Looks like is common to Paragon freebees to exclude this part of their program. Yet BartPE is available and works about the same. Google it.
One can hurry and reason why WinPE is not included in the Special Edition : because WinPE is a seperate download. Even when you purchase the program, WinPE does not come with it. But the truth is Paragon simply cannot give-out WinPE recovery discs for free for their freebies because of licensing issues. WinPE stands for WINDOWS Preinstallation Environment. Meaning, a big cost for Paragon to be given it out for free.
There...WinPE is licensed and costs money. To distribute for free to all of us would be quite the expense.
Linux, however, is built into the program so you can literally create a Linux based recovery CD/DVD/Flash drive. Though WinPE looks (arguably) more professional than the Linux one.
You will only miss the WinPE edition if you were going to make some P2P Adjust

MitchOs  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+153)

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Whilst there is absolutely nothing wrong with this Paragon offering at all, Easeus Todo Backup Free 2.5.1 is my choice of backup and imaging software and offers more for free, including the ability to create WinPe bootable media (as long as you download the Windows AIK, free from Microsoft).

Check out the specs here.

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

PhilS  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+40)

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Get it. You won't regret it. It's a stable, flexible and reliable solution to imaging, backup in image or file form (with a choice of several levels of compression) and for incremental and differential backups or mounting of backup images as drives.

You can virtualize and make P2P and P2V adjustments (OS machine and drive letter, drivers etc.) with the windows version. In the meantime the Linux recovery disc works well and efficiently.

You can also do many other disk management tasks and all tasks can be stacked ready to go, then left for the program to perform in its own time (with auto shutdown if desired).

Negative comment: the times estimated for task completion are usually wildly out until shortly before completion! But this is a minor hassle compared to the benefit gained from having this program at your disposal.

There may be better commercial solutions, but this for free is a gift.

MyTuppenceWorth  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+33)

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#1: "I have old version of this program, how to upgrade with today giveaway? Have I to uninstall the old one?"

Newer versions install next to older ones, by default in the Program Files [Program Files(x86) - 64 bit Windows]\ Paragon\ folder, & both versions have worked fine for me that way. There are a few files installed in the Windows folder, & newer versions will overwrite older ones. If you want to remove the older version beforehand or after installing today's GOTD you shouldn't have any problems, but you might have to delete the old program's folder manually after uninstall, since many Paragon apps store configuration info in those folders, & the uninstall routine won't know to delete them. I used to keep the older version installed until I was sure of the newer one, & though I haven't seen a reason to do that for some time, if it makes you feel better keep both -- if not uninstall the old one.

A [somewhat] quick note: It can be well worth it to make sure you have & save the recovery/rescue CD before you uninstall an older version, as I found out recently... A lot of win98/ME hardware still works, including an old laptop we had on the shelf, but with so little software available & nothing in the way of security I wanted to update it to a copy of XP we weren't using any longer. An old CD for Paragon Backup & Recovery 8.5 saved the day & made the upgrade possible -- later versions of the *nix kernel wouldn't work, & there was too little RAM to run Any WinPE-type environment. Using it I was able to 1) back up everything to a USB stick, & 2) restore a backup of XP I had installed, updated, setup, & made small in a VM on my regular rig. I still had to do a Windows repair re-install [Paragon's Adaptive Restore was too new -- I should say the hardware was too old], but the result was we've now got something very usable that otherwise would be contributing to some toxic land fill. [I went the VM route because of disk space concerns (installing XP takes more space than the installed Windows), ease of adding updates with the VM running in the background, and it did make things easier not having to worry about USB 2 & network drivers until the updated XP was installed/running].

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In the suggestions people have asked for win98/ME compatibility, but with that laptop running so well I'd advise that sort of update instead. The laptop's AMD CPU is only 400 MHz, & I spent $14 & upgraded the add-in RAM stick [it now has something like a whole 156 MB :-) ], but XP Home is running fine, & using the laptop for web browsing & many apps works surprisingly well -- I even crammed .NET 3.5 on the 4 GB drive. I use Immunet AV on it [immunet.com] because it has a tiny foot print [it's Cloud-based], run a slew of portable apps from a USB stick, including a few games, a $10 USB 2 pcmcia card & $10 USB wireless adapter both work fine [though FWIW I didn't buy the card or adaptor just for this laptop].

mike  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+31)

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Limitations: No WinPE included on this download ???!!

This IS the feature that users say they want it a backup program.

Why remove one of the best things going for it?

Flywire  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+29)

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