{"id":7857,"date":"2019-04-30T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T09:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2020-06-24T07:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:34:05","slug":"duplicate-hdd-partition-to-ssd-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/duplicate-hdd-partition-to-ssd-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Duplicate HDD One or More Partition to SSD in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI wonder whether there is a safe way to duplicate\/copy one or more partitions to a new disk drive. I want to move the data partition in my computer to a solid state disk so as to release more space for the computer and make it run faster. But the boring copy of files and data will cost much time. I really want an effective way to do this job!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Are you looking for an easy way to duplicate\/copy\/clone the whole partition from HDD to SSD without data loss? Instead of copying and pasting the files and documents again and again, we desire to a simple and time-saving method to do this duplication task. Here, we will introduce you one effective way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/duplicate-hdd-partition-to-ssd-in-windows-10\/\"><strong>duplicate HDD one or more partitions to SSD<\/strong><\/a> quickly and safely.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#partition\">Part 1: Duplicate HDD partition to SSD in Windows 10<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#disk\">Part 2: Clone Whole HDD to SSD in Windows 10 <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"440\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/duplicate-hdd-partition-to-ssd-in-windows-10.png\" alt=\"duplicate hdd partition to ssd in windows 10\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/duplicate-hdd-partition-to-ssd-in-windows-10.png 680w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/duplicate-hdd-partition-to-ssd-in-windows-10-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"partition\">Part 1: Duplicate HDD partition to SSD in Windows 10<\/h2>\n<p>Before you go to duplicate the HDD partition to SSD, you need to make the following preparations:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Software:<\/strong> Hard disk duplicator software\u2014iSunshare CloneGo<br \/>\n<strong>Needed Storage Device:<\/strong> Larger capacity SSD with multiple volumes<br \/>\n<strong>Operation System:<\/strong> 32 Bit or 64 Bit Windows 10\/8\/7 system<br \/>\n<strong>Duplication time:<\/strong> 15 minutes or more, it depends on the used space of your HDD partition<br \/>\n<strong>For the HDD partition:<\/strong> Do the disk cleanup and defragment before duplication<br \/>\n<strong>For the SSD:<\/strong> Make it right connected with your computer and make a backup for its data if it is not the new SSD. You need to initialize the SSD firstly and then add the volumes.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: Download hard disk duplicator software for the partition data duplication<\/h3>\n<p>CloneGo\u2014the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/clonego\/\">hard disk duplicator software<\/a> enables you to free copy the entire partition to SSD with super easy and relax steps. It is highly recommended for you to finish this task.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/downloads-v2016\/isunshare-clonego.exe\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/images\/common\/free-download.png\" alt=\"CloneGo free download\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Step 2: Run iSunshare CloneGo and select the source partition from HDD<\/h3>\n<p>You should Install and run CloneGo in your Windows 10 computer. Then it will present you the available space and total space of each partition. At this moment, you can select the source partition from HDD which you want to move the data.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76911 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/select-the-source-partition-from-hdd.png\" alt=\"select the source partition from HDD\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/select-the-source-partition-from-hdd.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/select-the-source-partition-from-hdd-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 3: Select the target partition to receive the data from HDD<\/h3>\n<p>Now you can select the destination volume from your SSD. It is better to pick the empty volume with enough space to save the source partition data. Because it will be formatted later! Also, if the source partition is the system partition (C drive), it is better to tick the option\u2014Set the target partition as the boot disk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76912 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/select-the-target-partition-from-ssd.png\" alt=\"select the target partition from SSD\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/select-the-target-partition-from-ssd.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/select-the-target-partition-from-ssd-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Step 4: Begin the partition duplication process.<\/h3>\n<p>You need to click the Start button and get a notice box. Then click the Yes button to execute the operation to duplicate Windows 10 hard drive partition into SSD for free.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76913 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/click-yes-to-start-copy.png\" alt=\"click Yes to start copy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/click-yes-to-start-copy.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/click-yes-to-start-copy-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then all you need is to wait for the software to complete the partition copy process. And it is 100% guaranteed that there will not be any data or file loss on the Windows 10 computer. If you have a larger amount of data in the partition, it will take more time to clone the partition data. When the duplication process is over, you can close the software and restart the computer. Now you can empty the cloned partition of HDD to add more space for your Windows 10. If you want to duplication more partitions to SSD, even the system partition, you can continue to do it with the above steps.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"disk\">Part 2: Clone Whole HDD to SSD in Windows 10<\/h2>\n<p>If you want to duplicate the entire hard drive with all partitions to SSD, including the Windows operating system, software, and data, it is no need to clone partition one by one. You can take advantage of Disk Clone function to clone the whole disk to SSD with simple clicks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Make the SSD connected with your Windows 10 computer. Then right-click This PC and initialize the SSD. After that, add at least one volume to the SSD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"397\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76914 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/initialize-disk-1.png\" alt=\"initialize SSD\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/initialize-disk-1.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/initialize-disk-1-300x183.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Launch iSunshare CloneGo and choose the Disk Clone feature on the left panel. Afterward, select the source disk\u2014HDD and the target disk \u2013SSD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76915 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/use-disk-clone-in-clonego.png\" alt=\"Disk Clone function in CloneGo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/use-disk-clone-in-clonego.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/use-disk-clone-in-clonego-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong> Click the Start button. On the pop-out prompt, click Yes to start the copy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76917 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/click-start-and-confirm-formatting-1.png\" alt=\"Click Start and confirm formatting\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/click-start-and-confirm-formatting-1.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/click-start-and-confirm-formatting-1-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then, you just need to wait for the disk cloning process to end.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76918 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/disk-clone-process-1.png\" alt=\"disk clone process\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/disk-clone-process-1.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/disk-clone-process-1-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the disk cloning process ends, all your data will be duplicated from HDD to SSD. You will have the identical same partition in SSD as the HDD. As for the rest of space in SSD, it will be unallocated space in your disk. You can open disk management to view the details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76919 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/disk-management-after-cloning.png\" alt=\"unallocated space in SSD after cloning\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/disk-management-after-cloning.png 650w, https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/disk-management-after-cloning-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/computer\/clone-ssd-to-larger-toshiba-ssd.html\">How to Clone SSD to Large SSD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/how-to-clone-c-drive-to-external-hard-drive-in-windows-7-8-10-computer\/\">How to Clone C Drive to External Hard Drive in Windows 7\/8\/10 Computer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/windows-10\/solved-windows-10-backup-and-restore-not-working.html\">Solved: Windows 10 Backup and Restore not Working<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/computer\/copy-partition-to-another-partition-on-windows-and-mac.html\">How to Copy Partition to another Partition on Windows and Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/computer\/how-do-i-replace-hp-laptop-hard-drive-with-ssd.html\">How to Replace HP Laptop Hard Drive with SSD\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI wonder whether there is a safe way to duplicate\/copy one or more partitions to a new disk&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hdd","category-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76921,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions\/76921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isunshare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}