Paragon's clean interface includes a spacious diagram of your disks and a Home menu that leads to its most-used features.

Basic operations include resizing a partition using the mouse or keyboard. All potentially destructive operations require multiple confirmations before proceeding.

The Copy Partition Wizard is typical of the app's wizard interface, in which each step is carefully presented to avoid errors or confusion.

Virtual disk features include options to create disk images exactly suited to different versions of Hyper-V and VMware software.

Built-in features let you use virtual disks as backup images, features that work well, though we still recommend ShadowProtect Desktop as the best of all such disk-imaging apps.

You can create a USB-stick-based recovery boot disk from inside the program or from a separate Start Menu item. You can create either a Linux or Windows-PE-based recovery environment that provides the same functions in different interfaces. You'll need to download some development software before you can create the Windows-PE-based system.

If you don't plan to use your network with the recovery disk, choose the option that tells the recovery disk not to try to connect to the network, and get rid of some annoying error messages.