Full Features
New features
- Full Windows Vista support (32bit and
 64bit)
- File-level backup
- File-level complement to image-based backup
- Exclude files and folders from a backup image
- Adaptive Restore with Windows Vista - Restore to completely different hardware
- Blu-ray disc support (BD-R and BD-RE)
- Support of GPT-formatted discs - including resize while restoring
- Apple® BootCamp™ Support
- Dual-boot Backup Capsule with Linux and DOS recovery environments
- Create bootable recovery media on a USB flash drive
- Boot Corrector with BCD support to solve common boot problems
- "Install New OS" Wizard
- MSI Package: Remote and silent installation, software deployment
- Demo version upgradeable to complete version
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
- Possibility to add long comments to describe archives
- 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 VSS)
- Synthetic Backup (join differential archives with a base archive)
- Incremental Copy Option significantly speeds up your cloning process; copy only sectors changed since the last copy action
- Execute commands automatically before/after backup
- 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)
- Hot Backup of dynamic volumes
- Restore dynamic volumes to dynamic ones
- Restore dynamic disks with auto resize
- Backup/Restore to/from Paragon's Backup Capsule
- Create/Resize/Delete the Backup Capsule
- Archive database helps the user to easily manage backup images (get properties, add, delete, etc.)
- Save backup archives to physical partitions (without assigned drive letters)
- Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
- Resize while restoring (upwards)
- "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
- Mount partitions automatically after restoring
- Mount archive of an individual partition to easily browse its contents and copy the required information, even with standard Windows tools
- 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
- Boot the computer directly from Paragon's Backup Capsule (no external recovery media is required) and perform restore operations when the operating system is corrupt or you have other boot problems
- Reboot to the Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) 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)
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: U.S. 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
- Cyclic Backup performs regular backups and automatically manages them
- Set types of scheduling (Once/At system startup/At logon/Daily/Weekly/Monthly)
- Specify a user name and password for scheduled tasks
- Set a starting date and time for using the scheduled backup
- Manage scheduled tasks by Tasks Editor
- "Shutdown After Apply" function sets the computer to automatically switch off upon successful accomplishment of any scheduled operation
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 a drive letter, edit or copy files and folders
- Image Explorer - browse backup images, edit and copy files and folders
- Automatically run an embedded BootCorrector to correct possible startup problems in the boot.ini file for Windows® 2000/XP
- Operations usually impossible under Windows 2000/XP will be automatically performed in special mode during OS reboot
Advanced features
- Convert Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
- Security Identification (SID) Changer
- Script Generator
- Script Interpreter - takes job tasks from script files and performs them in automatic mode
- Script Language Description
- Command Line Support
- Email notification - automatically send summary emails with results of completed operations
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 for Hot Backup/Copy: Paragon Hot Processing for backup and copy, and Microsoft VSS for backup only)
- Hot processing of a temporary drive
- 64-bit Support (EM64T, AMD64) for Paragon Hot Processing
- Run during backup options (before taking a snapshot, after taking a snapshot, and after finishing the backup process)
- E-mail options (SMTP server, E-mail address, user name, password)
- Send e-mail notification upon task execution (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)
- Security Identification (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 ways to access and 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 progress of operations in a graphic form and step-by-step
- Display archive information
- Windows Blue Screen Module localized as well as the main product modules
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