[Forum Exclusive] Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional

[Mohammad]

Overview:

Computing is very important in our daily activity. You need the computer for your work, entertainment, playing and many other purposes. With long time use of your personal computer, you will need to do maintenance of your hard disc, backup, protect and recovery of your data. The Hard Disk Manager 15 Professional includes everything you need for reliable data protection and professional PC management!
It includes a great collection of tools and features both basic and advanced that let you manage your computer as a professional. It offers you powerful partition management, full spectrum of virtual and physical migration operations, data safety and disaster recovery, agentless MS Hyper-V Backup, secure data wiping and many more useful features.
In this review, I will try to show you how this program is of great help to many users. I am using the free trial (demo version) of the hard disc manager 15 professional

Homepage:

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-professional/index.html

30 Days free Trial

Size: 61.4 MB

Download: The download link will be sent to your email address immediately after a simple registration.

Current version:  15

Release date: October 2014



System Requirements:

Supported Operating Systems:  Windows XP to 10
Supported Computer Bus Interfaces: Complete uEFI support, SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment), External SATA (eSATA), SCSI, iSCSI, USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.x/2.0/3.0
Supported Storages: AFD (Advanced Format Drive), HDD,  SSD,  CD-R/RW, DVD, BD-R, BD-RE
Supported File Systems: NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1), FAT16, FAT32, Linux, Apple HFS+
Supported Partitioning Schemes: Windows Storage Spaces Support, MBR (Master Boot Record), GPT (GUID-Partition Table), Microsoft Dynamic Disk
For Windows installation: 300 MHz or higher processor, 512 MB free RAM, 1 GB free disc space, IE 5.0 or higher
For WinPE environment: Intel Pentium III CPU, 1000 MHz processor clock speed, 1 GB RAM, SVGA video adapter and monitor, Mouse



Program Features:

Backup and Recovery Features: such as sector and file level backups with differential or incremental updates, any backup destination, smart Backup Wizard, backup and restore from VD, incremental backup to VD and many more

Partitioning and Optimization Features such as very strong partitioning engine, basic and advanced partitioning, Split and merge partitions, Redistribute Free Space, boot corrector and manager, HFS file systems conversion and many more

Data copy and migration features: copy a full hard disk or a separate partition, and resize a partition while copying, copy/restore to dissimilar sector size, migrate OS to dissimilar hardware, exclude data you want to exclude from the copy process

Virtualization Features:

Migrate a physical system to a virtual environment (P2V Copy), restore a physical system from a backup directly to a virtual environment (P2V Restore), migrate a virtual system from one virtual environment to another, or migrate a virtual system to a physical environment (V2V / V2P), connect a virtual disk as if it’s an ordinary physical disk (Connect VD)

Data Wiping Features: Destroy all on-disk information or only remnants of deleted files/directories with 10 wiping methods, also it can wipe SSDs of most manufactures with log file autosaved to specified location

Supported Technologies and Operating Systems:
Support for Apple HFS+, uEFI Support, support for AFD (Advanced Format Drive), 2TB+ and non-512B sector size drives, USB 3 and Bitlocker support, windows Storage Spaces Support and User-friendly Interface

New features added in the current release:

Supports the latest Windows 10
Improved Export VD Container Wizard, this helps to burn a VD container to removable media (CD, DVD or Blu-ray disk). 
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) support
System state data backup support
Agentless protection of Hyper-V guest machines
File-level backup/restore for virtual containers (pVHD, VHD, VHDX, VMDK)
Update Refactored P2V Restore Wizard with added use of virtual containers (pVHD, VHD, VHDX, VMDK).
Paragon Recovery Media Builder 3.0 is now embedded into the product. It can boast more options, usability, and stability
Wipe SSDs of most manufacturers very user-friendly and permanently
Automatic saving of the wipe reports to the specified folder
Revised Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Agentless protection of Hyper-V guest machines
Refactored P2V Restore Wizard

Full changelog can be found here:

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/hdm-professional/release.html

Now we can start our discussion about the software.

It offers a large collection of tools and advanced features, in my review I will try to explain and clarify the important features. Full discussion of all the program features is beyond the scope of this review
The program offers you everything you need for professional data management and system administration options which had never before been possible. It depends on stepped wizard system to help you do all complex features in a simple easy way like a professional even if you are a beginner. You can do maintenance of your system within a few mouse clicks



System & data backup:

Using the program, you can do back up of the entire Windows system, individual partitions or selected Password protection keeps sensitive data safe from unauthorized access.
If you want to keep your data secure, the program supports password protection of your data and even encrypt drives with BitLocker.
You will need to start with the tab: ”backup and restore” then select backup to virtual drive. The stepped wizard will pop up and let you go in steps that are well arranges and self explanatory. You will first select the backup mode (files, email, documents, media, operating system or volumes), then specify the backup objects whether the whole hard drive or certain partition. Next, you will need to specify some details as the name, destination and description of the output image, finally you can either select to backup now or later on. If you select to backup later, you will create a script that will help you to complete your backup later. The scripting engine can be used to automate frequently used operations and benefit from the variety of virtual backup containers which simplify work with virtual environments.

The script generation settings let you add the location to store the script, script comment and script options, that’s all!
You have many built in advanced backup options such as sector and file-based, differential or incremental backups (to include the changes done to your system since the last image or backup is done) or special file complements.

You can save the backup image to many locations. For example local mounted or unmounted partitions, external mounted storage, Backup Capsule (secured hidden partition on the HDD),  external media (CD/DVD), network drive, FTP/SFTP server. The external storage and network options offer better data protection
You can also create a backup or incremental backup of an offline or online guest machine hosted by Hyper-V Server, and restore later when you need.



The program has many backup utilities that you may need such as manage capsule, check VD integrity, export VD container, and retention wizard for VD (automated backup of entire HDD or partitions).

Export VD container is a useful built in tool that will help you to perform many operations. You can easily convert an existing VD container to some other format. In addition, you can burn a selected VD container to a removable media (for example; CD, DVD). You can also create a container of incremental images.






















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