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Clone small disk to large disk free
The hard disk coming with your computer may have been full and there is no enough space to save more information. At this time, lots of people plan to buy a new large disk to replace the old one. Well, how can we safely and completely transfer all data to new disk? The best way is undoubtedly to clone small disk to large disk, and you can even do this for free if you are running Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 or other Windows non-server operating system.
How to Clone Small Disk to Large Disk for Free
Firstly, users need to download a piece of free drive clone software since this kind of programs will help save much time by doing operations automatically. And currently you can find a lot of such tools on the internet. However, if you fear of downloading programs with security or function errors, try using MiniTool Partition Wizard Free since it is highly recommended by SevenForums. For detailed steps, please see the following example.
Copy Small Disk to Large Disk with MiniTool Partition Wizard Free
Once the free drive clone software is installed successfully, please run and launch it to get its main interface shown below:
Here, all disks are shown, and users need to select the one which needs to be cloned. Then, choose “Copy Disk” function from the left action panel.
Then, select the large disk to copy small disk to and click “Next>” to continue. After this step, users are given a chance to edit partition size and location on the large disk if they choose “Edit partitions on this disk”:
To resize partition, please select the corresponding partition and change the length of the partition handle. To move partition location, please change the position of the whole partition handle. Then, click “Next>” to get a boot note. Read the note carefully and click “Finish” to go back to the main interface:
Now we can see the small disk has been cloned to the large disk by using MiniTool Partition Wizard Free, but this is for preview only. Please click “Apply” button to make all changes performed finally.
Actually, this free drive clone software also supports copying large disk to small disk, like cloning a HDD to SSD, as long as the small disk has enough space to hold content of the large hard disk. If you have such a need, just have a try.
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