How to clone a hard drive/SSD using AOMEI Backupper

As a follow-up to the last video on cloning using AOMEI Backupper, this video features not only a step-by-step guide to cloning your system, but also a test run afterwards to verify that the cloning completed successfully and is fully bootable.

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Closed Caption:

Hey guys, welcome back. Thanks to the
success of my last video on how to clone
your SSD or hard drive onto an external
media using Alma Backuper, I've decided
to revisit the topic through another
update video on how to do that in 2023.
So without further ado, let's jump right
into it. After connecting our drive, our
destination drive to our computer, let's
start our backup. And on the left panel
right here, we are going to click clone.
Now go to system clone and select the
destination partition that we just
plugged in. I'm going to warn you that
all data is going to be erased. Just
click okay and head on to the next one.
Here, click SSD alignment if you are
using an SSD. Now, before we start
cloning, we're are going to check out
the space that's available and that we
have used up on the drive. So we know
how much data roughly we are copying.
So we can see that we are copying
roughly about 35 GB of data.
And since the drive that I'm copying to
will be of the same capacity as this
one, the free space available will be
somewhat the same.
Okay, with that out of the way, let's
start cloning.
[Music]
Okay, now that it's done, we can exit
out of our backuper and shut down the
machine.
And now let's boot up the clone copy and
see if the clone actually works. So to
do this, and for the sake of good screen
capture, I'm going to use VMware to do
all of this. So, first things first,
we're going to create a new virtual
machine. We're not going to care about
the virtual disc since we are booting up
from my USB drive. Anyways, I'll just
speed the clip up to where I boot up the
virtual machine. Upon startup, press
delete or any other key that gets you
into the BIOS of your machine. In my
case, I'm using VMware, a virtual
environment. So, I'm going to press its
BIOS key F2 to trying to get into the
BIOS.
I didn't get it that time. So, let's try
again. And from the boot menu list,
we're going to select our EFI USB device
to boot from. And again, I'll save you
the time that this machine takes to boot
up for the first time. Now that we've
booted up, let's enter our password and
our credentials to log into the system.
A quick thing that I want to point out
while our system is loading is that we
are not suffering from any screen
resolution malfunctioning or anything
like that because on our source virtual
machine on the virtual machine we copy
from VMR tools is already installed so
it got copied over.
Now that we are in our system we can
explore a bit to see that the clone
actually completed successfully. So we
can see that all the way from desktop
icons to our apps to our total storage
occupied is roughly the same as the old
system. So we are sure that everything
got copied over. And with that this
video is effectively over. Thank you
guys for watching. Please be sure to
like and subscribe for more content like
this. I'll see you in the next one.
Goodbye for now.