Paragon Hard Disk Manager Personal 6.0

Hard Disk Manager 6.0 is easy, complete and reliable toolset for hard disks: hard disk management, maintenance and disposal, boot management, data and system security, simple recovery. A convenient and clear interface, smart wizards and a bunch of additional utilities make any task regarding hard disk easily approachable even for home users. Includes functionality of Partition Manager, Drive Backup, BootManager, Disk Wiper and much more.

Create a new partition configuration from scratch

Change the existing configuration with data in any conceivable way - separate and secure important data on dedicated partition, move free space among partitions, change partitioning for new operating system or data (FAT16/32, NTFS, Ext2/3 FS, Reiser FS, HPFS are supported)

Improve the file system performance (defragment file system and MFT, change cluster size, etc)

Secure your system and data - backup important data locally, on CD/DVD, on removable media or external storage. HotBackup (create an image of running operating system without interrupting it) and Incremental Backup (enables to update existing image of partition with changes performed since previous backup) are available.

Flexible possibilities for image burning and restoring:
¤ burn to CD/DVD any set of partitions, whole hard disk, or separate files
¤ restore any files from image and even change them inside image using Image Mounter or Image Explorer

Install and use several operating systems (e.g. Linux & Windows) on one computer, optimize partition configuration for them

Easily dispose hard disk - with no risk for old data to be restored by somebody

Simple recovery functionality for system crashes, including recovering important documents. Bootable CD is available to fix or restore unbootable system, or to save important documents on recordable CD/DVD.