paragon partition manager express trial software / shareware for windows

Paragon Partition Manager is the safest and easiest
tool to re-partition hard drive without data loss.
Resize FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Linux partitions.
Create, format, move, copy partitions. Supports hard
drives > 80GB. Supports Windows XP NTFS.
New advanced features:
- Supports Windows XP (codename Whistler) and new NTFS
from Windows XP.
- Runs on Windows NT/2000 Server.
- USB hard drives support.
- Build-In Disk Editor.

Universal tool for partition! 7Tools Partition Manager 2005 affords everything you may need for managing partitions; it is suitable for both everyday and rare needs, for either inexperienced user or advanced professional.
At any time you can easily and safely change partitioning of your hard disk, change parameters of partitions. All modern and usually used file systems and operating systems are supported.
With 7Tools Partition Manager 2005 you can organize your data, reclaim wasted disk space, speed up file system performance, add new operating systems. You can even install and manage several operating systems on your computer, no matter which they are. Overcoming barriers between different families of operating systems - get full access to Linux partitions (Ext2/3FS) from Windows operating system.
With 7Tools Partition Manager 2005 you just select what partition modification should be done. All will be done automatically without data loss.
Main features:
- Up to 16 operating systems on one PC
- Operating Windows 9x/Me along with Windows 2000/XP
- Various installations of the same operating system (in different languages or different versions)
- Direct booting Linux (skipping LILO)
- Installing Linux beyond 1024-cylinder boundary
- Password protection against unauthorized booting computer
- Different configurations can be created for the same physical installation of operating system
- Boots DOS/Windows 9x/ME from the second hard disk
- Dynamically adds newly installed operating systems
- Importing external bootsector
- Duplicating boot.ini file to create different configurations
- Boots even unrecognized OS
- Resizing partitions with data (FAT16/32/32x, NTFS, Ext2/3 FS, Reiser FS)
- Copying and moving partitions (any file system). Special fast algorithms for FAT/FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Ext2/3 and ReiserFS partitions are available.
- Converting file system (FAT16 FAT32, FAT16/32 NTFS)
- Changing cluster size for FAT16/32 and NTFS
- Creating, deleting, hiding partitions
- Supports large hard disks (over 80GB)
- Supports DOS/9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
- Works on Windows NT/2000 Server
- Supports NTFS versions beginning from Windows NT 4.0 up to Windows XP, for all operations
- Supports USB hard disks
- Built-in simple Disk Editing utility
- Includes programs for both Windows and DOS
- Creates more than one primary partition for a disk
- Supports 64KB FAT cluster (used in Windows NT)
- Supports long filenames (FAT16/32)
- DOS program has graphical user interface with mouse support
- Treating bad sectors - surface test can be optionally used for format, copy, move and resize operations
- Resuming critical operations after power failure
- Linux executable included (with limited functionality)
- Partition Explorer utility (DOS and Windows executables) - access NTFS, Ext2FS partitons content under DOS or any Windows
- Dynamic Volumes support (Windows 2000/XP only) - now you can view the status of Dynamic Volumes in 7Tools Partition Manager 2003, and convert them back to basic partitions. (* Applicable only in case of SIMPLE dynamic volumes. Simple volumes occupy only one partition. Neither Mirrored nor Spanned nor RAID-5 dynamic volumes are supported.)
- MFT defragmenter - now you can defragment NTFS core structure, Master File Table (MFT), thus improving file system performance.
- Ext3FS support - view, info, format, copy/move, backup, resize, convert ext2fs
- ReiserFS support - view, info, format, copy/move, resize
- Automatic updating BootManager boot menu after partitioning operations
- Special startup driver for performing operations not possible under GUI of Windows NT/2000/XP
- Sector-by-sector copying. This mode let you to copy all sectors of source partition/hard disk including those which are marked as unused or bad. This mode is useful to copy partitions/hard disks with partition-bounded software
- While copying, resize function is also available. In the case of partition copy, you can change the size of target partition. In the case of hard disk, the appropriate transformation of partition sizes is possible in accordance with target hard disk size
- Supporting NTFS with compressed files and/or folders
- Converting NTFS revision (XP 2000 NT)
Version restrictions:
- You can create, format, delete, hide/unhide, mount/unmount, view sectors (read/write access to any sector).
- Other functions (convert, resize, any operations with active partitions) arent working in demo version. Demo version includes only Windows part without DOS one and without NT Startup service.