If you're upgrading to a new hard disk, how do you copy or clone the whole contents of your hard drive? If the hard drive contains system, you can't just drag and drop files in Windows to the new drive. If you just copy and paste the Windows files, you windows will fail to boot if you want to boot from the new hard drive. You have to make a copy or clone of your hard drive with a third party copying freeware, including all the boot sectors, files in use, and other important information related to booting and program, say the registry. This article will introduce you a copy hard drive freeware, which enables you to copy or clone the hard drive to another drive and give you a tutorial for how to use this free backup software to copy or clone hard drive.
Nowadays, to meet the computer users’ needs and provide the user a convenient and safe way to upgrade their old hard drive to new one, or make a backup of the entire hard drive, some famous software has been added with copy function.
Some commercial software will enable you to copy the hard drive. However, if a freeware that can also achieve the same task for you as the commercial ones, why do we need to pay for it? EASEUS Todo Backup is just a free backup software which enables you to copy your entire hard drive to another with either fast file-by-file copy or sector-by-sector copy.
EASEUS Todo Backup is free backup software that offers safe and efficient hard drive disk copy/clone to transfer your data on the old disk to a new one and backup your system or hard drive to image in case of computer crash or system failure. With simple steps you can move your large files to another place and backup your system in a few minutes. It is free for both home and business users and works with Windows 2000 Professional and Server/Advanced Server Sp4, Windows Server 2003 (32 and 64 bit), Windows Server 2008 (32 and 64 bit), Windows XP (32 and 64 bit) and Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit).
If you need to copy your hard drive, please download and install a full version of this freeware backup software first, then follow the detailed step-by-step instructions to clone the hard drive.
1. Launch the software and locate the "Clone Disk" in the main interface or toolbar.
2. Select the hard drive that you want to clone. Here we choose Disk 1. Click "Next". (You will see the detailed layout of disk 1 at the bottom of the interface.
3. Select a destination drive. Here we choose Disk 4, an unallocated disk. Click "Next". You must know that all data and programs on the destination drive will be overwritten during the drive clone process.
4. Preview your source drive and destination drive after cloning. Click "Next".
5. Proceed with the copy progress.
After the five steps, you have successful copied your hard drive and you may check the cloned disk in the Disk Management by right-click 'My computer'.
Tips:
To make the computer boot normally, if the source disk contains boot partition, you need to remove either the source disk or destination disk from the computer. If you want to boot from the destination disk, we recommend you to replace the source disk with the destination disk. Or you'd better disconnect the destination hard disk and boot from the source disk.
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