How to Perform Data Migration in Windows 10, 8 or 7?

To transfer data from one hard drive to another in Windows 10, a data migration tool, AOMEI Partition Assistant is recommended!

Posted by @Bryce July 24, 2024 Updated By @Bryce June 11, 2024

Need to migrate data in Windows 10 

“I come here for help! After buying an SSD, I’m about to replace my existing Windows 10 hard drive with it. There are a lot of files on my current hard drive and transferring all data by copying and pasting is too time-wasting. So, how can I complete data migration in Windows 10 effectively?”

Employ data migration tool for Windows 10 right now!

Copy & Paste is a useful way of transferring single or few files and folders. But if you apply this way to migrate operating system or big programs, you can waste a lot of time installing everything from scratch, which is painful and bothering. So, why not employ a dependable data migration tool to move data from hard drive to SSD in Windows 10?

Here AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, great data migration software for Windows 10/8.1/8/7, XP and Vista, is highly recommended. It can transfer all data, including boot, ini, NTLDR from one disk to another one via disk clone function. It is featured with Migrate OS to SSD Wizard as well, enables you to move only OS-related partitions (data partition not included) in Windows 10/8/7. After migration, you can boot Windows from the new drive.

With a concise & intuitive interface, it is very easy to use. Now, you can download its demo version to have a try!

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Perform data migration in Windows 10/8/7 step-by-step

Let’s have a look at how to transfer all data from HDD to SSD without reinstalling Windows & apps via AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. First of all, connect the target SSD to your Windows-based PC and make sure that it can be detected. Then, install, run the data migration tool and refer to the following tutorial!

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.

✍ Notices: All partitions on the destination disk will be erased, thus it is advised to backup necessary files on it before the operation. This process will be executed under PreOS Mode as it involves the operating system. To boot successfully from the cloned system, you need to change boot mode after you clone GPT system disk to MBR or MBR system disk to GPT disk.

Conclusion

With such great and powerful data migration software, AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, you can perform data migration in Windows 10/8/7 easily and effectively. If you want to migrate data from one disk to another in Windows Server operating system, please employ AOMEI Partition Assistant Server.