“Hi,
I need your help! I plan to backup Windows to my external hard drive to make a backup in case of any accidents! However, I don’t know how to backup to external hard drive without data loss. Besides, I don’t want to spend money completing this task? So, what should I do? Who can help me?”
This is the letter from my schoolmate. Now, in today’s post, I am going to show you how to backup to hard drive with ease.
Solutions for Backup Windows to External Hard Drive
According to a survey, data loss is inevitable and data loss happens more and more frequently in the word. Therefore, it is recommended to backup significant data or Windows. However, how to complete this task without data loss?
As a matter of fact, professional always turn to a piece of excellent yet free drive cloning software to backup Windows to external hard drive.
Now, you might be wondering:
“How do I find an excellent tool to backup Windows without bringing any damage to the original data?”
Well, you can try using MiniTool Partition Wizard, a piece of green yet professional disk cloning freeware enjoys more than 20,000,000 downloads. And this free tool offers Copy Disk feature as well as Migrate OS to SSD/HDD feature to backup Windows to external hard drive. Click here to know the details about the two features.
Next, let’s discuss the details.
In the main interface of MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can see all drives including internal hard drive and external hard drive, and some basic features like rebuild MBR, delete all partitions, copy disk, and so on.
Now, to backup Windows to external hard drive, you need to select the target Windows drive, and then active Copy Disk feature or Migrate OS to SSD/HDD feature. After that, you will be given detailed operating prompts. Just do as told.
Warning; you should transfer external hard drive data out first, for copying Windows or migrating Windows will delete all original data on the external hard drive.
If you want to know more details about backup Windows to external hard drive, you can see the following video. Here, we take migrating Windows 10 for example.
Summary
Are you still worried about backup Windows to external hard drive? Now, MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you.