The ability to migrate your OS from HDD (hard disk drive) to SSD (solid state drive) without erasing data is indispensable.

Are you still looking for a safe and reliable clone HDD to SSD freeware? Windows doesn’t offer a built-in free SSD cloning tool to migrate a hard disk to another drive.

Check this guide and learn how to effectively clone your HDD onto a new SSD. Enjoy the fast bootups and quick launch apps from the SSD.

Move your program files from an SSD drive to an HDD drive without reinstalling the programs on the target drive using Robocopy or Easus.

If you're upgrading from an HDD to an SSD, make the most of the extra speed it offers by setting the SSD as your boot drive.

Mine was done in a smidge over a half-hour, but I was cloning an SSD (where my Windows partition lives) to an empty SSD for this example. In other words, the transfer was pretty speedy.

The original partition on the SSD was a dd copy from the old HDD a year ago so I strongly suspect a partition alignment issue that the newer versions of Disk Utility take into account when ...