How to Move Partition to Another Hard Disk Easily and Safely

Can I move partitions to another hard disk?

Why need to move partitions to another hard disk?

Apart from transferring OS to a new hard drive mentioned in the example, if the performance of the current hard disk is not good, you may want to move partitions to another disk. In addition, when your hard disk is damaged, moving partitions to another hard disk can help you effectively avoid data loss.

After understanding the possible reasons of moving partitions, you need to know how to move a partition to another drive. Read on, we'll share an effective method to do it.

Guidance: How to move partitions to another disk without losing data

Regardless of the reason, moving partitions to another hard disk will be beneficial to the operation of your computer. Next, we will discuss the detailed steps to move partitions on Windows 10.

If you want to easily move partitions to anther hard disk, you can try a powerful and reliable disk managing freeware- AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. It works on Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP.

In a simple interface, its "Clone Partition" can makes it easy to migrate partitions without losing data. Also, you don't have to worry about cloning larger drive to smaller drive, because the "Quick Clone" method will only clone the used part of the hard drive.

More importantly, it also provides you with more advanced functions after upgrading to the Professional Edition, including Allocate free space, clone system partition, Move programs to another drive, etc.

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 the SSD if the target disk is an SSD drive. 

Step 5. After returning to the main interface, check the pending operation and click "Apply" and "Proceed" to commit the operation.

FAQs about moving partitions

Here're some questions about moving partitions to another disk, read on to seek the answers.

★ Question 1. Is it safe to move partitions?

Yes. With AOMEI Partition Assistant, whether it is data partition or system partition, this powerful disk manager can help you move target partitions without losing data.

★ Question 2. How do I move a partition to another drive?

You can do it with some reliable third-party software. Here, you can try the Demo Version of AOMEI Partition Assistant for free, it will complete the partition migration in a few steps.

★ Question 3. Can I move partitions to another hard disk including OS?

Yes, you can. According to the article, you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant to clone the system partition, or even the system disk to another disk. If you want to clone the Windows system to SSD, you can try "Migrate OS to SSD".

Verdict

From what has been discussed above, you should know how to move partitions to another hard disk. As you can see, AOMEI Partition Assistant must be the most suitable tool. If you have other needs, you can also try other features. By the way, to move partitions to another disk on Windows Server, you can turn to the Server Version.