How to Clone Hard Drive to SanDisk SSD in Windows 7/8/10?

About SanDisk SSD

To begin, solid state drive (SSD) is designed for faster speed and better properties so that many users want to replace their old hard drive to an SSD. With the SSD, the boot time will be shortened, and the computer performance will be enhanced.

Among all brand SSDs, SanDisk SSD is popular due to its outstanding performance and strong compatibility with Windows OS. A lot of users want to change their HDD to a SanDisk SSD. However, changing a storage device means new operating system and applications. You can spend a long time on installing them from scratch again. Or you can clone hard drive to SanDisk SSD so to quickly get an exact copy. To achieve this, you just need a professional SanDisk cloning software.

The best tool to clone hard drive to SanDisk SSD

AOMEI Backupper Standard Edition is the best tool for SanDisk clone HDD to SSD. It’s free and professional supporting to clone not only disk but also partition to all kinds of storage devices including SanDisk SSD and other brand SSDs, USB drives, NAS, HDD, SSHD etc.

During the cloning process, you can choose the Sector by sector clone feature of it to clone to a SanDisk SSD with the same size (or larger size) as your HDD, or clone to a smaller SanDisk SSD without choosing this feature as long as your data on HDD can be held by the SanDisk SSD.

Besides, AOMEI Backupper can be used with all Windows editions including Windows7/8/8.1/10/XP/Vista. Next, we’ll show you detailed steps to clone hard drive to SanDisk SSD.

Steps to clone hard drive to SanDisk SSD

Before starting to clone HDD to SanDisk SSD, there are two methods to connect the SanDisk SSD to your computer:

1. Clone HDD to SSD via SATA to USB adapter: if your computer has only one drive bay, you need an SATA to USB adapter and this allows you to connect a drive to your PC externally by simply plugging it into the USB port.

2. Clone HDD to SSD without SATA to USB cable: if your computer has more than one drive bay, you can add the SSD as a secondary disk so to clone HDD to SSD without SATA to USB cable.

Step 1: Download, install and launch AOMEI Backupper Standard. Select “Disk Clone” under clone tab.

Step 2: Select HDD (here is disk 0) as the source disk, and click “Next” to continue.

Step 3: Select your SanDisk SSD (here is disk 1) as the destination disk to save disk copy. Click “Next”.

Step 4: You can preview the operation result in this window.

* Click “Edit Partitions” and there will be three options for you:

• “Copy without resizing partition” will keep the partition on SanDisk SSD as same as on HDD.

• “Add unused space to all partitions” will automatically adjust partition size on SanDisk SSD (available when upgrading to AOMEI Backupper Professional).

• “Manually adjust partition size” allows you to edit every partition size by dragging the bar leftwards or rightwards. You can also enjoy the System Clone feature after upgrading.

Step 5: Click “Start Clone” and wait for the process to complete. Then click “Finish”.

With AOMEI Backupper, you can easily to clone hard drive to SanDisk SSD. As said before, you can also use it as OCZ SSD clone software, ADATA SSD clone software, and so on.