Are you planning to upgrade old hard drive or operating system hard drive to a new and bigger one for your PC? How can you make an identical copy of the hard drive? How can you safely upgrade your operating system hard drive without bootable failure problems?
Many people want to clone the disk which contains the original operating system, for example, cloning Windows 7 to a new and larger hard drive and then replace the original hard drive: When the operating system is located on the hard drive, you can't just copy and paste Windows files to the new hard drive, otherwise Windows may fail to boot from the new hard drive.
So, is there any safe and convenient way available to transfer data and upgrade Windows 7 to a newer and larger hard drive? Or is there Windows 7 clone software? Actually, the way to clone Windows hard drive to a new computer would be much safer and more convenient than reinstalling Windows and all applications all over again.
Disk clone is especially useful when you want to upgrade the older smaller hard drive to a newer larger one without reinstalling the operating system and applications once again.
This article will introduce a Windows 7 clone software, which offers a safe and efficient disk clone to transfer Windows 7 from one hard drive to another without reinstalling Windows operating system and applications.
There are two procedures you need to follow to successfully clone one hard drive to another.
Qiling Backup is a professional hard drive cloning and backup & restore software. Besides clone system/data hard drive, it also provides advanced functions like image backup & restores solutions, differential backup, incremental backup, schedule backup, disk clone, image split, etc.
Follow the detailed step-by-step instructions to clone Windows 7 hard drive to another hard drive.
Step 1. Launch and run Qiling Backup on your PC and click "Disk/partition clone" on the tools page.
Step 2. Select the disk or partition that you want to clone.
Note: If you prefer to allocate the target disk with the same layout as the source disk, just enable a sector level clone by ticking "Sector by sector clone".
And then select the destination disk that you want to save cloned disk or partition with data.
Step 3. Click "Proceed" to start cloning your disk or partition now.