Question: I want to replace the disk which saves Windows 7 with a newly bought one, so I want to know whether it is possible to clone hard drive with operating system to another drive and make it bootable, because I really don’t want to do reinstallation. If the answer is yes, please show me a solution.
Indeed, with the appearance of massive HDD and high performance SSD, more and more users would like to weed out the current OS disk. To do such a replacement, they need the help of professional drive clone software. Well then, which cloning program can help clone the hard drive that is with operating system in easy operations? Here, we suggest using MiniTool Partition Wizard, which is free for all Windows home users.
Some users may ask “can we boot Windows from the cloned disk?”. Don’t worry about this, because the drive clone software will fix and update boot information automatically, which will make the cloned Windows OS bootable. Moreover, even inexperienced users can master the program with ease for detailed prompts will be shown. Next, let’s see specific steps.
How to Clone Hard Drive with Operating System
After launching the free drive clone software successfully, we can see its main interface below:
To clone a disk, please select the target one and choose “Copy Disk” feature from the left side.
Then, select the target disk to save content on source disk and click “Next>”.
In the interface above edit partition size and location by changing the length or position of the handle. Then, click “Next>” to continue. After that, a boot note will appear, which shows where to set the target disk as the default boot disk. Read it and click “Finish” to go on.
Now we can see the source disk has been cloned to the second disk, and there are 11 pending operations in total. Please click “Apply” button to perform all these pending operations. Note: if the source disk saves Windows which is running, we need to restart computer, and then the free drive clone software will do everything in boot mode.
If you also want to clone the hard drive which is with operating system, try using MiniTool Partition Wizard. If you just need to clone Windows OS, please see Migrate OS to SSD/HD.