Free Disk Clone Windows 10 with Cloning Software

Is there a free way to clone a hard drive?

"I need to clone a disk but it seems like all cloning software, the cloning functionality is not available for free. Does anyone know any free (or free trial) disk cloning software?"

Not really, there are many free-trial cloning software, which allows you to preview the final effect. If you clone a disk without an OS, you will have a lot of choices.

What is the best free clone software?

To clone a disk without OS, you could consider using free disk cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Standard. It is widely used worldwide and has many loyal users. More importantly, it takes care of the cloning process and be sure all your data are migrated successfully. Below are some excellent features of this software:

Intelligent clone: It clones only used sectors of a hard drive to another one, thus you can easily clone a large HDD to a smaller SSD with everything on it. You can also use its Sector by Sector Clone feature to clone all sectors if the SSD has enough space to hold all data on HDD.

Hot clone: Thanks to the Volume Shadow Copy service, this software allows you to clone a hard drive and use it as normal.

SSD Alignment: If your target disk is a new SSD, it helps to accelerate the reading and writing speed as well as prolong its lifespan.

In addition, this software still allows you to clone disk without booting into Windows if you want. You need to create a bootable disc with it first.

How to perform free disk clone in Windows 10

Before you start to perform a free disk clone in Windows 10, please make preparations as follow:

• Get a new hard drive or SSD to store your data. If you want to clone a system disk, it is suggested to use NVMe as boot drive. Compared with normal SATA SSD, it has faster read and write speed.
• Be sure the new hard drive or SSD is initialized. Otherwise, you cannot use it to store the disk data.
• Download the best free clone software - AOMEI Backupper Standard. Install and launch it. Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, XP, and Vista are supported.
  

After making preparations, please continue to see below and learn the steps to free disk clone Windows 10.

1. Click Clone -> Disk Clone after launching this cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Standard.

2. On the Source Disk window, you will see all the available disks. Select the data disk you want to clone and click Next.

3. On the Destination Disk window, select the new hard drive or SSD and click Next. Note that all the data on the new hard drive or SSD will be deleted finally. If there is any, please backup files to the external hard drive in advance.

Tick SSD Alignment if your target disk is a new SSD and it helps to the reading and writing speed of the SSD disk. Then, click Start Clone to perform free disk clone Windows 10.

Notes:

• Don't format HDD until you can successfully boot from the new hard drive or SSD.
• You can enjoy Sector by Sector Clone or Edition Partitions (supported by Professional version) feature. The second option allows you to manually adjust partition size on the new hard drive or SSD and let it fit on automatically.
• In the Professional version, you still can clone disk with OS, such as, clone hdd to ssd free, or clone OS only with its System Clone feature.

Summary

You can easily perform a free disk clone Windows 10 as long as you use the best free clone software - AOMEI Backupper Standard. It helps you clone all the data on old disk to a new one and it can be HDD or SSD, even a smaller one.

At the same time, AOMEI Backupper Standard is still a bare metal backup software. With it, you can create a system image or disk backup for another computer and boot from the new hard drive or SSD successfully after restoring the backup image. For more advanced features, please check the edition comparison page and learn more about this software.