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:

• Cyclic Backup
• Hot Backup of Dynamic Volumes
• Dynamic Disks Restore with auto resize
• Archive database
• Mount Archive
• Bootable Backup Capsule
• Restore with Shrink
• Incremental Copy Option
• Shutdown after scheduled operation
• Long comments for archives
• DVD+/-R (DL) Support
• Windows Vista compatible
• 64-bit Support (EM64T,AMD64) for Paragon Hot Processing

Basic Hard Disk Partitioning Features:

• 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 Features:

• Resize hard disk partitions with data
• Hot Resize (upward) - enlarge NTFS partition without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work
• 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
• 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
• Defragment File System
• 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
• Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

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
• Hot Copy
• Schedule Copy operations
• Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

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
• 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
• 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)

User Interface Features:

• Virtual pre-execution
• 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

*Wiping functionality has been disabled in this release because it hasn’t been tested under Windows Vista yet. This functionality will be included in a nearest free update.