Paragon Hard Disk Manager PRO is a complete hard disk utility solution

1. Easy and Safe partitioning and more.
2. Create backup image of entire drive or partition and more.
3. Clone or upgrade your hard drive.
4. Install and run multiple operating systems.
5. Securely wipe erased files, partition or entire drive.
6. Access data on Linux Partitions.
7. Special bonus! Mount Linux partitions under Windows OS.

Everything what you need to manage partitions on the hard drive, install and run multiple OS, backup your data. Paragon Hard Disk Manager is a suite including different products. The products included into the suite have similar interface and is used by any user: novice or professional.

Paragon Hard Disk Manager PRO is a complete hard disk utility solution

These are the main features of this software

Basic Hard Disk Partitioning Features:

• Display archive information
• Display operation progress in graphic form and step by step
• Display estimated archive size
• Display all disk and partition properties (total size, size of used and free space, partition types, file systems etc)
• Display hard disk configuration in graphic form (Disk View)
• Many places to run the same operations depending on user preferences
• Contextual operations
• Multiple means of control and navigation (pull-down menus, user-defined menus, toolbars, active icons, bookmarks)
• Embedded HTML browser with navigation through toolbars and menus
• Wizards for the majority of operations
• Flexible and adjustable launcher interface
• Virtual pre-execution5
• User Interface Features:
• SID Changer Options
• Wipe Options (Default wipe method)
• Operation dependency options (E-mail notification/ Shutdown connected)
• Virtual mode options (enabled/disabled, Close progress dialog automatically)
• Send e-mail notification on apply (Destination e-mail address, Complete report after applying, HTML or text format, Send graphical disk view)
• E-mail options (SMTP server, E-mail address, user name, password)
• Run during backup options (before taking a snapshot, after taking a snapshot, after finishing the backup process)
• Hot processing temporary drive
• Two options of Hot Backup/Copy to choose (Paragon Hot Processing - for backup and copy, and Microsoft VSS - just for backup)
• ISO image folder Disable/Enable Hot Backup/Copy (always or just when a partition is locked)
• Set options for bootable archives
• Specify a bootable part for bootable archives
• Set burning speed (Maximum/Medium/Minimum/Automatic selection)
• Burn every CD/DVD disk to the end
• Skip auxiliary files (pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys)
• Process all sectors one by one or do not process unused sectors (both for backup and copy operations)
• Set surface test levels (none, normal, extreme) File system conversion options (Time Zone, File name language, Confirm before conversion)
• Convert FAT16 to FAT32 automatically when copying (if resizing upwards is needed)
• Ask volume label before deleting
• Enable 64KB clusters for FAT16
• Split backup images (set split size)
• Compress backup images (No/Fast/Normal/Best)
• Set image file names automatically
• Control archive integrity
• Try to access non-BIOS cylinders
• Enable data loss protection (restart)
• Verify data written
• Windows NT/2000/2003 Server support (Server Edition only) Program Settings:
• Email notification - automatic sending email with operation result information
• Command Line Support
• Script Language Description
• Script Interpreter - takes job tasks from so-called script files and performs them in automatic mode
• Script Generator
• SID Changer
• Convert Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
• Operations usually impossible under Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP will be automatically performed in special mode during OS reboot Advanced features
• Automatic run of the embedded BootCorrector to correct possible startup problems in the boot.ini file for Windows® NT/2000/XP
• Image Explorer - browse backup image, edit and copy files and folders
• Volume Explorer completely embedded in program interface) - browse FAT, NTFS, Ext2 or Ext3 FS partition without drive letter, edit or copy files and folders
• Unpack&Burn Wizard - Just three clicks to burn your own Recovery CD
• Built-in simple Disk Editing utility
• Automatic generation and sending operations logs over email for quick and easy technical support Auxiliary utilities:
• Retesting disk surface for partitions with data, relocating files from encountered bad blocks
• Treating bad sectors - surface test is optionally used for format, copy, move and resize operations
• Resuming critical operations after power failure
• Power Shield ™ technology - resuming critical partitioning operations after power failure
• Network support on Recovery CD - map network shares to access or place backup image over LAN
• Linux LDM support on Recovery CD
• Recovery Media Builder - creates CDs/DVDs(or even a floppy disk) that you can boot from and recover your system
• Recovery CD with Unique Interface in XP style for restoring under DOS/Linux4
• Safety and Recovery:
• Manage scheduled tasks by Tasks Editor
• Set a date and time of starting scheduled backup
• Specify a user name and password for scheduled tasks if necessary
• Set types of scheduling (Once/At system startup/At logon/Daily/Weekly/Monthly)
• Scheduler - built-in utility for scheduling recurring operations
• Your own customized wiping technique (extreme customization option - 4 wiping patterns with up to 99 passes each) Scheduling Features:
• Wiping methods: US DoD, Paragon's, Simple (in menu item)
• Wipe just free space (destroy any remnants of erased files/directories left on disk without affecting the used data)
• Wipe an entire hard disk
• Wipe a partition
• Schedule Copy operations Disk Wiping Features
• Hot Copy
• Copy with resize3
• Copy a specified partition to free area (not assigned to any partition, larger or smaller)
• Copy an entire hard disk to another hard disk (larger or smaller)
• Reboot to the Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) or DOS Module (Windows 98), or boot from the Recovery Diskette (Windows Me) when backing up locked partitions (if Hot Backup is disabled) Hard Disk Copy Features:
• Burn existing archives to CD/DVDs
• Check existing bootable archives
• Check existing Recovery Media
• Check archive integrity of existing archives
• Check archive integrity when creating archives
• Mount partitions automatically after restoring
• Resize while restoring (upwards)
• Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
• Save backup archives to physical partitions (without drive letters assigned)
• Create/Resize/Delete the Backup Capsule
• Backup/Restore to/from the Backup Capsule
• Restore dynamic volumes to dynamic ones
• Backup dynamic volumes
• Encrypt/Re-encrypt/De-encrypt existing archives (and change a password)
• Compress/Re-compress/De-compress existing archives
• Split/Re-split/De-split (glue) existing archives
• Synthetic Backup (join differential archive with base archive)
• Synchronous Backup of multiple volumes (with MS VSCS)
• Support of two technologies for Hot Backup (Paragon Hot Processing/ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
• Differential Backup
• Hot Backup of locked partitions
• Interrupt backup operations if necessary Advanced Backup/Restore Features:
• Set archive names and add comments
• Burn a backup archive to CD/DVDs (or write them to ISO-image files for later burning)
• Save backup images to network drives
• Save backup images to local drives
• Restore separate files and folders from backup archives by Image Explorer and Volume Explorer
• Browse backup images (by Image Explorer and Volume Explorer)
• Schedule backup operations
• Restore a separate partition (or a set of partitions) from a backup image of the whole hard disk
• Backup/Restore a combination of disks, partitions etc to/from one archive (several disks or/and partitions at the same time)
• Backup/Restore the MBR
• Backup/Restore the first track of a hard disk
• Backup/Restore all kinds of partitions: primary, extended, logical
• Backup/Restore a separate partition
• Backup/Restore an entire hard disk
• Defragment NTFS core structure - MFT (Master File Table) Backup/Restore Features:
• Defragment File System1
• Change cluster size1
• Change FAT parameters - boot size, root size File System Performance Optimization:
• Convert NTFS revision (from anyone to any other within Windows NT, 2000 and XP)
• Update MBR (Master Boot Record) with standard code
• Change hard disk Partition Primary Slot (in Master Boot Record)
• Change hard disk Partition ID (hard disk partition signature)
• Convert Primary hard disk partition to Logical and vice versa
• Check File System Integrity
• Redistribute Free Space
• Undelete hard disk partition1
• Merge hard disk partitions (even hard disk partitions of different file systems)1
• - Ext2 FS to Ext3 FS and vice versa
• - FAT16/32 to NTFS and vice versa
• - FAT16 to FAT32 and vice versa
• Convert file system
• Hot Resize (upward) - enlarge NTFS partition without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work1
• Resize hard disk partitions with data1
• Change hard disk partition Label (Volume Label) Advanced Hard Disk Partitioning Features:
• Set or change drive letter (Windows NT/2000/XP only)
• Copy and move partition of any file system, quick and sector-by-sector modes2
• Hide/unhide partition, set partition active/inactive
• Create, format and delete partitions1

· Windows Blue Screen Module localized as well as the main product modules

Requirements for this software

Supported HDD Interfaces :

• SVGA video adapter and monitor
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
• Disk space: Hard disk drive with 40 MB of available space
• RAM: 128 MB required (256 MB or greater recommended)
• CPU: Intel Pentium CPU or its equivalent, with 300 MHz or higher processor clock speed
• Other file systems (in Sector-by-Sector mode) System Requirements :
• Linux Swap
• Ext3FS
• Ext2FS
• FAT32
• FAT16
• NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
• DVD+RW Supported File Systems :
• DVD+R
• DVD-RW
• DVD-R
• CD-RW
• PC card storage devices. Supported CD/DVD Formats :
• ZIP®, Jazz® and other removable media
• Support large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, 2TB in theory)
• USB 1.0/2.0
• IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
• All levels of SCSI and IDE RAID controllers
• Serial ATA (SATA)
• Parallel ATA (IDE)

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Limitations of this software

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What's new in this release

• Mount archive of a separate partition to easily browse its contents and copy the required information even with the standard Windows tools.
• Archive database helps the user to easily manage backup images (get properties, add, delete, etc.)
• Hot Backup of Dynamic Volumes.
• Cyclic Backup performs regular backups and automatically manages them.
• Windows Vista compatible application providing the bulk of its functionality under this operating system.

· Boot the computer directly from Backup Capsule (no Recovery media is required) and perform any Restore operations in case of the operating system corruption or other boot problems....