Paragon Drive Backup 9.0 Personal Full Download

Entire PC Backup and File Backup

Back up the entire contents of your drive while you work with Paragon's Hot Backup™ technology
NEW!  Back-up only the documents, music, video and e-mails you select with our new    File-Level Backup™ technology
 
Be ready whenever disaster strikes
Our award-winning Drive Backup tools beat the competition in features, performance, and price - read our reviews!
NEW!Paragon's powerful new Professional Adaptive Restore™ technology allows you to restore operating systems and data on any type of hardware or even to a virtual machine
 
Smart Backup options for headache-free security
Schedule backups automatically
Perform incremental backups to maximize space and save time
Run Backup solutions directly from the Master CD – no software installation is required
Backup to any media or special secure place on your hard disk
NEW! Exclude Files/Folders - Save space by backing up only the data you want
NEW! Blu-ray Disc Support – Burn your backup archives to Blu-ray discs and more
 
Professional Recovery tools and add-ons
NEW! Restore your PC or laptop with our advanced Recovery CD or from our exclusive Bootable Backup Capsule
NEW! Easy bootable USB Flash drive can recover your PC on demand
Add-on Options: 
Boot Corrector automatically corrects any booting problems
Simple Partitioning and more
 

Key Features and Benefits of Drive Backup 9.0 Personal at a glance:

Features Benefits

System Backup 
Create a backup image of your PC or laptop hard disk operating system with all user preferences and settings, applications and data files.

MS Windows Vista support 
Compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit & 64 bit). Includes updates and new product features as they become available throughout the renewable service period.

NEW!  Complete Recovery Environment on USB Flash Drive 
The Recovery Media Builder allows the user to create bootable recovery media on a USB flash drive, then boot the PC and perform any operations directly from flash drive in case of operating system corruption or boot problems.

Built-in Scheduler 
Use powerful built-in scheduler to perform regular backup, clone, or restore operations.

NEW! Paragon File-level Backup™ and File-level Complement™ 
An innovative file-level protection system that allows users to protect all files, including emails, Outlook files, photos, music, videos, spreadsheets and other documents from damage through the creation of a backup copy. Drive Backup 9.0 differs from competing offerings in that it utilizes a file-level protection system that allows the product to backup open and “in-use” files, creating a comprehensive backup system which combines the benefits of both disk-snapshot-based and file-based backup approaches.

NEW!  Dual-boot Backup Capsule 
Provides Linux and DOS recovery environments for a bootable Backup Capsule. Now it’s possible to choose your recovery environment and keep the benefits of both Linux and DOS (safe mode) environments.

NEW! Paragon Adaptive Restore™ 
A powerful and unique technology which allows restoring Windows Vista on completely different hardware or even on a virtual machine.

NEW! Exclude files and folders 
Ability to exclude files or folders from a backup image. Reduces the size of resulting images by excluding unnecessary files such as music, movies, etc.

NEW!  Blu-ray disc support 
Burn backup archives to Blu-ray discs. A single layer disc can store 25 GB, more than five times the capacity of a single layer DVD.

Data Restore & System Recovery 
Use built-in backup image browser to restore separate files, folders, partitions and hard disks with speed and ease.

New & Key Features

Support of USB-sticks (with MBR only)
Backup separate partitions or entire disks including service data of the file system
 
Backup only specific files and folders rather than an entire drive
 
Create incremental file archives for backup images of separate partitions, or perform file-level backups and keep only necessary changes
Paragon Hot Backup technology creates backup images without restarting Windows
Backup Capsule management for secure archive storage on your hard disk
 
Boot the computer directly from dual-boot Backup Capsule, choose your recovery environment  and perform any restore operations in case of system corruption or other boot problems
 
Exclude unnecessary files and folders from a backup to reduce size of resulting image
Backup to any media, including USB and Firewire devices
Updated! Restore a partition, an entire disk or separate files and folders from backup archives
 
Restore Windows Vista to completely different hardware or even to a virtual machine
Restore with Shrink™ function restores backup images to free sections of smaller partitions by using only the amount of actual data in the image
 
Build external recovery media on flash memory and get all the program features on a compact, reliable and fast device
User friendly interface with intuitive icons and wizards for all program functions
Virtually preview the resulting layout of hard disks before executing operations
Archive database for easy management of backup images (get properties, add, delete, etc.)
Operation scheduling for convenient, automatic performance
Task List for easy management of scheduled operations (enable/disable, rename, delete, refresh or modify tasks)
Shutdown After Apply function allows automatic shutdown after task completion
Describe archives in detail with comment section
Basic functions for initializing, partitioning and formatting hard disks 
Mount archives of separate partitions to browse contents and copy information with standard Windows tools
Volume Explorer utility for browsing and exporting mounted or unmounted volumes of any file system as well as Paragon backups
 
Compatible with GPT hard disk partitioning scheme developed to lift restrictions of the old MBR
 
Blu-Ray Disc Support
 
Windows Vista 32- and 64-bit compatible application with increased functionality
 

Basic Backup Features

Backup an entire hard disk or separate partitions - primary, extended or logical 
Backup the first track of a hard disk , MBRs, individual files and folders 
Backup different combinations of disks and partitions to one archive
Schedule backup operations - Set and forget!
Save backup images to local drives, Backup Capsules, networks, external USB or Firewire Devices
Burn a backup archive to CD/DVD/BDs or write them to ISO-image files to burn later
Compress backup images
Set archive names and add comments
Interrupt backup operations if necessary
Supports USB 2.0 hard drives 
 

Basic Recovery Features

Restore an entire hard disk, separate partitions (primary, extended, logical) or any combination of disks and partitions from one archive
Restore individual files and folders from file-level backup
Restore on Bare-metal 
Restore the first track of a hard disk and the MBR 
Browse backup images by Volume Explorer
Restore individual files and folders by File Transfer Wizard
 

User Interface Features

Wizard driven User Interface for the majority of operations
Contextual Help for all User Interface controls
Virtual and Contextual operations
Built-in Volume Explorer
Embedded HTML browser with navigation through toolbars and menus
Graphical hard disk configuration displays for:  disk and partition properties (total size, used, free space, partition types and file systems), estimated archive size, step-by-step operation progress
 

Advanced Backup/Recovery Features

Hot Backup™ of locked partitions
Differential Backup
Incremental File Backup
Exclude files and folders during backup
Create/Resize/Delete the Backup Capsule
Save backup archives to physical partitions (without assigning drive letters)
Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
Resize while restoring
Mount partitions automatically after restoring
Check archive integrity of existing archives  or when creating new ones
Check existing Recovery Media and bootable archives
Reboot to the Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista) or special recovery environment (Windows XP/Vista 64-bit), when backing up locked partitions (if hot processing is disabled)
 

Administration

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 Scheduled Tasks Editor
 

Basic Partitioning Features

Creates, formats, deletes, hides/unhides partitions 
Assign/Remove drive letters 
Mark a partition as Active/Inactive
Reorder primary partitions (change slots)
Change partition volume labels, serial numbers and IDs
Update the MBR, check file system integrity, and test surfaces
Supports USB 2.0 hard drives
 

Program Settings

Disable/Enable Hot Backup™ of locked partitions
Process all sectors one by one or skip unused sectors (both for backup and copy operations)
Skip auxiliary files (pagefile.sys, hyberfil.sys) and archived backup images
Exclude files and folders matching defined mask during backup
Control archive integrity
Compress backup images (No/Fast/Normal/Best)
Encrypt and protect backup images by password
Split backup images (set split size)
Set burning speed (Maximum/Medium/Minimum/Automatic selection)
Set options for bootable archives
Specify a bootable part for bootable archives
Set image file names automatically
E-mail notification options (SMTP server, user name, password)
Virtual mode options (enabled/disabled)
Enable 64KB clusters for FAT16
Convert FAT16 to FAT32 automatically when copying (if resizing upwards is needed)
Set surface test levels (None/Normal/Extreme)  
 
Supported Operating Systems

Windows Vista (32/64-bit)
Windows XP Professional (32/64-bit)
Windows XP Home
Windows 2000 Professional
For server operating systems backup see Paragon Drive Backup Server Edition
 

Supported Hard Drives and Removable Media

Parallel ATA (IDE) HDD
Serial ATA (SATA) HDD
SCSI HDD
All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
CD-R/RW
DVD-R/RW
DVD+R/RW
DVD+/-R (DL)
BD-R
BD-RE
USB 1.x/2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices
PC card storage devices
 

Supported File Systems

NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
FAT16
FAT32
Linux Ext2FS
Linux Ext3FS
Linux Swap
HPFS
Other file systems (in Sector-by-Sector mode)
 

System Requirements

CPU: Intel Pentium or compatible, 233MHz or higher processor
RAM: 128 MB of RAM required (256 MB or greater recommended)
Disk space: 100 Mb
Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher

Available Options:

1 Year Download (+$9.99) 1 Year Product Support (+$9.99) 90 Day Download (+$4.99) Backup FlashDrive Shipped (+$9.99)