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How to Use AOMEI Disk Clone Wizard Correctly?

How to use Disk Clone Wizard of AOMEI Partition Assistant? If you’re still puzzled at the use of this powerful disk manager, here, refer to the most detailed tutorial to get it done correctly.

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By Cherry / Updated on June 12, 2024

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Although Partition Assistant is mainly designed for Windows hard drive partition, it comes with copy wizards – “Disk Clone Wizard” and “Partition Clone Wizard”. They help clone your entire hard disk/partition to another hard disk/partition for backup or data transfer. For example, when upgrading HDD to SSD, you can apply “Disk Clone Wizard” to transfer all data from the old HDD to the new SSD.

Disk Clone Wizard

With this tool, you can copy hard disk to another place, which is helpful when you replace your current HDD or SSD with a new disk without reinstalling system. Take the following steps to proceed.

Note: The Standard Edition only supports MBR data disks clone, if you wish to clone MBR system disk, MBR to GPT, GPT to MBR, GPT to GPT, please upgrade to the Professional Edition.

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Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "Clone" in the main interface and select "Clone Disk".

Disk Copy

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

Copy Disk in Windows 10 Quickly

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

Seleect Destination Disk

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.

Edit Disk

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 SSD if the target disk is an SSD drive.

Edit

Step 5. At last, click "Apply" and "Proceed" in the main interface to start cloning the hard drive.

Apply

If you clone a boot disk, when the disk clone is complete, don’t restart the PC directly. In order to make your PC boot from the destination disk, please shut down the PC first, disconnect the old source disk from the PC and then, reboot the machine. Now, it will boot from the new hard disk.

If you want to keep both hard disks, you should boot computer from the destination disk by change booting orders in BIOS or UEFI.

change boot

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Cherry · Staff Editor
Cherry is an editor of AOMEI Technology, she covers backup & restore, hard disk & partitions management, cloud files transfer, website & database backup and so on for AOMEI. She enjoys helping people find solutions to their problems. She loves traveling, cooking, reading and so on. She takes most of time with her family when she is not working.

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