| Operation | Standard Paragon (Installed) | Bootable WinPE (Official Portable) | Unofficial "Hot" Portable | |-----------|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|----------------------------| | Shrink C: drive by 50GB | 45 seconds (hot, no reboot) | 90 seconds (reboot required) | 47 seconds (hot) | | Clone entire disk to external USB | 12 minutes | 14 minutes | 12 minutes | | Recover deleted partition | 30 seconds | 30 seconds | 1 minute (crashed once) | | System stability during operation | 100% | 100% | 85% (occasional freezes) |

Fix MBR, GPT, BCD, and UEFI bootloader issues without reinstalling Windows.

The Paragon Hard Disk Manager Portable can be used in a variety of situations. Some of the most common uses of the software include:

Take unallocated space from one partition and merge it into an adjacent or non-adjacent volume.