The downloadable Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Premium is a Windows software program that backs up the contents on your drives to protect them in the event of drive failure or a virus. It supports physical and virtual Windows environments—even if it is encrypted with BitLocker. You can also schedule differential and incremental backups to maximize disk space. New in this version are file-level backup for virtual containers, agent-less protection of Hyper-V guest machines, AES support, and more. Paragon Recovery Media Builder 3.0 is now embedded into this version so you can create WinPE-based bootable media and inject required drivers during setup.
Hard Disk Manager 15 Premium enables you to resize, create, format, or read HFS+ volumes. You can also swap file systems to another type such as HFS to NTFS or FAT to NTFS. To save critical data during a system reformat, it creates a partition for just your data so you can just reinstall the operating system. Migrating your backup onto another computer, Paragon's imaging technology enables you to create a VD container that you can burn to a removable media. In addition, Hard Disk Manager 15 Premium lets you erase data securely with 10 wiping methods.
New Features in Hard Disk Manager 15 Premium
- Prepares Linux or WinPE-based bootable environment on a USB thumb drive, in an ISO, or PXE image
- Doesn't obligatory require Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) or Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) on Windows 7 and later platforms
- Can build WinPE-based media on Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003 if there's WAIK installed in the system
- Allows injecting additional drivers for storage devices, network controllers, USB controllers, or system during setup
- Enables to set up a network connection with a pre-mounted network share during setup
- Prepares hybrid (both, uEFI and BIOS compatible) 64-bit recovery environment on flash or in an ISO image
Backup and Disaster Recovery Features
Partitioning and Optimization Features
Data Copy and Migration Features
- A 64-bit Windows OS system configured to the uEFI boot mode can be adjusted to successfully start up on another hard disk during copy/restore accomplished directly under Windows. Previously the uEFI fixup was only available under WinPE
- A 64-bit Windows OS system configured to the uEFI boot mode will successfully start up in a virtual environment after P2V migration
- The Linux-based recovery environment supports systems configured to the uEFI boot mode
Virtualization Features
Data Wiping Features
Supported Technologies and Operating Systems
- Mount Paragon's backups (.pbf and .pVHD images)
- Mount a virtual disk in the non-destructive mode. This is a special read/write mode, in which all changes on the connected disk are being saved to a snapshot, thus providing complete safety for the original disk's contents. If needed, this snapshot can later be merged with its parental disk by using standard tools included with the virtualization software
- Remote connection of virtual drives through vSphere interface to accomplish drive partitioning, data exchange, or OS migration of Windows virtual environments hosted by ESX
Compatibility
Supported Hypervisors for Connect VD
VMware ESX 4.x and higher
VMware ESX 5.x and higher
VMware ESXi 4.x and higher
VMware ESXi 5.x and higher
VMWare vSphere ESX/ESXi 4.x/5.x
For direct access to virtual hard drives:
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
Microsoft Windows Virtual PC
Microsoft Virtual Server
Microsoft Hyper-V R1/R2
Oracle Virtual Box 1.0-4.x
VMware Player
VMware Workstation 10.0
VMware Server
VMware Fusion
Supported Virtual Machines for P2V Scenarios
Microsoft Virtual Server
Microsoft Hyper-V
VMware Workstation 10.0
VMware Fusion
VMware ESX Server
VMWare vSphere ESX/ESXi 4.x/5.x
Oracle VirtualBox 4.0
Supported Virtual Hard Drive Types
Microsoft - Virtual Hard Disk (VHD)
Oracle - Virtual Desktop Image (VDI)
Paragon's backups (PBF/pVHD)
Supported Computer Bus Interfaces
SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment)
External SATA (eSATA)
SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.x/2.0/3.0
IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
All types of RAIDs (hardware and software)
PC or PCMCIA Card (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association)
Supported Storages
AFD (Advanced Format Drive)
Non-512B sector size drives
SSD (Solid State Drive)
HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
CD-R/RW
DVD-R/RW
DVD+R/RW
DVD+/-R (DL)
BD-R
BD-RE
Supported File Systems
With Bitlocker encrypted hard disks
NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
FAT16
FAT32
Linux Ext2FS
Linux Ext3FS
Linux Ext4FS
Linux Swap
Apple HFS+
Other file systems (in the sector-by-sector mode)
Supported Partitioning Schemes
MBR (Master Boot Record)
GPT (GUID Partition Table)
Microsoft Dynamic Disk (simple, spanned, striped, mirrored, RAID-5)