Question: there are 2 disks on my Windows 7 desktop, namely 250GB disk 0 and 1TB disk 1. Now, I want to copy system partition of Windows 7 to disk 1 so as to boot from the larger disk. Who can give me a wonderful solution?
Answer: free drive copy software can help complete this operation, and you can try using MiniTool Drive Copy, which is free for Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 8 users. With data protecting solutions provided, it helps copy system partition of Windows 7 in a quite safe way. After the copy is completed and computer starts successfully, users need to set the partition saving the copy of Windows active in Disk Management, and then make disk 1 as the default boot disk in BIOS setting.
As a matter of fact, the free drive copy software also supports imaging the whole disk in addition to copying a single partition. All partitions and data will be cloned to the target disk according to users’ demands.
How to Copy System Partition of Windows 7 with MiniTool Drive Copy
1. Run MiniTool Drive Copy to get its main interface:
2. Choose “Partition to Partition” module to copy a single partition since “Disk to Disk” is for disk clone.
3. Select the system partition and click “Next>”. Then, select a partition or unallocated space on target disk to save content of the system partition and click “Next>”.
4. Change partition size by dragging triangles on edges of the handle and change partition location via dragging the whole handle. Then, click “Finish” to perform operations.
5. Click “Yes” to start copying system partition of Windows 7.
Note: both cloning system disk and imaging system partition will ask users to reboot computer for the current system drive is being used, which is normal and will not bring any damage to data and partition.
In fact, the free drive copy software MiniTool Drive Copy comes from MiniTool Partition Wizard, but the latter is much more powerful. View free partition manager to get more information about Partition Wizard.