Many users especially stars have suffered a lot as they send laptop storing private or confidential information to fix. Actually, if users want to avoid privacy leakage completely, they should erase hard drive of laptop before sending it to repair. Nevertheless, supposing all data are useful, please clone laptop hard drive in advance for erasing hard drive will cause all data lost forever. Of course, there should be external hard drive which will be used to store the copy.
The Best Tool to Clone Laptop Hard Drive
Talking about cloning hard drive, many users first think of using professional backup software, but this kind of software is always quite expensive. Here, we share a free method, namely cloning laptop hard drive with free drive copy software. Don’t think freeware is inferior, and there is free drive copy software which owns powerful functions and high security. MiniTool Drive Copy is such a piece of software. Note: this software can only be compatible with Windows PC operating systems, including 32 bit and 64 bit Windows 2000 Professional/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1, and server users had better turn to other solutions.
Clone Laptop Hard Drive with MiniTool Drive Copy
To use this free drive copy software, users need to download and install it on computer at first. Then, connect external hard drive with laptop and launch the software to open the starting interface:
In the starting interface, 2 functional modules are shown. To clone laptop hard drive, we should choose the module “Disk to Disk”. After that, all disks including local disks and external disks will be displayed. Just select the source hard drive (the disk that will be cloned) and the target external hard drive (the disk that will be used to store the copy) successively, and then choose a copying method. At last, confirm operations via clicking “Finish” button. After these operations, users are successful to clone laptop hard drive by using free drive copy software. Then, they can erase laptop hard drive without worries. If users can not find wonderful drive wipe software, try using MiniTool Drive Wipe. It is also a piece of freeware.
When the laptop is fixed, users can use the same solution to clone external hard drive to laptop.