Released on = February 1, 2007, 7:49 am

Press Release Author = Anastasia Knyazhechenko/Paragon Software Group

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = With Windows® Vista Support - Backing up your personal data
has never been easier or more secure

Press Release Body = January 2007
Paragon Software Group, the leading provider of innovative, reliable technologies
and software solutions in the field of storage management and data safety, announces
the release of a new edition of Paragon Drive Backup, a powerful solution for
backup, imaging, cloning and recovery. For home users Paragon Software Group
includes Paragon's imaging technology which provides maximum ease of use, integrates
new powerful features and offers the fast system recovery.
Drive Backup Personal Edition is especially developed for home users who care about
their critical data, media, programs, games and other crucial applications. This new
Edition includes a user-friendly interface and powerful functionality; offers
maximum simplicity; integrates up-to-date breakthrough technologies and the fastest
system recovery possible.
New Features and Functionality:
- Archive database helps the user to easily manage backup images. The database holds
all the necessary information about backup archives, their main properties and
contents.
- Mount archive (via Archive database) - you can simply browse, use, or extract
files from backup archives from Windows Explorer or any other windows application.
After mounting a backup archive is treated as a logical disk by the system.
- Bootable Backup Capsule - boot the computer into the recovery environment directly
from the Backup Capsule (no Recovery CD-ROM required) and perform any restore
operations in case of operating system corruption or boot problems.
- Restore with Shrink function provides the possibility to restore a backup image to
a free block of smaller size taking into account only the amount of actual data of
the image.
- Shutdown After Apply function enables to set the computer to automatically switch
off on the successful accomplishment of any scheduled operation.
- DVD+/-R (DL) Support.
- Powerful Recovery CD - gives you access to data on hard drive in case of a system
failure or crash. Recovery CD is a bootable CD providing full functionality of the
program with access to FAT, NTFS, Ext2/3 FS, Linux Swap and HPFS partitions on local
hard drives. Now with the expanded support of the new hardware.

Paragon Drive backup 8.5 Personal is currently available at our corporate website,
for $49.95 - http://www.paragon-software.com


Web Site = http://www.paragon-software.com

Contact Details = pr@paragon-software.com
NA (US & Canada)
Paragon Software
3150 Almaden Expressway
Suite 236
San Jose
CA-95118