Best Disk Cloning Software for Windows 7
Why need to clone Windows 7 hard drive to a new one
Have you just upgraded your operating system from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7 on your old hard drive? However, after installation, you may find that there is not enough space on your hard drive and you always get an error message "Low disk space" popping up every minute.
This problem may be solved with the free partition manager software by extending the system partition with the free space. However, if your old disk runs out of space and all the files on the hard drive such as your precious photos, favorite films, etc. cannot be deleted, then you need to upgrade to a new and bigger drive.
In this situation, a professional disk clone and backup software working with Windows 7 will help to upgrade the old disk to a new and bigger one with all the content with you.
Best Windows 7 disk cloning software
Qiling Backup enables you to clone or move windows 7 to a new drive. Moreover, its latest version has been released such as Windows 10/8.1/8, etc are all supported.
Besides upgrading to new hard disk, if you want to buy a new computer to replace your old one, Qiling Backup with recover to dissimilar hardware function would allow you to migrate your data to the new computer without reinstalling the windows.
Actually, the way to clone Windows system disk or other non-system disks to a new one would be much safer and more convenient than reinstall Windows and load all applications all over again. Please follow the detailed step-by-step instructions to clone the disk. Before that, you may download and install a full version of this software and then start.
How to clone Windows 7 disk with best Qiling
Note: If you have saved important data inside the bigger HDD disk, please move the data and empty the disk in advance.
Let's see how to clone your HDD to a bigger one now:
Step 1. Connect the bigger HDD disk to your PC and make it recognize the disk as a second hard drive.
Step 2. Run Qiling Backup on your PC and select "Disk/Partition clone".
Step 3. Select the old HDD that you want to clone to a bigger HDD as the source disk. Click Next to continue.
If you want to do a sector level cloning, tick "Sector by sector clone" to enable it.
And choose the new/bigger HDD as the destination disk for saving the data cloned from the source disk.
Step 4. Preview a disk layout, you can then click Proceed to start the disk cloning process now.
Tips: If you want to boot the computer from the cloned disk, please use Disk clone function, because only cloning C partition cannot ensure you can boot the computer from the cloned disk.
Besides cloning disk, Qiling also provides file backup, disk backup, full backup, incremental backup, differential backup, schedule backup, etc. features to protect your data.
Related Articles
- Clone Windows 10 Hard Disk Partition
- Best USB Image Tool for Windows 10/8/7 Free Download
- How to restore SQL Server 2008 database to SQL Server 2005
- [Solved] How to Set Automatic Backup to OneDrive in Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP
- Reset Lenovo Laptops with OneKey Recovery Without Data Loss