Paragon Partition Manager 15 Home, Download

Overview

Use the full capacity of your hard disk! Partition Manager offers extensive features for flexible partitioning, optimization and management of your computer. Whether you want to restructure your hard disk and divide it into partitions, redistribute free space, use multiple operating systems on your PC at the same time or work with virtual disks - with Partition Manager you have a first-class partitioning tool with powerful extra functions at your fingertips.

The Partition Manager is available in three editions: the Free Edition offers basic functions for those who do not need everything. The Home Edition is THE standard software for partitioning hard disks without data loss. The Professional Edition is the solution with extended functionality for professionals.

Partitioning - fast and without data loss

With Paragon Partition Manager you can perform all partitioning tasks conveniently and without data loss. Do you have everything on C:, in one big partition? Operating system, your own files, applications, games... The extremely powerful partitioning engine will help you divide your hard disk into neatly arranged areas (partitions) in no time and make sure that the available space on the hard disk is used optimally.

With the help of convenient partitioning functions you can manage the partitions on your hard disk easily and efficiently. For example, if you want to create a new NTFS partition, the program wizard will create it with the best possible use of available resources (automatic alignment). Just as easily, you can enlarge, shrink, move, delete partitions or restore partitions that were accidentally deleted.

Security for data and more flexibility

Splitting a hard disk into at least two partitions brings advantages in terms of data security. If you store the operating system, applications and data on different partitions, you are on the safe side if a reinstallation of Windows or restoring a backup or image is necessary: Your data is protected in the separate partition.

At the same time, partitioning your hard disk allows you to build an efficient data organization, individually tailored to your purposes. Partitioning into smaller drives increases both clarity and access speed to the contents.

Use multiple operating systems on the same computer - why not? Simply set up appropriate partitions and install the various operating systems in parallel on the PC. Each operating system needs its own correctly created and formatted partition.

Complex partitioning - made simple

Even if it becomes more complex - the understandable program wizards will guide you quickly and safely to the goal! Do you have a lot of space on one partition, while the neighboring partition never has enough space? Redistribute unused space and set the partition size according to your needs.

Or do you want to split a large partition into two small ones? Then specify which files and folders should be moved to the new partition, redistribute any unused space if necessary - and that's it! And merging partitions works just as smoothly.

The Professional Edition offers a suitable solution for almost every problem. Be it converting MBR basic disks to GPT basic disks and vice versa, changing primary slots to put partitions in the correct order in the partition table, or changing partition attributes.

Increase disk and system performance
 
Partition Manager's powerful partitioning tools ensure an optimal disk structure. The operating system can process data more efficiently if the physical hard disk is divided into a number of logical drives, each with its own drive letter and volume name.
Automatic partition alignment** ensures that disks are not slowed down in performance by misaligned partitions. The software aligns the partitions correctly during the partitioning process and optimizes the performance of the hard disk. Optimally configured partitions bring speed to all file system operations! The performance difference between incorrectly and correctly aligned partitions can be up to 300%!

By the way: Thanks to the automatic partition alignment you always get the maximum performance out of SSDs, hard disks with 4-K sectors and RAID volumes.

Security plus through proven technologies

With the unique Paragon Smart-Partition™ technology, you safely perform your partitions without losing a single byte of data. Paragon Power Shield™ (power failure protection) ensures that even in the event of a power failure, no errors will creep in and critical operations will continue as soon as power is restored.

Built-in Paragon backup functions allow you to create a backup before hard disk processing - on the fly and without rebooting. If an operation didn't work as planned, no problem. The Restore Wizard will quickly get your system back up and running.
Backups can also be created as a virtual hard disk, which you can use as the basis for virtual machines. With the Professional Edition, you can then edit the virtual hard disk directly!

Paragon Rescue Disk

The new Rescue Disk Configurator 3.0 makes creating your personal rescue environment on an external disk particularly easy and flexible. When the operating system fails to boot, you can start the PC with the bootable Paragon rescue environment and back up important data or fix boot errors. With Home Edition, you create the rescue media based on Linux/DOS; with Professional Edition, you can create USB or .iso rescue media based on both WinPE and Linux.

**Automatic partition alignment is always active when partitions are created or moved, and during resized copy and recovery operations. For free space redistribution, it is active only when the left partition boundary is included.

System requirements:

Supported operating systems

• Windows 10 1511/1607
  
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 8
• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP SP3

Supported storage media

• Windows Storage Spaces
• Hard disks > 2 TB
• AFD (Advanced Format Drive)
• Hard disks with sector sizes > 512 B
• SSD (Solid State Drive)
• HDD
• CD-R/RW
• DVD-R/RW
• DVD+R/RW
• DVD+/-R (DL)
• BD-R
• BD-RE

Supported partitioning tables

• MBR (Master Boot Record)
• GPT (GUID Partitioning Tables)
• APM (Apple Partition Map)
• Windows Storage Spaces
• Microsoft Dynamic Disk (single, spanned, striped, mirrored, RAID-5)

System requirements

• Intel Pentium III 300 MHz or higher or comparable (1000MHz for Windows PE rescue environment)
• 512 MB RAM (1 GB for Windows PE rescue environment)
• 1 GB hard disk space (up to 2 GB additional space during installation)
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher

Supported BUS interfaces

• UEFI configurations
• Parallel ATA (IDE)
• Serial ATA (SATA)
• External SATA (eSATA)
• SCSI
• All SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
• USB 1.x/2.0/3.0
• IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
• PC / PCMCIA card interfaces

Supported file systems

• NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
• FAT16
• FAT32
• Ext2
• Ext3
• Ext4
• Linux Swap
• Apple HFS+
• Other file systems (in sector-by-sector mode)

Supported virtual machines

• Oracle VirtualBox
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Microsoft Virtual PC
• VMware Workstation
• VMware Fusion

Only for Connect VD and P2V customization
MS Windows backups (.vhd images)

For Connect VD only
Parallels Workstation
XenServer (.vhd format only)

Requirements for tablets

• Intel-based
• 64 bit
• UEFI
• Win 8/8.1/10
• 32 bit UEFI systems are NOT supported