Hitachi and Samsung Hard drive cloning and imaging

The Case

I got a Samsung SSD, and put it into my computer, and its proprietary cloning software-Samsung Data Migration which worked great. But it’s only work with the Samsung SSD drive. Now, I want to add a 1T Hitachi hard drive to another laptop, and I really hate reinstall windows operating system and applications. Can anyone advice me the best Hitachi hard drive cloning software.

When You Will Clone Hitachi Hard Drive?

With the usage of the computer, the hard drive will hold a pile of files like music files, work files, videos, movies, photos, applications and other documents. Your computer would get a “low disk space” pop-up and you’ll find the c drive has not enough free space for your tasks.

If you plan to replace your small hard drive with a large hard drive to get more free space, you may copy all the data or some essential files from the smaller one to the larger one.

On some conditions, it’s necessary to swap your HDD for a brand new SSD drive to get a higher speed of running; so you have to migrate OS to SSD drive without reinstalling Windows and applications.

In addition, if you get a “Windows detect a hard disk problem” message by system, which indicates the hard disk has some problems, please backup or transfer the important data to another location in case of the hard disk failure.

The best way to above all situations is clone Hitachi hard drive.

How to Clone?

First of all, you have to get a Hitachi hard drive cloning software to do a Hitachi hard drive transfer. Hitachi doesn’t provide an exclusive cloning software so that you have to look for the third party cloning software.

AOMEI Backupper Professional as the best Hitachi hard drive cloning software is highly recommended by users. With the powerful cloning features, you can easily copy Hitachi hard drive without losing data. The specific steps are listed below.

Step 1: Download, install and run AOMEI Backupper. On the main window, select “Clone” at the left panel, then choose “Disk Clone”.

Step 2: In the next Window, select the Hitachi hard drive as source disk. Then hit “Next”.

Step 3: Choose a destination location to save the data from the Hitachi hard drive. You can select external hard drive, SSD drive, Network share, NAS devices, even the USB flash drive as target location.

Tips:

  • Make sure the destination disk can accept the data from the Hitachi hard disk.
  • All the data on the destination disk will be wiped out. Thus, backup the important data in advance.

Step 4: On the “Operation Summary” window, preview the result of the data migration, and then press “Start Clone”.

Tips:

  • If your target disk is a SSD drive, you have to check “Align partition to optimize for SSD” option to get a better performance.
  • Ensure the target disk is larger than the source disk if you have ticked the “Sector by sector clone” option.

After a few minutes, you’ll get an exactly replica of Hitachi hard drive with Hitachi data migration software. By the way, the time of cloning is depends on the data size of the source disk. Apart from the disk clone feature, Hitachi hard drive clone tool provides you the service of system clone for Hitachi hard drive.

Clone hard disks to SSDs with free tools from Samsung and SanDisk

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Replacing the hard disk drive (HDD) with a solid-state drive (SSD) can bring even old office PCs back to life. In general, you would migrate the existing Windows installation and the data from the HDD to the new drive. SSD manufacturers offer cloning tools for this task; however, the tools are somewhat limited.

Tools from Samsung und SanDisk ^

Samsung and SanDisk are among the largest manufacturers of SSDs. Both offer free tools to clone existing discs. These are OEM versions of known products only usable with the drives of the respective manufacturers.

Samsung uses the data migration software of the Korean company Clonix (download), while SanDisk provides the Western Digital (WD) Edition of Acronis True Image (download).

Samsung Data Migration ^

You can install the Samsung tool on any computer even if it does not contain a drive from the manufacturer. But after the installation, it will insist on the selection of a target disk from Samsung and will not accept other SSDs.

Start screen of Samsung Data Migration

The actual cloning process is relatively simple in most cases. As a first step, you select the target drive; the software automatically picks the source disk. This is always the one on which Windows is installed.

Samsung Data Migration determines the source disk; you can only select the destination

Cloning of pure data drives is therefore not possible. In the next dialog, you just have to confirm the process, and the copying starts.

The situation becomes more complicated if the amount of data on the source medium is larger than the space on the target SSD. Then the tool automatically switches to the custom mode, which lets you select files you don't want to transfer.

Cloning an HDD with the custom mode

As a filter, you can either specify the minimum file size or select certain file extensions. However, it limits you to the given extensions, so you can't exclude typical memory guzzlers like virtual hard disks (VHDs). Omitting a whole folder will also not be possible.

If the target drive is not big enough, you'll have to exclude some files from cloning

If you've achieved the necessary reduction of the data volume, the next step will be to decide on the target drive. After this, you'll get a summary of options selected, and then you start the cloning process.

Acronis True Image WD Edition ^

SanDisk provides a version of Acronis True Image 2016 for cloning disks on SSDs. It is limited to the manufacturer's hardware, but in addition to the cloning, it provides functions for partitioning and creating an emergency disc.

After installing the software, click on the tools symbol and select Clone Disk from the dialog below.

True Image function list, including the cloning operation

Finally, you can activate either the automatic or the manual cloning mode.

Setting the clone mode (manual or automatic)

If you choose the latter option, you will later have to determine in an additional dialog how to adjust the volumes on the target medium.

Selecting the source hard disk for the cloning process

Now you define the source and target drive in two consecutive dialogs.

Selecting the target hard disk for cloning

If you've selected the manual clone mode, you will now have to decide on a method for moving. You can choose Proportional if you want to adjust the partitions to the size of the SSD; however, you can also take it as 1: 1 (As is) or manually adjust the settings.

Selecting how to adopt partitions to the target drive in True Image

If you chose the automatic method, True Image selects the Proportional option without confirmation and skips this dialog.

You see a summary of all selected drives before starting the clone process

The summary of the selected source and target disks appears after you have done this step, and after confirmation, the computer restarts. It will then boot to the Acronis recovery environment and begin cloning the HDD.