How to Clone a Hard Drive from WinPE Using Hasleo Disk Clone?

Learn the advantages of hard drive cloning with WinPE and discover a step-by-step guide to clone a disk using Hasleo Disk Clone in the WinPE environment.

• Why use WinPE to clone a hard drive?
• Hasleo Disk Clone – The Best WinPE Hard Drive Cloning Software
• How to Clone a Hard Drive from WinPE Using Hasleo Disk Clone?
• Summary

Why use WinPE to clone a hard drive?

To prevent file locking and system interference during the cloning process, or to enhance cloning performance, using WinPE to clone disks is a highly reliable option. WinPE boots into a lightweight, independent Windows environment separate from the host operating system. This enables rapid reading and cloning of every disk sector, ensuring a complete and accurate mirror image. It avoids cloning failures or data inconsistencies caused by files being in use. Below are the main advantages and applications of using WinPE for disk cloning.

Advantages:

1. Absolutely interference-free environment: Within WinPE, the source disk remains unused to prevent file-locking conflicts, while the target disk is protected from interference from background programs, viruses, or system updates.
2. Exceptionally high success rate and reliability: By avoiding file-locking and system interference during cloning, the image file remains intact, ensuring stable cloning processes and data integrity.
3. Support system disk cloning and restoration: You can create a complete clone of your system disk – including the OS, settings, and applications – to another disk, enabling direct boot without reinstallation.
4. Exceptional compatibility and flexibility: WinPE can load various drivers, which enables cloning on both new and older computers. Furthermore, it supports integration with a wide range of tools, including disk cloning utilities, data recovery tools, and hardware diagnostic utilities.

Usage:

1. System Migration and Hard Drive Upgrade: Migrating the system from a smaller HDD to a larger SSD.
2. System Backup and Restore: Create a backup of your current intact system. If the system later fails to boot, you can boot into a WinPE environment and use the restore tool to recover the entire backup image to the hard drive. This process will fully restore the system's boot functionality.
3. Enterprise Standardized Deployment: Create a standardized system image. Then, boot all target computers into WinPE via a USB drive or network. Finally, use cloning tools to copy the image onto each computer's hard drive
4. Data Recovery and Forensics: Create a full sector-by-sector clone of the faulty hard drive. All recovery operations must be performed on this clone to prevent secondary damage to the original source drive.
5. Complete Removal of Viruses or Stubborn Software: Boot into a clean WinPE environment to access the disk and safely delete virus files. Alternatively, back up your critical data, format the system drive, and restore it from an earlier backup image.

Hasleo Disk Clone – The Best WinPE Hard Drive Cloning Software

The right WinPE-compatible cloning software guarantees a smooth and efficient cloning process. Hasleo Disk Clone is a professional disk cloning tool famous for its powerful and ultra-fast cloning speeds. It offers three editions – Free, Professional, and Enterprise – all compatible with WinPE. The Free Edition includes core functionalities like partition, system, disk, and sector-by-sector cloning at no cost. Beyond these core features, the Professional and Enterprise Editions support advanced capabilities such as Delta clone and GPT/MBR conversion. Select the edition that best suits your needs. Below are the significant advantages of Hasleo Disk Clone:

1. Provide free core cloning functions including partition, disk, and system cloning with extremely fast speeds
2. Provide multiple disk alignment modes
3. Support Delta cloning and sector-by-sector cloning for disks and partitions
4. Support flexible adjustment of partition size and location on the target disk
5. Convert MBR to GPT or convert GPT to MBR by cloning
6. Create a bootable WinPE emergency disk for disk or partition migration

In short, for safe and efficient hard drive cloning in WinPE, Hasleo Disk Clone is the best choice.

 

How to Clone a Hard Drive from WinPE Using Hasleo Disk Clone?

To clone a disk from WinPE environment, you may first create a WinPE bootable drive and then perform the disk cloning operation within WinPE. Before beginning, prepare a USB drive with at least 16GB of storage and a functional computer that requires cloning. Below is a detailed guide for creating the WinPE bootable drive.

Part 1: Creating a WinPE Bootable Drive

Step 1. Download and install Hasleo Disk Clone. To create a bootable WinPE USB drive, insert the USB drive into your computer. Then, run Hasleo Disk Clone.

Step 2. Click the icon in the upper-right corner, then select "Create emergency disk" from the dropdown menu.

 

Step 3. Click "Add driver" to select and inject the necessary drivers into WinPE. By default, Hasleo Disk Clone will search for WinPE components on your local system. If you need to download WinPE components from Microsoft, check the "Download WinPE components" option at the bottom. Click "Next" to create a bootable WinPE image. This process may take several minutes. Please wait patiently.

 

Step 4. Select your USB drive and the ISO image file you just created. Click "Proceed" to begin creating a bootable drive or exporting an ISO.

 

Step 5. After the process completes, click "Close" to exit.

Step 6. You now have a WinPE bootable USB drive or an ISO file containing Hasleo Disk Clone. If you exported an ISO file, use third-party CD/DVD burning software to burn it to a CD/DVD.

Part 2: Cloning a Disk in WinPE

Step 1. Restart your computer. As soon as the manufacturer's logo appears, immediately press the F2/Del/F10/Esc key repeatedly to enter the UEFI/BIOS setup interface.

* Tips:

1. For the correct key, please refer to your laptop's manual or the on-screen prompt in the lower-left or lower-right corner during startup.
2. To boot from the Hasleo-created WinPE media, you may need to disable the UEFI Secure Boot feature in your system's firmware settings.

Step 2. Navigate to the "Boot" tab, set the USB drive or DVD drive as the first boot option, and save the changes.

Step 3. Reboot the system from the WinPE bootable disk. After WinPE finishes loading, Hasleo Disk Clone will run automatically.

Step 4. Click "Disk Clone" and select the source disk.

 

Step 5. Select the target disk and click "Next".

 

Step 6. Adjust the partition size and location according to your needs, then click "Proceed".

 

Step 7. The system will pop up a warning message, prompting you that all data on the selected drive will be deleted. Please back up your important data in advance. If you have already backed up your data or do not wish to, click "Yes" to continue.

 

Step 8. Hasleo Disk Clone has started the disk clone in WinPE. This process may take some time; please wait patiently.

 

* Tips: For other cloning options, please refer to the Hasleo Disk Clone user guide.

Summary

When your system fails to operate normally, WinPE provides a clean boot environment that is independent of the main OS, ensuring the security of system repair or cloning processes. Whether you're upgrading your hard drive or repairing an unbootable system, cloning from within WinPE using Hasleo Disk Clone is a highly secure and reliable choice.

Powerful, efficient, and incredibly easy to use – Hasleo Disk Clone is the trusted choice for users worldwide. Download now and experience the difference!