Paragon System Upgrade Utilities 2010

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Platforms: Windows XP (x32, x64), Vista (x32, x64), 7 (x32, x64)

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Everyone knows that Windows 7 is the new big OS, but many of us are still a little hesitant to leave the safety of our Windows XP or Vista installations. What if the new operating system doesn't fit right with our hardware components or installed software applications? What if you commit an egregious user error when installing the upgrade? Well, it's time to quit worrying, because a safety net is here, and it's called Paragon System Upgrade Utilities 2010.

Paragon System Upgrade Utilities 2010 lets you wade into the waters of Windows 7 with confidence by keeping a copy of your existing XP or Vista operating system installed on your machine! With Paragon System Upgrade Utilities, your migration to Windows 7 will be well-managed and worry-free -- allowing you the time to fully test Windows 7 and make an informed decision whether to make it your full-time OS.

When you install Paragon System Upgrade Utilities 2010, you'll have a dual boot system. When you start your computer, you'll have the freedom to boot into Windows 7, or boot into your old XP or Vista installation. Manage drive partitions with ease. And, with the ability to perform full backup and restore of your system onto hard drives, network shares or USB drives, Paragon System Upgrade Utilities 2010 is your best route to guard against data loss. You can even migrate your existing operating system to new hardware!

Please note: Paragon System Upgrade Utilities 2010 is for personal, non-commercial use only.

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Jon Koerner The Download link does not work.

It takes user to Paragon website page where user can download 3 manuals for System Upgrade Utils 2010, but NOT the program itself.

??

Apr 23 2010 at 5:19pm Copy Link

Paragon Software Hi Jon,
Sorry for delay with answer.

We have no demo version for System Upgrade Utilities 2010, only manuals. Otherwise we would be created demo version with operations avaliable in the virtual mode only.

Paragon.

Paragon Software - Apr 25 2010 at 10:09pm Copy Link

Jon Koerner There is no demo, so I have no idea what this software actually IS. Your descriptions above do not say what it is.

What exactly IS this software???

Does this app do anything to help migrate a user's existing data and software apps and OS settings to a new OS???

Is this thing a multi-boot manager? (which apparently also has the ability to re-partition drives & to make backup images of existing partitions).

If so, what exactly are its capabilities and limitations? How many OSs can it multi-boot? What are the requirements for installing an OS? Does it have to be on a primary partition? Do you workaround microsoft's 4 primary partitions maximum somehow? If so, how? Can OSs be on hard drives other than drive 0? Can they be on USB drives?

What about Linux partitions?

What if I already do have a multiboot system? How do you handle that? What assumptions does your app make? I don't want it destroying existing OSs because for example it assumed that I have only one existing OS on one partition, and acts on that wrong assumption.

What do you do with the boot sector and MBR?

Assuming you take over the boot sector and replace it, what happens when user does a non-destructive microsoft OS repair reinstallation, for example, and it overwrites the boot sector with its own? How can I get the Paragon multiboot system back?

Please explain what this software really is in standard terms instead of just describing how it can make it safe to try out Windows 7.

Apr 26 2010 at 6:23pm Copy Link

Paragon Software Dear Jon,
there is a very useful link to product website in its description. You can get here:
http://www.paragon-softwa...works.html
So, SUU can help to:
* organize multiboot system (up to 16 OSes)
* migrate existing OS from real hardware to virtual machine
* migrate existing OS to new hardware

The product has such features as:
* create/delete partitions
* resize partitions
* backup partition or hard disk
* copy partition or hard disk

We can describe the product as Partition Manager + basic backup/restore features + boot manager + tool to adjust OS to virtual machine or new hardware.

It cannot migrate installed programs from one OS to another one.

Operating system can be installed to logical drive, it doesn't have to be primary partition. You can create 3 primary partitions, and one extended partition, and within extended partition have as many logical drives as you want. This allows to have more than 4 partitions.

Operating systems can be on different hard disks, but disks must be internal ones, not connected via USB.

Linux is supported too.

If you already have boot manager installed, and activate our boot manager, most likely it will overwrite previous one. However you don't have to use our boot manager, you can use other features of SUU instead. Our boot manager is not activated automatically when installing SUU. You need to activate it manually if you need it.

Paragon Boot Manager is installed in MBR. It doesn't affect partition boot sector in any way.

A couple of useful links:

product website http://www.paragon-softwa...index.html
product manual http://www.paragon-softwa...nload.html

product manual for Paragon Partition Manager 10, it describes boot manager and partitioning features http://download.paragon-s...er_eng.pdf

Paragon Software - Apr 26 2010 at 8:56pm Copy Link

Doug Atkinson Am I correct in understanding that this offering includes a Windows PE based recovery disk?

Also, are there any plans to add support for Sun's VirtualBox as an additional platform for Virtual System support?

Thanks!

Apr 27 2010 at 1:52am Copy Link

Paragon Software Hello Doug,
yes, WinPE based Recovery CD is included.
VirtualBox format is not supported in this product. VirtualBox support is available in another Paragon product - Virtualization Manager - a tool designed especially for migrating real OS to virtual machine
http://www.paragon-softwa...-personal/

Paragon Software - Apr 27 2010 at 2:37am Copy Link

Please note that all comments for this promotion will be screened before posting. It's nothing personal, just a step we have to take because of a few bad apples last time around.