Paragon Drive Copy 11 Professional

By Terry Currier

Sort of a do all utility for anyone wanting to copy a hard drive. What I used it for was to clone my hard drive to an external drive connected via USB. I have a 1.5TB drive in my computer and right now I’m using about 450GB of that space. There are other programs that will clone the drive, but you have to have the same size drive to copy it to. The Paragon Drive Copy did great copying it to the 500GB dive with no problem.

I set it up to Migrate Hard Disk. I started it before going to bed and expected the process to still need sometime in the morning. But, it was done when I checked it in the morning. When I first backed up the drive with Rebit it took much longer. To be fair though Rebit creates a database and saves the files in a special way.

Using the Paragon Drive Copy is the ideal way to migrate to a larger drive, or to an SSD drive. Another use is as they call it migrate hard drive to container. It creates a image file of your drive making it so you can create a copy onto another computer. This is what many companies will do in setting up new computers so they all match.

One thing we should all have is a recovery disc. Their Recovery Media Builder can help you:

• Prepare the Linux/DOS recovery environment (included in the installation package) on external media (CD, DVD, or flash memory) to boot and run utilities under Linux or PTS DOS, and that way to get access to your hard disk for maintenance or recovery purposes.
• Create from the master CD the Linux/DOS or WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment) recovery environment on a CD/DVD disc, or flash memory.
• Prepare a bootable recovery environment from any ISO image, including their  WinPE 3.0 image

Paragon Drive Copy Key benefits:

• Ultra high-capacity HD support (>2.2TB) migrates existing system from Master Boot Record (MBR) to modern Retained GPT (GUID Partition Table also known as Hybrid GPT) HDD and gain access to complete HDD capacity
• All partitioning (resize, move, creation) and copy with resize operations now take partition alignment problems into account with all volumes being automatically aligned by sector
• Dissimilar hardware support allows migration of existing system and makes it bootable in a new environment
• Copy features – copy a full hard disk or a separate partition, and resize a partition while copying
• Supports all major virtual machines: MS Virtual PC, VMware Workstation, Oracle Virtual Box, VMware Fusion;
• Basic partitioning features
• Refined User Interface – improved two-level user interface (Easy/Advanced) to satisfy needs of every customer
• Boot Corrector
• Empowered data safety and disaster recovery tools for both physical and virtual Windows environments.
• Updated wiping technologies can efficiently dispose data on any HDD, SSD, flash-drives and laptops.
• USB 3.0 ready: New USB 3.0 port grants the possibility to access to external HDD and Flash drives on the new high-speed version of the traditional serial port

Drive Copy 11′s interface is good and easy to understand. The help that comes with it is very good with illustrated instructions to help the user.

Paragon Drive Copy 11 Professional is available for $39.95 via download from http://www.paragon-software.com/home/dc-professional/

System Requirements

• Operating systems: Windows XP/Vista/7 and XP SP2/Vista/7 64-bit
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
• Intel Pentium CPU or its equivalent, with 300 MHz processor clock speed
• 128 MB of RAM (256+ recommended)
• Hard disk drive with 100 MB of available space
• SVGA video adapter and monitor
• Keyboard
• Mouse

Additional requirements

• External USB hard drive to store data.

Contact Information

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P.O. Box 9804, Newport Beach, CA. 92658

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