The program provides excellent compatibility, for instance. And Paragon Partition Manager 11 Professional is one of the best. If you prefer an easy life, and want to minimise the chance of errors that could trash your PC, then you may be better off with a specialist partitioning tool. Windows provides disk management tools that will help you do most of this, but they’re a little basic, and have significant gaps in functionality. You could improve performance, for instance minimise file fragmentation get your files organised, run multiple operating systems on the same PC, and more. That would leave the GRUB MBR untouched because no Windows is available.Rearranging your hard drive into multiple partitions can deliver all kinds of benefits. Except Linux only systems restored to the same HDD. If it would it would save only a Windows sized MBR which is not helpful in this case.Īnyway Paragon software is not recommended for Linux dual boot and GRUB booted systems. Older versions of Paragon software offer the option to save the MBR. The restore option of the sector editor is only available in certain advanced versions. But with the first 512 byte overwritten with Windows MBR code it won't work anymore, wouldn't it? You may want to save/restore the sectors before the first sector of the first partition using dd or the Paragon sector editor after having restored the backup. Windows MBR is 512 bytes, GRUB MBR is usually much bigger.
On restore it restores the partitions then it creates a new standard Windows MBR and enables Windows boot. That means: Of course it is not able to handle GRUB managed systems. It does not handle anything outside partitions like the MBR. My guess from several experiments and support cases over years: Paragon does only handle file systems = partitions. On a server OS you must have Premium or Business.
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