Disk migration on Windows 11 computer is a convenient way for a disk upgrade. To realize a secure and quick disk cloning, you’ll find a professional and convenient tool in this post.
Although Windows 11 has been released for almost one year, due to various bugs and glitches that users have met, a considerable number of users choose to keep the current system rather than experience the new OS right now.
But now, the biggest Windows 11 system update—the 22H2 version is coming in the second half of 2022 according to the official announcement by Microsoft. It can be sure that Windows 11 22H2 version will add more user-friendly and customized features, in the meanwhile, fix some bugs to offer users a better experience.
Some users using Windows 11 now or not might wish to upgrade the current disk to a better or larger disk to carry a new system, since we all know Windows 11 has strict system requirements. Thus, disk migration becomes your best option to easily upgrade your disk without data loss.
Disk migration, also known as disk cloning is to make a complete duplicate of the source disk on the target disk. All settings and data on the target disk will be the same as the original one to avoid the cumbersome work of recreating customized settings, reinstalling the system, and all installed programs.
Via disk migration, without all work of resetting all things, you can clone your old HDD to an SSD to experience faster and more stable performance or clone a smaller SSD to a new SSD with a larger capacity to store more important files.
Because there is no software in the computer's system that can do disk cloning, in Windows11, you can only clone drives using third-party disk cloning tools. It is critical to pick a reliable cloning program that can assist you in transferring data or operating systems while also assuring data integrity. It also assures that you may boot from the new disk safely.
AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional is a reliable disk cloning tool for Windows PC. It can:
•Perfectly compatibility: There’re no limitations on disk brands or types, all brands’ HDDs, SATA SSDs, NVMe M.2 SSDs, USB flash drives, SD cards, etc. •Clone disks of different sizes: You can clone a larger disk to a smaller disk with a quick clone, or use the “Sector-by-Sector” clone to create a complete disk duplicate. •Supports cloning between different partition schemes: This tool can clone MBR to MBR, GPT to GPT, MBR to GPT, and vice versa.
With this software, disk migration will be an easy job for all users.
After all, is checked, now we can start disk migration on Windows 11.
Step 1. Connect the larger SSD to your computer and ensure it can be detected. Install and run AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. Click "Clone" in the top menu, and choose "Clone Disk".
Step 2. Choose the hard disk that you need to clone as the source disk and click "Next".
Step 3. Select another drive as the destination 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.
Step 5. After returning to the main interface, check the pending operation and click "Apply" and "Proceed" to commit the operation.
Now the disk migration is completed, you can try to boot your computer from the target disk to have a check.
After you have cloned the system disk successfully, now you need to change the boot order in the BIOS menu to boot Windows 11/10/8/7 from SSD.
Step 1. Restart the computer and constantly press the F2 key (or other keys like Del, F8, and F12) to access the BIOS menu.
Step 2. Use the arrow key to select the Boot tab. System devices will appear in order of priority.
Step 3. To give the cloned SSD a boot priority over other hard drives, move it to the first position in the list.
Disk migration on Windows 11 computer is not a difficult task if you select a handy tool. AOMEI Partition Assistant can help you easily clone HDD to SSD or clone Windows 11 to a new SSD. What’s more, if you need, you can migrate only OS to your new disk without reinstalling. And there are many other helpful features like App Mover, allocating free space, and converting a disk to MBR/GPT without data loss…
By the way, if you are a Windows Server user, you can try the Server Edition which supports Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012(R2)/2008(R2)/2003.