With the freeware AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, you can easily copy SD card to SD card on Windows 11,10, 8, 7. This way can help you transfer all data from SD card to SD card.
As is well known, SD cards have become a vital part of our new-age technology. These small and tiny storage chips are widely used in portable devices like mobile phone, digital camera or game gadgets to store data. Sometimes, we might need to copy SD card to another SD card for the following reasons:
1. To upgrade SD card to a larger SD card
If your current SD card is almost full and leaves little space for any new data, you may want to copy SD card to another larger card for an upgrade.
2. To back up data on SD card
If you have saved many important files on the SD card and you wanted to make a backup to avoid significant data loss when your SD card is damaged, copying SD card to another SD card could be a nice option.
3. To transfer files from SD card to another SD card fast
Compared with copying and pasting all files from one SD card to another card one by one, cloning the entire card will be a quicker, more convenient and time-saving way to transfer files between two SD cards.
No matter why you clone your SD card, the following work is necessary for a smooth process and satisfactory result.
To connect the SD cards to your computer and start clone, you need to prepare an SD card reader: plug your SD card into it and connect this reader to your PC.
Since the cloning process will be erased during the cloning process, please ensure you have moved everything vital to another safe location. For this task, the free backup software - AOMEI Backupper Standard is recommended.
Make sure the SD card you are cloning to has enough space to hold all contents in the source SD card. If there is not enough space, you had better remove some files or programs that are unnecessary from the SD card to make it smaller to fit into the destination SD card.
At last, you will need a professional cloner that can clone SD card to SD card completely without data loss. Here, we highly recommended the freeware: AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. The following highlights make it an excellent option:
With enough knowledge of AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, it is the time to learn how to use it to copy SD card to SD card in Windows 10/8/7.
Step 1. Free download AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard and install it on your computer. Double click the free SD card to SD card copier on your PC to launch it. In the main interface, click “Clone” in the top toolbar, and choose “Migrate OS”.
Step 2. Select a suitable copy method based on your situation. Here we select “Clone Disk Quickly” as an example. This method allows you to copy SD card to smaller SD card.
Step 3. Now, you need to choose the source SD card you want to copy from the given list. And click “Next”.
Step 4. Then select another SD card as your destination disk to hold all data from the source disk. Click “Next” to continue.
Step 5. In this window, you can edit partition size on the target SD card as you need. After it is done, click “Next” again.
Step 6. Then back to the main interface and please click “Apply” to actually execute the copying operation.
After data are copied from one SD card to another one successfully, you might want to do:
Turn off your computer, remove the source and target SD cards, and plug the larger one into your portable device if you copy SD card to a larger SD card for an upgrade.
Format the original SD card or wipe the SD card securely on your computer if you clone SD card with the purpose of freeing up space for new files, videos, or images. Then remove the empty SD card from your PC and plug it into your device for reuse.
Many users are also searching for a way to clone or back up Raspberry Pi SD card for a quick recovery when necessary, so here we also collect some important information for this special cloning job:
For this task, you can use Win32DiskImager.
Step 1. Install and open Win32DiskImager. Select your SD card you wish to clone under “Device” section.
Step 2. Then click the folder icon to its left to choose a destination location and filename. Once done, hit on “Read button”.
Step 3. When it is done, you will see “Read Successful” word.
Step 1. Plug the SD card into your PC. Press “Ctrl + Alt + T” to open a Terminal window. Type “sudo fdisk –l” to see all the file systems present on your system.
Step 2. Find out the device name of your SD card like “/dev/sdb” based on the size.
Step 3. Execute the “dd” command to write the image to another location.
“sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=~/raspbian_backup.img”
Step 1. Insert your SD card in your Mac and launch a Terminal window. Enter “diskutil list” to get all disks and try to identify the ID of your SD card such as “/dev/disk3”.
Step 2. Unmount your SD card by the command “diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3”.
Step 3. Use the “dd” command to write the image to your hard disk.
“sudo dd if=/dev/disk3 of=~/raspbian_backup.img”
AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard can not only help you copy SD card to SD card on Windows PC, but also enable you to clone other mass storage devices such as USB flash drive, SSD, HDD, etc. If you upgrade to its Professional edition, you will be able to experience more advanced disk partition management functions like cloning GPT disk to MBR disk, or MBR disk to GPT, migrating OS to SSD without boot issues, allocating free space from one partition to another one and more.
If you are running Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008, AOMEI Partition Assistant Server can be helpful to well manage disk partition.