All-in-one suite to completely protect, maintain and manage your PC - Hard Disk Manager (HDM) provides you with all of the tools you need to manage today’s hard drives, including partitioning, backup, cloning, defrag, hard drive disposal, system management and system recovery.

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.

HDM 2009 Suite allows you to:

• Save your entire PC, including the operating system, applications, your settings, and all data files with easy-to-use backup tools.
• Continue working on your computer while making backups.
• Restore the entire disk contents in minutes - no reinstallations required!
• Start the recovery process when booting your computer, even if your operating system has failed.
• Easily partition your hard drives and keep them optimally sized.
• Keep your system performing like it was when first installed.
• Manage multiple operating systems (up to 16) on a hard drive.
• Easily move data and system information between drives and partitions.
• Tune your system for maximum performance with a powerful defragmentation utility.
• Easily clone an existing drive or partition to a new one - with Windows Vista even to different hardware!
• Expand your PCs storage capabilities with additional hard disks.
• Maintain the confidentiality of your deleted data forever with a disk wiping utility.
• 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 2009 Suite at a glance:

Complete set of tools
HDM 2009 Suite provides you with the most comprehensive hard drive maintenance tool available.

Intuitive user interface
Easy to use wizards help you take full advantage of the power of HDM 2009 Suite.

Backup/Restore
Backup or Restore to/from a spare drive, partition, Paragon's Backup Capsule, an external USB or FireWire HDD device, CD/DVD or Blu-ray disc. HDM 2009 makes both backup and restore a snap!

Hard Disk cloning
In only a few clicks, copy entire hard drives or individual partitions with the Drive Copy tool.

File-level and Image-level backups
NEW Add only changed or new files to a previously created image. Each backup level and each file can be restored separately! Restore your system anytime to a specified date.

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.

NEW Adaptive Restore
A powerful and unique technology that allows you to restore Windows Vista to completely different types of hardware or even to virtual machines.

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 your personal data protected when exchanging or destroying a hard drive. Quickly and permanently delete all personal and confidential data.

Full MS Windows Vista support
Fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit and NEW 64-bit). Includes updates and new product features as available throughout a renewable service period.

NEW Upgradeable Demo
Demo Version upgradeable to complete version - no further downloads or installations needed.

Full Features

General Features

• Complete set of tools for overall HDD maintenance in one suite
• Imaging and Partitioning
• Optimization and Defragmentation
• Recovery
• Backup/Restore
• Disk Wiping
• Includes simple wizards for beginners and comprehensive tools for advanced users
• MS Windows Vista support (32-bit and 64-bit)
• NEW MSI package: Remote and silent installation, software deployment

Partitioning Features

• Basic Partitioning Wizards and Dialogs to help you create, format, check file system, delete, hide/unhide, mark as active, assign drive letter, etc.
• Resize, copy, and undelete partitions functionality
• Disk Editor
• Master Boot Record (MBR) Operations
• Drive integrity check
• Hard Disk surface test
• NEW "Install New OS" Wizard

Boot Management Features

• Multi-boot environment
• Default settings and boot on timeout
• Hidden mode
• Easy activation/deactivation
• NEW Boot Corrector with BCD support to solve common boot problems

Imaging and Cloning Features

• Hard Disk / Partition Copy
• 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 support

General Backup/Restore Features

• Backup Data and System to an archive
• NEW Exclude files and folders from a backup image
• Restore data and system from an archive
• Restore from Recovery CD
• Backup Archive Compression
• Backup Archive Encryption

Supported Backup/Restore methods

• Backup or Restore to/from a spare drive or a partition
• Backup/Restore to external USB or FireWire HDD device
• Backup/Restore to CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc
• Backup/Restore to Paragon's Backup Capsule
• Bootable archives on CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc

Advanced Backup/Restore Features

• Paragon Hot Backup support
• MS VSS support
• NEW File-level backup
• NEW File-level complement to Image-based backup
• Choice of Hot Processing method
• Backup Capsule management
• NEW Dual-boot Backup Capsule with Linux and DOS recovery environments
• Burn existing archives to CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc
• Restore partition with resize
• NEW Adaptive Restore with Windows Vista: Restore to completely different hardware
• Extract individual files from backup archive
• Restore within BTE environment

Rescue Kit Features

• Recovery Media Builder (CDs, DVDs and New USB Flash Drives)
• Recovery CDs
• Recovery CD: Simple Restore Wizard
• Recovery CD: Network support
• Three recovery environments: DOS, WinPE and Linux
• 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
• New Blu-ray disc support (BD-R and BD-RE)
• New GPT Disk Support

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

• New Full support for Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows 2000 Professional
• Windows XP Home Edition
• Windows XP Professional

Supported HDD Interfaces

• SATA RAID
• Parallel ATA (IDE)
• Serial ATA (SATA)
• SCSI
• All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
• IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
• USB 1.x/2.0
• New Large hard disks support (>2TB)
• PC card storage devices

Supported CD/DVD and other Removable Media Formats

• CD-R
• CD-RW
• DVD-R
• DVD-RW
• DVD+R
• DVD+RW
• DVD+/-R (DL)
• New Blu-ray disc-R and Blu-ray disc-RE Support
• Support for ZIP, Jazz and other removable media

Supported File Systems

• NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
• FAT16
• FAT32
• Ext2FS
• Ext3FS
• Linux Swap
• HPFS
• Other file systems (in sector-by-sector mode)

System Requirements

• CPU: Intel Pentium CPU or its equivalent, with 300 MHz or higher processor clock speed
• RAM: 256 MB required (512 MB for Windows PE Recovery CD)
• Disk space: 150 MB free space
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
• Mouse
• Extra: CD/DVD drive (Blu-ray disc-R and Blu-ray disc-RE Support), SVGA video adapter and monitor