Problem: I partitioned the disk to multiple blocks during the process of clean Windows 7 installation, and then installed a lot of necessary programs such as Kaspersky and photoshop to drive C. For better and faster recuperation, I am planning to image the whole system partition to an external USB hard disk. Is there free but reliable hard drive copier software? If there is, please suggest me one piece.
Solution: we can find a lot of drive clone tools from the internet, but it is not easy to download the satisfying one. Well known tools are always quite expensive while programs developed by small companies may have defects. Aiming at this situation, we suggest using MiniTool Drive Copy, a piece of free but powerful hard drive copier software for Windows users. It copies a single partition as well as the whole hard disk in simple operations. More importantly, if we use it to clone a system partition or disk, our computer can boot from the disk saving the copy of Windows without error. Next, let’s take cloning system partition for example.
Copy System Partition with MiniTool Drive Copy
Firstly, launch the free hard drive copier software to get the main interface where 2 functional modules are shown:
In the main interface we can choose “Disk to Disk” to clone the entire disk or select “Partition to Partition” to image a single partition. Since we are going to clone system partition, “Partition to Partition” module is needed. Click on it to get the following interface:
Here, please select the partition which needs copying and click “Next>”. Then, select an existing partition or unallocated space to save content on source partition and click “Next>”. Note: if users copy source partition to an existing partition, all data saved on the selected existing partition will get lost, so please make a backup in advance.
Next, resize partition or change partition location according to actual demands and then click “Finish” button.
At last, click “Yes” to start copying.
When MiniTool Drive Copy completes all changes in boot mode, we copy system partition successfully. If users are looking for a free but excellent hard drive copier software to clone disk or partition, try this one.