Every PC owner sooner or later meets a task of hard disk management. An optimum allocation of disk resources is the key point to manage data and operating systems on your computer effectively.

Paragon's award winning Partition Manager provides easy and reliable hard drive partitioning and full-range hard disk management. It enables to create, copy, resize and move hard drive partitions. This full function tool is suitable for home and professional use.

Partition Manager helps you to:

    * Enhance computer performance, convert operating systems, defragment partitions, optimize your hard disk partitions cluster size.
    * Resize, move, hide, merge, restore and convert partitions without data loss.
    * Install and manage several operating systems on your computer with Boot Manager.
    * Copy partitions and whole hard drives adopting their size to target partition.

Since 1997 Partition Manager offers most effective and innovative technologies in the field of hard disk management.

Special Power Shield ™ feature ensures that even in case of power supply failure no error will occur and the operations will continue after power supply restore. (Learn more)

Unique UFSD technology allows to browse any partitions on your hard disk, change any files, copy files and folders, including hidden and unmounted partitions. (Partition explorer utility)
Even inexperienced users will find hard disk partitioning easy with new built-in Wizards.

Unique Smart Partition™ technology, used in Partition Manager 7.0 enables to perform almost all hard disk partitioning operations without losing a single byte of data. You can be 100% sure, that no data will be lost even during most complicated partitioning operations on your hard disk.

New powerful built-in defragmenter based on unique Intelligent Disk Defrag technology (IDD™) performs thorough and secure defragmentation even on full (up to 99%) partitions.

Unlike freeware and some other commercial partitioning software, that are based on Windows ® algorithms and are therefore bond to their limitations and restrictions, Partition Manager 7.0 uses ONLY its OWN algorithms. The program is completely isolated from the operating system and can work separately. Practically it means that you can use this product even on unbootable PCs.

Partition Manager 7 Features
Basic hard disk partitioning operations:
Create, format and delete partitions1
Hide/unhide partition, set partition active/inactive
Copy and move partition of any file system, quick and sector-by-sector modes2
Set or change drive letter (Windows NT/2000/XP only)
Change hard disk partition Label (Volume Label)

Advanced hard disk partitioning operations:
Resize hard disk partitions with data1
Hot Resize (upward) - enlarge NTFS partition without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work1
Copy disk to disk
Copy with resize3
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)1
Undelete hard disk partition*1
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 size1
Defragment File System1
Defragment NTFS core structure - MFT (Master File Table)

Technologies Support:
Supports large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, theoretically not limited)
Supports P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA (SATA), SCSI hard disks
Supports FireWire, IEEE1394, USB 1.0, USB 2.0, ZIP® and Jazz® hard disks
Supports dynamic disks
Supports Flash devices
Supports NTFS from Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003
Supports NTFS with compressed and encrypted files and folders
Supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2 FS, Ext3 FS, Reiser FS, HPFS file systems1
Executable for:
- Windows 9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP
- DOS
- Linux (on RecoveryCD)
Supports long filenames (FAT, NTFS) and filenames in national languages
Supports 64K FAT16 extension

Safety and Recovery:
Recovery CD with Unique Interface in XP style for restoring under DOS/Linux4
Power Shield ™ technology - resuming critical partitioning operations after power failure
Recovery Media Builder - creates CDs/DVDs(or even a floppy disk) that you can boot from and recover your system
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

Easy to use:
Virtual pre-execution5
Wizards for most usual scenarios:
- Partition Merge Wizard
- Redistribute Free Space Wizard
- Partition Undelete Wizard
Automatic updating BootManager boot menu after partitioning operations
Email notification - automatic sending email with operation result information
Script Interpreter (psi)
Operations usually impossible under Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP will be automatically performed in special mode during OS reboot

Auxiliary utilities:
Built-in simple Disk Editing utility
Unpack&Burn Wizard - Just three clicks to burn your own Recovery CD
Partition Explorer - browse FAT, NTFS, Ext2 or Ext3 FS partition without drive letter, edit or copy files and folders

BOOTMANAGER
Up to 16 operating systems on one PC
Operating Windows 9x/Me along with Windows 2000/XP
Various installations of the same operating system (in different languages or different versions)
Direct booting Linux (skipping LILO)
Installing Linux beyond 1024-cylinder boundary
Boots even unrecognized OS
Importing external bootsector
Password protection against unauthorized booting computer
Boots DOS/Windows 9x/ME from the second hard disk
Different configurations can be created for the same physical installation of operating system
Dynamically adds newly installed operating systems
Duplicating boot.ini file to create different configurations

PROFESSIONAL AND SERVER EDITIONS ONLY:
Convert Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
Premium Maintenance
Upgrade Insurance - 1 year
Windows NT/2000/2003 Server and Windows PE support (Server Edition only)
Script Generator
Command Line Support

Available Options:

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