It lets you clone a smaller hard disk drive to a larger HDD for a disk upgrade, or you can clone a HDD to an SSD for better performance. Its other features include the choice of backing up entire HDDs, SSDs or specified partitions as duplications. Once your old and new machines are connected to the internet, simply run it, choose what you want to transfer, and the application does the rest.ĪOMEI Backupper Standard (opens in new tab) makes it easy to transfer to a desktop PC or laptop, and is offered as a free version with reduced functionality. Compatible with every combination of Windows version ranging from XP to Windows 10, Zinstall is designed with simplicity in mind. Zinstall (opens in new tab) will help you to transfer all of your programs, documents, music, pictures, emails and more to a new computer. Everything is maintained - from personalization choices such as desktop wallpaper to applications, to folder and file structures - meaning users can continue exactly where they left off. Windows 10 Accelerator (opens in new tab) from Ivanti will prove a huge time-saver for those that deploy anywhere up to thousands of machines. The software takes a snapshot of user profiles and local files from older Windows installations to port them across to a modern ones. It's cross-platform, so it doesn't matter which Android device you own, and you have the option of transferring data wirelessly or with the use of a USB cable.

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Read our full Paragon Hard Disk Manager review. This software is little more expensive at around $80 / £70 / AU$120. It also features some cool, additional features, such as being able to create a virtual clone of your PC to a USB drive, that can then run portably from another PC, or creating recovery media to be able to boot a non bootable PC with the included Recovery Media Builder. Paragon Hard Disk Manager covers the full range of disk duties, including disk cloning of the entire drive, and advanced activities such as cloning by the partition, and can even resize the partition while copying it, or copy a hard drive to another with a dissimilar sector size.

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