Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 — the high end all in one solution for hard disk management Hard Disk Manager Professional is an integrated set of powerful tools that is specially designed to tackle most of the problems encountered while using Windows PC. It includes all the latest technologies in managing stand-alone Windows environments: drive partitioning and file system optimization, disaster recovery and system migration, data sanitization and boot management for both, virtual and physical systems. And it's open to Boot Camp users as well.

Key features:

Partitioning and Optimization:

• Paragon implemented a completely new engine for all partitioning tasks. The result is a very strong partitioning engine that works generically with all modern hard drive technologies.


• 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 without formatting; check file system integrity; run complete surface test.


• You can separate OS and data or different types of data by splitting one partition to two different partitions of the same type and file system.


• Consolidate the disk space, from two adjacent partitions (NTFS, FAT16/FAT32), into a single, larger partition.


• Increase free space on one partition by utilizing the on-disk unallocated space and the unused space of other partitions.


• Optimize performance of your hard disk during partitioning/copy operations and restoring a backup image to new hard drives (not all operations are supported.


• Enjoy all benefits of the newest partitioning scheme with minimal effort.


• Fix most system boot problems that result from human or program error, or a boot virus activity.


• Easily manage several operating systems on one computer.


• Convert any version of NTFS file system to Apple HFS and vice versa without reformatting.

Backup and Recovery:

• Sector and file level backups with differential or incremental updates as well as an exclusive file complement.


• Local mounted/un-mounted partitions, external storages, CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs, network shares, FTP/SFTPs servers as well as the secured hidden partition (Backup Capsule).


• Back up exactly what you need, with the best backup technique automatically chosen according to the type of data you wish to protect.


• Easily extract files and folders from a backup image through the Restore Wizard without the need to restore an entire image.


• The latest Adaptive Restore helps you restore your system backup onto completely different hardware from which the backup was made, or migrate your operating system from your old to your new computer. P2P Adjust OS Wizard will add all required drivers smoothly and easily, making your operating system bootable on your new machine or on the altered hardware.


• Live backup is a key feature for any backup software. The product has a highly flexible, improved configuration for two different methods of hot processing: Paragon HotBackup and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).


• Directly write your backups to an FTP server. Using sFTP, the data transfer to the external server will be protected and encrypted.


• Improve the speed of the backup processing by using asynchronous writing operations.


• To avoid unauthorized access to your backup files, you can easily encrypt them within our backup wizards.


• Three types to choose from, based on the latest Linux, DOS, and WinPE**, available on CD/DVD/Blu-ray, thumb drives or Backup Capsule.


• Protect dual-boot Macs from the Windows side or in the Linux or WinPE** recovery environments.

Data Copy and Migration:

• Copy a full hard disk or a separate partition, and resize a partition while copying.


• When copying a partition or a complete hard drive to a new device, you can now easily exclude data you want to exclude from the copy process.


• Migrate existing systems and make them bootable in a new hardware environment.

Virtualization:

• Migrate a physical system to a virtual environment in the online mode and make OS start up after unsuccessful migration or virtualization with 3rd party tools.


• MS Virtual PC, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, and Oracle VirtualBox 4.

Data Wiping:

• Destroy all on-disk information or only remnants of deleted files/directories with a custom algorithm or the US DoD 5220.22-M military standard.

Supported Technologies and Operating Systems:

• Accomplish any operation under Windows 7


• Not only resize, but also create, format, or get read only access to this file system through our program.


• Enjoy support for AFD (Advanced Format Drive), 2TB+ and non-512B sector size drives.


• More effectively manage external hard drives by using all benefits of the USB 3.0 interface.


• Specify the acceptable balance between the operation performance and the risk of data loss.