Typically, one hard drive has many partitions which show as C:, D:, among others. Partition clone means clone one partition to another, like cloning your D: to E: or other partition. All content on the original partition will be migrated to the target partition. Make sure your target partition has enough space.
Disk Clone refers to clone all partitions and files and other data in one hard disk to another hard disk, such as cloning HDD to SSD. And obviously, disk clone will take more time to migrate your data. If you want to copy your hard disk to another, you need to do more preparations.
So how to do the partition copy or partition clone? Is there any easy solution? Yes, we recommend you use the robust partition/disk cloning tools, Qiling Partition Master, without data loss.
To avoid data loss caused by program error or some other accidental affairs, Qiling Partition Master provides partition clone and disk clone functions. Partition copy helps you clone/migrate partition to the unallocated space on the hard disk or hard RAID for data backup.
Not only sector-by-sector copy, Qiling Partition Master also supports file-by-file copy for FAT & NTFS partition, which is much faster than sector-by-sector copy because it only copies files. Do not worry if there is something wrong with the file system, Qiling Partition Master will check the partition before you start copying the partition, and will choose a sector-by-sector copy automatically to ensure your files' back up.
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Step 1. In the Tools and utilities page,choose Clone.
Step 2. Click the partition you want to copy, and choose Next.
Step 3. Choose your the target partition and click Next to continue.
Step 4. Click Proceed and wait for the clone to complete.
Tips:
1. Only unallocated space can be used as the destination partition during the process of partition copy.
2. The destination partition should be equal or larger than the source partition. Otherwise, the copied data may not keep intact.
3. Before performing the copy operation, "chkdsk" function will automatically check the file system and fixes the errors if there's any. This feature makes copy operation faster and more stable.
Step 1. In the Tools and utilities page,choose Clone
Step 2. Select the source disk.
Click the disk that you want to copy or clone. Then, click "Next".
Step 3. Select the target disk.
Choose the wanted HDD/SSD as your destination and click "Next" to continue.
Step 4. View the disk layout and edit the target disk partition size.
Then click "OK" when the program warns it will wipe out all data on the target disk. (If you have valuable data on the target disk, back up it in advance.)
You can select "Autofit the disk", "Clone as the source" or "Edit disk layout" to customize your disk layout. (Select the last one if you want to leave more space for C drive.)
Step 5. Click "Proceed" to start the disk cloning process.