How to use Hasleo Disk Clone?

 

Hasleo Disk Clone is a free and easy-to-use Windows Migration and Disk/Partition Cloning software, this guild will teach you how to migrate Windows to another disk, clone one disk to another one, clone a partition to another location or create a bootable WinPE emergency disk for disk/partition migration. Please click the buttons below to view detailed steps.

All the features of Hasleo Disk Clone have been integrated into our free Windows backup software Hasleo Backup Suite, we suggest you try Hasleo Backup Suite to get more powerful features.

Tutorial to migrate Windows to another disk with Hasleo Disk Clone.

Step 1. Run Hasleo Disk Clone, choose "System clone", Hasleo Disk Clone will automatically select all partitions that need to be cloned for Windows system migration, just click "Next".

windows migration auto select partitions
 

Step 2. Select the destination disk and then click "Next".

windows migration select destination disk

* The Clone as MBR/Clone as GPT option allows you to clone Windows operating system from an MBR disk to a GPT disk or from a GPT disk to an MBR disk.

* The Keep partition layout option can ensure that the partition layout of the destination disk is exactly the same as the source disk after the cloning operation is completed.

Step 3. Adjust the size and location of the partitions according to your needs, then click "Next". A warning message tells you that all data on the selected drive will be destroyed. Click the "Yes" to continue if you do not have important data on the destination disk.

windows migration edit disk layout

* Disk alignment:

  1. 1M (Recommended): 1M alignment is a subset of 4K alignment, and partitions aligned by 1M are always 4K alignment, so it can help you get the best performance of an SSD. In Windows Vista and later OSs, partitions created using Windows Disk Management always aligned by 1M bytes, regardless of whether the disk is an SSD.
  2. 4K: Ensure that the start sector of each destination partition is always aligned by 4K bytes, which is very important for the best performance of an SSD.
  3. Cylinder: Ensure that the start sector of each destination partition always starts at the beginning of a cylinder. Windows XP and previous OSs use this alignment mode.
  4. None: The start sector of each destination partition is not aligned.

* The Sector by sector clone partiton option enables you to clone all sectors from source partition to destination partition.

Step 4. Hasleo Disk Clone starts migrating Windows to the destination disk.

clone progress
 

Tutorial to clone one disk to another disk with Hasleo Disk Clone.

Step 1. Run Hasleo Disk Clone, choose "Disk clone" and select the source disk you want to clone, then click "Next".

disk clone select source disk
 

Step 2. Select the destination disk and then click "Next".

disk clone select destination disk

* The Clone as MBR/Clone as GPT option allows you to clone an MBR disk as a GPT disk or clone a GPT disk as an MBR disk.

* The Sector by sector clone entire disk option enables you to clone all sectors from source disk to destination disk, so the capacity of the destination disk should be equal to or greater than the capacity of the source disk.

* The Keep partition layout option can ensure that the partition layout of the destination disk is exactly the same as the source disk after the cloning operation is completed.

Step 3. Adjust the size and location of the partitions according to your needs, then click "Next". A warning message tells you that all data on the selected drive will be destroyed. Click the "Yes" to continue if you do not have important data on the destination disk.

disk clone edit disk layout

* Disk alignment:

  1. 1M (Recommended): 1M alignment is a subset of 4K alignment, and partitions aligned by 1M are always 4K alignment, so it can help you get the best performance of an SSD. In Windows Vista and later OSs, partitions created using Windows Disk Management always aligned by 1M bytes, regardless of whether the disk is an SSD.
  2. 4K: Ensure that the start sector of each destination partition is always aligned by 4K bytes, which is very important for the best performance of an SSD.
  3. Cylinder: Ensure that the start sector of each destination partition always starts at the beginning of a cylinder. Windows XP and previous OSs use this alignment mode.
  4. None: The start sector of each destination partition is not aligned.

* The Sector by sector clone partiton option enables you to clone all sectors from source partition to destination partition.

Step 4. Hasleo Disk Clone starts cloning the source disk to the destination disk.

clone progress
 

Tutorial to clone a partition to another location with Hasleo Disk Clone.

Step 1. Run Hasleo Disk Clone, choose "Partition clone" and select the partition you want to clone, then click "Next".

partition clone select source partition
 

Step 2. Select an existing partition or an unallocated space as the destination partition, then click "Next".

partition clone select destination partition
 

Step 3. Adjust the size and location of the destination partition according to your needs, then click "Next".

partition clone adjust partition size and location

* Partition alignment:

  1. 1M (Recommended): 1M alignment is a subset of 4K alignment, and partitions aligned by 1M are always 4K alignment, so it can help you get the best performance of an SSD. In Windows Vista and later OSs, partitions created using Windows Disk Management always aligned by 1M bytes, regardless of whether the disk is an SSD.
  2. 4K: Ensure that the start sector of each destination partition is always aligned by 4K bytes, which is very important for the best performance of an SSD.
  3. Cylinder: Ensure that the start sector of each destination partition always starts at the beginning of a cylinder. Windows XP and previous OSs use this alignment mode.
  4. None: The start sector of each destination partition is not aligned.

* The Sector by sector clone partiton option enables you to clone all sectors from source partition to destination partition.

Step 4. Hasleo Disk Clone starts cloning the source partition to the destination location.

clone progress
 

Tutorial for creating a bootable WinPE emergency disk for disk/partition migration.

Please note that you may need to disable UEFI Secure Boot to boot from the bootable WinPE media created by Hasleo Disk Clone.

Step 1. Run Hasleo Disk Clone, then click menu > "Create emergency disk".

select create emergency disk
 

Step 2. Hasleo Disk Clone begins building bootable WinPE image.

build bootable WinPE image
 

Step 3. After successfully builded the WinPE image, select "USB" to create an emergency USB drive or "Explore ISO" to export the ISO file to a specified location, then click "Proceed".

create bootable emergency disk

Step 4. Wait for the process to complete and click "Close" to exit.

 

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