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:

Advanced Hard Disk Partitioning Features:

File System Performance Optimization:

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:

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:

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:

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: