When you disk is getting old, or having some bad sectors, or runs super slow and with noise, it's time to change it to a new hard drive. In the pop-up, you can resize the original partition, just drag the handle on the sides, you can shrink or extend the source partition.
What makes them different and which one you should choose? Clone Partition Quickly : it is also called file-by-file copy. Only the used space can be copied to the destination location and it is recommended because of its fast speed. During the duplicated process, you can resize and move the partition at the same time. Sector-by-Sector Clone : All sections, no matter whether it is used or not, in the source partition will be cloned to the target partition.
Compared with the first one, it is available to clone deleted or lost files and inaccessible data to target drive. In addition, it supports only the function of moving drive, meaning you cannot resize or edit any partition during that process. Later, you will get the main interface. Right click the partition you'd like to clone and select "Clone Partition".
It also allows you to clone C drive to another drive effectively. Generally, And you can enjoy the following benefits from this operation. Get rid of bad sectors : If the disk, containing the selected partition, suffers some bad sectors, you can copy important partitions to another disk to avoid bad sectors. Transfer data quickly : When all crucial data is saved in one partition, or you just want to only keep this partition during disk replacement, copying partition will help transfer data more quickly than copying a whole disk or copying files one by one.
If you are planning to delete partition, format partition, shrink partition or extend partition, Windows built-in tools like Disk Management and Diskpart can help you a lot. But for cloning partition, you need to use a third-party utility since Windows doesn't offer such functions by far. Only the unallocated space could be selected as the destination place to hold the source partition.
So if there is not such a space, please first create one by shrinking existing partitions or deleting an unused partition. Now, you can see an Operation Summary as follow. When you ensure all the choice you made is correct, just move your figure to click Start Clone.
Notice: In the lower left quarter, you can see three options. However, sometimes, there are only 2options if your target disk is smaller. You can choose one or more according to your needs. If you want to adjust the size of the destination disk, select the first choice — Edit partitions on the destination disk. It can resolve the left unallocated space after cloning disk to larger disk. If you want to clone all data without any loss, select Sector by Sector Clone.
If you clone Win 7 partition to SSD, select the third one to improve its reading and writing speed. Also, it can extend the life of SSDs. Notice: If you are afraid that the data is not complete during the progress you clone Win 7 partition to the same drive, you can click On completion. It can check your data, and tell you the operation has been completed successfully or not. Here, I am going to introduce you a different way I saw in the forum. You can try it with the detailed steps below.
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