How to Clone Hard Drive on Windows 8/8.1?

“Hi, I want to clone my SSD from an old Windows 8 PC to an external hard drive. Is there any simple method can help me?” - Lucy

How to clone hard drive on Windows 8/8.1? Windows cloning is creating a duplicate of the partition that contains the Windows system and the data on that partition. This can be useful for those of you who will replace the old hard drive with a new hard drive.

Instead of reinstalling, you can clone Windows from the old hard drive to the new hard drive. Later you just need to plug in the new hard drive and Windows will work as before when you are still using the old hard drive. For that, we provide a guide about how to clone hard drive on Windows 8/8.1

How To Clone Hard Drive On Windows 8/8.1?

DoYourClone for Windows is one of the best disk cloning software which is able to help you easily and securely clone any type of hard drive on Windows 8 or Windows 8.1. Now, just free download and install it on your computer.

DoYourClone offers two disk modes: partition clone or disk clone. If you only want to clone a Windows 8 hard drive partition, just choose partition clone mode; if you are going to clone an entire hard disk on on your computer, just choose mode - disk clone. It can help you quickly clone the hard drive on your Windows 8 PC to another hard drive or external storage device. Here, we will show you the disk clone mode.

Step 1. Select the source disk and destination disk.

This mode will help you clone the source disk to the destination disk, first of all, just select the source disk and the destination disk. Please note that the original data on the destination disk will be erased once you start the disk clone process.

Step 2. Clone the source disk to the destination drive.

You can edit the disk layout before cloning the source disk. Then click on Clone button to start to clone the source disk to the destination disk.

Once the process gets finished, you can check the cloned data on the destination disk. Please don’t use the source disk and the destination disk when the disk cloning is in progress.

As you’ve seen, it is very simple to clone disk drive with DoYourClone. It also can help you clone a hard drive partition on Windows 8 PC. If you only want to clone a hard drive partition, just choose mode - partition clone. It will help you clone a hard drive partition (such as C drive) to another hard drive partition, portable hard drive, USB flash drive, memory card, etc.

DoYourClone for Windows is 100% safe, it will not cause any damage to your hard disk drive. With it, you can easily clone HDD, SSD, USB flash drive, or other storage device on Windows 8/8.1 PC. It also can help you clone hard drive in Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server, etc. Whether you want to make a backup of your hard drive or quickly move all contents from one hard drive to another hard drive, DoYourClone is the right tool for you.