How does your computer work? Does it meet with your increasing the working requirement? If you feel it is out of date and want to upgrade the hard drive to a new and larger one, how can you deal with the software and data in it? How can you make the new hard drive works smoothly with all the same configurations and settings? You can find an easy and safe solution here.
From my point of view, the novices are eager for a safe and convenient way to transfer the Windows 10/7 OS and partition to SSD. So am I! Some people may choose to simply install the new SSD instead of the original hard drive. As a result, they need to reinstall Windows OS and all other tools again, which will waste much time to do the annoying operations for novices. As a matter of fact, I found the much safer, faster and more convenient way to do an exactly hard drive clone to SSD. You just need the free Windows cloning software—iSunshare CloneGo and a larger SSD.
iSunshare CloneGo is free Windows cloning software that is perfect for users to clone hard drive in Windows 10/7. You need to pay attention that this software only copies one partition to another partition so that you need to clone the hard drive partition-to-partition. Do not worry, you just need to do simple clicks and wait for the process end. There is also an extra feature of CloneGo, you can use this program to perform Windows 10/7 system or partition backup and restore operations. Let’s take the system partition as an example and see how to clone one partition from hard drive to SSD now!
How to clone one partition from hard drive to SSD?
To Clone an old hard drive to SSD, iSunshare CloneGo is one of the best and free choices because of its intuitive interface and powerful functions.
1. Launch CloneGo Windows cloning software and click Copy. And then select the C drive partition to be the source target.
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2. Select the destination target to store the data from C drive partition.
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Tips:
l The destination target should be the partition of SSD. It must be 10% larger than the source target.
l You should initialize the SSD if it is new and add the same volumes so that it can be kept data as the same as your hard drive.
l If there is any data in the SSD, backup it in advance.
3. Click Start and you will get the format pop-up box. Click OK and the partition clone process begins.
After the clone process end, you can go to clone other partitions from hard drive to SSD. You should keep in mind that the copy process will format the destination partition so that you cannot choose the same partition for each clone process. When you finish the hard drive clone, you can restart the computer and keep pressing Del key to enter UEFI Bios settings. Then set the computer to boot from SSD. You can now have a check whether the SSD with copied system and partition can work normally or not!
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