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What is the easiest way to clone a hard disk drive in Windows?
The old drive is a small 256GB SSD as my main drive for a while, but it's finally running out of space. I just bought a new 2TB SSD with more capacity and want to clone my current drive to it so I do...
Unfortunately, you can't clone a hard disk with disk management tool in Windows 11/10. The Disk Management utility is built into Windows and is primarily used for partition-related tasks such as:
- Creating and deleting partitions
- Formatting drives
- Shrinking and extending volumes
- Changing drive letters
However, it does not support disk cloning, which involves copying the entire contents of one drive (including the operating system, boot sector, partitions, and files) to another drive.
To clone a hard drive in Windows 11/10, you need to use third-party disk cloning software, such as:
- Macrium Reflect Free
- Clonezilla (free and open-source)
- Todo Backup Free
There are very good disk clone software you can use in nowadays!