How to Clone Partition or Hard Drive with Partition Copy Software

What does Partition Clone & Disk Clone Mean

Typically, one hard drive has many partitions which show as C:, D:, among others.  Partition clone means clone one partition to another, like cloning your D: to E: or other partition. All content on the original partition will be migrated to the target partition. Make sure your target partition has enough space.

Disk Clone refers to clone all partitions and files and other data in one hard disk to another hard disk, such as cloning HDD to SSD. And obviously, disk clone will take more time to migrate your data. If you want to copy your hard disk to another, you need to do more preparations.

So how to do the partition copy or partition clone? Is there any easy solution? Yes, we recommend you use the robust partition/disk cloning tools, EaseUS Partition Master, without data loss.

Download the Reliable Partition/Drive Cloning Software

To avoid data loss caused by program error or some other accidental affairs, EaseUS Partition Master provides partition clone and disk clone functions. Partition copy helps you clone/migrate partition to the unallocated space on the hard disk or hard RAID for data backup.

Not only sector-by-sector copy, EaseUS Partition Master also supports file-by-file copy for FAT & NTFS partition, which is much faster than sector-by-sector copy because it only copies files. Do not worry if there is something wrong with the file system, EaseUS Partition Master will check the partition before you start copying the partition, and will choose a sector-by-sector copy automatically to ensure your files' back up.

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How to Copy Partition with EaseUS Partition Master

Step 1. Right-click the partition you want to copy, and choose Clone.

Step 2. Choose your the target partition and click Next to continue. 

• If you clone partition to the unallocated space, your data will not be overwritten.
• If you clone partition to the exsiting partition, you should transfer or back up data before cloning to prevent it being overwritten.

Step 3. Click Proceed and wait for the clone to complete.

Tips:

1. Only unallocated space can be used as the destination partition during the process of partition copy.

2. The destination partition should be equal or larger than the source partition. Otherwise, the copied data may not keep intact.

3. Before performing the copy operation, "chkdsk" function will automatically check the file system and fixes the errors if there's any. This feature makes copy operation faster and more stable.

How to Copy Hard Drive to New Hard Drive

1. Preparations for Cloning Hard Drive

• Sufficient capacity - Make sure your second hard drive has enough space.
• SATA cable - Connect your hard drive to PC.
• Initialize the new hard disk with Disk Management.

2. Download EaseUS Partition Master and follow the simple steps

Step 1. Select the source disk.

Right-click the disk that you want to copy or clone. Then, select "Clone".

Step 2. Select the target disk.

Choose the wanted HDD/SSD as your destination and click "Next" to continue.

Step 3. View the disk layout and edit the target disk partition size. 

Then click "Continue" when the program warns it will wipe out all data on the target disk. (If you have valuable data on the target disk, back up it in advance.)

You can select "Autofit the disk", "Clone as the source" or "Edit disk layout" to customize your disk layout. (Select the last one if you want to leave more space for C drive.)

Step 4. Click "Proceed" to start the disk cloning process.