Paragon Partition Manager Paragon's award winning Partition Manager provides easy and reliable hard drive partitioning and full-range hard disk management. It enables to create, copy, resize and move hard drive partitions.

Paragon Partition Manager
vendor: Paragon

Every PC owner sooner or later meets a task of hard disk management. An optimum allocation of disk resources is the key point to manage data and operating systems on your computer effectively.

Paragon's award winning Partition Manager provides easy and reliable hard drive partitioning and full-range hard disk management.

It enables to create, copy, resize and move hard drive partitions. This full function tool is suitable for home and professional use. Partition Manager helps you to:

• Enhance computer performance, convert operating systems, defragment partitions, optimize your hard disk partitions cluster size.
• Resize, move, hide, merge, restore and convert partitions without data loss.
• Install and manage several operating systems on your computer with Boot Manager.
• Copy partitions and whole hard drives adopting their size to target partition.

Since 1997 Partition Manager offers most effective and innovative technologies in the field of hard disk management.

• Special power protection for critical operations with hard disk partitions Special Power Shield ™ feature ensures that even in case of power supply failure no error will occur and the operations will continue after power supply restore.
• Partition Explorer- access to any hard disk partitions Unique UFSD technology allows to browse any partitions on your hard disk, change any files, copy files and folders, including hidden and unmounted partitions.
• Wizards for hard disk easy repartitioning. Even inexperienced users will find hard disk partitioning easy with new built-in Wizards.
• Hard disk partitioning without data loss Unique Smart Partition™ technology, used in Partition Manager 6.0 enables to perform almost all hard disk partitioning operations without losing a single byte of data. You can be 100% sure, that no data will be lost even during most complicated partitioning operations on your hard disk.
• Intelligent hard disk defrag - defragment your hard disk partitions
• New powerful built-in defragmenter based on unique Intelligent Disk Defrag technology (IDD™) performs thorough and secure defragmentation even on full (up to 99%) partitions.

Unlike freeware and some other commercial partitioning software, that are based on Windows ® algorithms and are therefore bond to their limitations and restrictions, Partition Manager 6.0 uses ONLY its OWN algorithms. The program is completely isolated from the operating system and can work separately. Practically it means that you can use this product even on unbootable PCs.

Here you find the full list of Paragon Partition Manager features:

Basic hard disk partitioning operations:

• Create, format and delete partitions
• Hide/unhide partition, set partition active/inactive
• Copy and move partition of any file system, quick and sector-by-sector modes
• Set or change drive letter (Windows NT/2000/XP only)
• Change hard disk partition Label (Volume Label)

Advanced hard disk partitioning operations:

• Resize hard disk partitions with data
• Copy disk to disk
• Copy with resize
• 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)
• Undelete hard disk partition
• 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
• Defragment File System
• Defragment NTFS core structure - MFT (Master File Table)

Technologies Support:

• Supports large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, theoretically not limited)
• Supports P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA (SATA), SCSI hard disks
• Supports FireWire, IEEE1394, USB 1.0, USB 2.0, ZIP® and Jazz® hard disks
• Supports NTFS from Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003
• Supports NTFS with compressed and encrypted files and folders
• Supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2 FS, Ext3 FS, Reiser FS, HPFS file systems
• Executable for:
  - Windows 9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP
  - DOS
  - Linux (on RecoveryCD)
• Supports long filenames (FAT, NTFS) and filenames in national languages
• Supports 64K FAT16 extension

Safety and Recovery:

• Recovery CD4
• Power Shield ™ technology - resuming critical partitioning 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

Easy to use:

• Virtual pre-execution5
• Wizards for most usual scenarios:
  - Partition Merge Wizard
  - Redistribute Free Space Wizard
  - Partition Undelete Wizard
• Automatic updating BootManager boot menu after partitioning operations
• Operations usually impossible under Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP will be automatically performed in special mode during OS reboot

Auxiliary utilities:

• Built-in simple Disk Editing utility
• Unpack&Burn Wizard - Just three clicks to burn your own Recovery CD
• Partition Explorer - browse FAT, NTFS, Ext2 or Ext3 FS partition without drive letter, edit or copy files and folders

BOOTMANAGER

• Up to 16 operating systems on one PC
• Operating Windows 9x/Me along with Windows 2000/XP
• Various installations of the same operating system (in different languages or different versions)
• Direct booting Linux (skipping LILO)
• Installing Linux beyond 1024-cylinder boundary
• Boots even unrecognized OS
• Importing external bootsector
• Password protection against unauthorized booting computer
• Boots DOS/Windows 9x/ME from the second hard disk
• Different configurations can be created for the same physical installation of operating system
• Dynamically adds newly installed operating systems
• Duplicating boot.ini file to create different configurations

PROFESSIONAL VERSION AND TECHNICIAN LICENSE ONLY:

• Convert Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks (Dynamic Disks are available under Windows 2000/XP/2003)
• Premium Maintenance
• Upgrade Insurance - 1 year
• Windows NT/2000/2003 Server and Windows PE support
• Script Generator
• Command Line Support

System Requirements

• System: Windows 9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP Workstation, Home or Professional, Linux
• Processor: IBM AT compatible machine
• RAM: 32MB
• Video: VGA or better
• Additional: CD or DVD-ROM drive (optionally with recording capabilities to burn Recovery CD), or Floppy Drive

Paragon Partition Manager Paragon's award winning Partition Manager provides easy and reliable hard drive partitioning and full-range hard disk management. It enables to create, copy, resize and move hard drive partitions. Product licence price Buy online Paragon Partition Manager Personal Licence  49,95 USD Purchase Paragon Partition Manager Professional Licence  99,95 USD Purchase Paragon Partition Manager Technical Licence  299,00 USD Purchase