How to Copy or Clone Hard Drive Disk with Free Backup Software?

When you're upgrading to a new hard disk, you might think of copying or cloning the whole contents of your hard drive. If the hard drive contains system, you can't just drag and drop files in Windows to the new drive. Just copying and pasting Windows files will result in system unbootable from new hard drive. However, a third party copying freeware can do a perfect job to transfer all files including boot sectors and other important information related to system to the new hard disk, say the registry. This article will introduce you how to copy or clone the hard drive to another drive with this free backup software.

Choose a free backup software to make a copy of the hard drive

Nowadays, to meet the computer users' needs and provide the user a convenient and safe way to upgrade their old hard drive to new one, or make a backup of the entire hard drive, some famous software has been added with copy function.

Some commercial software will enable you to copy the hard drive. However, if a freeware that can also achieve the same task for you as the commercial ones, why do we need to pay for it? EaseUS Todo Backup Free Edition is just a free backup software which enables you to copy your entire hard drive to another with either fast file-by-file copy or sector-by-sector copy.

EaseUS Todo Backup Free is free backup software for home users as well as business users and it offers safe hard drive disk copy/clone to transfer your data on the old disk to a new one and backup your system or hard drive to image in case of computer crash or system failure. By the way, it also allows users to transfer the system state to a new computer with different hardware configuration by recover to dissimilar hardware function. With simple steps you can move your large files to another place and backup your system in a few minutes. It is free for all users and works with Windows 2000, Windows XP(32 bit and 64 bit), Windows Vista and Windows 7(32 and 64 bit).

How to copy hard drive with freeware EaseUS Todo Backup Free?

If you need to copy your hard drive, please download and install a full version of this freeware backup software first.

Free Windows hard disk copy/clone- EaseUS Todo Backup Free

Step-by-step tutorial: How to clone hard drive with EaseUS Todo Backup?

After these steps, you have successful copied your hard drive and you may check the cloned disk in the Disk Management by right-click "My computer" and choose "Manage" -> "Storage" -> "Disk Management".

Hard drive clone tutorial

 

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