Get the original! Paragon Software's advanced partitioning tools help you completely control and manage your hard disks. With growing hard drive capacity, the need to reasonably split up the space is more important than ever. This easy-to-use partitioning tool is ideal for re-structuring your hard disk for optimal and effective data storage

Features

Software and Hardware Support

Latest Soft- and Hardware-Support
Enjoy full-fledged support for Windows 7, the 64bit versions of Windows XP, Vista and 7, the new GPT-formatted hard disks (used in Windows 7, Vista, Mac® OS X and Linux) and the latest Linux-Kernel.

Partitioning Features

Basic Partitioning Features
Create, format, delete, undelete, hide or unhide partition; set partition active/inactive; set, change or remove drive letter; change hard disk partition label (Volume Label); convert file systems; check file system integrity; run complete surface test.

Advanced Partitioning Features
Resize or merge partitions without data loss; Hot Resize - enlarge NTFS partitions without rebooting Windows; simple installation of new OS; redistribute free space; convert Primary partition to Logical and vice versa; Update Master Boot Record (MBR).

Copy, Defragmentation and Boot Management Features

Copy Features
Copy a full hard disk or a separate partition. You can even resize a partition while copying it.Incremental Copy: Copy only sectors that are different from the moment of the last copy operation, thus considerably decreasing the amount of data to write.

Boot Management Features
Easily activate/deactivate the boot manager and setup a multi-boot environment. Boot Corrector to resolve most common boot problems. Hidden mode. Default settings and boot on timeout.

Defragmentation Features
Different strategies of file system optimization according to one of the three parameters (file date, file size, directory order). Optimization of the page file and the hibernation file allocations.

Backup and Restore Features

Basic Backup Features
Back up data and system to an archive, a local drive, an external USB/Firewire drive or network share.

Advanced Backup Features
Create backup images without leaving Windows with Paragon Hot Backup™ technology. Restore system and data even from bare-metal state.Restore partition with resize. Restore separate files and folders. Power Shield™ technology - resumes critical partitioning operations after a power failure.

Linux/DOS Recovery Environment
Create Linux/DOS bootable media on a USB flash drive, CD or DVD for fast, reliable maintenance and recovery operations. Fix crashed operating systems, perform partitioning operations, access and copy important documents with the recovery media after a system crash or hardware failure.


System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

• Windows 7(32/64 Bit)
• Windows Vista (32/64 Bit)
• Windows XP Home Edition SP2
• Windows XP Professional SP2/SP3 (32/64 Bit)
• Windows 2000 Professional SP4

Supported HDD Interfaces

• Parallel ATA (IDE)
• Serial ATA (SATA)
• External SATA (eSATA) HDD
• SSD (Solid State Drive)
• SCSI
• All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
• Full support of RAIDed configurations (hardware RAIDs)
• IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
• USB 1.0/2.0
• Support large hard disks (both MBR- and GPT-formatted)
• PC card storage devices

* Please note the current version of the product only supports disks up to 2TB in size, which will be fixed in the nearest update for free.

Supported CD/DVD and other Removable Media Formats

• CD-R
• CD-RW
• DVD-R
• DVD-RW
• DVD+R
• DVD+RW
• DVD+/-R (DL)
• BD-R
• BD-RE
• Support for ZIP®, Jazz® and other removable media

Supported File Systems

• NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
• FAT16
• FAT32
• Linux Ext2FS
• Linux Ext3FS
• Linux Ext4FS
• Linux Swap
• Apple HFS+
• 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: 256 MB required
• Disk space: 350 MB
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
• Mouse
• SVGA video adapter and monitor
• Extra: CD/DVD/BD Drive