We’d hope that pressing F1 at any point would display detailed context-sensitive help on whatever you’re doing. Subdued colors, a lack of graphics and flat 32×32 icons mean this all looks rather ugly. Right-clicking a volume also displays related commands, or you can browse the menus - "Backup & Restore", "Partitioning", "Copy & Migration" - for the functions you need. Select a drive or partition and a Commands pane lists some of your available actions (format/ delete/ move/ resize partition, for example). Clicking any volume displays more low-level information (sectors per cluster, partition ID, NTFS version). This interface opens with various panes showing your drives, partitions, and their key details (file system, volume, size/ used/ free).
The tiles won’t even reorganize themselves if you resize the window they just disappear out of view.įortunately, clicking the "Hard Disk Manager 15" tile launches the full program, giving you complete access to all of its functions. There’s no "search" to help you find a feature.
You can’t resize or arrange the tiles, add new ones or remove any you don’t need. Hard Disk Manager Suite 15 opens with a simple Windows 8-style front end menu, presenting its key functions - backup, restore, copy, wipe, more - in various colorful tiles.
It’s a lengthy list of features, but how do these all work individually? We put Paragon’s latest build to the test. Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 15 (HDM) extends the package further with SSD wiping support, file-level backup to virtual containers (pVHD, VHD, VHDX, VMDK) and a simpler Embedded Recovery Media Builder. There are bonus tools to securely wipe data, copy or clone disks, while a choice of bootable recovery environments, (DOS, Linux or Windows PE) help to get a broken PC working again. You’re able to back up files, partitions or complete drives to local or network storage, CD/ DVD/ Blu-ray discs, network shares or FTP/ SFTP servers. A power partitioning engine can set up your drive, split or merge partitions, redistribute free space, recover lost partitions and more.