Alternatives to Paragon Hard Disk Manager
Commercial suite for partitioning, backup, migration and secure wiping. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Paragon Hard Disk Manager
Commercial suite for partitioning, backup, migration and secure wiping.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Paragon Hard Disk Manager.
DiskGenius
Combined partition manager, data recovery tool and backup utility for Windows.
DiskGenius combines partition management, data recovery and backup in a freemium Windows tool, with recovery beyond small files requiring a paid licence.
EaseUS Partition Master
Partition manager for Windows with cloning, conversion and health checks.
EaseUS Partition Master has a free tier for partitioning, while cloning, migration and several conversions require the paid edition, and it lacks secure wiping in the roster.
AOMEI Partition Assistant
Windows partition manager with resizing, formatting and conversion.
AOMEI Partition Assistant offers free partitioning with paid system migration and cloning, and queues operations to apply them together on Windows.
MiniTool Partition Wizard
Windows partition manager for resizing, moving, merging and converting volumes.
MiniTool Partition Wizard provides free resizing and MBR to GPT conversion, while disk cloning, OS migration and data recovery are paid features.
Hiren's BootCD PE
Bootable Windows PE rescue environment full of diagnostic and repair tools.
Hiren's BootCD PE is a free bootable Windows PE environment covering partitioning, imaging and recovery, but you must supply Windows components and tools update infrequently.
Macrorit Partition Expert
Portable Windows partition manager with no bundled extras.
Macrorit Partition Expert is a portable freemium partition manager without bundled extras, covering partitioning but not backup, migration or wiping.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Paragon Hard Disk Manager as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
GParted
The partition editor for Linux, usually run from its own live USB so it can resize the disk it is not booted from.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager is a paid Windows suite adding imaging, migration and wiping, and it builds its own bootable recovery medium.
HDClone
Disk cloning and migration tool that boots from its own medium.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager is a paid suite with no free tier that adds partitioning, imaging and secure wiping to migration, and also builds a bootable recovery medium.
nwipe
Erase block devices from a Linux terminal or text interface.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager includes secure wiping within a paid, closed source Windows suite that also handles partitioning, backup and migration.
Parted Magic
A bootable disk utility for partitioning, cloning, rescuing, benchmarking and securely erasing drives from a USB stick.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager is a paid Windows suite for partitioning, imaging, migration and wiping that builds its own bootable recovery medium from within the application.
ShredOS
A small bootable environment for 64-bit PCs that securely wipes disks using nwipe.
Paragon Hard Disk Manager includes secure wiping and can build bootable recovery media, but it is paid Windows software.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
TestDisk & PhotoRec
Recovers lost partitions, makes non-booting disks bootable again, and undeletes files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext filesystems.
R-Drive Image
Windows disk imaging utility that creates byte-by-byte image files of drives and partitions for backup.
O&O DiskImage
A Windows backup program that makes complete system images and file backups and restores them after failures.
