This post shows you how to clone hard drive to Seagate SSD or HDD with disk cloning software, AOMEI Partition Assistant.
“I plan to upgrade my current system hard drive that is running Windows 10 with a SATA Seagate SSD. I don’t want to waste time on the operating system and program reinstallation and I would like to realize if it is possible to migrate all data from Windows 10 hard drive to Seagate SSD without hassles. Is there any suggestion?”
If you have bought a Seagate hard drive, you can get integrated cloning software, Seagate DiscWizard, which allows you to back up, clone hard drive, and so on. With it, you can move all hard drive data to SSD through cloning. However, there are chances that you stuck in Seagate DiscWizard not cloning or not detecting drive issues. In such a condition, you probably want to find out Seagate DiscWizard alternative to complete cloning operation.
Here I recommend you powerful and all-around data migration software for Seagate disk – AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, which offers two copy methods: Clone Disk Quickly (only clone used space on source disk to target one) and Sector-by-Sector Clone (copy all sectors on source disk to target one). You can choose one copy method based on your demand. If you need to clone drive to smaller one or want to spend less time on cloning process, the first option is suitable; if you want to clone not only the used sectors but also the unused sectors on source hard drive, you can pick up second way. Apart from Disk Clone, it is featured with Migrate OS to SSD Wizard and Partition Clone Wizard, making it possible to perform cloning flexibly based on the specific demand.
Now, download Seagate cloning software – AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard and have a look at how to use it to clone hard drive to Seagate SSD/HDD.
Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "Clone" in the main interface and select "Clone Disk".
Step 2. Choose the hard disk that you need to clone as the source disk and click "Next".
Step 3. Select the destination disk to store the data on the source disk, and then click "Next".
Step 4. Then, you can check the source and destination disk in the next window or change to “Sector to Sector clone”, and click the "Confirm" button to continue if there is no problem.
Here, you can also click the "Settings" button to adjust the partition size on the destination disk or tick "4k alignment" to improve the reading and writing speed of SSD if the target disk is an SSD drive.
Step 5. At last, click "Apply" and "Proceed" in the main interface to start cloning the hard drive.
After cloning, all data on the hard drive will be copied to Seagate SSD/HDD.
AOMEI Partition Assistant is not only Seagate cloning software, but also cloning software for Samsung, Intel, SanDisk disk and etc. What’s more, it enjoys various powerful functions, which is helpful in solving problems related to disk or partition. For example, when C drive is almost full and you are receiving Low Disk Warning, you can use its Merge Partitions function to add contiguous or non-contiguous unallocated space into C drive.