User manual

Our WinPE 3.0 based recovery environment offers excellent hardware support. However in

case it doesn’t have a driver for your disk controller, your hard disks will be unavailable.

Please consult the Adding specific drivers scenario to know how to tackle this issue.

Basic Concepts

This chapter explains terms and ideas that show how the program works. To understand these helps to obtain a general

notion of the operation performance and makes it easier for the user to operate the program.

System and Data Protection

The data protection issue is a growing cause of worrying for more and more people today. Indeed, it is hardly to find a

person who will be particularly happy when all precious information on the hard disk is irreversible lost as a result of its

malfunction. So how this tragedy can be prevented?

Backup Storage

Our program supports major present day techniques of storing backup images. Let’s take a closer look at them all to

understand what kind of storage is able to provide better security:

 You can place a backup image to a local mounted or unmounted (without drive letter assigned) partition.

Despite the fact that it is the most convenient way, try not to use it. You can delete your backup just by accident

or lose it as a result of a hardware malfunction, or a virus attack;

 You can place a backup image to an external mounted storage to provide for a higher level of data protection

and system independence;

 You can place a backup image to external media (CD/DVD) to guarantee a high level of data protection as long

as the backup media is kept secure;

 You can place a backup image to a network drive to stand a better chance of success in case of a hard disk

failure. Moreover, by storing it on a special-purpose server you may be pretty sure nothing will happen to it.

Adaptive Restore

Windows family operating systems are notorious for their excessive sensibility to hardware, especially when it turns to

replacement of such a crucial device as HDD controller or motherboard – actually Windows will most likely fail to boot

as a result of this operation.

With our technology (available in the P2P Adjust OS Wizard) you can make your Windows bootable on some other

computer by allowing automatic injection of all required drivers and the other actions crucial for a migration of this

kind. Actually, this operation for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 and Windows Vista/7/Server 2008 differs a bit, so does

the wizard’s work algorithm.

Adaptive Restore for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003

It actually implies three operations:

 Providing the ability to change the Windows kernel settings to the most suitable for your new configuration.

The program will automatically add all available Windows HAL and kernels to the boot menu (the boot.ini file)

to choose the required platform in case your system fails to boot (Uniprocessor, Multiprocessor, or Old legacy

PC without ACPI). You can later remove them from the menu either under Windows or with Boot Corrector.