels, partitions and file systems on disks).

In the lower part of the window you see the graphical representation (as

rectangles of various sizes) of the partitions of the selected hard disk, and

also the unallocated space. Along with the number of the disk you see some

additional information: partition number, volume label (e.g. SYSTEM), file

system type (e.g. FAT16 or FAT32), size of partition in gigabytes (GB).

Partition types (Primary and Logical) and unallocated space are shown in

different colors. All this information prevents you from being confused as to

where from and where to you are transferring your data.

Select the disk to which the data will be transferred on the Destination disk

page.

On this page you cannot select the disk that you have designated as the

source disk on the previous page, so it is grayed.

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