Written byLucienUpdated on Apr 27, 2024
How to Clone Hard Drive to Samsung Portable SSD?
Approved byGerhard Chou
Before we start: Cloning a hard drive to a Samsung portable SSD will be a easy task with the help of a disk cloning software like Donemax Disk Clone for Windows OS or macOS.
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Can I clone a hard drive to Samsung Portable SSD?
Samsung is one of the best hard drive brands. Samsung provides different kinds of drives, like HDD, USB flash drive, SSD, and so on. Especially, Samsung provides the reliable and fast portable SSD. Nowadays, SSD is widely used because of the fast speed and good performance. So you may want to update your hard drive with a new SSD or make a plug-and-play portable system with Samsung portable SSD.
1. As long as the OS, software and data are copied to the potable SSD, you can plug in any computer to run the software and easily work on 2 computers.
2. If your computer breaks down suddenly, you can immediately plug in your portable system SSD to another computer without affecting your normal work.
Of course, cloning a hard drive to Samsung Portable SSD can be easily done if you have a reliable Samsung SSD cloning software. We suggest you try Donemax Disk Clone to clone hard drive to Samsung portable SSD. In this article, we will introduce the software and show you how to clone hard drive to Samsung portable SSD with the software.
Best Samsung SSD cloning software
Donemax Disk Clone is one of the best Samsung disk cloning software to clone hard drive effectively to the Samsung Portable SSD. You can also use the software to clone HDD to SSD, clone SSD to SSD, clone HDD to HDD, clone SSD to HDD, clone memory card, or clone USB flash drive.
The software can clone the data from hard drive to Samsung portable SSD completely and safely. It will create an exact copy of the data on the hard drive. If you clone the system disk, you can then use the cloned Samsung portable SSD to boot your OS without reinstalling the OS and programs.
Steps to clone hard drive to Samsung portable SSD
Donemax Disk Clone will clone the hard drive to Samsung portable SSD simply. Here are the steps to do the job.
Step 1. Connect the Samsung portable SSD to your PC.
Step 2. Launch Donemax Disk Clone and Switch to "Disk Clone".
Step 3. Choose hard drive as source and select the Samsung portable SSD as destination.
If you want to clone your drive in sector level, please check the option "Sector by sector clone".
Step 4. Change the disk partition layout and settings on the Samsung portable SSD.
You can use the "Autofit the disk" settings or try to manually edit the partition layout on the destination SSD. And please ensure to enable the option "Check the option is the target is SSD" to improve its performance.
Step 5. Click "Clone" to start copying the hard drive to Samsung portable SSD.
It will stake some time to copy the hard drive and please wait patiently. Once the process is done, you can go to the Samsung portable SSD to check the cloned data.
Final Thoughts
As a professional disk copy tool, Donemax Disk Clone is able to clone or clone to Samsung hard drive in Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista effectively. If you want to clone your drive in any cases, this software is one of the best choices to make an exact copy of the hard drive and make it bootable from the cloned Samsung Portable SSD.
FAQ:
Yes, Donemax Disk Clone will allow you to copy the system disk to a smaller Samsung SSD if the SSD is big enough to save all the existing data on the system disk.
Follow the steps to makes your Samsung Portable SSD a portable Windows environment:
- Connect the Samsung Portable SSD to your Windows PC
- Download and install Donemax Disk Clone for Windows on the computer
- Launch the software and select Disk Clone
- Select the system hard disk as source and the Samsung Portable SSD as destination
- Edit the disk layout on Samsung Portable SSD
- Click "Next" to apply clone
- After cloning, then you can run your Windows OS from the Portable SSD on any other computer
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Lucien
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