We were able to recover them, but only after much fiddling with the program's settings. During the course of our review we managed to lose access to two key partitions. This provides shortcuts to various wizards through a launcher app that won't win awards for attractiveness, but gets the job done.ĭespite this attempt to offer more handholding, we must be honest: partitioning is not for the novice. Version 9 adds a new front-end to mask the cluttered main interface. Better still, the CD doubles up as an emergency boot disc, so there's no need to create rescue media when you first use it. We liked the fact that you can run the program from CD within Windows, so you don't need to clutter up your system by installing it. Partition Manager also features Boot Manager, which is coupled with a wizard for helping you set up a dual-boot system on the same hard drive.Īlthough it can hide all other primary partitions on the same drive (fixing the System Restore problem encountered on dual-boot Vista and XP machines), it's not elegant and you can only get rid of it by updating the drive's MBR using the main program. This is ideal if you're upgrading a hard drive and don't want to mess around with reinstalling anything. There's also a tool for migrating a drive's contents to another drive or partition.
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It's a cut-down version of Paragon's sister title (the excellent Hard Drive Backup tool), so while it's straightforward to use you can only back up to other hard drives, and there's no data verification option. Mindful perhaps of the dangers of fiddling with partitions, Paragon has bundled a simple back-up wizard to image your data prior to making major changes. This is all good stuff for the advanced user, but there's more. It's also able to merge and hide/unhide partitions, and convert a partition between different types (primary or logical) and file systems (such as FAT32 and NTFS).
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