I have installed a few Paragon products from GAOTD over the past year or so on my original laptop and also on my newer laptop. Paragon has been very faithful to continue using GAOTD as part of their marketing & testing strategy for which we should all be thankful. Fortunately I read the comments of other GAOTD users which told me I could have both the Home & Pro versions installed simultaneously.
Long story short... I have a 1 year old 2TB Western Digital My Book external which contains irreplaceable data. My Vista OS & also other Windows operating systems would not recognize the drive without wanting to format it. I have Hard Disk Sentinel Pro which told me that there ware 541 bad sectors on the drive and another 580ish sectors that will soon go bad but would not browse the drive for data recovery. A scandisk action, by Sentinel, to recover &/or mark bad sectors would take an estimated 490 hours but with Spinrite running from removable media drive was going to take 2 months (1900+ hours)...
Obviously these repair options were time consuming beyond my laptop's capability... and everyone told be to back up my data first but the drive could not be read to do that with Windows. Trying several applications to read the drive I finally used Paragon Drive BackUp Pro which has the volume explorer that the Home version does not. Since I do not have another 2TB drive to do a total back up to with a one click copy process that was impossible. SO it was with great pleasure I discovered that from the volume explorer this drive's folders and files can be highlighted then exported (copied) to another drive location as individual or multiple selections. In my case I am copying approximately 2 GB at a time using my spare laptop with XP Home to 300 GB externals I am able to free up. This may seem to be a very time consuming manual process but at least I have control of that time!
I just want to say how very grateful I am for Paragon products and will be recommending this company's products at every opportunity because of this positive experience in my traumatic situation. Thank you GAOTD for making this possible!
