EASEUS Todo Backup. Version 1.1

EASEUS Todo Backup Version 1.1 1

Table of Contents Welcome...3 About EASEUS Todo Backup...3 Starting EASEUS Todo Backup...3 Getting started...4 Hardware requirements...4 System requirements...4 Supported file systems...4 Supported hard disk types...4 Using EASEUS Todo Backup...5 EASEUS Todo Backup basic...5 EASEUS Todo Backup main window...5 Selecting an operation...5 Getting help...5 Operations...6 Backup...6 Restore...7 Clone Disk...9 Mount...10 Unmount...10 Check image file...11 View...11 Display/Hide parts of the interface...11 Tool...12 Option...12 Priority...12 Compress...12 Archive Protection...12 Image Splitting...13 Temp File Setting...13 Create bootable CD...13 Support...14 Technical Support...14 Troubleshooting...15 2

Welcome About EASEUS Todo Backup EASEUS Todo Backup is comprehensive backup software, which not only provides convenient user-interface to simplify your tasks but also enables you to backup and restore an image of your partitions or entire hard disk. EASEUS Todo Backup enables users to backup and restore data in multiple ways for their data security. At the same time, for user-friendly operation, EASEUS Todo Backup also provides journaling. EASEUS Todo Backup enables users to reproduce the saved state of the partitions or entire hard disk. Through the use of backup operation, users expect to retain their state of preservation of the whole hard disk or partition, and then through the restore operation, the saved state of the partitions or entire hard disk can be zoning restored to its state of preservation at the prior time. EASEUS Todo Backup also allows user clone a hard disk, in order to replacing the old one or transferring to another one. Here is a main function list of EASEUS Todo Backup: Backup Restore Check image file Mount Unmount Clone Disk Starting EASEUS Todo Backup You can launch EASEUS Todo Backup from Windows start menu. Click Start > Programs > EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 > EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1. 3

Getting started Hardware requirements EASEUS Todo Backup requires a computer with at least X86 or compatible CPU with main frequency 500 MHz, a standard PC system with mouse, keyboard and color monitor, and the capability of the RAM memory equal or larger than 512MB, CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW drive for bootable media creation. System requirements The OS (operating system) for EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 requires Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008,Windows 7. EASEUS Todo Backup does not support dynamic disk, GPT disk. Supported file systems EASEUS Todo Backup supports the following file systems: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS. Supported hard disk types and Compact Disc types IDE, SATA, SCSI, USB removable disk, and Firewire disk are all supported by EASEUS Todo Backup. The smallest capability is 2 GB and the largest is 1.5 TB. EASEUS Todo Backup can support 32 disks at most. CD-R/RW DVD-R/RW DVD+R/RW are all supported by EASEUS Todo Backup. 4

Using EASEUS Todo Backup EASEUS Todo Backup basic EASEUS Todo Backup main window The main window includes an action panel with a shortcut for common tasks and an overview of pending operations and operating zone. The menu bar and a toolbar appear at the top of the window. The menu bar offers you the accesses to all of EASEUS Todo Backup's features. The toolbar gives you a quick access to commonly used options. When the pointer is over a toolbar, the status bar shows what the button does. You may customize the main screen by clicking commands on the View menu. Selecting an operation You may select an operation by using the action panel, toolbar, and menu bar or in the main operating zone. In the main operating zone, there are three options: Backup Backup your partitions or entire hard drive into an image archive to retain their state. Restore Restore from the image archive to its previous archived state. Clone Disk Clone a hard disk to replace the old one or transfer to another one. Getting help EASEUS Todo Backup Help provides - complete and profound information about the features as well as step-by-step instructions for specific tasks. To get Help, click Help > Contents on the menu bar in the EASEUS Todo Backup main window. The EASEUS Todo Backup Help is organized into books and pages. Each book focuses on a different aspect of EASEUS Todo Backup, so you can quickly locate the information you need. When you double-click a topic, the information will be displayed in the right window. You can click the key tab to use keywords searching for a topic. Context-Sensitive Help 5

Click Help in the lower right corner of a dialog or press <F1> to display context-sensitive help for the dialog. Operations Backup This function can backup one or more partition(s) to an image file. Main functions: 1. Backup single partition. 2. Backup multi-partitions on the same disk. 3. Backup multi-partitions on different disks. Create Backup Wizard: Please click Backup in the main interface, or select Operation > Backup from the menu bar, tool bar or action panel to start Create Backup Wizard ; our product will scan and list all the existing partition(s) and disk(s) information in this step. Follow the Backup Wizard steps: Partitions Selection: Select one or more partition(s) as the source partition(s); you can select multi-partitions from multi-disks as the source partitions. Here is an option Create an image using the sector-by-sector approach. If you use this mode, our product will create an image completely keep the same status with source partition(s). Sector-by-sector backup: Sector-by-sector backup is to backup all sectors to the image file even though there is no data on the source partition. Sector-by-sector backup will be operated automatically when there is bad sector on the source partition. Sector-by-sector backup can also be manually set up if necessary. Be aware of that the sector-by-sector backup will produce large imaged file. Backup Archive Location: Select the destination position to save the image and input a name for the image; the default image name is like MyBack(*). If you have backuped before, the default path is as the same as last time. Please be sure the path already exists, and keep enough free space for image storage there, or our product will report an error. Note: Please save the backup archive file to different partition or hard drive, especially the removable hard drive. If you save the file on to the original place, you cannot restore the image when this original partition is corrupted. Choose Backup Options: Here are two options: Use Default options and Set the option manually. 6

If you select Set the option manually, you can set the Priority, Compress, Archive protection and Image Splitting options. Select Backup Mode: You may change the backup priority to gain different resources. Compress the backup image with different level. Protect the image with a password. Split the image to a smaller size according to your device. Note: You may change the default mode in Tool > Option firstly, whenever you get to this step, you may skip and continue the following steps. Priority Compress Archive protection Image Splitting Backup Archive Creation Summary: This window displays the list of operations which will be performed. Click Proceed to start the backup creation task. The task progress will be shown in the special window. You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel or use the Back buttons to change the task. Operation progress: There will be the process bars of current operation progress and total progress. After all the operations finished, there will be a pop-up window with the result notification. Restore Main functions: 1. Recover single partition. 2. Restore all the partitions of the disk to another. 3. Recover the MBR. Restore Data Wizard: Click on the Restore in the main window or select Operation > Restore from the menu bar, tool bar or action panel to run Restore Wizard. Our product will scan and list all the existing partition(s) and disk(s) information in this step. Follow the Restore Wizard steps: Backup Archive Selection: In this step, you need to select an image you want to recover; once you select an image, our product will show the comments and partition(s) contained in this image Note: If there is a password protection when creating this image, you need to input the password firstly. Partition or Disk to Restore: This step is to select a partition from the image to restore; there will be a partitions list; you can select a partition, a disk or MBR to restore. 7

If you have used Create an image using the sector-by-sector approach option when creating this image, there will be an option Sector-by-sector restoration. Restore MBR and Track 0 Disk Selection: In the step of Restore Partition or Disk in Restore Data Wizard, if you select the MBR and Track 0 and click Next, this window will come up; select a destination disk which you want to restore the MBR and Track 0 to; click Next, there will be the operation list to proceed. Restore Partition Restored Partition Location: Select a partition which you want to restore the backup to; Restored Partition Type: There are three options: Active, Primary and Logical. When you choose either of the options, you will see a description. You may select the special partition type to your requirement. Restored Partition Size: Generally, the actual partition size is not as the same as the backup partition, but you may skip this step and just click Next to use the default solution. You can also resize the target partition before restore. To do this, you may Change the number of the three edit boxes in the center. Put the cursor on the graphical bar and then hold down (or press down) the left mouse button to drag and move. Note: If you use 'Sector-by-sector restoration' mode, you couldn't resize it; Logical Drive Letter: You can assign a drive letter for restored partition here or not; There is a description for each assignment. Note: If the partition doesn t have drive letter, it cannot be accessed. Restore a hard disk Restored Hard Disk Location: In the step of Partition or Disk to Restore, this window will come up after you select a source disk to restore; Select the destination disk in this window, click 'Next' to generate the operations list then you can click Proceed to take effect. Restore Summary 8

The Restore summary contains a list of briefly described operations to be performed Click Back to make any changes. Click Proceed to start restore. Click Cancel to cancel the procedure and quit to the main program window. Operation progress: When the restoring process is completed, you will see a dialog box telling you the final result. You may just click OK to accomplish the whole task. Clone Disk Main Function: Clone the whole partitions of a disk to another one. Clone Wizard: Click the Disk Clone item in the main window or select Operation > Clone from the menu bar, tool bar or action panel to run Disk Clone Wizard. Our product will scan and list all the existing partition(s) and disk(s) information in this step. Follow the Clone Disk Wizard steps: Source Hard Disk: You can determine the source disk information provided in this window (disk number, capacity, label, partition and file system information). If the program finds only one hard disk, you will not be able to continue to the next step. Select the source disk and click Next to continue. Destination Hard Disk After you select the source disk, you have to select the destination hard disk where the disk information will be copied. The previously selected source disk becomes grayed-out and disabled for selection. Select the destination disk and click Next to continue. Hard Disk Drives Structure: You will see the window graphically illustrating information (as rectangles) about the source disk (partitions and unallocated space) and the destination disk layout. Along with the disk number, some additional information is provided: disk capacity, label, partition and file system information. Cloning Summary: The disk cloning summary contains a list of briefly described operations to be performed Click Back to make any changes. Click Proceed to start disk cloning. Click Cancel to cancel the procedure and quit to the main program window. Operation progress: When the cloning process is completed, you will see a dialog box of the final result. You may just click OK to accomplish the whole task. 9

Mount To browse and restore individual files, EASEUS Todo Backup can connect images as virtual drives, and allow you to access them as though they were a physical drive. This means that: A new disk with its own drive letter will appear in the drives list Using Windows Explorer and other file managers, you will be able to see image files as if they were located on a physical disk or partition The connected virtual drive will be read-only and you won't be able to change anything in it. To mount an image archive: Mount Wizard: Click on the Mount Image item in the main program window or select Operation > Mount or in toolbar and action panel. Follow the Mount Image Wizard steps: Image Selection: Select an image file you would like to mount in the tree below. You will be able to assign temporary drive letters to partition backup from the archive file. Note: When you select the backup archive, it will show all the volumes of the backup archive in the right list. You can select one or more volumes to mount and assign the drive letter(s). If the selected archive is password-protected, please enter the password and click the Confirm button. Selecting Partitions to Connect and Letter Assignment: You must select a partition or more to connect as a virtual disk. Note that you cannot connect the entire disk. To select a partition and assign a letter to it: Check the corresponding box of the partition Select a letter to be assigned to the connected disk from the drop-down list Image Mounting Summary: Image mounting summary contains a single operation to be performed. Click Back to do any changes. Click Proceed to connect the image as a virtual disk. Click Cancel to abort image connection. Unmount We recommend that you unmount the virtual disk after all necessary operations are finished, as maintaining virtual disks takes considerable system resources. If you do not, the virtual disk will disappear after your computer is turned off. To unmount a virtual disk: Unmount Wizard Select Operation > Unmount Select the drives you want to unmount and click Next to continue. 10

Follow the Unmount Image Wizard steps: Unmounting Summary Unmounting summary window contains a single operation to be performed. Click Back to do any changes. Click Proceed to unmount image archive, which is connected as a logical drive Click Cancel to cancel the procedure and quit to the main program window Check image file You can check the integrity of your backup images to ensure that your archives are not damaged. Check image Wizard Select Operation > Check image file Select Check in toolbar or action panel Follow the Check image Wizard steps: Backup Archive Selection After the Backup Archive Validation Wizard is launched, please input the absolute image archive path or select from the tree. After you select the backup archive, it will show all the volumes of the backup archive in the right list. You can select one or more volumes to verify. Note: If the selected archive is password-protected, please enter the password and click the Confirm button. Validation Summary Validation Summary window contains a single operation to be performed. Clicking Proceed will launch the validation procedure. After the validation is complete, you will see the results window. You can cancel the validation procedure by clicking Cancel. Operation progress: When the checking process is completed, you will see a dialog box telling you the final result. You may just click OK to accomplish the whole task. View Display/Hide parts of the interface To display or hide parts of the interface, you can click View > Toolbar or View > Action Panel. A check mark is displayed next to the option name when the option is displayed. To hide an interface item, please repeat the step above. 11

Option Description Toolbar The toolbar gives you quick access to frequently used commands in EASEUS Todo Backup. Action Panel Click Action Panel to view a list of tasks and operations you can perform. Tool Option Priority The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process. Decreasing the backup priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks. Increasing the backup priority might speed up the backup process due to taking resources from the other currently running processes. The result depends on total CPU usage and other factors. You can set up the backup process priority: Low - the backup process will run slower, but it will not influence other process running on your computer. Normal - set by default. The backing up will be processed with normal speed, but the backup process will influence other process running on your computer. High -The backup process will run with maximal speed, but the performance of other processes will be reduced. Compress A backup file can be compressed. By default, there is no compression for backups. You can choose the compression level for a backup archive: Normal - the recommended data compression level (set by default) High - higher image file compression level, takes more time to create a backup archive. Maximum - maximum backup archive compression, but takes a long time to create. Note: The optimal data compression level depends on the types of file stored in the archive. For example, even maximum compression will not significantly reduce the archive size if the archive contains essentially compressed files, like.jpg,.pdf or.mp3 Archive Protection A backup file can be protected with a password. By default, there is no password protection for backups. To protect the backup archive Enter the password for the backup archive into the password field. A password should consist at least of eight symbols and contain both letters (in the upper and lower cases preferably) and numbers to make it more difficult to guess. 12

Retype the previously entered password into the Confirm password field Note: If you try to restore data from a password-protected archive, the program will ask for the password in a special window, allowing access only to authorized users. Image Splitting Images can be split into several files to fit the type of the storage medium. You may choose a preset solution for various devices, which mostly depends on the file system on the destination storage medium. You may also either explicitly specify the split size to automatically split every backup image to volumes of a particular size. If you specify the size manually, the minimal size is 50MB. Temp File Setting Temp files may be created when operating. Errors might occur when operating sector-by-sector backup or clone. Please change the default setting of Temporary File Path under Option to other disks except the source disk. Or it will fail to backup or clone. Create bootable CD EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 Media Builder allows you to create a bootable CD/DVD. If you download EASEUS Todo Backup through the web, you can create bootable media with the EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 Media Builder. To do this, you need a blank CD/DVD-R/RW. To create bootable media: Run EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 Media Builder wizard by selecting Tools > Create Bootable Disk. You can also run Bootable Media Builder without loading EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 by selecting Programs > EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 > Bootable Media Builder from the Start menu. Then you can create bootable CD or DVD via the step by step instruction. Bootable Media Builder Selection The Media Builder will give you a specific list of all available DVD/CD-R/RW drives. Once you decide which drive to be used to create bootable CD/DVD, choose it and click "Proceed" to continue the task. Completion of Creating Process When the creating process is completed, you will see a dialog box telling you the final result. You may just click OK to accomplish the whole task. Note: EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 bootable CD does not support Mount, Unmount, Backup or Select the folder function. So please do these operations via Windows. 13

Support Technical Support If there's any doubt after reading this guide, you can seek help via: Our website is: http://www.todo-backup.com Email: mailto:support@todo-backup.com We will endeavor to offer you the best support! 14

Troubleshooting Why cannot I clone it to a smaller disk when there are some errors on your source disk? The following notice indicates that there are some partition errors on source disk. You can view the error partition when you come to Select partition and hard disk page. To finish the clone, you need to use CHKDSK /F under Windows to fix the errors. If it fails to fix the errors or you want to keep the present status, then you need to prepare a destination disk larger or the same size as the source disk to finish the clone. Why does it fail to boot after restoring or cloning disk in Windows 2000/XP/2003? Your windows may fail to boot if the two parameters of the destination disk differ with these of the source disk after restoring or cloning disk, because the booting of Windows 2000/XP/2003 relies on the two physical parameters of disk, heads and sector numbers per track. In this case, you can boot the Windows by modifying the parameters of the destination disk to be identical with these of source disk via BIOS setup utility. Please see main board instructions for the specific modification. Why cannot I boot from the destination disk after restoring or cloning disk in Windows? 1. It may happen if you restore or clone the disk containing the Operating System to the destination disk with different interface. (The disk with SCSI interface is more likely to have this problem.) In this situation, you can restore it to the disk with same interface. 2. It may happen if you restore the Operating System to the destination disk with different heads and sector numbers per track. In this situation, you can restore it to the disk with the same disk parameters as the source disk, or please see Why does it fail to boot after restoring or cloning disk in Windows 2000/XP/2003? Why cannot I boot from the destination disk after restoring or cloning disk by bootable CD? 1. It may happen if you restore or clone the disk containing the Operating System to the destination disk with different interface. (The disk with SCSI interface is more likely to have this problem.) In this situation, you can restore it to the disk with same interface. 2. It may happen if you restore the Operating System to the destination disk with different heads and sector numbers per track. In this situation, you can restore it to the disk with the same disk 15

parameters as the source disk, or please see Why does it fail to boot after restoring or cloning disk in Windows 2000/XP/2003? 3. It may happen if you install the Windows on a logical partition, and the capacity of the source disk is larger than that of the destination disk. In this situation, you can restore the Operating System to a disk larger than the source disk or the source disk. Why cannot I boot from the destination disk after restoring partition by bootable CD? 1. It may happen if you restore the partition to other position instead of original position. Please restore the partition to its original position. 2. It may happen if you restore the Windows Operating System installed on a logical partition to another disk. Please restore the logical partition with Windows Operating System installed to its original position. 3. It may happen if you restore or clone the disk containing the Operating System to the destination disk with different interface. (The disk with SCSI interface is more likely to have this problem.) In this situation, you can restore it to the disk with same interface. 4. It may happen if you restore the Operating System to the destination disk with different heads and sector numbers per track. In this situation, you can restore it to the disk with the same disk parameters as the source disk, or please see Why does it fail to boot after restoring or cloning disk in Windows 2000/XP/2003? 5. It may happen if you restore the partition to another disk without restoring MBR. Please restore MBR while restoring to another disk. 6. It may happen if you move the system partition by partition manager software after backing up it, and then perform the restore operation. In this case, Please delete the partition and try again. Why cannot I boot from the destination disk after restoring partition in Windows 2000? Our software cannot guarantee a successful boot in Windows 2000 if you restore a partition of an Operating System later than Windows 2000. Please restore it in the Operating System later than Windows 2000. Why cannot I choose the partition smaller than the source partition while restoring by bootable CD? EASEUS Todo Backup can only restore to the destination partition with the same size of the original partition by bootable CD. If larger than the original partition, the selected destination partition will be reduced to as large as the original partition. Please select a partition larger than or equal to the source partition to perform restore. 16

Can it be restored if the Operating System is installed on RAID or the backup image files of partition/disk are saved on RAID by creating bootable CD? No, EASEUS Todo Backup bootable CD cannot. 1. The Operating System cannot be restored if it is installed on RAID disk. 2. Please copy the backup image files to Non-RAID disk and then restore. Why does the software indicate insufficient space in the backup process? 1. It may appear if you appoint a partition smaller than the partition you need to backup as the temporary directory. Please select a larger partition as the temporary directory. 2. It may appear if you backup a partition by sector-by-sector. However, the capacity of all the other partitions is smaller than the partition. Please insert a new disk and select a larger partition as the temporary directory. Does EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 support Dynamic Disk or GPT disk? No, EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 does not support Dynamic Disk or GPT disk. Why cannot I restore the Operating System under Windows Operating System? EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 can only restore the system partition by creating bootable CD. Please restore the system partition by creating bootable CD. Why is the restore point of Operating System unavailable or some registration information of software activation lost after restoring or cloning disk in Windows? EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1 cannot restore or clone the DiskSignature of the source disk to the destination disk. However, the restore point of Operating System and some registration information of software activation rely on the DiskSignature of the source disk. Please restore or clone the disk again by creating a bootable CD. Why did the software fail to work normally? The minimum resolution for EASEUS Todo Backup to work normally is 800*600. 17

When the DPI of operating system (Display Properties > Settings > Advanced > General in XP or Control Panel > Personalization > Display > Set custom text size (DPI) in Windows 7) is more than 100, the high screen resolution of your monitor is required and it should meet the following conditions: horizontal resolution is no less than 800*DPI/100; vertical resolution is no less than 600*DPI/100. Say, if the DPI is 120, the minimum requirement of screen resolution is 960*720. Why is the disk offline after clone in Windows 7? The two disks are identical to Windows after clone via bootable CD. Windows 7 will automatically make one of two identical disks offline. To use the disk, please make it online by manual, but please note that if there is an operating system on the disk, it may fail to boot from it. We suggest you disconnect one of the two disks from the computer after clone. Why does the Bit Locker partition come into normal one? The unlocked Bit Locker partition is the same as normal partition, so it will be a normal partition after backup and restore or clone. If you want to keep the attribute of the Bit Locker partition, please backup or clone it before unlocking. 18