Easy Solution for USB Flash Drive Clone

Coco Lin updated on May 31, 2022 to Disk Clone

USB flash drive is commonly used for many users. It's usually used to store some important files or used as bootable media. Sometimes, you may need to clone the USB flash drive in some cases. For instance, cloning USB flash drive as backup, or updating the USB bootable media with a new one, replace the failing USB flash drive, move data from USB flash drive to another drive, etc.

how to clone USB flash drive

The best USB clone tool

How to clone USB flash drive? The easy way is to use a USB clone tool. A professional cloning software can help you easily clone USB flash drive. You may think it's more simple to copy the data directly. However, if there are too many files on the flash drive, it will take very long time to copy. So it's better to clone the drive directly with the software quickly. Also, you cannot just copy the data to update bootable media on USB flash drive directly. You can only clone the drive in such a case.

What's the best cloning software for USB flash drive? There are so many software that can clone USB flash drive. To help you clone USB flash drive, we suggest you use the simple and effective software that can help you better. DMclone is such a tool that can clone USB flash drive.

The software can not only clone USB flash drive, it can also clone hard drive, SSD on your computer. It can clone data drive to update the disk with new or large drive. Besides, it can create a bootable copy of your system drive or bootable disk.

Steps to clone USB flash drive

To clone USB flash drive with DMclone, there are only a few simple steps. First, please ensure to connect the USB flash drive and the destination USB flash drive (or HDD, SSD) to the computer. Then run the software and follow the steps below to clone USB flash drive.

Step 1.Please choose the USB flash drive as source and also select another flash drive or hard drive as destination.

how to clone USB flash drive

Step 2. After getting into this step, you can preview the layout of the destination drive. Also, you can edit the drive on the destination drive.

how to clone USB flash drive

Step 3. The software will then clone the USB flash drive. Please check the destination drive after the clone process is finished.

how to clone USB flash drive

If you clone the USB flash drive as above, it will overwritten the entire destination disk. So please check and ensure there are no other partition and data on the destination drive. It can be used if you want to clone the entire USB flash drive to another USB flash drive, or creating a copy of bootable USB flash drive, etc.

However, if you only want to clone the USB flash drive to another big hard drive as backup, you can try to clone the USB flash drive with Partition Clone. Then you will only clone the partition to the destination hard drive and you can still have some other partitions on the disk. In such a case, we suggest you do as follows.

Step 1. Please choose the USB flash drive as source and select a partition or unallocated space on destination drive.

how to clone USB flash drive

Step 2. Please check and preview the layout of the destination drive first. You can also resize/move the partition on the destination drive to change the layout.

how to clone USB flash drive

Step 3. After clicking the Clone button, it will then clone the USB flash drive as a partition to the destination drive.

how to clone USB flash drive

As a comprehensive disk cloning software, DMcloneis also able to clone drive sector by sector if you want to make sure each sector be cloned. Also, if you clone a drive to an SSD, it also provide an option that can help you optimize SSD. At last, if you want to clone your drive in any cases, please download this software to have a try.