Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Windows

This product is strictly for home use. Your computer shouldn’t be joined to a domain. For a business alternative, please explore products for Business Use.

“It was a last resort – in future it will be my first call.
It was reassuring to see the details of the Paragon scan and fix process so that no matter how long it took, I had confidence that it was handling the issue and progressing.
In fact it did not take more than 15 minutes to find and correct whole blocks of errors and individual file corruptions.”

Peter Leach, 2022
“The application walks users through the steps of creating backups with a wizard. It supports creating backups of the system partition, select disks or partitions, file types, or files and folders. Backups can be stored on external devices, local volumes, network shares, or burned to optical media. The backup tool supports a handful of additional features; you need to enable advanced settings for that, and may change the compression level, backup file size limits, and password protection then.”

Ghacks, 2017
“Year after year, Paragon Hard Disk Manager gets our Editor’s Choice award as the best disk-management utility available, and year after year, the app gets progressively better.”

PC Magazine
“Paragon’s ability to work with all of the most common operating systems and drive configurations also makes Paragon Hard Disk Manager (HDM) a big winner in the category of best imaging software. HDM has positioned itself to not only address your imaging needs today, but to help manage your backup, recovery, and migration issues for years to come.”

TopTen Reviews
Verdict: “Always gets the job done with a minimum of anxiety and fuss, while rival programs have sometimes left me with inaccessible data and a racing heartbeat.”

PCMAG.COM
“EASY! Worked Perfectly!
The user interface was intuitive and easy to follow. In just a few mouse clicks, the process was underway!”

Amazon User
“Paragon Hard Disk Manager 16 provides an array of reliable and effective hard drive tools, though, most powered by helpful wizards so they’re extremely easy to use. If you need a solid all-in-one package, crammed with business-oriented extras, then it’s definitely worth a try. The one-stop, do-everything Paragon Hard Disk Manager 16 delivers and with a stack of effective and reliable features.”

TechWorld IDG, 2018
“Paragon Hard Disk Manager 16 makes it easier to protect your data. I was amazed at the functionality of the program when I used it”.

Provide Coalition, 2017

Tools for expert users

Advanced users can create more sophisticated scenarios based on the provided set of tools. Define specific backup strategy, migrate system and data, perform secure disk wipes and generate detailed reports.

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Organized and optimized storage

Next-generation partitioning functionality ensures optimal storage use. Your internal drive running low on available disk space? This dilemma often occurs when you have multiple partitions to accommodate different systems and data types. With Hard Disk Manager, you can resize partitions on the fly to maximize available storage capacity. With newly-added features, you also can undelete and merge partitions, edit and view sectors in the built-in hex editor, convert partitions into primary and logical. Easily perform a surface test to identify bad sectors of the partitions.

Live transfer your systems and data

Want to change an old HDD to a new SSD? With Hard Disk Manager, you simply choose where you want your Windows and clone your disk. Continue working on your system while Windows is being relocated. No manual operations or reboots necessary – just switch over when it’s ready. New Drive Copy functionality creates an exact, uncompressed replica of your system’s hard drive onto another drive.

Paragon Recovery Media Builder

Hard Disk Manager comes with full-fledged Paragon Recovery Media Builder to correct boot problems inflicted by logical errors, hardware malfunctions, or failures. If the system becomes corrupted or compromised — malware or ransomware reasons included — you can quickly restore full operability of system and applications with minimal data loss.

Clean up media

Wipe personal data before disposing of a hard disk. Alternatively, clean unused space only with the possibility to restore a deleted file. You know better than neglecting this simple rule.

Restore any file from backup

Restore data from backups, including an entire hard disk or its partitions, separate files or folders. Protect backups with a password. Import any backup to restore in WinPE.

Features

Features	Benefits
Windows support	Windows 7 SP1 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 Windows 11
Basic partitioning	Create, format, delete/undelete, hide/unhide, active/inactive, assign/remove drive letter, change volume label, file system conversion (FAT to NTFS, NTFS to FAT, HFS to NTFS, NTFS to HFS), file system integrity check
Advanced partitioning	Split/merge, redistribute free space, change cluster size, convert to logical/primary, edit sectors, compact/defragment MFT, convert to MBR/GPT, change primary slots and serial number, connect VD, surface check
Disk Wipe	Industry-class algorithms, shell integration, SSD trim, clear HDD/partition, clear free space, cleanup reports
Data Migration	Copy partition, copy entire disk, migrate operating system
Backup	Back up an entire system, volumes and files, scheduled backup, incremental and differential imaging, backup encryption and compression, backup data excludes, verify backup data viability, pVHD, VHD, VHDX, VMDK containers support
Restore	Restore an entire hard disk or its partitions, separate files or folders from existing backup jobs, isolated backup containers or legacy PBF images. Restore to the original or new location, restore with resizing, import backup jobs to manage in WinPE
Backup automation	View/edit backup jobs, unlimited number of jobs
Recovery Environments	Recovery Media Builder with drivers injection and pre-mounted network connection capabilities during setup helps to prepare bootable (uEFI and BIOS-compatible) Windows PE or Linux USB sticks or ISO images to use the product utilities on bare metal machines or when OS is down
E-Mail Notifications	Set up the program to notify you by e-mail about successful completion and/or failure of operations
Auxiliary utilities	File Transfer Wizard to copy files between storages formatted to Windows, macOS and Linux file systems and/or burn them to CD/DVD; replace corrupted data from previously created backups. Boot Corrector to fix problems inflicted by logical errors, hardware malfunctions, or failures.

	Choose your license
	Advanced, 3PC license $79,95	Advanced 1 Year license $24,95$19,95*
Licensing model	Perpetual	1 year
Concurrent use	3 computers	1 computer
Windows OS	✓	✓
Windows Server	✕	✕
Operations with VMs	✕	✕
Recovery Media Builder use on	3 devices	Single device
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*$19,95 for the First year instead of regular $24,95

Supported Technology

Computer bus interfaces

Complete uEFI support
Parallel ATA (Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment)
SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment)
External SATA (eSATA)
SCSI, iSCSI
USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.x/2.0/3.0
IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
All types of RAIDs (hardware and software)
PC or PCMCIA Card (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association)

Storages

2.2TB+ hard disk drives
AFD (Advanced Format Drive)
Non-512B sector size drives
SSD (Solid State Drive)
HDD
CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD+/-R (DL)
BD-R, BD-RE

Partitioning schema

Windows Storage Spaces Support
MBR (Master Boot Record)
GPT (GUID-Partition Table)
Microsoft Dynamic Disk

File systems

NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
FAT16, FAT32
Linux Ext2FS, Linux Ext3FS, Linux Ext4FS, Linux Swap
XFS
BtrFS
Apple HFS+
Other file systems (in the sector-by-sector mode)
With BitLocker encrypted hard disks

Frequently Asked Questions

About Subscription

If I buy the second license, will it extend my subscription, or can I use it on additional device?

Right now you can only purchase extra licenses for additional devices.

What happens to the product after my subscription expires?

The product functionality will be blocked. To use the product, you will need to renew the subscription.

Can I restore my backups when my subscription expires?

Yes, but you will need to renew your subscription or purchase the new product license.

How can I renew or cancel my subscription?

Your subscription will automatically renew after one year. After the first payment, we will send you the confirmation email that will contain a link to cancel or manage your subscription settings. You can use this link to cancel the automatic renewal any time. We will also send you an email notification shortly before the expiration date.

In case of any questions to your subscription please contact our customer support at support@paragon-software.com.

Am I eligible for free upgrades?

If you purchased a subscription, you are entitled to receive updates and upgrades at no additional cost for the entire license duration. For perpetual licenses, updates of the current software version are free, and upgrades are available at a discounted rate.

Technical Questions

Can I use your product on the latest Windows 11 22H2?

Of course! Hard Disk Manager is fully compatible with the latest operating system.

What RAID configuration does your product support?

Hard Disk Manager supports all types of software and hardware RAID configuration with only one restriction: Your RAID should already be set up and recognized by your OS as a single disk. For more information, please consult Knowledge Base.

My SATA/RAID controller is not recognized by the WinPE recovery media.

You should have already injected drivers for a controller during the creation of the recovery media, which is a recommended one-time procedure. For more information, please consult Product Manual and Knowledge Base.

Does your product support Microsoft Dynamic Disks?

Full support of this proprietary technology is not yet available from any third-party vendor, as Microsoft has yet to make available the proper documentation. Hard Disks Manager provides limited support for MBR dynamic disks. GPT dynamic disks are NOT supported. For more information, please consult Knowledge Base.

Can I change the layout of BitLocker-encrypted volumes?

No, Hard Disk Manager doesn’t allow changing the layout for this volume type. However, you can back up, restore, copy, and perform additional actions with unlocked BDE volumes. An unlocked BDE volume is a volume encrypted with BitLocker, which is open for access (password or recovery key is provided). For more information, please consult Knowledge Base.

Windows asks for activation after copying to another storage device.

Microsoft requires all changes in hardware devices to be tracked by the Windows operating system. As such, Hard Disk Manager is unable to circumvent this requirement.

Resources

Upgrade	Get the latest version of Hard Disk Manager Advanced
Previous Versions	Download Paragon Hard Disk Manager 16 (PSG-790-PEU) from MyParagon account
Product Documentation	Download Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Windows User Manual Download Paragon Hard Disk Manager for Windows One Pager
Need help?	Contact Support or file a support ticket

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