Paragon Drive Copy 8.0 is a cutting-edge solution to deploy new hard drives, migrate data and applications online, create bootable backup copy of a hard drive or its partitions.

We recommend you Paragon Drive Backup , if you need a solution to backup on a regular basis along with drive copy functionality.

Paragon Drive Copy 8.0 is based on innovative Hot Copy® technology. Due to this technology all your applications remain online during data migration without significant performance delays. Easy to manage and understand interface in Windows XP style, unique One Button Copy Wizard, platform independent Drive Copy CD, automatic transferred partition resizing, wide hardware support (including USB, FireWire hard drives) make Drive Copy an ideal solution for the full spectrum of disk cloning operations.

Paragon Drive Copy is available in Personal and Professional versions, you can compare editions here.

Full Features List:

Easy to use:

• Virtual pre-execution for all not wizard-guided operations under Linux.   
• Wizards for most usual scenarios: Copy Partition Wizard, Copy Hard Disk Wizard, One Button Copy Wizard, Partition Undelete Wizard (Professional Edition Only)   
• Scheduler - built-in tool for scheduling recurring operations (regular duplication of hard disk to external usb drive as alternative backup solution, for example).
• Operations usually impossible under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 will be automatically performed in a special mode during OS reboot with a New easily understandable GRAPHICAL user interface.

Basic drive copy / hard disk partitioning operations:

• Create, format and delete partitions (Professional Edition Only)
• Hide/unhide partition, set partition active/inactive (Professional Edition Only)
• Copy partition of any file system, quick and sector-by-sector modes
• Create a copy of running operating system without interrupting it (Windows™ NT, 2000, XP, 2003 only) - HotCopy technology
• Set or change drive letter (Professional Edition Only)
• Change hard disk partition Label (Volume Label) (Professional Edition Only)

Advanced drive copy / hard disk partitioning operations:

• Copy disk to disk   
  
• Copy with resize   
  
• Undelete hard disk partition (Professional Edition Only)   
  
• Change SID (Professional Edition Only)
• Change hard disk Partition ID (hard disk partition signature) (Professional Edition Only)
• Change hard disk Partition Primary Slot (in Master Boot Record) (Professional Edition Only)
• Update MBR (Master Boot Record) with standard code (Professional Edition Only)

Technologies Support:

• Supports large hard disks (up to 500GB tested, theoretically not limited)
• Supports P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA (SATA), SCSI hard disks
• Supports FireWire, IEEE1394, USB 1.0, USB 2.0, ZIV® and Jazz® hard disks
• Supports NTFS from Windows NT, 2000, XP (Windows 2003 - Professional Edition Only)
• Supports NTFS with compressed and encrypted files and folders
• Supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2 FS, Ext3 FS, Reiser FS, HPFS file systems
• Executable for:
  * Windows 9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP
  *Windows 2003 and Windows Server Editions (Professional Edition Only)
  *Linux (on Copy CD)
• Supports long filenames (FAT, NTFS) and filenames in national languages
• Supports 64K FAT16 extension

Safety and Recovery:

• Copy CD with Unique Interface in XP style for copying under Linux
• Power Shield ™ technology - resuming critical partitioning operations after power failure
• Treating bad sectors - surface test can be optionally used for format, copy, move and resize operations
• Retesting disk surface for partitions with data
• Checks file system integrity
• Automatic gathering of system information and operations logs into one packed file for quick and easy technical support via Log Saver under Linux

Auxiliary utilities:

•     Unpack&Burn Wizard - Just three clicks to burn your own Recovery CD 

System Requirements:

- Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP

Paragon Drive Copy is available in Personal and Professional versions, you can compare editions here.