Move Windows 10 to Another Hard Drive with AOMEI Backupper

Why transfer Windows 10 to another hard disk?

Nowadays, many people bought new computers with Windows 10 installed on it. And, most computers’ hard disk is HDD, not SSD. As we know, SSD has faster speed and better performance. Some people had small SSD bought before, so they want to move at least the system Windows 10 to SSD. So the demand transfer Windows 10 to another hard disk is existed.

In fact, there are other situations people may plan to move operating system to another hard disk. Although they have no experience about SSD, they feel the running speed become slower or the capacity of the disk become less with the usage of machine. So it is time to change a disk but save the system settings.

How to move Windows 10 to another hard drive?

How can we transfer Windows 10 to another hard disk without installing it and without date loss? We need a professional transfer tool to achieve this goal. Windows hasn’t provide such built-in program, luckily, with the development of software technology, there are third-party software to do this. The third-party software is designed to do this, not assist to do this. For example, with the help of AOMEI Backupper, we can easily realize our purpose. AOMEI Backupper has system clone feature, which will clone the entire system partition as well as its all related files that are necessary for system running. Next, let me show you how to use it.

To get the official edition, you should download it from AOMEI website, install and run. On the other side, connect SSD to computer, and ensure that the SSD can be recognized by the computer. By the way, the latest 5.0 version of AOMEI Backupper, which has a brand-new interface. If you are a new user of AOMEI Backupper, hope you could learn it quickly, if you are an old user, you need time to familiar with it again.

Open AOMEI Backupper, click Clone tab on the left column then select System Clone. If you have big enough disk, you can choose Disk Clone too. There is a description under System Clone: Clone or migrate your system to SSD or other disk.

In the new window, select a disk as new location for system. When you check the external SSD, the system and boot related partitions will be selected automatically too.

Click Next button, a pop-up window will prompt to notify you that this partition will be deleted or overwritten. If you think it is no problem, click OK to go on.

Notices:

*AOMEI Backupper could automatically select source partitions including OS drive and other boot required partitions.

*The destination location cannot be the source disk. Also, please make sure the selected drive has large enough space to contain the system partitions.

In following new window, If your destination location is SSD, you can check SSD Alignment to accelerate the reading and writing speed of the destination SSD. On the “Operation Summary” window, you are able to preview the operation source partitions to target hard drive. If there is no problem, you can click Start Clone button to commit the clone task.

Other ways to move Windows 10 to another drive with AOMEI Backupper

Because AOMEI Backupper is a Windows backup software, not only a clone software. So with its backup function can take the place of the corresponding clone feature, that means system backup and restore is a different form of system clone. At first, we should create a system backup under Backup tab. You see, there are file backup, file sync, disk backup and partition backup, AOMEI Backupper is a full scale backup software.

Backup mission is very easy too. Name the “Task Name” box to help you distinguish this from other backups and you can see partitions related to system to boot are listed automatically. Select a destination path to save image files. Click Start Backup button and wait for the process to complete.Then, come to restore. Click the “restore”tab and “Select Task” option. You can also browse a path to select an image file by clicking the “Select Image File” button. In the backup point page, choose a backup version, and then click “Next”. Select to restore entire backup or a part and click “Next”. Click “Start Restore” if all things are OK.AOMEI Backupper has a supportsuniversal restore, so it allows you to restore operating system to a computer with dissimilar hardware.

Summary

AOMEI Backupper supports all popular Windows operating systems. Because Windows 10 is the latest version, so we take it as an example here. Moving Windows 10 to new hard drive with AOMEI Backupper only needs a few clicks, saving much time. System clone method only needs four steps. System backup and restore even with the free backup software AOMEI Backupper Standard is OK. We think it is a great software to help you optimize system and protect data.

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