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Hard Disk Manager 2008 Server

All the necessary tools you need to manage and maintain your hard drive in one advanced toolset! The server 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.

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Key Features

  • Basic and Advanced Partitioning - resize, move, hide, merge, restore and convert partitions without data loss. Enhance your server performance safely and quickly, convert file systems, defragment partitions and optimize their cluster size. By using Paragon HotResize ™ technology you can resize a system partition on your server without interrupting its activity. 

 

  • Real-time Server Disk Backup - due to Paragon's Hot Backup technology and Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (MS VSS) technology all your applications remain online during server disk backup and cloning without significant performance delays. This allows you to backup and then safety restore complete OS and server driven applications such as MS SQL and MS Exchange. Synchronous Backup of multiple volumes allows backup application data that placed on several volumes or partitions simultaneously.

 

  • Rapid system, server applications and data recovery in case of any disaster - recover your server completely even from bare-metal state with all your business applications working 10-times faster than built-in recovery tools. In case of unbootable system Hard Disk Manager includes Powerful Recovery Media - a bootable CD containing full functionality of the program and additionally offering full access to all partitions on local hard drives. So you can access important documents and copy them in secure place, fix crashed operating system with special tool or perform any operation.  

 

  • Automation of Server Management Routine - Powerful Script Generator to automate any routine operations from server disk imaging to disk partitioning, built-in Scheduler, Differential and Synthetic Backup capability, disk backup image verification, e-mail notifications deliver you completely automatic server management solution, saving precious time and reducing your IT costs.  

 

  • Secure disk Wiping: completely erase a whole hard disk, a separate partition or just clean free space. It guarantees secure and easy erasure of your critical data, so as it cannot be recovered with any present-day technology. You can choose a wiping method (US DoD or Paragon's algorithm) or even create your own customized method.  

 

  • Hardware and Software Flexibility - Wide range of software and hardware RAID support, Windows dynamic volumes support, IDE, SCSI, SATA, USB, FireWire hard drives support, local or network backup media support as well as built-in CD/DVD Burner to place server backup images on CD/DVD delivers great flexibility to IT professionals and system administrators. 

 

Basic Hard Disk Partitioning Features

  • Create, format and delete partitions
  • Hide/unhide partition, set partition active/inactive
  • Copy and move partition of any file system, quick and sector-by-sector modes
  • Set or change drive letter (Windows NT/2000/XP only)
  • Change hard disk partition Label (Volume Label)

 

Advanced Hard Disk Partitioning Features

  • Resize Hard disk partitions with data
  • Hot Resize (upward) - enlarge NTFS partition without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work
  • 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
  • Undelete hard disk partition
  • Redistribute Free Space
  • 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 Oprimization

  • Change cluster size
  • Defragment File System
  • Defragment NTFS core structure - MFT (Master File Table)

 

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
  • Interrupt backup operations if necessary
  • Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

 

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 MS VSCS)
  • Synthetic Backup (join differential archive with base archive)
  • 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)
  • Backup dynamic volumes
  • Restore dynamic volumes to dynamic ones
  • Backup/Restore to/from the Backup Capsule
  • Create/Resize/Delete the Backup Capsule
  • Save backup archives to physical partitions (without drive letters assigned)
  • Create bootable archives on CD/DVDs
  • Resize while restoring (upwards)
  • Mount partitions automatically after restoring
  • 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
  • Reboot to the Windows Blue Screen Module (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) or DOS Module (Windows 98), or boot from the Recovery Diskette (Windows Me) 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)
  • Copy with resize
  • Hot Copy
  • Schedule Copy operations
  • Supports USB 2.0 hard drives

 

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: US DoD, Paragon's, Simple (in menu item)
  • Your own customized wiping method (extreme customization option - 4 wiping patterns with up to 99 passes each)

 

Defrag Features

  • Monopoly Access mode defragmentation (requires reboot)
  • File system optimization strategies by three parameters (file date, file size, directory order)
  • Optimization of the page file and the hibernation file allocations
  • Defrag MFT to speed up all file access operations
  • Shrink MFT to make it more compact via removing its unused entries

 

Boot Management Features

  • Multi-boot environment
  • Easy activation/deactivation
  • Hidden mode
  • Customizable timeout and default item settings

 

Scheduling Features

  • Scheduler - built-in tool for scheduling recurring operations
  • 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 Tasks Editor

 

Safety and Recovery

  • Recovery CD with Unique Interface in XP style for restoring under DOS/Linux
  • 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 drive letter, edit or copy files and folders
  • Image Explorer - browse backup image, edit and copy files and folders
  • Automatic run of the embedded BootCorrector to correct possible startup problems in the boot.ini file for Windows® NT/2000/XP
  • Operations usually impossible under Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP will be automatically performed in special mode during OS reboot

 

Advanced features

  • Convert Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
  • Script Generator
  • Script Interpreter - takes job tasks from so-called script files and performs them in automatic mode
  • Script Language Description
  • Command Line Support
  • Email notification - automatic sending email with operation result information
  • Windows NT/2000/2003 Server support (Server Edition only )

 

User Interface Features

  • Virtual pre-execution
  • 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 places to 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 operation progress in graphic form and step by step
  • Display archive information
  • Windows Blue Screen Module localized as well as the main product modules