Clone Tutorial • Hasleo Backup Suite
Moving Windows to a bigger HDD or a smaller SSD? Hasleo Backup Suite lets you fit every partition before a single sector is written.
New drive bigger? The spare space sits unused unless you carve it up. New drive smaller? Fat partitions simply won’t fit, and the clone can’t start.
That’s why Hasleo Backup Suite asks you to pick a disk layout strategy before the clone runs.
Click Clone in the left bar, choose System, Disk or Partition clone, then select your target drive. Before anything is written, you preview the exact target layout — and decide how to place it.
Four strategies: Edit • Automatic • Keep • Keep Size. Each controls size, position and alignment differently.
Click any partition, then drag the sliders or type exact numbers. You control the free space before, the partition size, and the free space after it.
Sliders + numbers = total control
Handles the case cloning to a smaller SSD — shrink manually so everything fits.
Hasleo sizes and positions every partition to use the target disk’s full capacity. The editors lock themselves; all you do is confirm and click Proceed.
Nothing to tune — just Proceed
Best when you just want a clean, working result fast.
Every partition keeps its exact size. If the target is larger, the leftover space stays unallocated — and only the sector-by-sector option remains configurable.
Same sizes, spare space left free
Ideal when the target disk is the same size as the source.
Sizes are locked, but you can drag partitions or edit their start and end offsets to reposition them. All other settings — like alignment — stay fully open.
Move it, don’t resize it
Handy when partitions only need a better position, not a new size.
Disk alignment sets where each partition starts. It matters most for SSD performance.
Windows Vista and later already align new partitions to 1MB — match that and stay fast.
Resizing never touches the source disk — it only shapes the target.
Clone to a smaller SSD?
Yes — as long as the target holds your used data. Edit mode shrinks manually; Automatic resizes intelligently.
Is the source disk affected?
No. Only the target layout changes — your source stays exactly as it is.
When use sector-by-sector?
For an exact bit-for-bit replica — data recovery or compliance. It copies empty sectors too, so it’s slower.
⚠ Double-check nothing important is left on the target first.
You’re ready
Pick a strategy, preview the layout, and click Proceed. Bigger or smaller — every partition lands exactly where it should, ready to boot.