How to Clone your old HDD into a new SSD Before you dive into cloning your hard drive, ensure you have both the SSD and the hard drive plugged into your system.

In addition, make sure the drive you are cloning to has enough storage space to take all the cloned data. For instance, you wouldn't want to try and clone a 2TB HDD on to a 256GB SSD now would you?

Make sure both your hard drive and SSD are hooked up to your computer, and then you can run the software and follow the steps to clone your hard drive over to your SSD.

SSD drive cloning software does way more than just copy files. It duplicates your entire drive—operating system, partition setup, drive letters, custom settings, installed apps, and personal files.

SSD drive cloning software does way more than just copy files. It duplicates your entire drive—operating system, partition setup, drive letters, custom settings, installed apps, and personal files.

Let's take a quick look at a step-by-step guide detailing how to turn an SSD into a boot drive for your new or existing computer.

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If you're thinking of upgrading your Windows hard drive and moving to a faster SSD or NVMe SSD then you need to read our guide on cloning Windows.

Want a backup strategy that backs up everything on your PC? Considered cloning—your hard drive, that is.