11 Professional

 GUID Partition Table (GPT). It is the next generation of a hard disk partitioning scheme developed to lift

restrictions of the old MBR. GPT disks are now supported by Windows Vista/7, Server 2008, Mac OS X and Linux.

Supported File Systems

 Full read/write access to FAT16/FAT32 partitions.

 Full read/write access to NTFS (Basic Disks) under Windows, Linux and PTS DOS. Compressed NTFS files are also

supported.

 Full read/write access to Ext2FS/Ext3FS/Ext4FS partitions.

 Limited read/write access to Apple HFS+ partitions.

Unfortunately, support of non-Roman characters for the HFS+ file system is unavailable at

the moment. The company is about to implement it in the nearest future.

Supported Media

 Support of both MBR and GPT hard disks (2.2TB+ disks included)

 IDE, SCSI and SATA hard disks

 SSD (Solid State Drive)

 AFD (Advanced Format Drive)

 Non-512B sector size drives

 CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD+R double layer and also Blu-ray discs

 FireWire (i.e. IEEE1394), USB 1.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.0 hard disks

 PC card storage devices (MBR and GPT flash memory, etc.)

Getting Started

In this chapter you will find all the information necessary to get the product ready to use.

Distribution

Paragon Disk Wiper 11 is distributed in two ways:

 Boxed package from Paragon Software GmbH and resellers

 Downloadable package over the Internet at the company’s web-site

Distributive CD

The boxed package includes a distributive CD that is in fact a bootable environment with auto-run of the Windows

installation, thus it can be used as a ready-made solution. But if you’re going to run the Windows components, you need

to install them first (see

Installation).

If you want to download an update/upgrade of the product, it will be in form of the downloadable installation package

as described in Online Distribution).