## Extra Functionality

This chapter describes the supplementary functionality available in the program.

### View Partition/Hard Disk Properties

The program enables to obtain in-depth information on the properties of hard disks and partitions. Besides the general information, such as capacity, used space or file system type it provides the possibility to get info on hard disk geometry, cluster size, exact partition location, etc.

To get properties on a partition/hard disk, please do the following:

1. Choose a partition/hard disk on the Disk Map.

2. Select in the Main Menu: Partition/Hard Disk > Properties…

| There are other ways to start up this function, please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject.

In the opened dialog information will be grouped according to its properties, thus by clicking tabs you can get information you need.

### Volume Explorer

Volume Explorer is a special tool to browse and export contents of the local mounted/unmounted volumes formatted to FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2FS, Ext3FS, Ext4FS file systems. Besides it enables to access Paragon backups as regular folders to explorer their contents or to retrieve certain files.

To launch the Volume Explorer you should click Disk View tab in the Explorer Bar and then choose Volume Explorer:

Call the popup menu for the selected file/folder (right click of the mouse button) to export it to some other location (local or network drive, etc.).

Available operation scenarios:

· Restoring separate files and folders from a backup

### Mount Partition

The program enables to assign or remove drive letters of existing formatted partitions.

#### Assign Drive Letter

In order to mount a partition you should take the following steps:

1. Select a partition on the Disk Map.

2. Select in the Main Menu: Partition > Assign Drive Letter…

| There are other ways to start up this function, please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject.

3. Specify a drive letter for the selected partition. Initially the program suggests some consistent value for this parameter. So you may just press the Yes button to confirm the operation.

However you can manually define the required letter by selecting it from the pull-down list of available drive letters.

4. The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation.

#### Remove Drive Letter

In order to un-mount a partition you should take the following steps:

1. Select a partition on the Disk Map.

2. Select in the Main Menu: Partition > Remove Drive Letter.

| There are other ways to start up this function, please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject.

3. The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation.

| Modifying drive letter of the system partition will result in inability to boot the operating system. After having processed partitions with installed software, some programs may not run properly.

### Test Surface

The program enables to test surface of existing partitions and blocks of free space for bad or unstable sectors. If found any it automatically marks them unusable in the file system metadata, thus minimizing the risk of data loss.

In order to start the surface test you should take the following steps:

1. Select a partition or a block of free space on the Disk Map.

2. Select in the Main Menu: Partition > Test Surface…

| There are other ways to start up this function, please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject.

3. From the pull-down list choose the level of the surface check.

4. The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation.

### Check File System Integrity

The program allows you to check integrity of a file system. It can be used to detect possible file system errors before performing any operation on a partition.

To start the system integrity check you should take the following steps:

1. Select a partition on the Disk Map.

2. Select in the Main Menu: Partition > Check File System Integrity

| There are other ways to start up this function, please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject.

3. The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation.

### Edit/View Sectors

With the built-in Edit/View Sectors tool the program enables to view/edit sectors on existing partitions/hard disks providing the possibility to directly access and modify sectors, save and restore sectors from specified files, navigate through the system metadata, etc.

In order to edit/view sectors of a hard disk/partition you should take the following steps:

1. Select a hard disk/partition on the Disk Map.

2. Select in the Main Menu: Partition/Hard Disk > Edit/View Sectors.

| There are other ways to start up this function, please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject.

| Careless use of the Edit Sectors function may result in the irreversible data corruption.

### Send Log Files

The program enables to simplify the procedure of sending support requests to the Paragon Support Team. In case of having difficulties with handling the program, you, with the help of this very function, can address the company support engineers and provide them with all the information they need such as the disk layout, performed operations, etc. in order to tackle the encountered problem. Information of that kind is stored in Log files.

In order to send log files to the Paragon Support Team you should take the following steps:

1. Call the Send Log Files dialog in the Main Menu: Tools > Send Log Files;

| There are other ways to start up this function, please consult the Interface Overview chapter to know more on the subject.

2. Provide a customer name and a product serial number;

3. Give a detailed description on the encountered problem.

By clicking the Send button the built-in mail client will generate a template request with attached compressed log files and then send it to the Paragon Support Team.

| Log files do not contain any confidential information on the operating system settings or the user documents. The Send Log Files function is only available when outgoing mail server (SMTP) and the user e-mail address are properly set. To learn more about it please consult the Settings Overview chapter.

### View Logs

With a handy dialog you can study logs on any operation carried by the program. To make this job as easy as possible, all the information is structurally divided, besides there is the possibility to see the disk layout before and after an operation, what is very convenient.

In order to view logs on carried out operations select in the Main Menu: Tools > View Log Files