Nonetheless, Paragon HDM 8.5 for free is still a valued software as it costs $49.95 to buy, but now available free-of-charge. However, both is older version of Paragon HDM, and has since been superseded by updated Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2008 Suite or more advanced version of Paragom Hard Disk Manager 2008 Prefessional. Incisive Media has partnered with VNU to give away free copy with genuine license for Paragon Hard Disk Manager (HDM) 8.5 SE, which is pretty similar to Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.5 PE (Personal Edition). For example, ability to create a bootable recovery CD media, redistribute free space to other partition, check file system integrity, run surface test to check for errors or bad sectors, directly edit hard drive sectors, defragment the Master File Table to speed up NTFS drives, convert NTFS drives back to FAT32 or vice versa, downgrade or upgrade NTFS version, change the cluster size on a drive, and much more.

Other than standard hard disk partition or volume manipulation functions, Paragon Hard Disk Manger also comes with extra tools. Paragon Hard Disk Manager SE (Special Edition) allows user to do disk partitioning (add, delete, format, merge, change, move or resize), disk image cloning, hard disk duplication, incremental backup, defragmentation, undelete or recovery of wiped partition or volume. Paragon Hard Disk Manager is a single program that consists of various important hard disk partitioning, management, optimization and cloning tools.

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