This page will answer the question of "does cloning a hard drive copy everything" and offer a hard drive cloner that can clone disk easily and safely.
People who don't know a computer usually have a same doubt about cloning, that is, does cloning a hard drive copy everything? Yes, cloning a hard drive copies everything from the source drive to the destination drive, including the operating system, files, programs, and settings. It creates an identical replica of the original drive on the new drive.
In essence, a successful cloning process will result in an identical replica of the original hard drive on the target drive. This means that all files, folders, partitions, and even the bootloader (which is responsible for starting the operating system) are duplicated. Moreover, if the source drive has any errors or bad sectors, those issues may also be cloned, potentially affecting the target drive's performance.
AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional is a powerful all-in-one disk clone tool, which is compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP. It can clone all data from one drive to another without data loss.
And, it provides two cloning methods: Clone Disk Quickly can clone of used sectors to the target disk or partition, allowing the capacity of the target disk to be smaller than the capacity of the original disk. Sector-by-Sector Clone can clone all sectors of the original disk to the new disk, so the capacity of the new disk is required to be equal to or larger than the original disk.
Don't think cloning a hard drive is difficult, AOMEI Partition Assistant may make it easier, even if you're a new-beginner.
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.