* Easily move data and system information between drives and partitions
* Tune your system for maximum performance with powerful defragmentation utility
* Easily clone an old drive or drive partition to a new one
* Expand your PCs storage capabilities with additional hard disks
* Maintain the confidentiality of your deleted data forever
* All available Paragon Hard Disk Management technologies are available in one suite
* Flexible and reliable overall system control at a low cost.

Key Features and Benefits of HDM 2008 Suite at a glance:
• Complete set of tools. HDM 2008 Suite provides you with the most complete hard drive maintenance tool available
• Intuitive user interface. Easy to use wizards help you take full advantage of the power of HDM 2008 Suite.
• Backup/Restore. Keeping previous backups makes it easy to restore your system to a particular date and time. HDM makes both backup and restore a snap!
• Hard Disk cloning. Copy entire hard drive or just an individual partition, with Drive Copy tool it takes only few clicks
• Optimization and Defragmentation. Defragmentation is the best method for achieving top system performance. The file system is always tuned for maximum performance.
• Advanced Recovery Utilities. Provides fast, easy and complete recovery (including operating system, software and data) in case of system crashes, hardware failure or other disasters.
• Imaging and Partitioning. Advanced tools let you control your hard drive, the number of partitions and the type of backups you may need.
• Disk Wiper. Keep you personal data protected when exchanging or destroying a hard drive. Quickly and permanently delete all of the personal and confidential data.
• MS Windows Vista support. Fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista. Includes updates and new product features as available throughout the renewable service period

Partitioning Features:
* Basic Partitioning (Create, format, check file system, delete, hide/unhide, mark as active, assign drive letter, etc.) Wizards and Dialogs.
* Resize copy and undelete partitions functionality.
* Disk Editor
* Operations with MBR
* Drive integrity check
* Hard Disk surface test

Boot management Features:
* Multi-boot environment
* Default settings and boot on timeout
* Hidden mode
* Easy activation/deactivation

Imaging and Cloning Features:
* Hard Disk/Partition Copy
* Incremental Copy Option
* Copy with resize

Defragmentation Features:
* Monopoly Access mode defragmentation
* Filesystem optimization strategies by three parameters (file date, file size, directory order)
* Optimization of the page file and the hibernation file allocations.
* MFT defragmentation
* Low free space defragmentation (less than 1% free space required)
* External USB device defragmentation
* Shrink MFT feature
* Big volume support ( >128 GB)
* RAID suppor

General Backup/Restore Features:
* Backup Data and System to an archive
* Restore Data and System from an archive
* Restore From Recovery CD
* Schedule Backup operations
* Backup Archive Compression
* Backup Archive Encryption

Supported Backup/Restore methods:
* Backup/Restore to/from a spare drive, a partition, a Backup Capsule
* Backup/Restore to external USB or FireWire HDD device
* Backup/Restore to CD/DVD
* Backup/Restore to Backup Capsule
* Bootable archives on CD/DVD

Advanced Backup/Restore Features:
* Paragon Hot Backup support
* MS VSS support
* Choice of Hot Processing method
* Backup Capsule management
* Burn existing archives to CD/DVD
* Shut down after scheduled backup
* Restore partition with resize
* Extract separate files from backup archive
* Restore within BTE environment

Rescue Kit Features:
* Recovery Media Builder
* Recovery CDs
* Recovery CD: Simple Restore Wizard
* Recovery CD: Network support
* Three recovery environments
* File Transfer Wizard

Wipe Features:
* Wipe partition/drive
* Clear free space

Hardware Support:
* CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
* DVD±R Double Layer Support

This comprehensive package of functionality is accessible from one easy-to-use interface, so you don’t need to buy and install each package individually by saving you time and money.

New in Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2008 Suite, 11.10.2007:
Hard Disk Manager Suite is a new edition in the product line. In this new product, we’ve combined all of the tools that you need for hard disk management and maintenance, in to a single, easy-to-use suite.
Hard Disk Manager 2008 Suite is Windows Vista compatible. It includes Exclusive launcher - a single place to select the functions that you need for specific tasks. All of the functions are divided into categories, which reflect different solutions:
* Backup and restore
* Imaging and partitioning
* Optimization and defragmentation
* Advanced recovery utilities
* Wiping

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