Hard Disk Manager is built around the sidebar that gives you access to action wizards and settings. The sidebar
located on the left side of the screen includes several buttons: Home, Backup & Recovery, V2V Migration, Disks &
Volumes, Reports, Scripts, Settings & Tools, and Help. By clicking the Home button, you can see names of these
buttons. On the right side is the working area that displays contents of the currently selected item.
At the bottom of the working area you can find the buttons of the so-called simulation mode. It gives you the
choice of placing potentially dangerous operations that may destroy the on-disk data (format, delete, restore, etc.)
on a special list instead of immediate execution. First it helps to avoid possible mistakes as you should confirm all
provided changes. Second it saves your time and effort when executing several operations, as you don’t need to
wait for each operation to physically complete before proceeding to the next operation.
Among the buttons of the simulation mode, you can find the Generate script option that helps to create a script
out of pending changes. The same option is also available in the backup and restore program wizards.
A script may describe one or several operations with macro-language commands. The program installation package
includes an interpreter utility "hdmengine_scriptsapp.exe" that allows executing any set of operations
automatically in the unattended mode. For more details, please consult Using the Command Prompt.