The Weaver Family

Normally when I have to do hard disk work, such as backups, cloning or partitioning, I yank out a Linux Boot CD and get to work.  The main reason is because Windows, doesn’t have adequate built-in utilities, and when it comes to partitioning, at least in WinXP, non-existent.  In Linux, you can do partitioning, and resizing etc, on Linux and Windows formatted partitions, it’s just a heck of a lot easier,  ONCE, you get out that boot CD.  Running off a boot CD can be a bit slow, but still better than dealing with MS Windows.

Until Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5 SE.  This program does quite a lot.

• Partitioning -  Maintenance, Creation, Deletion, Resizing,  Undelete a Partition,  supports Windows and Linux formatted partitions.  (You can do this from with the program or from a Boot CD that the program creates.)
• Backups – Full backups and differential backups, scheduled backups, backup restoration.
• HD Maintenance – built-in defragmenter (including Master File Table defragmentation),  NTFS to FAT32 conversions, surface scan, direct edit of HD sectors, and more.

The program has a clean easy to use  understandable interface.

It’s available for Windows 98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (32-bit & 64-bit), Windows Vista  (32-bit).  Vista users may want to check if it works in the 64-bit environment, I’m honestly not sure.  This is an older version of Hard Disk Manager, but it is free with registration.  You can register  when you go to install, or you can go to Paragon HD Manager 8.5 SE registration page, and register ahead of time.   Download it and try it out.

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