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Some
years ago I used Partition Magic the popular partition
software published by PowerQuest. The product worked
well for some time until the company changed ownership.
While it was a good utility there was something missing
- server support. I came across Paragon Partition
Manager and the Partition Manager Server Edition. It
was the first partition utilitiy program that did everything
I needed. The highlight - I finally was able to get
rid of these 1- 4 gig boot partitions on the Dell NT
servers I inherited. I was able to move and converted
extended to primary partitions. I changed 16-bit FAT
to NTFS. Yes, the old NT server is still booting and
performing well with a 6-gig boot partition (the size
of the boot drive). Partition Manager does what it claims
and does it well. The Server Edition (SE) handles Microsoft
Windows NT4 / 2000 / 2003 / 2008 servers Including the
Small Business Editions. A special license for technicians
allows you to use Partition Manager on your clients
servers and workstations.
Over
the years I found out I'm not the only one with Dell
systems and a small C partition and Dell is not the
only server with small partitions. Partition Manager
works great with your Compaq, HP, IBM and Dell PowerEdge
servers. Including the ones with PERC or CERC Raid configurations.
Use
Partition Manager with your IBM eServer xSeries x2xx,
x3xx, x4xx and the newer x3xxx. I personally use it
with and without the add-on ServeRaid 5i and 6i
The Pro and Server editions
include a self-booting recovery CD which allows you
to boot a PE DOS or Linux version of the Partition Manager.
Not to worry - there is no need to know Linux or DOS.
You will find a familiar GUI interface. Since the Server
Edition includes a technician license you can use it
for all the computers you work on. Using the boot CD
you don't need to install any software on the machine
and there is no chance for a strange windows process
to interfere with the operation. Get the Partition Manager
SE / Tech license today it belongs in your tool box.
Unsure
if Partition Manager is the product for you? Don't hesitate,
call us and we will answer your questions. Ceratec Inc.
(Emailprofessor) offers free pre-sales and tech support
via email, helpdesk and of course by phone. We're making
great products from around the world even better by
offering real advice and support in the US and Canada.
- Peter
Banz
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What customers have to say...
Troy writes: This
product worked great and just as expected. I have a four drive
RAID 5 configuration with a C (system) and D (Data) partition.
The software copied the drive image to a external USB drive,
I replaced the old hard drives with larger ones; configured
the RAID under the SCSI utilities and booted with the boot
CD. The user interface is easy to understand and pretty straight
forward. I blew the image from the old drives onto the new
and much larger four disk RAID 5 configuration and presto.
My server was up and running. The only thing I can find to
complain about is it seems slow but trust me, all drive image
products are slow and this one was doing a partition increase
and rebuild on the fly. If you have to replace drives on servers,
workstations, Microsoft, Linux
whatever. Get this product.
Your life will be so much easier and when its done with the
rebuild of the new image on the new driver it will
boot just like it did before. I give this product 5 stars,
A+++ and two thumbs up.
How to...
The number one
reason for purchasing Partition manager is a boot partition
= C: drive that is out of space. A lot of people including
MS will tell you that you need to start over. That can ruin
a perfectly good weekend. However as alternative you can join
thousands of happy admins that successfully used Partition
Manager to enlarge that small C: drive. Even if you don't
know much about servers and partitions you can do it. First
you need to run checkdisk (In command line type CHKDSK C:/F)
on all the partitions to make sure your file system is fine.
Do not attempt to resize a half dead system. Re-sizing partitions
is a task that taxes CPU and hard drives. You should not attempt
to work with a system that has any hardware issues. Complete
backup is a recommended. After that you are ready to load
Partition manager. It will ask you to reboot the system once
the install is complete. Now you are ready to go. Nothing
will alter anything on the disk until you click "APPLY"
Feel free to roam around you can always undo and start over.
If you unsure our in house tech support located in Austin,
TX will be glad to help.
What version..
If you only have
one server the single sever edition is fine.
If you have
more then one server to re-size or even a few work stations
the Tech license costs less then 2 single licenses.
It's on your name and you can use it as often as you like.
I recommend the
Enterprise version for shops and companies with a lot
of IT personal. It has an additional feature compared to the
tech version. You can backup a partition to a file (on your
usb drive). That's a great feature if you don't trust the
backup someone else did.
What will I
see
The tables below
show the steps you need to take to shrink a D drive to make
room for a larger C drive. It's really that simple. If you
happen to have an extended partition shrink the logical drive
inside instead the partition. The time it takes depends a
lot on your hardware and size. Most of the time is used for
step one, re-sizing and moving the data partition. One to
tree hours are typical. If you only need to enlarge the C
drive in to free space it may take only a few minutes. If
you are using MS Server 2003 or 2008 Partition Manager can
do the work on the fly (Hot Partitioning). However if the
partition is locked it will prompt you to "Retry, Reboot
or Cancel" You can try to stop the process that causes
the lock or reboot so Partition Manager will do the work during
the reboot.


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OVERVIEW
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Partition
Manager Supported Functions
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System |
Copy, Move,
Format
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Re-size Partitions
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Hot resize
Partition
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Un-delete
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Defrag Partitions
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Merge Partitions
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Change Clusters
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Convert
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| FAT
16/32 |
YES
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YES
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NO
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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to
NTFS, Fat 16/32 |
| NTFS |
YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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to
FAT |
| Ext2/3
FS |
YES
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YES
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NO
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YES
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NO
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NO
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n/a
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to
Ext2/3 |
| Raiser
FS |
YES
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YES
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NO
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NO
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NO
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NO
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n/a
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NO |
| HPFS |
YES
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YES
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NO
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NO
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NO
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NO
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n/a
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NO |
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Partition Explorer
technology that allows you to browse any partitions on
your hard disk, change any files, copy files and folders,
including hidden and unmounted partitions. (Partition
explorer utility)
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Hot Resize
technology can enlarge NTFS partitions without rebooting
Windows® and interrupting Server or Workstation work.
Thus it saves your time and money preventing Server or
Workstation downtime.
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Smart Partition
technology used in Partition Manager enables you to perform
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.
- Intelligent Disk
Defrag technology (IDD)
performs thorough and secure defragmentation even on almost
full (up to 99%) partitions.
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PARTITION
MANAGER VERSIONS Which one is right for your
job?
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TECH
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SERVER
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PRO
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FEATURES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Create,
delete, hide or make visible, format hard disk partitions
(FAT 16/32, NTFS, Ext2/3, Reiser FS, HPFS) |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Resize,
copy (with autoresize) and move hard disk partitions without
losing data |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Copy
disk to disk |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Set
label and partition ID |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Merge
hard disk partition WIZARD |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Hard
disk partition Undelete WIZARD |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Redistribute
Free Space WIZARD |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Convert
hard disk partitions (FAT to NTFS and vice versa, Ext2
to Ext3) |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Preview
changes made in partition layout before applying them
to disk |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Defragmenter
(NTFS, FAT) |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Partition
Explorer |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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BOOT
Manager functionality |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Supported
devices: Large disks, SCSI, HW Raid, FireWire, USB
drives, Flash |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Supported
Windows Workstatsion OS: 95/98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, Vista,
Windows 7 |
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YES
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YES
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NO
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Supported
Windows Servers - NT, 2000, 2003, 2008 Small Business
Edition, Standard, Advanced Server and sub versions. |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Windows
PE Support |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Professional
Recovery CD (Boot CD enables to restore any unbootable
system) |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Script
Language Support and Scripts Generator |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Command
Line Support |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Bad
blocks treatment with increased security* |
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Convert
Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks (not for Windows 98/ ME /
NT) |
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YES
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NO
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NO
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License for 10 Servers and unlimited Workstations |
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YES
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NO
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NO
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Includes 1 Year of Gold Support ( a $200
value!) |
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Please
click the image to the left for a list of supported controllers.
If you don't see your system or adapter listed please
call us at (512) 285-2620.The list keeps growing. Many
controllers are private labeled and we may can indentfy
the chipset. |
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$495.00
$795.00
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* Limited time special
Details
Basic Hard Disk Partitioning Operations
- 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
- Change hard disk partition label (volume label)
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Partition Manager SE for
All Microsoft servers. A must have for any serious
IT person or Technician. No need to add any software
to your clients machine.
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Make a copy of your servers partitions
weekly, daily anytime you want while everybody
is at work. Restore individual files or the entire
hard drive from bare metal.
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Ready to move to a new system or bigger hard
drive. Drive copy makes it easy.
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Advanced Partitioning Operations
- Resize hard disk partitions with data
- Copy disk to disk
- Copy with resize
- 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)
- Un-delete hard disk partition
- 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 parametersboot size, root size,
etc.
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File System Performance Optimization
- Change cluster size
- Defragment file system
- Defragment NTFS core structureMFT (Master
File Table)
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Technologies Support
- Supports large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, theoretically
not limited)
- Supports P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA (SATA),
(see list)
- SCSI hard disks and raid controllers
(see list)
- Supports FireWire, IEEE1394, USB 1.0, USB
2.0, ZIP® and Jazz® hard disks
- Supports NTFS from Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista,
Win7 and 2003 / 2008
- Supports NTFS with compressed and encrypted files
and folders
- Supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2 FS, Ext3 FS, Reiser
FS, HPFS file systems
- Support Flash drives
- Executable for:
- Windows 9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP
- DOS
- Linux (on Recovery CD)
- Supports long filenames (FAT, NTFS) and filenames
in national languages
- Supports 64K FAT16 extension
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Safety and Recovery
- Recovery CD 4
- Power Shield technologyresuming critical
partitioning operations after power failure
- Treating bad sectorssurface 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 e-mail for quick and easy technical support
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Easy To Use
- Virtual pre-executionBasically, it allows
you to do a dry run.
- Wizards for most usual scenarios:
- Partition Merge Wizard
- Redistribute Free Space Wizard
- Partition Undelete Wizard
- Automatic updating BootManager boot menu after partitioning
operations
- Operations usually impossible under Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
will be automatically performed in special mode during
OS reboot.
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Auxiliary utilities
- Built-in simple disk editing utility
- Paragon ISO Burner (to burn Recovery CD image or
any other CD image in ISO format)
- Partition Explorerbrowse FAT, NTFS, Ext2 or
Ext3 FS partition without drive letter, edit or copy
files and folders
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BootManager
- Up to 16 operating systems on one PC
- Operating Windows 9x/Me along with Windows 2000/XP/Vista/2003/8
- 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
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Dybamic to Basic
- Convert Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
(Dynamic Disks maybe found in Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7//2003/2008)
Pro and Technician License Package Only
- Premium Maintenance
- Upgrade Insurance2 years
- Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 Servers
and Windows PE support (Server Ed.)
- Script Generator
- Command Line Support
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System Requirement
- System: Windows 9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP/Vista,7
Workstation, Home or Professional, Linux
- Server editions include support for all windows
server versions including /2003 and 2008
- Processor: IBM AT compatible machine
- RAM: 128 MB
- Video: VGA or better
- Additional: CD or DVD-ROM drive (optionally
with recording capabilities to burn Recovery CD),
or Floppy Drive
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Partition Manager versions
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SERVER Edition
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SERVER/Techician
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ITconsultant
Edition
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Single-system license
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Per Technician 10 servers & unlimited
Workstations
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Per Technician unlimited client systems
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$ 295.00
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$ 495.00
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$795.00
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Go to our Online Store page to buy any
of the Partition Manager versions.
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Download a limited DEMO. It will show
you all the features but it will not actually apply
any changes to the hard disk.
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Pro & SE versionsupported
hard drive platforms:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista (Server editions
also supports 2000 /2003 /2008 Servers.)
IIDE, S-ATA, SCSI, SAS,, USB & Firewire drives,
various RAID controllers including 48-bit ATA
- IDE, Serial ATA - full support in both Windows and DOS sessions
Quick check - List of RAID controllers (This
is a partial list.)
IDE
Raid controllers
Promise FastTrak100 TX2/TX2000 Series
Promise FastTrak TX4000/376/378/S150 TX Series
Highpoint 370 software RAID
HighPort 371
HighPort 374
CMD680/Silicon Image 3112 Medley Software RAID
Intel Software RAID (ICH5R/ICH6R chipsets)
Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support
(Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and eXtremeRAID)
Promise SATA SX8 support
Promise SATAII-150 (TX4/TX2plus/579)
Promise SATA150 (TX4/TX2plus/378/618)
SCSI, SAS, S-ATA Raid Controllers
3ware Hardware ATA-RAID
Adaptec AHA 152x/2825 (AHA-1510, AHA-1520, AHA-1522, and AHA-2825)
Adaptec AHA 1542
Adaptec AHA 1740
Adaptec AACRAID
Dell Computer Corporation PERC 2 Quad Channel
Dell Computer Corporation PERC 2/Si
Dell Computer Corporation PERC 3 series
Dell Computer Corporation PERC 4 series
Dell Computer Corporation PERC 5 series
Dell Computer Corporation CERC S-ATA, series
Dell Computer Corporation PERC SAS 5 series
HP NetRAID-4M
ADAPTEC 2120S
ADAPTEC 2200S
ADAPTEC 5400S
Legend S220
Legend S230
Adaptec 3230S
Adaptec 3240S
ASR-2020S PCI-X
AAR-2410SA SATA
Adaptec AIC7xxx
Adaptec AIC79xx
Adaptec I2O Raid
LSI MegaRAID 1.18 driver series
LSI MegaRAID 2.00 driver series
BUSLogic
Compaq Smartarray
Compaq Fibre Channel 64-bit/66Mhz HBA
Most HP servers
IBM ServerRAID LSI
Intel/ICP
IBM ServeRAID 4, 5, 6, 7
NCR53C8XX/SYM53C8XX/LSI53C10XX
Symbios 53c416
PCI2000
PCI2220i
PCI240i
Seagate ST-O2 / FitureDomain TMC-8xx
Tecram DC390(c) / Am53/79C974
Serial ATA host controllers and
devices
ICH5 Serial ATA
NVIDIA Serial ATA
Promise Serial ATA TX2/TX4
Promise Serial ATA SX4
SiS Serial ATA 964/180
VIA Serial ATA
| Download
Demo |
Yes
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Server
Support |
Server ED
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Functioning Eval. Download |
No
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Supports
XP, 9x, NT, 2000, 2003 |
Server ED
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| Trial
Period |
n/a
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Supports
Command Line |
Yes
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| Platform |
Windows (/Linux, /DOS)
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| Scripting
Support |
Yes
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