Solved--Windows 10 System Clone without Reinstallation

“I upgrade my computer from Windows 7 to Windows 10 a few months ago with the help of my friends. Now the computer runs slowly and I want to replace the old hard drive disk to a better solid state drive. I bought the SSD online but I am hesitated to install it. I am unable to install the Windows 10 by myself and I don’t want to trouble my friend again. What’s more important, I do not want to lose the settings of my Windows 10 operation system. Is there any easy way to clone Windows 10 system from HDD to SSD without reinstallation and no data loss? I really need it!” 

It is true that we need to clone Windows 10 from HDD to SSD sometimes as to save time and efforts. For example, move Windows 10 from your desktop computer to a new laptop and replace the old HDD with SSD. But most people have no idea about how to make the Windows 10 system clone completely. Due to this reason, we would introduce iSunshare CloneGo—the powerful but easy to use Windows cloning software here as well as show you how to clone Windows 10 system from HDD to SSD within few steps. 

Steps to do Windows 10 System Clone with iSunshare CloneGo 

iSunshare CloneGo is the third-party Windows cloning software which is qualified for system and partition copy and backup. Everyone can free download this program to copy/clone Windows 10 OS easily with no data loss.

Step 1: Make your SSD connected with your desktop or laptop computer. Meanwhile, initialize the SSD and add more volumes.

Step 2: Open iSunshare CloneGo and click Copy. The current system partition and your SSD partition will be automatically deleted by the program and get listed on the interface with details. 

Step 3: Choose the Windows 10 OS partition as the source target and choose a volume from SSD with enough space to store the Windows 10 system data. 

Step 4: Click Start and get a text box saying that this operation will format the destination target. You should click Yes when the SSD partition is new with no data.

The software will help you clone Windows 10 system automatically. When the process ended, you can try to reboot your computer from the SSD. Believe it or not, CloneGo is efficient in hard drive upgrade, system backup, and data transfer. It has the external Backup and Restore features for the Windows system and data. Everyone can try it now for free!

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[Free and Safe] How to Clone A Hard Drive in Windows 10/7 to SSD

How does your computer work? Does it meet with your increasing the working requirement? If you feel it is out of date and want to upgrade the hard drive to a new and larger one, how can you deal with the software and data in it? How can you make the new hard drive works smoothly with all the same configurations and settings? You can find the easy and safe solution of clone hard drvie to SSD here.

From my point of view, the novices are eager for a safe and convenient way to transfer the Windows 10/7 OS and partition to SSD. So am I! Some people may choose to simply install the new SSD instead of the original hard drive. As a result, they need to reinstall Windows OS and all other tools again, which will waste much time to do the annoying operations for novices. As a matter of fact, I found the much safer, faster and more convenient way to do an exactly hard drive clone to SSD. You just need the free Windows cloning software—iSunshare CloneGo and a larger SSD.

iSunshare CloneGo is the professional disk cloning software for Windows users to clone everything on the hard drive in the partition-to-partition mode. You need to make sure that the target disk is larger than the source disk. And after cloning, the target disk is 100% identical to your source disk. Now let see how fantastic it is.  

Steps to Clone a Hard Drive to SSD in Windows 10/7 

To Clone an old hard drive to SSD, iSunshare CloneGo is one of the best and free choices because of its intuitive interface and powerful functions. 

Step 1: Launch iSunshare CloneGo and click Disk Clone. Next, select your original

disk with the Windows operating system to be the source disk. Of course, the SSD

should be the target disk. 

Tips:

l  You should initialize the SSD if it is new and add simple volume to it. Otherwise, you will see its partition is named as Uninitialized.

l  If there is any data in the SSD, backup it in advance.

l  If your source disk is the dynamic disk, some partitions might not be listed in the system and the two disks can not be presented at the same time after cloning. 

Step 2: Click Start and you will get the format pop-up box. Click Yes and the software will start the disk data cloning to SSD instantly.

Step 3: When the hard drive is cloned to SSD successfully, you will receive a box and click the OK button.

After that, you can go to disk management to see that the two disks have the same partitions. And for the SSD, there is unallocated space which you can use to extend the system drive or add new volumes.

Of course, you can restart the computer and keep pressing Del key to enter UEFI Bios settings. Then set the computer to boot from SSD. You can now have a check whether the SSD with copied system and partition can work normally or not!

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How to Backup Windows 10/8/7 Computer Partition to A New Hard Drive

Case 1：Can I clone system partition to a new drive?

“I bought a new SSD and want to upgrade my computer. I added it to my computer a week ago and now I want to clone system partition to SSD. But the problem is if I just copy-and-paste all programs and files, the computer cannot be booted from the SSD. So I want to know if there is partition clone software that can help me to clone the entire system partition.”

Case 2: How can I backup computer partition quickly?

“In my working computer, I placed all the needed software and files in a partition. And now the company is going to get a new computer for us. How can I backup or move the working data into a hard drive or transfer it into my new computer? They are so important in my working!”

Case 3: The partition has little space, what can I do for the pictures and videos files?

“As you know, we all have the unforgettable memories. All the photos and videos that can remind me of the happy times are stored on my laptop. I collected them together in one partition. But as time went by, there are little space in the partition and my computer run slowly. I want to back up the partition to my USB mass storage device. How can I do it effectively?”

Are you having a similar issue as the above-mentioned problems? If you want to clone or backup the computer partition to another hard drive, SSD/ HDD or even the USB mass storage devices, just relax and follow the solutions here to clone the partition.

First, download the free partition backup software

To make the partition data clone process easy for you, we highly recommend you a free partition backup software—iSunshare CloneGo, which can help you to clone/backup the Windows OS and partition with simple clicks. You can download and install it on your PC and enjoy the 7-days free usage for all functions.

Second how to backup Windows computer partition to a new hard drive

No matter you are using the Windows 10/8/7 system on a computer, no matter you are going to backup system partition or other partition, iSunshare CloneGo can help you to do that without any data loss or damage.

Step 1: Run iSunshare CloneGo and enable the Backup feature. You can see in the right menus that all the partitions are listed here. The partitions in different hard drive will be named differently. For example, here, K and L partition are in the disk 4.

Step 2: Select the partition to backup. You should select a volume to backup from the first part of the right menu. 

Step 3: Select the path to save the backup file by clicking Choose button. You can store the backup file in any partition. This compressed icg file can be stored in the internal partition or external partition.

Step 4: Click the Start button to begin the clone process, and then click the Yes button for further confirmation.

Step 5: After this, the software will start backing up the partition immediately.

After the backup, if you want to check the backup data, you should restore the data firstly. Take an overview of the Restore process below: Click Restore and select the destination partition to save the backup data; click the Choose button to add the backup file; click the Start button; click Yes to agree on the format. After that, the backed up data will be restored to the target partition soon and you can open and check it if needed.

Tips: What if I do not want to compress the partition data into SSD/HDD

As you can see, if you use the backup feature to back up Windows 10/8/7 data partition to the SSD/HDD, it is impossible for you to view it for details directly. If you want to move the data partition data to another drive without compressing, you can use the Copy function of iSunshare CloneGo. The data copied to the target partition in HDD/SSD will be 100% identical to the partition you want to backup. Besides, you can easily reach the backup data.

Step 1: Launch iSunshare CloneGo and you can view the Copy interface directly.

Step 2: Select the source partition—the partition you want to back up; and the target partition –the partition from SSD/HDD you want to save the backup data.

Step 3: Click the Start button and the software will tell you that this operation will format the target partition. Hit Yes and the copy process will begin.

Step 4: After the cloning process comes to an end, you can close the software and directly open the target partition to check the backup data. It is much convenient for you to access the backup data. 

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