Want to clone the bootable hard drive and boot from the new disk successfully? The best bootable disk cloning software AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional can make it completed easily.
“I have an old boot hard drive that has windows 10 OS on it, and I want to copy all the files including operating system from the bootable hard drive onto my new SSD. Is there an easy way to do that so the pc will be setup similar to how it was with the old hard drive? Or is there any recommended bootable hard drive clone software?”
Cloning bootable hard drive is to make an exact copy of the disk installed with an operating system. In many situations, you need to clone a bootable hard drive. Below are three common scenarios:
▶Upgrade bootable hard drive without reinstalling OS. When the current bootable disk is too smaller to hold new data, or too slow to load OS, you can upgrade it to a largr hard drive, or replace the HDD with SSD. Compared with reinstalling OS on the new disk, cloning bootable disk is more recommended since it clone all data from the old hard drive to the new one, and you can boot from the destination disk directly.
▶Back up data on the bootable hard drive. Since the bootable disk not only contains the Windows operating system, but also saves other personal data, it is important to make a complete backup of them. That can help you avoid data loss when the system disk fails or is attacked by virus.
▶Ensure the safety of multiple systems on the hard drive. You may have more than one OS on the hard drive. Generally, migrate OS won’t migrate all systems on the hard drive, at this time, cloning bootable hard drive should be the best way to transfer all systems to another hard drive safely.
As mentioned above, you can benefit a lot from cloning a bootable hard drive. Now you might wonder what’s the best bootable hard disk clone software for this task. Here we would like to recommend AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. This software develops the “Disk Clone Wizard”, which allows you to clone bootable hard drive or data hard drive to another disk and ensure successful boot from the new disk.
Besides, it can clone a larger (bootable) hard drive to a smaller hard drive (SSD or HDD) by only cloning the used space from the source disk to the destination disk. Also, it is able to clone hard drive with bad sector by copying every sector to the target location. And the destination hard drive will be bootable so that you can boot PC from the new disk after clone. You can download the best bootable hard drive cloning software and check out the next section to learn how to clone it step by step.
Here, we will show how to clone a bootable hard drive in Windows PC step by step. Before that, you had better take a look at the following precautions:
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 the clone is done, you can enter BIOS, change boot order to make the cloned disk as the first boot device so that you can boot PC from the destination disk. Or you can remove the old hard drive, and install the cloned one to replace it completely.
Under the help of the best bootable hard drive clone software, you can easily clone system disk to another hard disk drive or solid-state drive and boot from it smoothly. Apart from this function, AOMEI Partition Assistant professional also supports transferring only OS partition to SSD/HDD, merging partitions, cloning partitions, moving partitions, and more. To enjoy those amazing functions to manage Server disk partitions, you can try AOMEI Partition Assistant Server.