Partition Manager from Paragon provides easy and safe partitioning functions to even none-professional users.

You can reclaim wasted disk space, organize your data, add new operating systems, speed up file system performance. You just select what partition modification should be done.

All will be done automatically without data loss.

Here are some key features of "Paragon Partition Manager":

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 modes2
· Set or change drive letter (Windows NT/2000/XP only)
· Change hard disk partition Label (Volume Label)

Advanced hard disk partitioning operations:
· Resize hard disk partitions with data
· Hot Resize (upward) - enlarge NTFS partition without rebooting Windows and interrupting its work
· 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)
· Undelete 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 parameters - boot size, root size

File System Performance Optimization:
· Change cluster size
· Defragment File System
· Defragment NTFS core structure - MFT (Master File Table)

Technologies Support:
· Supports large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, theoretically not limited)
· Supports P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA (SATA), SCSI hard disks
· Supports FireWire, IEEE1394, USB 1.0, USB 2.0, ZIP and Jazz hard disks
· Supports dynamic disks
· Supports Flash devices
· Supports NTFS from Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003
· Supports NTFS with compressed and encrypted files and folders
· Supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2 FS, Ext3 FS, Reiser FS, HPFS file systems
· Executable for:
- Windows 9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP
- DOS
- Linux (on RecoveryCD)
· Supports long filenames (FAT, NTFS) and filenames in national languages
· Supports 64K FAT16 extension

Safety and Recovery:
· Recovery CD with Unique Interface in XP style for restoring under DOS/Linux4
· Power Shield technology - resuming critical partitioning operations after power failure
· Recovery Media Builder - creates CDs/DVDs(or even a floppy disk) that you can boot from and recover your system
· 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

Easy to use:
· Virtual pre-execution
· Wizards for most usual scenarios:
- Partition Merge Wizard
- Redistribute Free Space Wizard
- Partition Undelete Wizard
· Automatic updating BootManager boot menu after partitioning operations
· Email notification - automatic sending email with operation result information
· Script Interpreter (psi)
· Operations usually impossible under Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP will be automatically performed in special mode during OS reboot

Auxiliary utilities:
· Built-in simple Disk Editing utility
· Unpack&Burn Wizard - Just three clicks to burn your own Recovery CD
· Partition Explorer - browse FAT, NTFS, Ext2 or Ext3 FS partition without drive letter, edit or copy files and folders

Bootmanager
· Up to 16 operating systems on one PC
· Operating Windows 9x/Me along with Windows 2000/XP
· 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


Limitations:

All operations are available in virtual mode only - so you can evaluate how the program looks like and how it represents your partition configuration, try to perform operations virtually and feel how you can change partition configuration with Partition Manager. Also, following components are not included to reduce demo version size:
- BootManager
- Complete help file (available as separate download here)
- Partition Explorer
- ISO Burner
- Bootable Recovery CD