To dismount a mounted image:

Follow these steps:

1. Open the Backup Image Dismount Wizard by doing one of the following:
• In the Tasks menu, click Dismount Backup Image.
• In the Menu bar, select Tasks > Dismount Backup Image.
• Right-click on the mounted image in Windows Explorer and click Dismount.
2. Use the Dismount wizard to:
• Save changes (if mounted as writeable).

• Warning! NETGEAR ReadyDATA-stored VHDx backup image files may be mounted Writeable. However, that system does not support saving changes and discards them on dismount.

• Shrink the volume so you can restore the image to a smaller drive.
• Note: The Shrink Volume feature truncates mounted backup image files so that the file system ends at the last currently-allocated cluster. To reduce the backup image size as much as possible, use a disk defragmentation tool on the mounted image to consolidate file distribution within the volume and free up space at the end of the volume.
3. In the Mounted Backup Images page, select the backup image volume to dismount. The wizard displays the volume properties.
4. Click Next.
5. (Conditional) In the Backup Image Dismount Options page, select if you want to:
• Save volume changes
• Shrink the backup Image
6. These options are available only if the backup image volume is writeable (see Backup Image Mount Options).

Save changes to incremental File: Saves any changes made to the mounted volume. Right-click the incremental file to save the modified backup image file using a different name.

Note: In ShadowProtect 5.x and newer, we recommend modifying the backup image file name to clearly reflect its source. For example, if the source image file was C_VOL_b001-i119.spi then rename the modified backup image file C_VOL_b001-i119-i001.spi. (The i001 indicates it is the first incremental taken from the source image file i119.)

However, with the release of ShadowProtect 5.2.0, the system automatically labels SPI files using a suffix similar to the above recommendation. For example, an SPI file generated from the image file C_VOL_b001-i119 now receives the label C_VOL_b001-i119-i001.spi.

ShadowProtect does not create an MD5 file for SPI files. ImageManager will instead verify the integrity of SPI files using CRC rather than the MD5 file.

Shrink Volume: Shrinks the volume so you can restore the image to a smaller hard drive partition. This option is only available when:

• Dismounting a writeable backup image of an NTFS volume in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, jor newer versions of the OS.
• Running the Mount feature in Recovery Environment.

Note: ImageManager may report an error when verifying an image file created from a mounted backup and which is shrunk from its original size.

6. Click Next.
7. In the Backup Image Dismount Summary page, review the dismount details, then click Finish.

Note: Once dismounted, select Refresh Volumes Info to get an accurate view of the mounted system volumes from the Disk Map tab.