How to Clone Windows 10 System Boot Drive from HDD to a New SSD – 2 steps

How to Clone Windows 10 System Boot Drive from HDD to a New SSD. Thinking about upgrading your old hard drive to an SSD? If you are looking for an easy way to clone Windows 10 from HDD to SSD, hard disk cloning software can help you do the job quickly.

Cloner is a secure disk cloning software that will help you quickly clone and migrate your operating system using the disk cloning service.

You can follow the detailed steps below to format your hard drive and SSD.

How to Clone Windows 10 System Boot Drive from HDD to a New SSD

Steps to Migrate Windows 10 System Boot Drive from HDD to SSD

Step 1: Connect the SSD to your computer.

When the computer recognizes the SSD, you may need to start the SSD as MBR or GPT – exactly the same as the current partition style, so that you can boot from it without effort when cloning Windows OS .

Step 2: Close the system disk installed on the SSD.

Download Cloner and run it.

Click the “Disk clone” option from the left menu.
Select the disk on which the operating system is installed (for example, disk 0) as the source target disk.

Select the connected SSD disk as the target disk.
Click the “Start” button to begin cloning Windows 10.

Select the disk to close
When a warning message indicates that the service will delete data on the target disk, just click “OK” to continue.

Wait for the cloning process to finish.

After the cloning process is complete, there will be a copy of Windows OS on the target SSD drive.

Start cloning

Step 3: Configure PC to boot from SSD (with cloned Windows 10 OS)

Restart the PC and press the required key to enter the BIOS settings.

In the startup area, describe SSD as the first initialization, and then save all changes.
From the BIOS then restart your computer.

Set SSD as the first option
With these simple steps, you have completed the process of cloning Windows 10 OS to SSD.

It is worth mentioning that Cloner can also help you quickly back up your computer to an external hard drive in Windows 10.