Clone a Hard Drive or SSD
Please note: When installing Version 11.5, you will likely get a pop-out notification from Windows Security reporting a threat (low) “PUABundler-Win32/FusionCore” or “Browser Modifier” or something similar. This is not a problem, you can ignore it and proceed or remove it and proceed, it really doesn’t matter. This happens because Windows Security sees that the app may include 3rd party offers, meaning it may try to install unwanted software after installing the Minitool Partition Wizard. Just pay attention at the end of the installation if it prompts you to install additional software just ignore or uncheck the option, or close the installation, the actual app would have already been fully installed at this point.
The rest of this tutorial will be based on the 10.0 and 11.5 versions.
After downloading, run the installation file by double-clicking. Select your preferred language and hit ok.
Accept the license terms and hit next on the following pages.
Here, choose whether or not you want to create a desktop shortcut and if you want to participate in the customer experience improvement program, then hit next.
On this next window, it asks if you want to install additional software. If you don’t, simply uncheck the box where it says “I have read the Privacy Notice…” and then hit next to continue with the normal installation.
On the window that follows, hit install.
and hit finish to complete the process.
Before the next step, connect your new disk or SSD to the laptop using the USB SATA Adapter cable as shown below. If you have a USB 3.0 port, then you should definitely use it, this will fasten the process substantially compared to a USB 2.0 port.
On the page below, choose Disk Clone
It should take you to this copy disk wizard. Here hit next.
On the next page, it asks you to Select Disk to copy. Here, by default, your C drive labeled Disk 1 is selected. If for some reason this is not the drive you want to copy, then select the drive you want to copy and hit next.
On the next page, it asks you to select the Target Disk, which in this case is the new 240 GB SSD I want to upgrade to.
Here check that this is the disk you want to upgrade to, especially if you have more than one secondary disks attached to your computer, then hit next.
It then reminds you that all the data on the destination disk will be destroyed, are you sure you want to continue? Here double-check that you have selected the right disk before hitting Yes.
On the next screen, you will see a summary of all your selections. By default, Fit partition to entire disk is selected and Disk 2 is the target disk, which is my SSD. If that’s right for you, click next.
It then informs you to configure your BIOS to boot from the destination disk when next you boot up, I will explain this a bit later, just click finish.
Next, it returns you to this main page below where you will now click apply on the top right corner to begin the migration process.
A note will pop out recommending that you close all applications before applying the changes.
Here close down any application running and hit Yes to start the migration process. If you get past this stage then just wait for the migration process to run as supposed.
However, oftentimes you will get this notice saying “Operation copy partition cannot be completed because drive C is being used now”.