Free Paragon Hard Disk Manager8 Download

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  1. incursari

    incursari Registered Member

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    Alrite thank you. :thumb:
     
  2. Ocky

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    Thanks to the link posters - have just downloaded from mirror.
    One question, will the recovery media builder enable me to make
    a simple bootable CD so that I can backup and restore offline with it ?
    Does one need to somewhere on Paragon's site obtain an iso image to
    make a recovery CD ? With Acronis it's easy, the recovery CD can be
    made by just clicking on rescue media builder.
     
  3. gerardwil

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    yes
    no

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  4. Ocky

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    :thumb: :thumb: Many thanks. I am happy with Acronis but will try this on wife's laptop.
     
  5. incursari

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    I already installed it. Do backup and restore, it works reliably with my system..... nice :thumb:
     
  6. zapjb

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    It's so easy & intuitive.

    The way imaging programs are supposed to be. :D
     
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  8. Pedro

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    :D yes, now what? Santa gives us this, now off to learn what it does.
    Seems a very complete program, all sort of tasks are available.
    It supports ext3 i think. Besides NTFS and FAT32, what else?

    Also, did anyone compare it with Acronis TI, IFW/IFD or SP? Not now obviously, it takes time, but Paragon's imaging altogether. I think i read somewhere that only certain editions support Windows's VSS. How's SE?
     
  9. DCM

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    I downloaded and got it running last night with the help of recent posters. Now that it is running, I have a question.

    In looking at Paragon Hard Drive Manager 8 and Paragon Drive Backup 8, they seem very similar. Both will image the drive and both have the same version number.

    No problems with this but just curious. I cannot figure out why they would have two apparently identical products with different names. Am I reading something wrong in their opening pages?
     
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  10. Bob D

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    Paragon Hard Disk Mgr is their "suite".
    It includes functionality of both of their Drive Backup & Partition Mgr. proggies.
    Per their site Paragon Hard Disk Mgr:
     
  11. lodore

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    i have a few problems.
    one of them is the pc itself and not the program.
    1. if i tell it to make a recovery cd and burn it to cd via my cd burner it wont let me press next it could be that it cant find any media in the drive.
    i did try different blank cd's thou.
    so i used the emulated drive and then browsed to program files/paragon and found an iso folder and it it was an emulation ISO so i used nero to burn it to cd and it works great.
    2. i get a hot processing error if i tell it to make an image of both the master boot record and the C: partistion. it does the image fine but it cant do the third step which is combine the two archives in to one archive.
    but i found out that the harddrive had bad sectors so i ran a chkdisk on all partisions and now windows wont write to the bad sectors. which is a good thing.
    the image restored perfectly thou.more about this in number 3
    3. ok so now the bad sectors are corrected i thought i would create a image hopefully with no errors this time.
    ok this is the weird part, suddenly in the middle of it creating the image the pc froze and rebooted but showed a prompt saying put a valid boot cd in the A: drive.
    so i checked the bios and no HD was found.
    so i took the case side off and pushed the cable in.
    then windows loaded right away. but it done the same thing when i tryed to create another image but further on.
    so i changed the cable for the HD but it still does it.
    this happerned when i first installed windows 2000 pro on it a few weeks ago.
    so for some reason the bios cant find the HD so if installing an OS it gets stuck. or if using windows it freezes and reboots.
    anyidea what to do to stop this problem?
    i think the images will create successfully as long as the HD doesnt disapear:D
    on the whole a very nice program that only has processes running while it does a backup and once finished it stops them.
    so it can be totally on demand imaging program. a major plus if you ask me.
    lodore
     
  12. gerardwil

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    You have to click on browse first and point to bootcd.iso.
    Then you can click on "next".

    Gerard
     

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  13. lodore

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    i choose the default top option.
    typical.
    why would you have to choose the ISO?
    shouldnt typical option do it for you?
    i clicked on typical option pressed next.
    then i choose my psysical cd burner stuck in the disc then clicked next.
    on that step it tells me to put in a cd and then pres next but the nezt button didnt work.
    lodore
     
  14. gerardwil

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    Lodore,

    You can choose whatever you want of course.
    I thought you wanted a Bootcd ISO.
    I must have misunderstood your question.

    Gerard
     
  15. lodore

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    yes i do want a bootable iso image but i thought the typical option would burn a paragon bootable rescue cd.
    the problem is that if i select my cd burner as the place to create the disc i can click next because it cant find any media in the drive.
    so i got around it partly by creating it to the emulation burner and used nero to burn that ISO to cd.
    but its just odd that paragon cant find any media in the drive.
    lodore
     
  16. Sputnik

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    Works wonderful! Thanks a lot for the information. Personally I prefer Paragon over Acronis now-a-days.

    ps. Did anyone try this SE version under Vista?
     
  17. lodore

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    i prefer it over acronis as well.
    it only uses one process called lancher.exe when creating images.
    i might use this SE paragon on my main pc to replace acronis.
    this way the images will be more reliable and the recovery cd works as well.
    if you buy any paragon imaging product you can a winpe recovery cd for eiether $11 or $20 dollers.
    depends on what version ya want.
    lodore
     
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  18. lodore

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    ok i think this deserves a new reply.
    it seems there is alot of talk about the cool shadow protect desktop IT editon that can backup a pc without any install.
    well in this video they show you backing up to a external HD
    but the most interesting thing is that you can run it from the cd with no install just like shadow protect desktop It edition but paragon Drive Backup 8.5
    Personal Edition is only $50 and $11 for the winpe recovery Cd
    it shows the 8.0 version but 8.5 is now out so the video is outdated but still good.
    http://images.paragon-software.com/db/flash/9.swf
    lodore
     
  19. incursari

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    Since I use Paragon drive backup, I do restoration from the recovery CD and do restoration from Windows, it never failed on my system at all, never had any corrupt images. And for this Paragon Hard Disk Manager also never failed on this too. I play around with the partition, resize from outside and inside Windows, everything works beautifully. I find that this suite really worth to buy for the Pro version.
     
  20. lodore

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    ive just emailed paragon sales about getting paragon drive backup 8.5 for 50percent off for migrating from acronis true image 9.
    paragon drive backup 8.5 is normaly $50 and the winpe recovery cd is $11 so in total $61
    so with discount i can get it including the recovery cd for around £15.
    hope they ship to the UK.....
    lodore
     
  21. acr1965

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    Anyone try to run the defragger? I did but could not get it to work properly. Is it something that must be ran in safe mode?
     
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    I think this is the personal edition. Inside the program, in help there are hints that seem to point to that (link to the knowledge base etc.).

    It does not support VSS, but for online backups, it uses the "Paragon Hot Processing Technology". In Basic concepts-Paragon Hot Processing & Volume Shadow Copy Service:

    It should be more than enough for me though! If i need more, Paragon will be on my 1st options, if i have no issues with it.
     
  24. gerardwil

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    I ran the defragger and it did is job fine. However it won't defrag a disk which is in use, in that case you will be asked to restart your machine and then it will do this job.
    You also can run Defrag from the Boot CD.

    Gerard
     
  25. EASTER.2010

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    I quietly been a PARAGON advocate for years after TI & Norton's screwed up my pc and found it totally user-friendly and most effective of all. This comes as no surprise that others will soon discover PARAGON is an elite group of specialists who sharpen and honed their programs "FIRST!" before letting them out of the bag into the label box.

    And who can forget the continuing echoes like a broken record of thank you for choosing Acronis products and all that nonsense instead of getting down deep in the trenches where it really counts when it comes to imaging issues and the like. Gee Whiz!
     
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