Upgrade Hard Drive to One Large Disk by Disk Copy without Data Loss

Why to Upgrade Hard Drive

With the development of technology, you use the computer to do work and other things. As time goes by, more and more data is saved on the hard drive of your computer, so that low disk space may appear. When you find your disk is running out of space, probably you are very upset and don’t know what should to do. When searching such a case on the internet, someone suggests you to extend partition size, and someone advises to replace this small hard drive. If all partitions are occupied by data, the second solution is a good choice.

In addition, nowadays SSD is becoming a popular storage device which owns many advantages, especially its high reading and writing speed. Therefore, many of you choose to upgrade hard drive to SSD for the best performance.

In these two cases, it is good to do a disk upgrade for large disk capacity and good performance. But how to perform this operation? Is it possible to lose data on the old hard drive? Please keep on.

How to Make a Hard Drive Upgrade

Generally speaking, replacing a hard drive is a difficult thing for you. When upgrading disk, you may think about it is prerequisite to reinstall operating system. In my opinion, it is not necessary to do this work, and the best way is to migrate all the disk data to the new large hard drive without reinstalling OS and it is safe to data. To achieve this aim, there is a recommendation that is MiniTool Partition Wizard. This partition manager is designed to resize/extend partition, copy partition or disk, migrate OS to SSD/HD and so on. Here I will introduce you a good solution to do disk upgrade by copying disk with its Free Edition.

Step 1: Download MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition and install it on computer for a try.

Step 2: After finishing the installation, please run this freeware to its main interface. Then select a disk you want to upgrade, then click “Copy Disk” feature under “Operation” menu in the left pane. Or right-click on this hard drive and click “Copy” function.

Step 3: Then you need to choose a disk to copy all data from the source disk to.

Please note: here the data on the destination disk will be deleted. Therefore, please ensure there is no important data on your target disk.

Step 4: Then you can review the changes you have made. Please choose a copy option according to your needs in the following screenshot. It is suggested to align partition to 1 MB for a good performance.

Step 5: MiniTool Partition Wizard will tell you to change boot order and boot computer from the new disk in BIOS after finishing a copy.

Step 6: At last, please click “Apply” to execute all operations.

Besides, you can migrate operating system to SSD/HD and then upgrade hard drive to a new large disk. When there is a need, try MiniTool Partition Wizard right now.