Portable Disk Cloning Software for All Windows PC Users

Why do you need portable disk cloning software?

Owing to complex steps and a low success rate, many people won’t choose Windows features to transfer the data from one disk to another. They intend to utilize third-party software to clone important data or migrate HDD to SSD because of the easy operation and a better chance of going ahead.

If you need to clone one hard disk to more than one computer, you will have to install that software on each one, and don’t forget about the license issue.

Thus, portable disk cloning software is the best solution to clone and manage multiple devices without too many limits.

Best portable disk cloning software

A powerful and all-in-one disk management tool for enterprises and services providers, AOMEI Partition Assistant Technician will become your best choice with its excellent cloning feature and portability.

1. High compatibility
This application is compatible with all Windows computers and Windows Servers, including Windows 11/10/8/7/XP/Vista and Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012(R2)/2008(R2)/2003, which makes clones and manages hard disk/partition/OS among multiple pieces of equipment possible.

2. Versatility
You can clone hard disks in various sizes and types: clone HDD to smaller HDD/SSD, clone GPT disk to MBR, migrate OS to SSD… What’s more, you can even convert and clone dynamic disks with this convenient software. Truly realize the flexible management of different disks.

3. Reliability
The software is designed for optimizing disk performance to maximize disk space usage without data loss. All data will be protected in the operation process. This secure tool is trusted by many enterprises like FedEx, EPSON, Panasonic…

Let’s create a portable disk cloning software to manage all your disks!

Create a portable version of AOMEI Partition Assistant

First, you need to install and run the software on a Windows PC, and then follow the steps to create a portable Partition Assistant on a removable device. Then the software could be used on any PC with the device without installation.

Step 1. Click "Tools" in the left small menu and choose "Create Portable Version".

Step 2. Click "Next" to continue.

Step 3. Select a location to save the AOMEI Partition Assistant.

When you connect a USB device to the computer, it will select the "Use USB Device" option by default and your USB device will be listed here. If you could choose "Customize Target Path", then select a target place manually.

Step 4. Click "Create" to begin the creation.

Then, a portable disk cloning software is ready to help you clone data.

How to Clone hard drive with disk cloning software

After you’ve created a portable version of Partition Assistant, now, let’s see how to clone a hard disk to a smaller SSD as an example. Your apps are safe and you don’t need OS reinstallation if you want to directly replace your old hard disk with the new one.

Before the cloning, please connect the removable device installed in the portable version of AOMEI Partition Assistant to the computer with the disk you wish to clone. And launch the software from the device.

Step 1. Click "Clone" in the main interface, and select "Clone Disk".

Tip: If you just want to clone OS only, you can choose the “Migrate OS to SSD” feature in the left menu.

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

Step 3. Select another drive as the destination 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 improve the reading and writing speed of the SSD. 

✿ Copy without resizing partitions: The source disk configuration will be copied on the new disk with the same partitions size.

✿ Fit partitions to the entire disk: The partitions on the source disk will occupy the entire destination disk.

✿ Edit partitions on this disk: It allows you to adjust the size of the partition manually, and change the size as you like.

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

If the hard disk you want to clone contains a system boot partition, the operation will be completed under the "PreOS Mode", so don’t worry, just follow the steps.

To sum up

To realize a hard disk clone among multiple devices simply, AOMEI Partition Assistant will be the best portable disk cloning software for you. The software also has other pragmatic features not only cloning: move applications, make bootable media, resizing BitLocker partition… With this handy tool, cloning disks on different PCs will be easy for everyone.