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7 May 2015

How to Clone, Migrate or Backup Drive using Free Utility

Cloning is a process of creating exact replica of existing hard drive and transferring the same to other brand new storage devices of same capacity or higher. It’ll also help you out in situations like hard disk drive migration or replacing failing hard disk drive along with all your valuable files and folders.

By cloning, you can transfer even the complete OS with all the files stored to new hard disk drive or solid state device without compromising the quality and quantity.

To backup hard drive data, you might need to do it manually or take help of another person to do it regularly. However, using efficient backup utility you can minimize the burden and ensure proper backup of your crucial files. Backup utility can store another copy of your files to any different location and ensure that the latest copy of recently modified or updated files has been stored successfully.

There are free as well as paid alternatives to perform drive cloning or backup. We’ll cover EaseUS Todo backup 8.2 in this review which offers extremely easy to follow steps and wizard based interface to get all this done even while sipping coffee. All you need to do is, download the setup file from EaseUS Clone website and install it on your PC. Once the software is installed, you can access it directly from the desktop or installed location.

Backup Drive using Free Utility

Process to Clone, Migrate or Transfer HDD/SSD Data

This tool will suites you best if you ever fall into situations of transferring the complete hard drive data or upgrading to more capacitive storage disks. You’ll also be able to completely shift the entire OS with all your files to solid state device for improved performance and better data safety.

Keep in mind that to perform any of the above said operations, you’ll need another drive of same or higher capacity. This is to ensure that no data would gone missing and appear as it was stored on previous location. Please follow the How to clone a hard drive tutorial steps below and make sure that you’re doing it the right way.

From the home screen of the software, select ‘Clone’ from the upper right corner of the window. Select the hard disk you want to clone or migrate data from and click on ‘Next’ to proceed.

On the next screen, you’d be able to choose the destination drive with an option to clone sector by sector as well as optimize for SSD if the destination drive is SSD.


You’ll have option to see layout in advanced before initiating the cloning process. Click ‘Proceed’ to begin the cloning operation.
This is the best and easiest way to clone hard drive of higher capacities in 10 or 15 minutes. The tool is completely safe and offers 100% guarantee of complete data transfer regardless the drive nature and file system type.

Faizan Ahmad

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