Question: recently I bought a 512GB SSD, and I have made a fresh Windows installation on it. Now I’m going to copy the partition which saves lots of downloaded programs to SSD since running apps on SSD is a quite wonderful thing. Well, how can I copy a partition to another disk under Windows OS in a fast way? By the way, this partition saves about 50GB programs.
Such a kind of questions are frequently asked on the internet since SSD can bring users excellent read and write performance. To be specific, running Windows or programs on solid state drive will be much more smooth and faster. If users want to install needed programs on SSD without repeated download (these programs have been downloaded to HDD), they can copy the partition saving apps to SSD, and free drive copy software can help do this work in easy operations.
On the internet, as long as users search drive clone software, they will get countless results. Actually, common people would have difficulties in finding a good program from all these results, so there we give some suggestions:
If you are running Windows non-server operating systems like Windows 7 and Windows 8, try using MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition since this is a freeware with powerful functions. However, you are a server user, please download MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition. With this program, you can clone a partition to other disks with saving much time even if lots of data are stored. For detailed steps, please see the following example.
How to Copy Partition to Another Disk in Windows 7
After running the free drive copy software successfully, we can see its main interface shown below:
Then, select the partition which needs cloning and click “Copy Partition” function from the left action panel.
Next, mark an unallocated space on another hard disk to hold the copy of the source partition and click “Next>”. Tip: if there is no unallocated space, please shrink an existing partition to create in advance. After these steps, users are able to edit partition size. Just resize partition or move partition location and click “Finish” to go back to the main interface:
At last, click “Apply” button to make all changes performed.
Well, if you need to copy or clone a partition to another disk in Windows for data backup or file transmission, try using MiniTool Partition Wizard. It may give you great surprise.