Paragon Updates Hard Disk Manager to V12 ($100 for Professionnal Edition)

Paragon
Software Group (PSG) announces an update to Hard Disk
Manager 12 Suite and Hard Disk Manager 12 Professional, ensuring a safe and up-to-date Windows 8 user experience.

With the release of Windows 8 64-bit and Windows Server 2012, UEFI has become
standard, delivering new options and adding flexibility to the booting process
and the fine-tuning of hardware use. UEFI support solves
booting problems that may arise during migration or restoration from an old to
a new hard disk due to a change in port connection. All necessary changes to
Windows Boot Manager will be made, and the system will reboot without any
manual intervention. To simplify the use of systems with multiple volumes,
it also includes a new UEFI-Switch feature that
allows the user to define which boot entry should be used.

The Storage Spaces feature of Windows 8 is an important step to easy
implementation of thin provisioning or storage resiliency, helping users to use
existing hard drives and to combine them for saving videos or other large
files. Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 can perform all maintenance and
configuration operations with volumes on Storage Spaces, be it backup,
partitioning or deletion. Additionally, the release of this update
delivers a new version of Paragon Boot Media Builder, which creates a 64-Bit
UEFI-compatible boot volume that can be written on a DVD, a USB flash drive or
saved as an ISO-file for virtual environments.

New and updated features include:

• Windows 8 support
• Support for GPT/UEFI configurations to clone, migrate, or restore a 64-bit
  Windows configured to the UEFI-based boot mode
• Enhanced physical-to-physical and physical-to-virtual functionality
• Boot Corrector – allows the user to perform UEFI switch in order to
  define a bootable operating system in case of several OSs hosted on one UEFI
  machine
• Storage Spaces support

Advanced Paragon Boot Media Builder (BMB) add-on:

• BMB is now compatible with the
  Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows 8, allowing the user to build RCD based on Windows PE 4.0
• Creates a 64-Bit UEFI-compatible boot volume
  that can be written on a DVD, a USB flash drive or saved as an ISO-file for
  virtual environments.

Pricing and Availability:
The Major Update to Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite and Professional
editions is available free of charge to current Hard Disk Manager 12 customers
at:

Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite is available for $49.95 (€39.95) via download
Hard Disk Manager 12 Professional is available for $99.95 (€79.95) via download