Best ADATA SSD Disk Migration Tool to Clone HDD to ADATA SSD

Why Need ADATA Cloning Software?

ADATA is a famous manufacturer of the solid state disk (SSD) in decades. There are so many users all over the world. Obviously, migrating data from HDD to ADATA SSD disk is very important to get better performance. In some cases, you have to use the ADATA SSD data migration tool:

• Your hard disk can't afford to hold any other data; you want to get your data cloned to a larger one, like an ADATA SSD disk.

• Important data must be migrated to ADATA SSD or others to prevent it from loss.

• You have a ADATA SSD with faster speed, more capacity and better performance; get your data transferred into the new one.

• Maybe you want to clone your system to ADATA SSD or other disks to prevent re-installing system in some circumstance.

There are two approaches to realize the ADATA data migration: Windows Backup and Restore, and the best ADATA SSD disk migration tool.

ADATA Data Migration with Windows Backup and Restore

Every Windows version has its feature to backup and restore data. You can backup your files, folders and system to other locations or external hard disk.

In Windows 10, you can go Start -> Settings -> Update & Security -> Backup. There are two options to back up your data: “Back up using File History” or “Looking for an older backup”.

In Windows 8, you need to access Start -> type Windows 7 file -> Windows 7 File Recovery -> Set up backup. Then follow the on-screen guide to migrate data to ADATA SSD.

In Windows 7, please go to Start -> type backup -> select Backup and Restore -> click Set up backup and backup data with the wizard. 

Although Windows backup software is very convenient, it’s obvious has some limitations. You can check them in the following. 

• Only backup files in libraries, desktop, and in default Windows system folders.

• You cannot restore the individual file from the system image file.

• The image file could not use directly, you should restore your data from image file when the system data get damaged, it’s kind of complicated.

• It does not supports differential backup.

Thus, is there any other way to do the ADATA data migration with ease? The answer is positive.

Best ADATA Migration Utility - AOMEI Backupper Professional

As the best ADATA SSD migration tool in Windows 11/10/8/7, AOMEI Backupper Professional offer different features for you to satisfy you migrate data as you want:

• System Clone to migrate Windows operating system only without reinstalling, time-saving.

• Disk Clone to move everything from HDD to ADATA SSD without losing data.

• Partition Clone to move data easily.

• Backup any files you want.

• Restore individual file from the image backup file easily.

Besides, AOMEI Backupper has more powerful features than Windows backup utility, like system backup, disk backup, file backup, two-way sync, mirror sync, real-time sync, etc. 

Please download the best ADATA SSD cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Professional 30 day free trial (The clone features in the free trial can only be demonstrated, please upgrade to enjoy), install and launch the program.

How to Safely Clone HDD to ADATA SSD in Windows 11/10/8/7

Important: Please backup your important data on the ADATA SSD before cloning, because the cloning operation will delete or overwrite the data on the ADATA SSD.

The following steps are showing how to safely perform ADATA drive clone (Clone HDD to ADATA SSD) with ADATA disk migration utility in Windows 11/10/8/7:

1. On the main console, click “Clone” at the left panel, then select “Disk Clone”.

2. Choose the HDD as source disk to clone (here is Disk 0). Then press “Next” button to continue.

3. Select ADATA SSD drive as destination disk to save the data from source disk (here is Disk 2).

★Notes:
✍If there is a boot or system partition on the destination SSD disk, which makes the boot partition cannot boot when the clone operation completed. Thus, make sure you have the boot or system partition stored to other disk.
✍Make sure the ADATA SSD disk can hold the data of source disk if you are cloning large disk to smaller disk.

4. Check "SSD Alignment" to optimize the reading and writing speed for ADATA SSD and its lifespan.

5. Press the “Start Clone” button to clone HDD to ADATA SSD easily.

★Tips: There are several additional options in this step.
✍Click “Edit Partitions” to adjust the size of partitions on the destination disk to fully use the storage space on the destination if you clone disk to larger ADATA SSD.
✍Tick “Sector by sector clone” to clone all sectors on the source disk whether the sector is in use or not. If you tick the option, make sure the capacity of ADATA SSD disk is larger than source disk, at least equal to the latter. And the time will be much longer.
✍If your destination disk is a SSD (like ADATA SSD) disk, please make sure you have ticked “SSD Alignment”, if else, just leave it alone.

After the ADATA SSD cloning finished with the ADATA migration utility, everything is done.

If you just cloned a system disk, please replace the HDD with the ADATA SSD, reboot the computer to boot from it, or just change the boot order in BIOS, and boot from the cloned ADATA SSD.

Conclusion

AOMEI Backupper is a professional ADATA SSD disk migration tool and it also applies for other brand of hard drives. The data migrated by AOMEI Backupper can be directly used, because it’s an exact replica of source disk and don’t have to restore operations to get data.

After comparing AOMEI Backupper and Windows built-in Backup program, AOMEI Backupper is more reliable and flexible to use, choose the one that right for you.

If you want to protect unlimited computers within your company, you can pick AOMEI Backupper Technician Plus. With the inbuilt AOMEI Image Deploy tool, you deploy system image file to multiple computers over network easily, without repeated operations.