For various reasons, you need to clone or copy a hard drive to another hard drive or an SSD in Windows 7/8/10. Here gives you the fastest way to clone hard drive with a disk cloning software.
In this article you'll learn:
Pretty Slow Speed to Copy Large Files
"I recently cloned my 2TB hard drive to a larger 4TB drive using a seven-year-old version of Clonezilla. It took a long time and didn't finish this work!!! I think I need faster software to help me."
Today it's a very common requirement for most Windows users to clone a hard drive to another one. As for the reasons, most of them want to copy the hard drive to a larger one due to insufficient disk space, some of them want to clone hard drive to SSD for higher efficiency, and some just clone hard drive in Windows 7/8/10 for data backup. No matter what the reason is, it is an indisputable fact that cloning hard drive is now a public demand.
However, copying a large hard drive often takes a long time by simple copy and paste. Obviously, cloning is a better choice than copy & paste. To explain why we should refer to the difference between copy and clone.
Difference between copy and clone
The only thing that you should maybe be aware of is that you get a shallow copy and a deep copy. A shallow copy only makes a copy of an object at the root level whereas a deep copy will produce a copy of an object and all of its child objects. In C++-land "cloning" is usually an idiom for deep copying polymorphic classes' objects.
Clone not only guarantees the files are the same but also guarantees the same physical location as they are on the source disk. In some cases, a file requires a fixed and specified location for normal operation. Once the file is moved, it won't work anymore. So generally speaking, cloning is a safer way to replicate data.
Here we provide you the fastest way to clone a hard drive--use the disk clone software - EaseUS Disk Copy. It is an easy and secure disk and copy/clone utility that can help you to transfer data and upgrade hard disk at a super-fast speed. But before cloning, here you need to prepare for it.
For a direct guide, watch and follow this video, you'll successfully clone your hard drive to a bigger HDD or SSD at a fast speed:
Step 1: Download, install and run EaseUS Disk Copy on your PC.
Click "Disk Mode" and select the hard drive that you want to copy or clone. Click "Next" to continue.
Step 2: Select the destination disk.
Note: The destination disk should be at least the same big or even larger than the source disk if you want to copy or clone the source hard disk.
Step 3: Check and edit the disk layout.
If your destination disk is an SSD drive, do remember to Check the option if the target is SSD.
Step 4: Click "OK" to confirm if the program asks to erase data on the destination disk.
Step 5: Click "Proceed" to start the hard drive cloning process.
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