Hard Disk Manager 2008 Professional

All the necessary tools you need to manage and maintain your hard drive in one advanced toolset! The professional edition manages your system’s hard drive(s) through every stage of its lifecycle: from placing a new drive into service, setting up real and secured dual boot environment, advanced partitioning without data loss, regular backups of system and data, solving any boot problems, restoring your system from bare metal state and much more.

$149.95

Complete Hard Drive Management!

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Full Features

New features
Basic Hard Disk Partitioning Features
Advanced Hard Disk Partitioning Features
File System Performance Optimization
Backup/Restore Features
Advanced Backup/Restore Features
Hard Disk Copy Features
Disk Wiping Features
Scheduling Features
Safety and Recovery
Auxiliary utilities
Advanced features
Program Settings
User Interface Features

New features

Archive database helps the user to easily manage backup images (get properties, add, delete, etc.)
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
Restore dynamic disks with auto resize
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
Restore with Shrink function provides the possibility to restore a backup image to a free block of smaller size taking into account only the amount of actual data of the image
Incremental Copy Option significantly speeds up your cloning process due to copying only sectors have been changed from the last copy action
Shutdown After Apply function enables to set the computer to automatically switch off on the successful accomplishment of any scheduled operation
Possibility to add long comments to describe archives
64-bit Support (EM64T,AMD64) for Paragon Hot Processing
DVD+/-R (DL) Support

Basic Hard Disk Partitioning Features

Create, format and delete partitions ¹
Hide/unhide partition, set partition active/inactive
Copy and move partition of any file system, quick and sector-by-sector modes ²
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 data ¹
Hot Resize (upward) - enlarge NTFS partition without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work ¹
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 partition ¹
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 size ¹
Defragment File System ¹
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 resize ³
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

Safety and Recovery

Recovery CD with Unique Interface in XP style for restoring under DOS/Linux ⁴
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-execution ⁵
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