Best Free Patriot SSD Cloning Software to Clone HDD in Windows

When you have a new Patriot SSD, you can’t just drag all the files and folders from the old drive to it and you will need a Patriot SSD cloning software because you don’t want to lose any important data or encounter some unexpected problems. Patriot SSD toolbox supports Patriot SSD firmware update, but it does not provide SSD cloning software. With the help of third-party Patriot SSD cloning software, you can quickly copy system, programs, files, and other data to Patriot SSD.

AOMEI Partition Assistant provides disk cloning, partition cloning, and system cloning. Besides, we will also introduce some additional SSD cloning software to clone to external/new SSD.

Best Patriot SSD Cloning Software Download

Before choosing professional cloning software, make sure you consider its price, features, operating difficulty, and security. You can adopt this powerful and free Patriot SSD cloning software, AOMEI Partition Assistant, which can help you clone the whole disk or the system partition to a Patriot Burst, Viper, or P200 SSD. serval advantages are making it the best cloner:

● Great compatibility for most Windows systems: AOMEI Partition Assistant can help you to clone HDD to SSD in Windows 10, 8, 8.1, 7, XP, Vista operating systems.
● Clone the whole disk or system partition: It supports copying all data on the old disk or only system partition to another SSD to satisfy different demands of cloning.
● Clone larger HDD to smaller SSD: Because of the high price of SSDs, your SSD might have a smaller capacity than the old disk. Fortunately, AOMEI Partition Assistant is capable of cloning larger disk to smaller disk that most other tools can’t provide.
● Multi-functional tool: Besides clone data, AOMEI Partition Assistant is also good at managing disks and partitions. For example, you can use it to create a partition after cloning.

Then you can go to the next part to see how to use the Patriot cloning software to clone HDD to SSD in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7.

How to clone HDD to Patriot SSD in Windows

AOMEI Partition Assistant, one of the best disk cloning software, simplifies hard drive and SSD upgrades by migrating data from one disk to another SSD.

Install AOMEI Partition Assistant, and connect your SSD to a computer or laptop, and follow the steps to see how to clone a whole HDD or system partition to Patriot SSD in Windows 10, 8, 7. You can clone the whole disk or only clone the system partition:

Clone the whole disk

Step 1. Open the installed AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, click "Clone" in the main interface, and select "Clone Disk".

Step 2. Choose the hard disk that you need to clone as the source disk like SSD and click "Next".

Step 3. Select the destination disk to store the data on the source disk, and then click "Next".

Step 4. Then, you can check the source and destination disk in the next window or change to "Sector to Sector clone", and click the "Confirm" button to continue if there is no problem.

Here, you can also click the "Settings" button to adjust the partition size on the destination disk or tick "4k alignment" to Optimize the performance of SSD if the target disk is an SSD drive. 

Tip: If you want to clone Windows to a smaller drive, the "Clone without resizing partitions"  button will be greyed out. Then, a Note about how to boot OS from the destination disk will pop up. Read and keep it in mind.

Step 5. After returning to the main interface, check the pending operation and click "Apply" and "Proceed" to commit the operation.

Only clone system partition

If your Patriot SSD is not big enough to clone the whole disk, or you just want to save some space on the target disk, you can use the "Migrate OS to SSD" feature. It allows you to copy system partition and system-related partition (data partition not included) to your Patriot SSD.

Step 1. In the main interface of AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, click “Migrate OS” under "Clone" menu.

Step 2. Select the patriot SSD as the destination for the OS transfer. And if there are partitions on it, you need to check “I want to delete all partition on this disk 2 to migrate system to the disk.

Step 3. Also, you can resize the partition in these steps

Step 4. Then read the guide on how to deal with if your computer encounters a boot problem, and click “Finish”.

Step 5. Click “Apply” > “Proceed” to start cloning

When the process is over, turn off your computer, and replace the old disk with the cloned SSD.

Why need to clone HDD to Patriot SSD?

The main reason why people want to clone HDD to a patriot SSD is the high read and write speed. Using Patriot SSD as the system disk can dramatically reduce the loading time and improve running speed. And Patriot SSD is a nice choice. For instance, a Patriot Burst 480GB SSD provides a read and write speed that could reach up to 550-500 MB per second, which is a big appeal for users, particularly game players.

Conclusion

Now you can enjoy the high running speed of Patriot SSD in this clone method. And this Patriot SSD cloning software applied to transfer data to Patriot Burst, Viper, P200, and other SSD.

And if you want to further improve the read and writing speed, you can alignment the SSD with the AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition. And it also can help you to wipe data on the old disk to protect it from data leakage if you want to give it away.