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Disk clone: upgrade disk or transfer data

When to clone your disk?

EaseUS Todo Backup provides disk clone function which can help you:

• Upgrade the older smaller hard disk to a newer larger one without reinstalling the operating system and applications.
• Transfer all data from one disk to another.
• Make a copy of source disk as backup via sector level or file level.
• Ensure data security by making a copy of damaged hard disk via sector level and recovering lost data from the copied disk.
• Clone hard disk without interrupting your business work, especially minimize server downtime when transfering Server from one hard disk to another bigger hard disk.

How to do disk clone?

Note: The capacity of destination disk should be equal or larger than the used space of original disk.

1. Launch EaseUS Todo Backup and click Clone -> Disk clone.

2. Select source disk you want to clone.

3. Select the destination disk. Sector by sector clone option enables you to clone all sectors from source disk to destination disk.

4. Preview the disk layout after cloning.

5. Click Proceed to execute cloning.

Disk clone video tutorial: Disk clone.

Tips:

New! Support GPT clone

1. If the source disk contains the system partition, please shut down the computer after the clone.
2. To remove either the source disk or destination disk from the computer to make the computer boot normally if the source disk contains boot partition.
3. If you want to boot from the destination disk, we recommend you to replace the source disk with the destination disk.
4. If the computer fails to boot from the destination disk after the clone, we suggest you clone the source disk to another disk with the same HDD interface.
5. If you choose to clone a hidden partition, the cloned one will be unhidden.

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