Best Free Backup Software (2026)

#1 BEST

EaseUS Todo Backup Free

EaseUS

Freeware v2025 2MB

4.2

5 reviews

EaseUS Todo Backup Free is a backup application that creates full system images, file backups, and disk clones. It lets you save a complete snapshot of your Windows installation to an external drive and restore it if something goes wrong - protecting against hardware failure, ran...

14 downloads

Windows 7/8/10/11

Official source

#2 GREAT

Recuva

Piriform

Freeware v1.54.120 13MB

4.6

5 reviews

Recuva is a free file recovery tool from Piriform, the company behind CCleaner. It recovers deleted files from hard drives, SSDs, USB drives, and SD cards. Available for Windows in a free version and a paid Professional edition with automatic updates and virtual hard drive suppor...

29 downloads

Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11

Official source

#3 SOLID

GParted

Gnome

GPL-2.0 v1.8.1-3 608MB

4.2

5 reviews

GParted is a free partition editor that runs as a bootable live environment from a USB drive or CD. It gives you full control over your hard drive layout: creating, resizing, moving, and deleting partitions across all major file systems including ext4, NTFS, FAT32, Btrfs, and XFS...

17 downloads

LiveCD

Official source

#4

EaseUS Partition Master

EaseUS

Freeware v20.2 2MB

4.8

5 reviews

EaseUS Partition Master is a disk partition manager for Windows that handles resizing, merging, splitting, and moving partitions through a visual interface. The free version covers basic partition operations, while the Pro edition adds disk cloning, OS migration to SSD, and boota...

15 downloads

Windows 7/8/10/11/ARM

Official source

#5

MiniTool Partition Wizard

MiniTool Solution Ltd.

Freeware vFree 13.6 67MB

4.3

4 reviews

MiniTool Partition Wizard is a disk partition manager for Windows that lets you create, resize, merge, split, and format partitions on hard drives and SSDs without losing data. It supports NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, and EXT file systems and works with internal drives, external USB drive...

38 downloads

Windows 7/8/10/11

Official source

#6

Rufus

pbatard

GPL-3.0 v4.13 1.4MB

4.3

4 reviews

Rufus is a free, open source tool by Pete Batard that creates bootable USB drives from ISO images. It is a single portable executable (under 2 MB) that runs without installation. Licensed under GPLv3. It runs on Windows only. If you need to create bootable USB drives on Linux or ...

12 downloads

Windows 8/10/11

Official source