Paragon Hard Disk Manager Pro 8.5

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

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 can be used by any user: novice or professional.

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 deleted files, partition or entire drive.
6. Access data on Linux Partitions.
7. Special bonus! Mount Linux partitions under Windows OS.

Here are some key features of "Paragon Hard Disk Manager":

Basic Hard Disk Partitioning Features:
· Create, format and delete partitions1
· Hide/unhide partition, set partition active/inactive
· Copy and move partition of any file system, quick and sector-by-sector modes2
· Set or change drive letter (Windows NT/2000/XP only)
· Change hard disk partition Label (Volume Label)

Advanced Hard Disk Partitioning Features:
· Resize hard disk partitions with data1
· Hot Resize (upward) - enlarge NTFS partition without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work1
· Convert file system
· - FAT16 to FAT32 and vice versa
· - FAT16/32 to NTFS and vice versa
· - Ext2 FS to Ext3 FS and vice versa
· Merge hard disk partitions (even hard disk partitions of different file systems)1
· Undelete hard disk partition1
· Redistribute Free Space
· Check File System Integrity
· Convert Primary hard disk partition to Logical and vice versa
· Change hard disk Partition ID (hard disk partition signature)
· Change hard disk Partition Primary Slot (in Master Boot Record)
· Update MBR (Master Boot Record) with standard code
· Convert NTFS revision (from anyone to any other within Windows NT, 2000 and XP)
· Change FAT parameters - boot size, root size

File System Performance Optimization:
· Change cluster size1
· Defragment File System1
· Defragment NTFS core structure - MFT (Master File Table)

Backup/Restore Features:
· Backup/Restore an entire hard disk
· Backup/Restore a separate partition
· Backup/Restore all kinds of partitions: primary, extended, logical
· Backup/Restore the first track of a hard disk
· Backup/Restore the MBR
· Backup/Restore a combination of disks, partitions etc to/from one archive (several disks or/and partitions at the same time)
· Restore a separate partition (or a set of partitions) from a backup image of the whole hard disk
· Schedule backup operations

· Browse backup images (by Image Explorer and Volume Explorer)
· Restore separate files and folders from backup archives by Image Explorer and Volume Explorer
· Save backup images to local drives
· Save backup images to network drives
· Burn a backup archive to CD/DVDs (or write them to ISO-image files for later burning)
· Set archive names and add comments
· Interrupt backup operations if necessary

Advanced Backup/Restore Features:
· Hot Backup of locked partitions
· Differential Backup
· Support of two technologies for Hot Backup (Paragon Hot Processing/ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
· Synchronous Backup of multiple volumes (with MS VSCS)
· Synthetic Backup (join differential archive with base archive)
· Split/Re-split/De-split (glue) existing archives
· Compress/Re-compress/De-compress existing archives
· Encrypt/Re-encrypt/De-encrypt existing archives (and change a password)
· Backup dynamic volumes
· Restore dynamic volumes to dynamic ones
· Backup/Restore to/from the Backup Capsule
· Create/Resize/Delete the Backup Capsule
· Save backup archives to physical partitions (without drive letters assigned)
· Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
· Resize while restoring (upwards)
· Mount partitions automatically after restoring
· Check archive integrity when creating archives
· Check archive integrity of existing archives
· Check existing Recovery Media
· Check existing bootable archives
· Burn existing archives to CD/DVDs
· 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:
· Copy an entire hard disk to another hard disk (larger or smaller)
· Copy a specified partition to free area (not assigned to any partition, larger or smaller)
· Copy with resize3
· Hot Copy
· Schedule Copy operations

Disk Wiping Features
· Wipe a partition
· Wipe an entire hard disk
· Wipe only free space (destroy any remnants of deleted files/directories left on disk without affecting the used data)
· Wiping methods: US DoD, Paragon's, Simple (in menu item)
· Your own customized wiping method (extreme customization option - 4 wiping patterns with up to 99 passes each)

Scheduling Features:
· Scheduler - built-in tool for scheduling recurring operations
· Set types of scheduling (Once/At system startup/At logon/Daily/Weekly/Monthly)
· Specify a user name and password for scheduled tasks if necessary
· Set a date and time of starting scheduled backup
· Manage scheduled tasks by Tasks Editor
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Safety and Recovery:
· Recovery CD with Unique Interface in XP style for restoring under DOS/Linux4
· Recovery Media Builder - creates CDs/DVDs(or even a floppy disk) that you can boot from and recover your system
· Linux LDM support on Recovery CD
· Network support on Recovery CD - map network shares to access or place backup image over LAN
· Power Shield ™ technology - resuming critical partitioning operations after power failure
· Resuming critical operations after power failure
· Treating bad sectors - surface test can be optionally used for format, copy, move and resize operations
· Retesting disk surface for partitions with data, relocating files from encountered bad blocks
· Automatic generation and sending operations logs over email for quick and easy technical support

Auxiliary utilities:
· Built-in simple Disk Editing utility
· Unpack&Burn Wizard - Just three clicks to burn your own Recovery CD
· Volume Explorer fully embedded in program interface) - browse FAT, NTFS, Ext2 or Ext3 FS partition without drive letter, edit or copy files and folders
· Image Explorer - browse backup image, edit and copy files and folders
· Automatic run of the embedded BootCorrector to correct possible startup problems in the boot.ini file for Windows NT/2000/XP
· Operations usually impossible under Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP will be automatically performed in special mode during OS reboot

Advanced features
· Convert Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
· SID Changer
· Script Generator
· Script Interpreter - takes job tasks from so-called script files and performs them in automatic mode
· Script Language Description
· Command Line Support
· Email notification - automatic sending email with operation result information
· Windows NT/2000/2003 Server support (Server Edition only)

Program Settings:
· Verify data written
· Enable data loss protection (restart)
· Try to access non-BIOS cylinders
· Control archive integrity
· Set image file names automatically
· Compress backup images (No/Fast/Normal/Best)
· Split backup images (set split size)
· Enable 64KB clusters for FAT16
· Ask volume label before deleting
· Convert FAT16 to FAT32 automatically when copying (if resizing upwards is needed)
· Set surface test levels (none, normal, extreme)

File system conversion options (Time Zone, File name language, Confirm before conversion)
· Process all sectors one by one or do not process unused sectors (both for backup and copy operations)
· Skip auxiliary files (pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys)
· Burn every CD/DVD disk to the end
· Set burning speed (Maximum/Medium/Minimum/Automatic selection)
· Specify a bootable part for bootable archives
· Set options for bootable archives
· ISO image folder

Disable/Enable Hot Backup/Copy (always or only when a partition is locked)
· Two options of Hot Backup/Copy to choose (Paragon Hot Processing - for backup and copy, and Microsoft VSS - only for backup)
· Hot processing temporary drive
· Run during backup options (before taking a snapshot, after taking a snapshot, after finishing the backup process)
· E-mail options (SMTP server, E-mail address, user name, password)
· Send e-mail notification on apply (Destination e-mail address, Complete report after applying, HTML or text format, Send graphical disk view)

· Virtual mode options (enabled/disabled, Close progress dialog automatically)
· Operation dependency options (E-mail notification/ Shutdown connected)

· Wipe Options (Default wipe method)
· SID Changer Options
· User Interface Features:
· Virtual pre-execution5
· Flexible and adjustable launcher interface
· Wizards for the majority of operations
· Embedded HTML browser with navigation through toolbars and menus
· Multiple means of control and navigation (pull-down menus, user-defined menus, toolbars, active icons, bookmarks)
· Contextual operations
· Many places to run the same operations depending on user preferences
· Display hard disk configuration in graphic form (Disk View)
· Display all disk and partition properties (total size, size of used and free space, partition types, file systems etc)
· Display estimated archive size
· Display operation progress in graphic form and step by step
· Display archive information
· Windows Blue Screen Module localized as well as the main product modules


Requirements:

Supported HDD Interfaces :
· Parallel ATA (IDE)
· Serial ATA (SATA)
· SCSI
· All levels of SCSI and IDE RAID controllers
· IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
· USB 1.0/2.0
· Support large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, 2TB in theory)
· ZIP, Jazz and other removable media
· PC card storage devices.

Supported CD/DVD Formats :
· CD-R
· CD-RW
· DVD-R
· DVD-RW
· DVD+R
· DVD+RW

Supported File Systems :
· NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
· FAT16
· FAT32
· Ext2FS
· Ext3FS
· Linux Swap
· HPFS
· Other file systems (in Sector-by-Sector mode)

System Requirements :
· CPU: Intel Pentium CPU or its equivalent, with 300 MHz or higher processor clock speed
· RAM: 128 MB required (256 MB or greater recommended)
· Disk space: Hard disk drive with 40 MB of available space
· Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
· SVGA video adapter and monitor
· Mouse


What's New in This Release:

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

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