Partition Manager 8.5

The product is being released in several editions, Personal, Professional, Server and Enterprise Server, which vary in price and provided functionality:

   The Personal edition does not support scripting, i.e. it cannot perform batch tasks in the unattended mode.

   The Personal edition does not support dynamic disks:

- It cannot perform any operations on dynamic disks, but entire deletion;

- It cannot convert dynamic disks back to basic;

- However, it can recognize the layout of dynamic disks.

   Generate script, Save to Scheduler, Convert to Basic program’s dialogs are unavailable in the Personal edition.

   There is no possibility to send notifications by e-mail on the carried out operations in the Personal edition.

   Only the Enterprise Server edition allows the user to backup/restore hard disks/partitions.

   Only the Enterprise Server edition provides support of the Microsoft VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) technology.

   Additional to the features supported by the Personal version of the Recovery CD, the Professional, Server and Enterprise Server versions provide the following advanced functionality:

- Ability to map network shares to place or retrieve backup images over LAN;

- Built-in CD/DVD burner providing a high level of data protection (only Enterprise Server);

- Backup/Restore of dynamic volumes (only Enterprise Server);

- UFSD LDM module to mount complex dynamic volumes (spanned, striped, mirrored and RAID-5).

Supported Operating Systems

Please take into consideration the mentioned above peculiarities of the certain versions when working with the program.