New Features:

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 (Volume Explorer)
• Restore separate files and folders from backup archives by Volume Explorer
• Save backup images to local drives
• Save backup images to network
• 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
• Support of two technologies for Hot Backup (Paragon Hot Processing/ Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service)
• Synchronous Backup of multiple volumes (with MS VSS)
• Differential Backup
• Synthetic Backup (join a differential archive with a base archive to create a new 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/Clean up the Backup Capsule
• Bootable Backup Capsule (starts up the computer into recovery environment directly from Backup Capsule and performs any Restore operations in case of the operating system corruption or boot problems.)
• 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/Vista) or DOS Module (Windows 98) 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)
• Can automatically expand/shrink a disk/partition
• Incremental Copy
• Hot Copy
• Schedule Copy operations
• Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

Partitioning Features:

• Create partitions
• Format partitions
• Delete partitions
• Assign drive letters
• Remove drive letters
• Hide partitions
• Mark a partition as active
• Reorder primary partitions (change slots)
• Change partition volume labels
• Change partition serial numbers
• Change partition IDs
• Update the MBR
• Change the SID
• Check file system integrity
• Test surface

Program Settings:

• 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)
• 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)
• Control archive integrity
• Compress backup images (No/Fast/Normal/Best)
• Encrypt and protect backup images by password
• Split backup images (set split size)
• Set burning speed (Minimum/Normal/Maximum/Automatic selection)
• Set options for bootable archives
• Specify a bootable part for bootable archives
• Set image file names automatically
• Run during backup options (before taking a snapshot, after taking a snapshot, after finishing the backup process)
• E-mail notification options (SMTP server, user name, password, destination address, E-mail format)
• Virtual mode options (enabled/disabled)
• Operation dependency options (E-mail notification/ Shutdown connected)
• Enable 64KB clusters for FAT16
• Convert FAT16 to FAT32 automatically when copying (if resizing upwards is needed)
• Set surface test levels (Normal/Extreme)

Scheduling Features:

• 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

User Interface Features:

• Virtual operations
• 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