Best free SSD cloning software for Windows 11/10/8/7 But, nowadays, SSDs gain more capacity and affordable. In the past, SSDs has a small capacity and higher price. Thus, many users are willing to install Windows operating system (OS) on an SSD instead of HDD.Īfter running Windows on SSD for a while, you may notice that the SSD is running out of space for many utilities and applications having permission to write files to your system drive (C: drive). If you have ever use solid state drives (SSD), you may know it has many advantages than hard disk drives (HDD), such as, it's faster, lighter, quieter, cooler and it consumes less power. Why move Windows from smaller SSD to larger SSD?

In sum, to properly and safely clone a small disk to large disk, it is suggested to rely on professional SSD cloning software. It can be used to create a new partition, or be allocated to other existing partitions by free partition tool. Normally, there is a large block of 'unallocated space' at the end of the disk.

Press Win + R to bring out Run box, input diskmgmt.msc and you'll see the complete disk space usage information. In fact, the disk space still exists, but it may be a little difficult to find out. It is not suggested to select this option when cloning disk from small to large, like 256 GB to 1 TB or 500 GB to 1 TB.Ģ. The 'Sector by sector clone' feature will clone all the sectors of your old disk, whether used or not, thus the new disk will be exactly the same as the old one after cloning. There are 2 possible reasons for this situation.ġ. I only remember that I tick the sector by sector option.'Īccording to the description above, the 1 TB SSD can only show 256 GB and it's full like the old SSD. However, my 1 TB hard drive only shows 256 GB and the backup disk full. To make sure the boot ability of the target disk, please delete partitions on there first.'īut I can see the disk on Disk Management. But it says 'Not enough space on the target disk. So, I bought a new 1 TB SSD and try to clone SSD to bigger SSD with disk cloning software. 'I have a 256 GB SSD and it's almost full.

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