April 16, 2019

[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 If you feel it is out of date and want to upgrade the hard drive to a new and larger one, how can you deal with the software and data in it?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.

clone hard drive to SSD


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 softwareiSunshare CloneGo and a larger SSD.

CloneGO free download

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. 

clone a hard drive to ssd

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.

start disk cloning

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

hard drive clone to SSD successfully


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.

check disk details in disk management after cloning

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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