And you can’t save your file-based backup to CD, DVD or FTP server, although oddly these destinations are available if you’re backing up a full partition or hard drive. These backup features are functional, but a little basic, so for instance there are no encryption or compression options.

You’re able to create an image of individual partitions or an entire drive your emails, media files or documents can be backed up in a couple of clicks or define your own choice of files and folders to be saved. The “Smart Backup Wizard” offers a variety of ways to back up your data. And there are even options to defragment and compact the NTFS Master File Table, a system area that’s usually ignored by most of the competition. Not only will this defragment your hard drive, but it can also rearrange your files in a variety of ways to try and improve performance. Once your drives are organised as you’d like, then you can keep them optimised with the very thorough Paragon Total Defrag 2010. There are options to create, format, move, resize, hide, unhide or delete partitions, all of which launch helpful wizards that make them very easy to follow and understand. The partitioning tools, for instance, are worthy of a stand-alone program on their own. Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 Suite is a comprehensive collection of tools that can handle just about every hard drive-related task you might want to carry out.

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