Paragon Partition Manager Community Edition
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Paragon Partition Manager Community Edition, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Paragon Partition Manager Community Edition's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | Priced on request | Personal and home use · Non-commercial use only · 64-bit Windows platforms · Absolutely FREE for personal and home use; non-commercial purpose only |
| Partition Manager Community Edition | Free | Windows only · personal/home use · no merge/split · no backup · no OS migration · no data wipe · no virtual-disk support · Absolutely FREE for personal and home use; non-commercial use only |
The facts
Each one read from Paragon Partition Manager Community Edition's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Arm support
- The maker lists native Arm64 CPU support.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Bootable media and command line
- The edition comparison lists WinPE bootable disk and command-line support for Community Edition.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Command line
- Paragon's edition comparison marks command-line support as included.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Conversions
- It converts logical partitions to primary partitions, HFS volumes to NTFS without reformatting, and MBR disks to GPT or GPT to MBR.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Create and delete
- It creates, formats and deletes partitions on hard disks, SSDs, USB drives, memory cards and SD cards.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Download version
- The product page identifies application UI version 18.20.0 and provides separate x64 and Arm64 Windows downloads.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Dynamic disks
- The comparison table lists dynamic-disk management as included.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Expand partitions
- Unallocated space and free space on adjacent volumes can be redistributed to expand a partition.checked 15 Oct 2026
- File systems
- Listed file systems include NTFS, FAT32, Ext2/3/4, Linux Swap, Apple HFS+, Btrfs and XFS; ReiserFS and HPFS have view or limited-operation restrictions.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Format and delete
- It can format HDDs, SSDs, USB drives, memory cards, and SD cards, or delete partitions.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Hardware requirements
- Requirements include a 1 GHz or faster x64/Arm64 processor, at least 2 GB RAM, 800 MB disk space, an SVGA display and inbound/outbound ports 80 and 443.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Independent download facts
- Uptodown lists version 17.9.1.5 dated February 12, 2025, as a 222.88 MB EXE with 34,851 downloads and a published SHA-256 hash.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Labels and drive letters
- Users can change partition labels and drive letters.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Legal entity
- Paragon's terms identify the legal company as Paragon Technologie GmbH, registered in Freiburg, Germany.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Uptodown identifies the download as free but proprietary rather than open source.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: backup and migration
- Disk or volume backup and operating-system migration are excluded from the Community Edition.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: diagnostics and cloud backup
- Accurate Reviews says the product lacks hard-drive diagnostic or repair tools and cannot schedule cloud backups.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: learning curve
- The same G2 reviewer warned that novices can lose data by choosing the wrong options, that navigation became harder after interface changes and that a recent update loaded slowly.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: licensing and support
- Trustpilot complaints repeatedly describe activation or licensing portals failing to recognize valid purchases and support responses taking weeks or not arriving.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- Paragon Software Group says it was founded in 1994 and identifies Freiburg, Germany as its global headquarters.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Company history
- LinkedIn lists the group as founded in 1994, while Paragon's About page says it operates in more than 150 countries with offices in the USA, Germany, Japan and Russia.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size and headquarters
- LinkedIn describes Paragon Software Group as privately held, headquartered in Irvine, California, with 201–500 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1994checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Freiburg, Germanychecked 28 Sep 2026
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