Is It Possible to Clone C Drive without Data Loss?

Is it possible to clone C drive to another? Yes, it is. AOMEI Partition Assistant, which is a professional cloning software that can clone C drive without losing data.

Posted by @Dervish December 17, 2024 Updated By @Dervish June 12, 2024

Explain - Is it possible to clone C drive?

Yes, you can clone your computer's C drive. As a system disk, cloning it means creating an exact copy of its contents, including the Windows operating system, applications, files, settings, and other data. Whether your purpose is to upgrade your hard disk or backup, cloning is very useful. You can boot and run Windows from the cloned C drive without reinstalling it.

How to clone C drive to another without reinstalling

Searching on the Google, you can find a lot of tools that can clone C drive. But the one I recommend most is AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, which is a market-leading disk partition management expert. Its "Clone Disk" function supports to clone all the data on C drive to another without data loss. And the cloned drive is guaranteed to boot normally.

In addition, some users asked "can I clone only C drive to SSD?". Yes, you can. Its "Migrate OS" feature can clone only the operating system and all system related files to ensure success.

Now, please connect the new disk with your PC and refer to the following steps to know how it works.

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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, you can change the boot drive to boot Windows from the new disk.

Conclusion

Is it possible to clone C drive? With the help of AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, you can do it easily and safely even if you are a beginner. What’s more, there are more advanced feature that you can try, such as, moving installed applications from one drive to another, wiping hard drive for reusing, recovering lost data, converting disk from MBR to GPT, and so on.