As for the other partitions on the HDD, you can choose either to manually copy the files on them to another hard disk or use the partition clone feature in EaseUS Todo Backup to get things done. As long as your SSD is larger than the used space on your system and boot drive, you can clone the OS from your HDD to the SSD without any boot issues. If the used space on your HDD is larger than the total size of your SSD, which is quite common, you can consider migrating OS to your SSD only. You may have noticed that there is a system clone option in EaseUS Todo Backup, which enables you to clone your Windows from one disk to another.

Option 2 is a better hard drive retention plan for laptops.

Unplug the old disk and make sure the new disk is well connected.

In the Boot option, select new HDD/SSD as the new boot drive.

Restart PC and press F2 (F8,F10, DEL.) to enter BIOS settings.

If you want to keep both the old disk and the new disk Meet all the requirements above? Now you can clone your HDD to an SSD following the guide below: Under Disk Information, you can see the partition style of your disk.

Right-click on your disk and choose 'Properties'. Right-click 'This PC' and choose 'Manage' > 'Disk Management'. To check the partition style of the HDD and SSD: If not, you will need to convert from MBR to GPT or vice versa.

Make sure the partition style of the target disk is in accordance with the source disk.

Make sure the capacity of the SSD exceeds the used space on your HDD, or there will be boot issues or data loss after cloning the HDD to your SSD.

Cloning an HDD to the SSD will erase all the data on the target device.

If there are files existing on your SSD, make sure you back it up (EaseUS Todo Backup can help) in advance before the disk clone.

Yet before you start, there are some preparations you need to make in order to have a smooth cloning process: With the Windows backup software - EaseUS Todo Backup, you can effortlessly clone your hard disk, be it the system disk or data disk, to an SSD.

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