Question: I want to copy all files (about 20GB) saved on partition D to partition E which just stores several MB files, and someone suggests me copying the entire partition rather than copying files one by one. Nevertheless, I have no idea of partition copy. Who can tell me how to copy one partition to another?
Answer: drive copy software is needed, for this kind of software can help image all data information contained on one partition to another in very simple operations. And some software even supports cloning the entire hard disk. Here, we highly recommend MiniTool Drive Copy since it is a piece of freeware with powerful drive clone capabilities. It is able to copy one FAT partition to another FAT partition or NTFS partition as well as clone NTFS partition to NTFS partition or FAT partition. Let’s see detailed operations in the following content. Moreover, it even supports copying a large partition to a small partition as long as the small one can hold all data on source partition.
How to Copy One Partition to Another with MiniTool Drive Copy
When this free drive copy software has been installed on our computer, we can launch it to get the starting interface:
Here, we can see 2 functional modules, namely “Disk to Disk” for disk clone and “Partition to Partition” for partition copy. Choose “Partition to Partition” module and we can see the following interface:
In the interface above, select the partition which needs cloning as the source partition and click “Next>”. Then, choose the partition that will save content on the source partition as the target partition and click “Next>”. Note: if the target partition has saved files, please backup all needed ones, because these existing files will be overwritten.
After that, specify the size and location for the target partition and click “Finish”.
At last, click “Yes” to start copying one partition to another.
After these operations, all work has been done. When users also need to clone partition or image disk, turn to the free drive copy software MiniTool Drive Copy.