MiniTool: free partition, recovery and backup tools for Windows PCs

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MiniTool makes Windows software for looking after your hard drives and SSDs. Its three best-known programs are Partition Wizard, a partition manager; Power Data Recovery, for getting deleted files back; and ShadowMaker, for backing up and cloning drives. The company, MiniTool Software Ltd, has offices in Vancouver and Hong Kong and says its software has passed 40 million downloads.

It suits anyone moving Windows to a new SSD, running out of space on the C: drive, or panicking after deleting holiday photos from an SD card. Most of the programs have a free edition, so home users can often do what they need without paying anything.

What's worth a look

These are the editions and tools worth trying first.

MiniTool Partition Wizard FreeResize, move, merge and format partitions.FreeView at MiniTool MiniTool Partition Wizard ProAdds MBR to GPT conversion and OS migration.US$59/yearView at MiniTool MiniTool Power Data Recovery PersonalRecover deleted files with no 1GB limit.US$89/yearView at MiniTool Disk Utilities Ultimate Choice bundlePartition, backup and recovery tools, lifetime.$243.00 $486.00View at MiniTool MiniTool MovieMakerBeginner video editor with watermark-free 4K export.FreeView at MiniTool MiniTool PDF EditorConvert, merge, split and annotate PDFs.FreeView at MiniTool

Partition Wizard Free covers the everyday jobs: resizing, moving, merging and formatting partitions, extending the system drive and checking a disk for errors. The paid Pro editions add converting a system disk from MBR to GPT, migrating Windows to an SSD and, in Platinum and Ultimate, partition and data recovery. Pro starts at US$59 a year for one PC.

Power Data Recovery Personal removes the free edition's 1GB recovery limit. It costs US$69 for a month, US$89 for a year or US$129 for a lifetime licence covering three PCs, so if you only need to rescue one batch of files, the monthly licence may be enough (remember to cancel it).

ShadowMaker Pro handles file, system, disk and partition backups, with full, incremental and differential schemes and a schedule that can run daily, weekly, monthly or when you sign in or out of Windows. It can also clone a drive when you upgrade from a hard disk to an SSD, and build a bootable rescue USB to restore a PC that won't start after a crash or ransomware attack.

MiniTool also gives away MovieMaker, a beginner video editor that exports 4K video without a watermark, and a PDF Editor with a free version for converting, merging and annotating files.

Current offers

We don't have any MiniTool codes from our affiliate feed yet. On MiniTool's own site right now:

• The Disk Utilities Ultimate bundle (Partition Wizard Pro Ultimate, ShadowMaker Pro Ultimate and Power Data Recovery Personal Ultimate) is $243, down from $486, on the special deals page.
• ShadowMaker Pro Ultimate is US$79, normally $158.
• Partition Wizard Pro Ultimate is US$159, down from US$199.

How to save more

• Check whether the free edition does what you need; extending a partition or a basic backup doesn't need a paid licence.
• Lifetime Ultimate licences cover several PCs with free upgrades, which can beat renewing a yearly plan for more than two years.
• Prices are in US dollars, so pay with a card that doesn't add foreign transaction fees.

Products, prices and offers checked on the store's own website on 9 Oct 2026. Prices and stock can change.

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