# Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite

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Partition, copy, and clone disks with Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12.

## Why Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite?

- Effective opportunities for managing modern HDD
- The whole package of tools for copying, retrieving and partitioning
- Prompt movement to new hard drives, SDDs and virtual drives
- Effective service and optimization of the drives

### Over 20 Great Tools in One Complex

- All options for HDD rebuilding to reach its ideal, efficient exploitation
- Safety of needed information and possibility to return the former settings
- Booting your system on any hard drive
- All the best from SSD disks
- Maximum effect of virtual drives
- Safe and reliable cleaning functions enabling not to leave information in bad hands

**Excessive Instruments to Manage the Disk**

- Optimal partitioning opportunities bring your hardware the best productivity
- Automatic leveling enforces the productivity of your PC
- Strong defragmentation configures your system
- Enables using of up to 16 OS on a single HDD

**Momentary Transportation**

- Fast and easy data transportations - renewing the hard disk, copying the data to new HDD as well as applying the old computer on a new virtual disks
- Transforming any Windows OS of XP and later from ordinary HDD to a more efficient SSD
- Working with newest hardware standards

**Full Copying**

- Safety system for the whole computer that covers the OS, software, files and folders, settings and includes copying opportunities
- Protect your system while it’s running
- Automated copying procedures due to arrange procedures
- Retrieving of the whole HDD - fast and without any reinstallations

**Developed Retrieving**

- You may start your retrieving process when rebooting the system, even in case it’s failed
- Make a safe bootable disk for unexpected retrieving
- Boot your OS from a new HDD

**Simple Virtualization**

- Create a virtual copy of your OS and then move the data to the new hardware
- Retrieve the old virtual software if your software was failed to virtualize
- Works with many types of virtual environment like Oracle VirtualBox 4

**Safe Cleaning**

- Cleaning just an important information no matter if it’s an important separation or the whole HDD
- Two cleaning options can clean all data on drive and give the top security

**See more:**
[Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite review](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/paragon-hard-disk-manager-review.html)
[Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Professional review](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/paragon-hard-disk-manager-review.html)

### Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite offers many features including:

**Partitioning and Optimization Features:**

Partitioning Engine

Paragon implemented a completely new engine for all partitioning tasks. The result is a very strong partitioning engine that works generically with all modern hard drive technologies

Basic and Advanced Partitioning

Create, format, delete, undelete, hide or unhide partition; set partition active/inactive; set, change or remove drive letter; change hard disk partition label (Volume Label); convert file systems without formatting; check file system integrity; run complete surface test

Selective Restore

Extract individual files and folders from an archive without restoring an entire image. Use the Restore Wizard and simply check the files that you’d like to restore.

Split partitions

You can separate OS and data or different types of data by splitting one partition to two different partitions of the same type and file system

Merge Partitions

Consolidate the disk space, from two adjacent partitions (NTFS, FAT16/FAT32), into a single, larger partition

Redistribute Free Space

Increase free space on one partition by utilizing the on-disk unallocated space and the unused space of other partitions

Automatic partition alignment

Optimize performance of your hard disk during partitioning/copy operations and restoring a backup image to new hard drives (not all operations are supported\*)

#### Backup and Recovery Features:

Major backup techniques

Sector and file level backups with differential or incremental updates as well as an exclusive file complement

Any backup destination

Local mounted/un-mounted partitions, external storages, CD/DVD/Blu-ray discs, network shares, FTP/SFTPs servers as well as the secured hidden partition (Backup Capsule)

Smart Backup Wizard

Back up exactly what you need, with the best backup technique automatically chosen according to the type of data you wish to protect

Selective Restore

Easily extract files and folders from a backup image through the Restore Wizard without the need to restore an entire image

Paragon Adaptive Restore 3.0

The latest Adaptive Restore helps you restore your system backup onto completely different hardware from which the backup was made, or migrate your operating system from your old to your new computer. P2P Adjust OS Wizard will add all required drivers smoothly and easily, making your operating system bootable on your new machine or on the altered hardware

Hot Processing Options

Live backup is a key feature for any backup software. The product has a highly flexible, improved configuration for two different methods of hot processing: Paragon HotBackup and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

#### Data Copy and Migration Features:

Full range of copying operations

Copy a full hard disk or a separate partition, and resize a partition while copying

File exclude for Copy HDD

When copying a partition or a complete hard drive to a new device, you can now easily exclude data you want to exclude from the copy process

Migrate OS to dissimilar hardware

Migrate existing systems and make them bootable in a new hardware environment

#### Virtualization Features:

P2V Copy / P2V Adjust OS

Migrate a physical system to a virtual environment in the online mode and make OS start up after unsuccessful migration or virtualization with 3rd party tools\*\*

Support for major virtual machines

MS Virtual PC, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, and Oracle VirtualBox 4

#### Supported Technologies and Operating Systems:

Support for Windows 8

Accomplish any operation under Windows 8

Support for Apple HFS+

Not only resize, but also create, format, or get read only access to this file system through our program

Support for the latest HDD standards

Enjoy support for AFD (Advanced Format Drive), 2TB+ and non-512B sector size drives

Support for USB 3.0

More effectively manage external hard drives by using all benefits of the USB 3.0 interface

Notes:
\* Automatic partition alignment is always active during create/move operations, active during redistribute free space/resize operations only when the left partition boundary is affected, active during copy/restore operations with resize only.
\*\* P2P Adjust OS is only available for WinPE bootable recovery environment (WinPE bootable media can be created with the help of Paragon Boot Media Builder or Paragon WinPE Recovery Media Builder).

## Related guides

- [How to Choose Disk Management Software](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/disk-management-software.html)
- [How to Clone a Hard Drive to an SSD](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/cloning-software.html)
- [Disk Imaging: Create and Restore a Drive Image](https://find-your-software.com/solutions/imaging-software.html)