HDM for Mac functionality and interface overview

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1) Paragon Hard Disk Manager menu

– By pressing About Paragon Hard Disk Manager you can find out information on installed version.

– Check for update – program checks if there is newer version available for installation.

– License – opens activation menu. You can check your license status here and activate your trial by providing serial number of purchased license.

– Preferences window has two main tabs: HDM settings

and Themes

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2) Wizards menu

There are two Wizards included in HDM for Mac

– Redistribute Free Space Wizard allows to redistribute not used space between two neighbouring partitions.

You can find out what problems Wizard encountered by pressing  “?” button.

How to work with this Wizard is covered in this article.

– Create Bootable Recovery Media allows you to create recovery media with which you can boot with to perform certain operations and in case your Mac is not starting up. You can read more information on Recovery Media Creation in this article.

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3) Help Menu

Here you can find Logs Saver with which you can collect logs for Paragon support team. You can find details here.

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4) Apply Operations button

By default all operations are performed in Virtual mode first so you can check that you did everything right. After that you press this button and get to Apply operations menu where you can undo operations starting from last/undo all or apply operations physically.

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5) Reload Disk Map button

By pressing this button you can reload disk map if you attached device after launching HDM or you performed some changes with Disk Utility while HDM was started and you want to see this changes in HDM)

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6) Disk information

Disk model, Partition scheme and full capacity

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7) Partition information

Label, Full size and free space, File system type (Colour depends on interface Theme that you selected in Preferences->Themes menu)

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8) Yellow indicator that represents that this element is currently selected (applies to all Wizards and depends on HDM theme, selected in Preferences->Themes)

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9) Gear button

When you place mouse cursor on Disk or Partition this button appears and by pressing this button you can access operation available for this element (you can access this functions also by right clicking on element).

For Disk options will be:

• Convert to MBR/GPT/Hybrid GPT+MBR (available options depend on type of Partition scheme currently used by your disk).
• Wipe Disk operation. When you need to be sure that no data can be restored from this disk.
• Edit/View sectors.
• Correct “boot.ini” files (only for MBR and Hybrid GPT+MBR disks).
• Correct BCD files.
• Adjust to boot on new hardware.
• Update MBR (only for MBR and Hybrid GPT+MBR disks).
• Copy Disk operation.
• Properties of your disk.

For Partition this options will be:

• Format partition operation
• Change Volume label
• Delete Partition
• Undelete partition
• Move/Resize partition
• Check file system integrity
• Wipe partition and Clear free space
• Edit/View sectors
• Set active/inactive
• Correct boot record (only for NTFS)
• Change MBR Id
• Change GPT type
• Unmount
• Copy partition
• Properties of partition

For unallocated space options will be:

• Create partition
• Undelete partition
• Wipe partition
• Edit/View sectors
• Properties of free(unallocated) space

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10) Select Disk

By selecting disk here you can see all detailed information on this disk’s Volumes

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11) Volumes list on selected disk

You can also access operations available for this Volume by right clicking on item that you need.

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12) Here you can switch between “Disks and Partitions” and “Backup and Restore” tab.

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13) List of backups

in this field you can find list of all backup that you performed or added to this list.

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14) Create New Archive

by pressing this button you will start creating new backup.

You can find more information in this dedicated article – [How to] Create backup archive in Hard Disk Manager for Mac

Also you can find information about Core Storage configuration backup and restore in this article – Backup and Restore Core Storage configuration with HDM for Mac

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15) Restore Archive

this button becomes active only after you selected archive that you want to restore.

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16) Create increment

After you selected archive you can create increment to this (parent) archive. Increment backup will contain all changes that happened after you created parent backup. First increment taken from parent archive is in fact a differential backup. You can select 1st increment (differential) as parent – this way you will start increment backup chain.

Good thing about always using 1st full backup as parent – for restore you need only full backup and 1st increment (differential). Bad thing – if you always select full backup as parent then backups will become bigger and bigger.

If you use increment chain (select previous increment as parent instead of full backup) then this backup is created quickly and takes small amount of space, however you need all bits of chain intact  to restore such backup to newest archive and restore will take considerable amount of time.

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17) Mount Archive

after selecting archive from the list you can mount it and navigate it as if it was an external drive.

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18) Merge with Parent

If your archives take too much space or your incremental chain is too long and you don’t need old backups – you can merge newer increments with older ones (updating information in them)

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19) Delete archive

by pressing this button selected archive will be immediately deleted without any confirmation.

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20) Add/remove archive from the archive list

by pressing “+” button finder window will open and you can navigate to archive file to add it to the list of archives

by pressing “-” button you can delete archive from the list, you can either remove archive from list alone or move archive file to trash at same time.

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21) Selected archive details

After selecting archive you will see it’s details in this field.

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22) Slider – you can slide it up and down to change proportion between list of archives and archive’s details fields.

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