Clone Hard Drive Windows 7 64 Bit Easily and Quickly

Why need to clone Windows 7 hard drive?

Many computer users may have encountered the problem of insufficient disk space. Luckily, the built-in disk management in Windows 7 64bit can extend the partition. But if the hard drive's space is used up, what should you do? Needless to say, almost every user will buy a new larger one to replace the old and small one. Then, another problem comes up. How to easily and safely transfer everything to new disk, especially the system drive?

Solution to Windows 7 64 bit hard drive clone

The best method to finish the task is Windows 7 clone hard drive. Is it the same as copy and paste? No, not so simple! For several small files, it may be workable, while for system hard drive, it may lead to the system refuse to work after migration. Thus, you need to find the best way to ensure the system run normally.

The snap-in disk management doesn't have the function to clone hard drive Windows 7 64 bit system. Thus, you need to find a third-party professional partition magic. Due to there are a lot of software in the market, it is hard to make a decision. Compared with others, why don't you use the powerful AOMEI Partition Assistant?

How to clone a hard drive Windows 7 64 bit?

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is the very software to help you out. It is widely used among computer users, and most people speak highly of it. It is stable and its simple interface will give you much help. Just following the easy guideline, all your tasks will be a piece of cake.

Meanwhile, it supports Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10, both 32bit, and 64bit. What's more, with this disk partition manager, you can also resize/move/split/merge partitions, extend your system partition directly without rebooting system, etc.

Step 1. Install and run the tool on your Windows 7 64 bit comptuer. Go to "All Tools" > "Disk Clone Wizard".

Step 2. Select “Clone Disk Quickly” or "Sector-by-Sector Clone" and then click ”Next”.

▸Clone Disk Quickly: allows you to only copy the used space on the disk.
▸Sector-by-Sector Clone: allows you to copy all the sectors of the disk whether they are in use or not.

Step 3. Choose the Windows 7 hard drive as the resource disk (e.g. Disk1, the boot hard drive) and then click ”Next”.

Step 4. Select the destination disk (Disk 2) and click "Next". If you clone hard drive to SSD, tick the option “Optimize the performance of SSD” to improve its read and write speeds.

Step 5. If you selected the “Clone Disk Quickly”, here you can resize partition on the target disk. Then click "Next".

Step 6. Read the subsequent boot note if necessary. Then click "Finish".

Step 7. Click "Apply" and "Proceed" to commit the pending operation.

Notices: 

▪To clone system disk, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard supports MBR to MBR; for MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR/GPT, you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional.
▪ You can also use the tool to adjsut partition size, change drive letter and so on.