All the necessary tools you need to manage and maintain your hard drive in one advanced toolset! The professional edition manages your system’s hard drive(s) through every stage of its lifecycle: from placing a new drive into service, setting up real and secured dual boot environment, advanced partitioning without data loss, regular backups of system and data, solving any boot problems, restoring your system from bare metal state and much more.
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)
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
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)
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