How to Use Qiling Disk Clone Wizard Correctly?
Partition Assistant helps clone entire hard disk/partition to another hard disk/partition using its "Disk Clone Wizard" and "Partition Clone Wizard" for backup or data transfer. This feature is useful when upgrading from a traditional hard drive to a solid-state drive (SSD), allowing you to transfer all data from the old drive to the new one.
Disk Clone Wizard
With this tool, you can easily copy your hard disk to another location, which is especially helpful when you need to replace your current HDD or SSD with a new one without having to reinstall your system. To do this, simply follow these steps.
Note: The Standard Edition only supports MBR data disk cloning, and if you want to clone an MBR system disk, or convert between MBR and GPT, you need to upgrade to the Professional Edition.
Step 1. Install and launch Qiling Disk Master, then click "Tools" in the main interface and select "Clone Disk".
Step 2. Select the hard disk that you want to clone to as the target disk and click "Next".
After selecting the clone mode, you can check the source and destination disk in the next window or change to "Sector to Sector clone".
Step 3. Select a destination disk to store the data from the source disk, and then click "Next".
Step 4. Here, you can also click the "Settings" button to adjust the partition size on the destination disk, or tick "4k alignment" to improve the reading and writing speed on an SSD drive.
Step 5. To start cloning the hard drive, click "Proceed" in the main interface. This will initiate the cloning process.
After cloning a boot disk, don't restart your PC directly. Instead, shut down the PC, disconnect the old source disk, and then reboot. This will allow your PC to boot from the new hard disk.
If you want to keep both hard disks, you should boot your computer from the destination disk by changing the boot order in your BIOS or UEFI settings.
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