In recent days, I have noticed some users complaining on Google, Twitter and other social channels about cloning hard drive to SSD. Here, this article shows the reason and how to complete this task, and some other information.
Why Need to Clone HDD to SSD?
Compared with HDD, SSD has many advantages. For example, hard drives consist of various moving parts making them susceptible to shock and damage, while SSDs use a non-mechanical design of NAND flash mounted on a circuit board and are shock resistant up to 1500g/0.5ms; While HDDs take longer to access data because of their need for the disks to spin, SSDs can be up to 100 times faster as data can be accessed instantaneously resulting in total system acceleration.
Therefore, more and more users would like to clone their hard drive to SSD. However, how to complete this task without data loss?
How to Clone HDD to SSD?
When it comes to hard drive clone, users can try using MiniTool Partition Wizard. As a green, professional yet free partition management tool, MiniTool Partition Wizard can easily and quickly copy hard drive as well as all data saved on it without data loss. Detailed steps are shown as below.
First of all, users need to install this freeware on computer, and then launch it to open its main interface as follows.
In the main interface, select the target HDD which needs copying and then click “Copy Disk” feature from the left action panel.
Select the SSD to save all data stored on the HDD, and then click “Next” button.
Tips,
1:SSD should be large enough to hold all data on the HDD.
2: Please backup all data saved on the SSD in advance, because all its data will be deleted.
In this window, choose a copying method to decide the layout of target disk and then click “Next”. Note: to copy HHD to SSD, we highly suggest checking the option “Force to align partitions to 1MB”, which can improve disk performance.
Click “Finish” button to go back to the main interface of this partitioning tool.
Finally, click “Apply” button to perform all changes. Thus, all work has been done.
Do you want to clone your hard drive to SSD to make a backup for the disk which saves significant files? Do you want to copy your disk to upgrade small old hard disk to larger newer one without reinstalling Windows and all other installed programs?
Now, MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you to easily and quickly copy disk without affecting the original data.