10 Personal

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INTRODUCTION

Paragon Partition Manager™ 10 Personal is an integrated set of powerful tools that is specially designed to

tackle most of the problems the user might face while using PC. A highly intelligent program engine together

with built-in advanced recovery facilities make it possible to securely carry out partitioning operations of any

complexity, optimize performance of NTFS and FAT file systems, migrate the system to another hard disk, etc.

without fear to lose precious data.

In this manual you will find the answers to many of the technical questions, which might arise while using the

program.

WHAT’S NEW IN PARTITION MANAGER 10

 Support of the Windows Installer MSI package. It is the latest engine for the installation, maintenance

and removal of software on Windows-based operating systems. With its help you can now install the

product remotely or in the silent mode, make use of powerful deployment capabilities, etc.

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Improved 64-bit support. You don’t need to reboot your computer from the Recovery CD every time an

operation cannot be accomplished under 64-bit Windows any more. The program will automatically

reboot to a special mode to complete the operation.

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Support of GUID Partition Table (GPT). It is the next generation of a hard disk partitioning scheme

developed to lift restrictions of the old MBR. GPT disks are now supported by Windows Vista, Server 2008,

Mac OS X and Linux.

 Support of the latest Linux kernel. It offers support of a wider range of hardware configurations, including

the brand new Intel ICH9 chipset.

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Express Create Partition Wizard. Create a new partition in the most appropriate place of your hard disk,

format it to NTFS and then make it available in the system by assigning a drive letter.

 Safe Defragmentation Mode. Guarantee data loss free defragmentation of any version of NTFS and FAT.

 Integration of the Linux/DOS recovery media directly to the installation package. You can now burn it

with the Recovery Media Builder any time you want. Besides it will also be used as a bootable part of

any bootable backup image created with the program.

 Recovery environment on a USB flash drive. With the help of the Recovery Media Builder you can now

create Linux/DOS bootable media on a USB flash drive that may later be used for maintenance or

recovery purposes.

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Support of the Apple Boot Camp Configuration. With the Boot Camp utility Apple Inc. offers a

technology to set up a dual boot system (Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista) on Intel-based Macs. With

the Linux/DOS recovery environment you can now easily backup/restore this kind of configurations as

well as redistribute unused space between Mac OS X and Windows partitions.

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Install Windows OS Wizard. Get your Intel-based Mac ready to install Windows either as a sole operating

system with the option to back up your Mac partition, or as a second operating system, thus making a

dual-boot system.