Today, hard drive plays big part in our life since we store massive important data on it. And, sometimes, we need to format hard drive. For instance, in case the system doesn’t start due to registry errors or have a black screen, instead of trying to repair, it is sometimes easier to format. However, formatting will delete all original data on the drive, and this is known to all.
Now, I think you will agree with me when I say:
“It is very NECESSARY to backup hard drive before formatting.”
However, how to backup hard drive to make a copy of all original data? Can we copy disk for free? Is it possible to clone hard drive without damaging the original data?
Right now, in today’s post, I am going to show you a professional disk copying software which can help to easily clone one disk to another disk without data loss.
Disk Copying Software
Here, to backup drive before formatting, you can try using MiniTool Partition Wizard. A green, professional, simple and free program developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd., offers Copy Disk feature to help copy all partitions and data from one disk to another in several steps. Besides, this tool supports various operating systems like Windows 7/8/10. Next, let’ see the detailed steps.
How to Backup Drive
To copy disk to make a copy for an important disk in case of accidents, you can download MiniTool Partition Wizard from its official website, install it on computer. And then launch it to get its main interface.
Next, select the disk which needs copying and activate Copy Disk function from one of 3 places boxed by red line. After that, you will be given detailed operating prompts. Just do as told.
Here, I used this tool to copy Windows 8 disk easily and quickly.
Summary
With MiniTool Partition Wizard, we can easily and quickly copy disk to backup all partitions as well as data. However, in addition to copy disk feature, this professional freeware also offers some other excellent features to help us solve some problems. For instance, it offers migrate OS to SSD/HDD feature for us to replace of Samsung migration software to avoid the Samsung data migration error.