MultiDrive - Free Disk Cloning, Backup, Erasing Software

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Backup, Clone, Erase Drives
for Free

High-speed disk management toolkit for Windows.
Backup, clone, erase and restore entire drives with ease.
Free CLI support included.

Proudly made by Atola Technology, a world-renowned provider of data recovery technology

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Explore MultiDrive

Take a quick tour of its powerful functionality and intuitive interface

Backup your entire drive

Backup your drive to ZIP or RAW format. Restore it in just a few clicks.

Use Cases

MultiDrive is the clear choice, no matter if you're a home user upgrading your system or an IT professional managing enterprise infrastructure.

Home Users

  • Upgrade cloning your drive to a newer SSD
  • Securely erase your older drives before resale
  • Clone drive even if it has read errors
  • Back up your important USB drive to compressed ZIP file
  • Quickly restore your data after an OS crash or disk failure

Tech Professionals

  • Deploy standardized system images across multiple machines
  • Securely wipe multiple drives before disposal
  • Manage large-scale upgrades/migrations for your employees
  • Get data from failing drives without additional expenses
  • Automate backup/clone/erase procedures using MultiDrive CLI

MultiDrive - free and easy to use

At Atola, we believe that managing drives should be easy and free. That's why we've created a simple yet powerful solution for everyone—from home users to tech professionals.

And if we ever introduce a Premium version in the future, rest assured that all the current functionality you rely on will stay free forever. Your trust drives our commitment to excellence. This is our way of saying thank you for being part of the MultiDrive family!

Command Line Interface

Leverage MultiDrive CLI for advanced automation and scripting.

Why Choose MultiDrive?

Why We Created MultiDrive

With over two decades of experience in data recovery and drive technology, Atola Technology has developed deep expertise in the field.

Our powerful commercial tools have long served corporate clients, but we recognized a growing need for an accessible solution. Too often, everyday users are left behind: struggling with complex and expensive software.

So we set out to change that.

MultiDrive brings professional-grade disk management to everyone. It's free, easy to use and built with the same advanced expertise that powers our enterprise-grade solutions.

Whether you're upgrading to an SSD, cloning a boot drive or backing up data, MultiDrive simplifies the process—so you can manage your drives with confidence, no matter your experience level.

How-to Guides

Step-by-step tutorials to help you benefit from MultiDrive

Tips & Tricks

Maximize your MultiDrive experience and workflow efficiency with these pro tips.

Parallel Drive Tasks

Run multiple operations simultaneously.

Clone one drive while backing up another and erasing a third.

Install Your Way

Four methods to install MultiDrive:
- Run the installer
- Run the installer in silent mode (/s)
- Download Portable version
- Use Winget

Smart Pause & Resume

Pause a running task and resume it later at any time.

And even if the task fails: simply click 'Resume' button and continue from the point of failure.

Backup Failing Drives

When cloning drives with read errors, MultiDrive continues where other tools fail.

The software skips unreadable 256KB-blocks and completes the operation.

Optimized ZIP for Backups

Choose ZIP format over RAW to save storage space.

It is also heavily optimized for performance and works faster than the standard ZIP archiving.

Accidental Erase Protection

Boot drive is always protected. For other drives, you can enable it:
- Click 'Erase'
- Right-click the drive you want to protect
- Click 'Restrict for selection'

Task Options

Click 'Options' button to change the task settings:
- Hash calculation
- Mount target drive per task completion
- HEX pattern for erasing
- Customizeable disk range for the task

Process Parts of Drives

By default, MultiDrive processes the entire drive.

Go to 'Options' to change change the range if you want to back up or erase a particular partition.

Enable 'Remember selected range' if you need to process many drives with the same range.

Finding Old Results

To find finished tasks quicker, use the task table:

- Click the button with two arrows in the top right corner of 'Done' panel
- Click column headers to sort the table

Ready to Get Started?

Download MultiDrive now to rock your drive operations