The main focus of Paragon Software Group is providing top level, professional hard disk management and repartitioning solutions. In the last 10 years we have developed the most innovative technologies for hard disk management and partitioning.
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 Shield ™ feature ensures that even in case of power supply failure no error will occur and the operations will continue after power supply restore. (Learn more)
* Unique UFSD ™ technology allows to browse any partitions on your hard disk, change any files, copy files and folders, including hidden and unmounted partitions. (Partition explorer utility)
* With new Hot Resize ™ technology it became possible to enlarge NTFS partitions without rebooting Windows® and interrupting Server or Workstation work. Thus it saves your time and money preventing Server or Workstation downtime.
* Unique Smart Partition™ technology, used in Partition Manager 8.0 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.
* Innovative BTE ™ technology enables to form tasks for execution in Windows blue screen mode. Thus it's not necessary to boot computer from CD or floppy disk to perform operations with system partition.
* 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. Click HERE to read about defragmentation functionality of Partition Manager in more details.
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 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.
ADVANCED KEY FEATURES:
* Resize partitions with data*
* Hot Resize (upward) - enlarge NTFS partition without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work1
* Convert file system
- FAT16 to FAT32 and back
- FAT16/32 to NTFS and back
- Ext2 FS to Ext3 FS and back
* Merge partitions (even partitions of different file systems)*
* Undelete partition*
* Virtual pre-execution*****
* Wizards for most usual scenarios:
- Partition Merge Wizard
- Redistribute Free Space Wizard
- Partition Undelete Wizard
* Change cluster size*
* Defragment File System*
* Convert Dymanic Disks to Basic Disks (Dynamic Disks are available under Windows 2000/XP/2003)
* Supports P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA (SATA), SCSI hard disks
* Supports large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, theoretically not limited)
* Supports FireWire, IEEE1394, USB 1.0, USB 2.0, ZIP® and Jazz® hard disks
* Recovery CD****
* Supports 64K FAT16 extension
* Partition Explorer - browse FAT, NTFS, Ext2 or Ext3 FS partition without drive letter, edit or copy files and folders
Changes in version 8.0:
New version 8.0 is improved for easier and more convenient work. Now it has unique interface in XP style and many new wizards for most usual scenarios. We made also serious program core engine improvements, developed new features, overviewed some existing ones to make them even more effective.
Now you can expand your toolset by following new functions:
* New Partition List
* Volume explorer (fully embedded in program interface)
* Save to scheduler/Scheduled Task Editor
* Info Browser (Help)
* New wizards:
- Create partition
- Format partition
- Delete partition
- Copy partition
- Copy hard disk
- Backup
- Restore
* Improved email notifications
* New program options
* Micr@soft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
* Synchronous backup
* Windows x64 Editions support
Supported Operating Systems :
* Windows 95/98/ME
* Windows NT
* Windows 2000 Professional
* Windows XP Home Edition
* Windows XP Professional
* Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
* Windows Vista Family (32-bit).
Size: 21.7Mb