If you want to replace laptop hard drive and transfer data to a larger drive or an SSD, AOMEI Backupper can give you a hand. It enables you to upgrade laptop hard drive without losing data.
After using your laptop for a period of time, you may find that it is hard to reach what you expect. The laptop will become slower and slower, and the free space of your hard drive will become lower and lower. What's worse, the hard drive may be broken.
To make things better, replacing hard drive with larger hard drive or changing it to an SSD should be very helpful to extend your hard drive space and improve the running speed of your laptop. You can transfer all data to another hard drive so that you can replace hard drive without losing data.
The best disk cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Professional can help you a lot with laptop hard drive replacement. Following are the useful features you need:
★ Preparations
★ Tutorial of replacing laptop hard drive and transferring data
Step 1. Launch AOMEI Backupper. Choose the Disk Clone function under the Clone tab.
Note: If you want to transfer only OS, you can select “System Clone”.
Step 2. Select the old hard drive on your laptop as the source disk and the new hard drive you just connected as the destination disk successively.
Step 3. Check SSD Alignment if the destination disk is an SSD. Then click Start Clone to begin transferring OS and data from one hard drive to another.
★ Tips on secure boot
To boot from the cloned hard drive, follow the steps below:
1. Swap the laptop hard drive with the cloned one.
2. Restart your computer and continuously press ESC, Del, F1, F2, or F12 to enter BIOS.
3. In the BIOS settings screen, set the cloned drive as the first boot option. Your computer should boot successfully then.