Data transfer between external hard drives and computers happens frequently. We copy files from PC to SD cards, USB flash drives, HDDs or SSDs to backup important files and free up local disk space. We also copy files the other way, thus keeping the external data on the computer. However, the data transfer process does not always go smoothly. Some users find the external hard drive freezes when moving files. Here is a post about the problem:

“I’ve been trying to transfer files to several external hard drives of mine in order to clear up space on my HDD, however every time I do begin a transfer, it will only do so for about 2-3 seconds, and then the transfer rate will drop rapidly until it is 0mb/s. It remains stuck there until Windows notifies me that something went wrong during the transfer process. Has anyone else had the same issue/know how to remedy?”

How to resolve external hard drive freezes when copying files efficiently?

If you find the external hard drive crashes when copying files, you can refer to the following methods:

Method 1: change the way of copying files

Repetitive, quick drag/drop can result in a hard drive freeze. Try to use copy/paste or cut/paste to transfer files. Moreover, you may transfer files in small groups rather than a big chunk, thus improving the transfer rate.

Method 2: enable/disable write caching

If you are copying files to the external hard drive, you can fix the issue by enabling write caching in Device Manager:

1. Right click on the Start icon and select Device Manager.

2. Find the external hard drive, right click on it and select Properties.

3. Under the Policy tab, choose Better performance and click “OK”.

Tips: If you are copying files from the drive, choose Quick removal.

Method 3: repair bad sectors on the frozen external hard drive

1. Tap the Search button on the taskbar and type “cmd” in the search box. Right click “cmd” and select “Run as administrator”.

2. Type chkdsk F: /f /r /x and press Enter. You should change the drive letter “F:” to that of the frozen external hard drive.

Tips: The meaning of the parameters used—“/f” tells chkdsk to fix any errors it finds; “/r” tells it to locate the bad sectors on the drive and recover readable information; “/x” forces the drive to dismount before the process starts.

3. Type exit and press Enter to exit Command Prompt.

Quicker way to copy files from/to external hard drives

As you see, to fix the issue that external hard drive freezes when copying files, you should use copy/paste or cut/paste to transfer files, which would be very troublesome for transferring a large number of files. What’s more, enabling/disabling write caching each time you want to copy files from/to external hard drives is also annoying. Is there a more efficient way to transfer data without worrying about frozen hard drives?

AOMEI Backupper Standard, the best file sync software for free, can help you with quick data transfer between two locations.

Learn how to copy files from the computer to an external hard drive via AOMEI Backupper’s Sync feature below. 

1. Connect the external hard drive to the computer and make sure it is detected. Download, install and launch AOMEI Backupper.

Click “Sync” and select “Basic Sync”.

Name the task so that you can distinguish it from other sync tasks. Click “Add Folder” to select the folder you want to copy.

Tips: To sync more than one folder, you can click the “+” button after adding the first folder.

4. Click the folder shaped button in the second column to select the external hard drive as the destination path.

Click on “Start Sync” button to perform the operation. After the operation is finished, safely disconnect your drive.

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When starting the HP computer, some users receive an error message: “Boot Device Not Found. Please install an operating system on your hard disk. Hard disk (3F0).” It is a common boot error seen in HP models which indicates your computer fails to detect the hard drive that contains the operating system.

Usually hard disk 3F0 error can be caused by following reasons:

• Wrong boot order in BIOS
• Hard disk connection problem
• Outdated or misconfigured BIOS
• Corrupted or died bootable disk
• Damaged system files…

For the first two reasons, you should check to make sure that your hard drive is the primary boot device in BIOS and the cables connecting it to the motherboard are tight and secure. For other reasons, please learn HP laptop 3F0 error fixes in the next part.

How to fix boot device not found on HP laptop?

Here I’m going to show you four quick fixes to boot device not found 3F0 error on HP laptop:

Fix 1: Perform a hard reset

1. Turn off the computer. Remove the computer from any port replicator or docking station.

2. Disconnect all external connected peripheral devices.

3. Unplug the AC adapter from the computer and remove the battery (if applicable).

4. Press and hold down the Power button for 15 seconds to drain the electrical charge.

5. Insert the battery (if applicable) and plug the AC adapter back into the HP laptop.

6. Press the Power button to turn on the computer. If a startup menu opens, use the arrow keys to select Start Windows Normally and press Enter.

7. Reconnect each of the peripheral devices. Run Windows Update and HP Support Assistant to update all device drivers.

Fix 2: Restore default settings of BIOS

1. Turn off the computer and wait five seconds.

2. Press the Power button to start the computer and repeatedly press F10 to enter the BIOS setup menu.

3. On the BIOS Setup screen, press F9 to select and load the BIOS Setup Default settings.

4. Press F10 to Save and Exit. When asked “Exit Saving Changes?”, use the arrow keys to select Yes and press Enter.

5. Follow the prompts to restart your computer.

Fix 3: Test the hard drive using HP PC Hardware Diagnostics

1. Plug the AC adapter into the computer.

2. Press the Power button for at least five seconds to turn off the computer.

3. Turn on the computer and press Esc repeatedly. When the menu appears, press F2 to open HP PC Hardware Diagnostics.

4. On the main menu of HP PC Hardware Diagnostics, click Component Tests. And then click Hard Drive > Quick Test > Run once successively.

5. If the computer has more than one hard drive, select the drive you want to test. To test all the hard drives, select Test All Hard Drives. Then, the Hard Drive Quick Test begins.

6. When the test completes, the results will be displayed on the screen and also in Test Logs on the main menu.

Fix 4: Run system recovery with HP Recovery Manager

Take Windows 10 as an example. Learn how to fix boot device not found on HP Windows 10 laptop below:

1. Turn off the computer and disconnect all connected devices and cables except the mouse and power cord.

2. Turn on your computer and immediately press F11 repeatedly.

3. When the Choose an option screen appears, click Troubleshoot and then select Recovery Manager.

4. Under Help, click System Recovery.

5. When Recovery Manager prompts you to back up your files, select Back up your files first (recommended) and follow the wizard to complete the process. You can also select Recover without backing up your files if you have backed them up before.

6. When you back to the System Recovery screen, click Next to start recovery preparation.

7. When recovery preparation is complete, click Continue to proceed to the installation phase of the recovery process. The computer will restart several times during the recovery.

8. After the system recovery is complete, click Finish to restart the computer. Complete the setup screens and wait until the computer finishes the setup.

9. Once the setup is complete, turn off the computer, reconnect all devices and cables, and then turn on the computer to see if hard disk 3F0 error is fixed.

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With the daily use of Windows Server 2003, there are many unexpected factors that could cause the system crash or cause a hard drive failing to our computer. These factors may be, hardware conflict, bad ram, hard disk drives overload, viruses or hacker attack, software conflict, power supply problems, and some unknown reasons.

We can clone hard drive in Windows Server 2003 to solve hard disk drive overload or failure. Yet to fix all of them, we have another two choices. One is to re-install the operating system, settings, and all applications, which may cost us hours. However, if we backup C drive for Server 2003 ahead of time, we can choose the other quick and fast way, restore the computer from system image backup.

How to restore Windows Server 2003 system files?

First of all, we might think of using Windows Server 2003 internal backup tool to restore the operating system. Nevertheless, Windows Server 2003 does not embed with one automatic system restore feature like Windows XP, Vista do. Due to this factor, the system doesn’t automatically create restore points for the computer current state. This means we cannot restore Windows Server 2003 to previous state.

In this case, two options are placed in front of us. One is to download System Restore. The other option involves manually creating a restore point for the computer’s current state using Windows Server 2003’s System State.

Click “Restore and Mange Media” tab after backup system state, check the box next to “System State”, and start the restore.

Before we use this tanglesome and roundabout method to do a system restoration, there is one thing we should pay attention to: Windows Server 2003 Backup utility (NTBackup.exe) is a backup and restore tool that based on files. This means it will backup and restore file-by-file. As the master server of companies or organizations, it is inevitable to producing masses of files, registries, photos and so on.

Thus, either to backup Windows Server 2003 or to restore Windows Server backup image is a time-consuming thing for NTBackup. We could imagine how much time it would cost to restore the operating system, settings, and so many applications.

Even worse, what if the system fails without a reason before we have enough time to do a system backup? We can re-install applications but we may lose our important personal data forever.

Software to restore Windows Server system backup image

Fortunately, there is one alternative backup and restore software could help us restore Windows Server 2003 system state backup safely and fast–AOMEI Backupper Server edition, which designed for Windows Server backup and disaster recovery, system migration for both physical and virtual Windows Server 2003/2008/2012(including R2).

This software supports system backup, incremental backup, differential backup, schedule backup and system restore, disk restore, universal restore as well as for advanced users, command line backup and restore. Other than backup and restoration, there are plenty of helpful features in this program.

To sum up, it provides us powerful backup and recovery management to safeguard our data and minimize server downtime as well as ensure business continuity.

Restore Windows Server 2003 with AOMEI Backupper

If the system refuses to start, we can create a bootable disk with AOMEI Backupper. Backup is the base of restore. Therefore, if there is no ready system image backup, create one with AOMEI Backupper firstly by linking the very first chaining. Note that the target disk or partition will be overwritten after restoration, so we’d better backup important data in advance if necessary.

In the first place, download AOMEI Backupper Server, install and launch it. This software has a 30-day free trial, so just enjoy it.

Step 1. Choose “Restore” in the left panel. Click “Select Task” to choose the system image. If the image file was stored in other places, select “Select Image File” to browse.

Step 2. Select the backup image.

Step 3. Choose the backup point. If you want to restore the system image to another place please click “Restore system to other location” to make it.

Step 4. Select the location if you are planning to restore to another place.

Step 5. Check Operation Summary. Then click “Start Restore”.

A pop-up window will prompt us to restart the computer later. Then, the operations will be completed under the Restart mode.

About Universal Restore

If you would like to restore Windows Server 2003 (R2) system image backup to a dissimilar hardware computer, before pressing Start Restore, check Universal Restore option to ensure it will boot normally after the restoration.

1. After restoring Windows Server 2003 (R2) to a computer with dissimilar hardware, it may be necessary to enter license codes to reactivate Windows, Office, etc.

2. Some drivers (such as the video/sound card drivers, display driver, NIC drivers, etc.) are not installed by Universal Restore for dissimilar hardware. As these drivers will not affect system startup, they can be installed manually after the restoration.

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HDDs and SSDs are both the most popular disk type on the market, both of them have its own obvious advantages and that’s what we are more concerned about. In sum, at the same price, HDDs have bigger capacity while SSDs have higher performance (eg: faster writing and reading speed).

To gain better performance, it’s a wise choice to replace ASUS laptop hard drive with SSD. It makes you feel your computer is like a brand-new computer, boot faster, run multiple programs smoothly, etc. This can’t be done by cleaning up useless files, deleting large files, unintalling programs no longer used, defragmenting hard disk, etc.

Also, SSDs own a greater security than HDDs. Because SSDs does not have any removable parts internally. To reduce the possibility of losing data to the most extent, it’s a wise choice to replace laptop HDD with SSD.

But if your original hard drive works well, the best practice is to use SSD for OS and HDD for storage, which makes full use of advantages of HDDs and SSDs. 

Of course, if you think SSDs are too expensive or just for home use, there is no problem with using a larger disk as replacement. It can makes your computer faster but limited.

Replace hard drive with SSD on ASUS laptop: Backup & Restore or Clone

In fact, the replacement hard drive for ASUS laptop is a reasonably simple task, whether for ASUS X555L hard drive replacement or for ASUS Q302LA/ASUS Q504U. You just need to open the back cover and replace the old hard drive with your new SSD. However, how about all the data stored on the old hard drive? Just leave them behind?

Well, if you don’t care about the old files, even you need to install all of your programs one by one and all of personal data will go forever, you still can reinstall Windows 10/8/7 so that your laptop/desktop can start normally.  It’s a time-consuming and problematic job.

If you need to keep all your programs and data, it’s suggested to backup disk or system and then restore disk or system image to new hard drive or SSD. For easier way, you can clone laptop/desktop HDD to SSD directly, with system files, installed applications, and all of your data files. To make it, you need an all-in-one software integrated with backup & restore or clone function, here is AOMEI Backupper Standard. 

How do I easily replace ASUS laptop hard drive with SSD?

As mentioned earlier, you have two working ways to perform ASUS laptop hard drive upgrade, namely upgrade ASUS laptop with backup and restore solution, clone laptop HDD to SSD. Then, which method should you use?

>>  If your laptop only has one slot, you could first backup your disk to an external hard drive, then swap hard drive and SSD and restore the image externally to new SSD. Or you can also choose to backup and restore system image from external hard drive. 

>> If your laptop has two slots or it’s a desktop, you coulddirectly clone the entire hard drive with different sector size, even smaller SSD, or migrate only operating system (supported on the professional version) as per your needs. There is no doubt, this cloning method will be much easier.

Method 1: ASUS SSD upgrde with disk backup and restore 

To backup disk in  ASUS laptop, plug your external hard drive and initialize it, launch this freeware, click “Disk Backup” under the Backup tab, click “+ Add Disk” to add your ASUS hard drive, then select destination path and click “Start Backup“.

To switch ASUS laptop hard drive, free up the laptop back cover with screwdrivers and place the screws in the small box, plug the plastic card in the gap, twist and move it to take off the cover, use screwsrivers to free up hard drive frame and replace with SSD, then install all stuff to the previous locations. At last, turn on the laptop and start to restore disk image.

To restore disk with backup image to your computer, plug your external hard drive contaning image and run this software, click “Restore” > “Select Image File” > “Restore the entire disk“, then select SSD as destination path and click “Start Restore“. If you are asked to backup important files first, click “OK” to continue.

In general, if your disk image is saved externally, such as, external drive, NAS, network location, you need to manually locate the image by “Select Image File”. But if your image can be detected, you can click “Select Task” as instead.

Method 2: Directly replace ASUS laptop hard drive 

This is a quick method. Unlike “Backup and Restore”, the cloned hard drive or SSD can be used to boot computer directly without restoring image file. Let’s get started.

Step 1. Plug your new SSD hard drive into laptop via connector, or directly install SSD on your desktop.  Then select “Clone” and “Disk Clone”.

Step 2. Select your ASUS hard drive (eg: disk 1) and click “Next”.

Step 3. Select your new SSD as Destination disk and click “Next”.

Step 4. Preview the Operation Summary and click “Start Clone” to run the disk cloning process. Tick “SSD Alignment” to accelerate the outputting and inputting speed of SSD.

Step 5. Take out hard drive and add the new SSD disk with screwdriver. Then, boot computer from it.

Make full use of ASUS hard drive: format it for storage

Formating old disk is the last thing to add SSD to laptop/desktop and keep HDD. As mentioned before, SSDs have a higher performace while HDDs always have a larger capacity. Therefore, if your HDD is still working well, you could consider using it as storage. Now, let’s start to format disk and restore files to HDD.

To format disk, press “Win +R” and type “diskmgmt.msc “in the box, then hit “OK” to open the Disk Management. Next, right-click the HDD disk and select “Format…“, follow on-screen instructions to finish the rest of steps.

To restore files from backup, connect your external drive with file backup, launch AOMEI Backupper, click “Restore” and “Select Image File“, select the files or folders need to be restored, tick “Restore to new location” and select HDD as storage, finally click “Start Restore“.

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If the recovery partition in HP/Dell computer is deleted or overwritten somehow, you can’t access the recovery partition with F11 key. That means, the F11 system recovery not working problem occurs. On the other hand, you cannot boot up your computer and cannot do the system recovery.

How to get HP/Dell restore to factory settings or previous state when F11 doesn’t work?

F11 System Recovery Knowledge

For some brand computers, the manufacturer of these computers designs a special key or key combination to do their system recovery. As for Dell, HP or Lenovo computers (PCs, notebooks, desktops), the F11 key is the pivotal key to recover system to computer default settings when your computer corrupted due to hardware or software failure.

HP computer provides a built-in tool named HP Backup and Recovery Manager to recover your system to the original factory-shipped state, the recovery partition is needed. If your HP computer has some issues that you want to restore it to factory settings, turn on HP computer and immediately press the Esc key to display the Startup Menu, and then press F11 to access the HP system recovery.

Generally, Dell computers have a recovery partition that you can access to recover and restore your computer to factory settings. How to access Dell recovery partition? Boot your Dell computer, press Ctrl+F11 when the Dell logo appears, then follow the instructions to restore.

How to Solve F11 System Recovery Not Working Issue in Windows 7/8/10?

If your F11 key not working for system recovery, don’t worry, there are some solutions for you to fix F11 system recovery doesn’t work problem with the following 2 ways:

• Reinstall your Windows OS with the Windows Installation disc.
• Factory reset your computer with HP recovery disc (it will take 4-6 hours). You may need to backup data first.

Effective Preventive Measure – Backup Your Windows First

Compared with these two ways, backup your Windows system and recovery for HP/Dell computer is the ideal method. Luckily, you can backup system with AOMEI OneKey Recovery at ease and reset F11 as shortcut for system recovery in Windows 7/8/10.

The detailed steps to solve F11 not working are listed below:

1. Click on OneKey System Backup on home console.

2. Choose Backup system to AOMEI OneKey Recovery Partition(Recommended), and hit Next.

Tip: You could encrypt and compress the backup image with Backup Options.

3. Select an existing partition to allocate a required amount of free space (the free space should larger than the used space of system partition C: drive) for creating AOMEI OneKey Recovery Partition, and click Start Backup>>.

Tip: The backup progress will automatically create an AOMEI OneKey Recovery Partition, where a system backup image (suffix with .adi) is saved. This partition is hidden by default to prevent data from damaging.

4. After a few minutes, the system backup will be finished, showed like this. Then, click OK.

5. Click the Settings icon at the top right corner to set the F11 or A key as the shortcut to onekey system recovery, choose F11. Then the F11 system recovery not working problem will be solved easily and quickly.

Now, you can see these partitions created by AOMEI OneKey Recovery in Disk Management, like this:

Tips:

• For GPT disk, you will get two partitions: AOMEI (boot partition) and AOMEI Recovery Partition (contains system image file suffix with .adi), all these partitions are hidden by default.
• For MBR disk, you will get only one AOMEI Recovery Partition.
• This powerful software also applied to other brands computers, like HP, Lenovo, Acer, Dell, Toshiba, HP and IBM, etc.
• The program supports all editions (32-bit and 64-bit) of Windows operating system, like Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and Windows Server 2003/2008 (R2)/2012 (R2)/2016, SBS 2003/2008/2011, WHS 2011.

Now, you could use F11 key to restore your system to factory settings or previous state.

Another Effective Preventive Measure

As a matter of fact, you could create a system backup image with AOMEI Backupper Standard to external hard drive with your computer before problems occur.

If the system crashes or other unbootable issue shows up, create bootable media to boot your computer, and then use this backup image to restore your computer.

This way only applies to preparation before problems occur. Planning ahead is the best solution.

Create System Backup Image:

1. On the main window of AOMEI Backupper Standard, select Backup, System Backup in turn.

2. Enter a proper Task Name into the box.

3. Choose the external hard drive as the destination to save the system image and click Next.

Tips: The program will select the system partition associated with system files automatically.

4. Press Start Backup.

Restore Your Computer with the System Image:

1. Connect your external hard drive with your computer and boot up your computer with the bootable media created by AOMEI Backupper Standard. Then, click Select Task under the Restore tab.

2. Then choose a backup image and click Next to move on.

3. Tick Restore this system backup or Restore a partition in this system backup and click Next. After that, preview the result of restoring, click Start Restore.

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HP Recovery Manager is a software program offered by HP to help users maintain their computer system. It can be used to backup personal files and return the computer to a previous state. It can also help to create HP recovery media and remove recovery partition, etc.

Depending on the model of your computer and its configuration, your Recovery Manager screen might vary. It should be noted that HP Recovery Manager does not come preinstalled on Windows 10 computers beginning in 2018. Therefore, you may get HP Recovery Manager downloaded on Windows 10 if you don’t have it but still want to use it.

How to perform a system recovery using HP Recovery Manager?

Please backup important files and read all caution statements before performing a system recovery. In this case, I’ll show you how to reinstall the original factory image on the system partition when Windows loads correctly.

Tip: If Windows 10 cannot start correctly, you can run system recovery from the recovery partition using F11. Or you can restore system image with HP supplied recovery media or the media you created.

1. Turn off the computer and disconnect all connected devices and cables except the monitor, keyboard, mouse, and power cord.

2. Turn on the computer. Type “recovery manager” in the search box of the taskbar. Then, select HP Recovery Manager from the search results.

3. In the HP Recovery Manager window, click Windows Recovery Environment under Help.

4. Click OK to let the system reboots into the Windows Recovery Environment.

5. Select Troubleshoot > Recovery Manager in order.

6. Select Recover without backing up your files and click Next if you have backed up your files. Otherwise click Back up your files first (recommended).

7. Read the System Recovery information and click Next to proceed.

8. Wait until the recovery preparations are complete. Then, click Continue. After the computer restarts, follow any on-screen instructions to finish the process.

HP Recovery Manager offers easy backup and recovery solutions for HP computers. However, errors occur sometimes. For example, some users receive an error message “Can’t open file: X:\sources\Recovery\tools\HP\Rita-tool\” when opening Recovery Manager and some users find F11 system recovery not working. Are there reliable HP Recovery Manager alternatives? Please move on to the next part.

Alternatives to HP backup and recovery manager in Windows 10

If you are looking for HP recovery software in Windows 10 that is equivalent to HP Recovery Manager, you can turn to Windows 10 built-in feature Reset this PC or a third-party backup and recovery tool.

Repair Windows 10 computer via Reset this PC

The best part of the Reset this PC feature is that it allows you to reinstall Windows 10 while either preserving your personal data or removing everything. You can make a choice depending on your situation. Follow the guidance below to perform a system reset:

1. Search for Reset this PC from the search box in the taskbar and open it. In the pop-up window, click Get started under Reset this PC.

Tip: If your computer cannot boot into Windows correctly, you can restart your computer and immediately press the F11 key repeatedly. Then go to Troubleshoot > Reset this PC.

2. Choose to either Keep my files or Remove everything. Both options will reset Windows to its default state and remove your installed applications and settings. The difference is that whether to erase your personal files.

3. You’ll get to different windows based on your choice in step 2.

3.1. If you choose Keep my files, wait for Windows to get things ready and click Reset. You can check what apps will be removed by clicking “List of apps to be removed”.

3.2. If you choose Remove everything, you can do additional configurations. The default setting is only removing files from the drive where Windows is installed. It will not clean the drive nor will it remove files from other drives if your PC has more than one drive.

• Click Next if you want to keep the default setting.
• Click Change settings and you can choose to clean the drive and remove all files from all drives by turning on the corresponding switch. Click Confirm to affirm your settings and then click Next.
• Click Reset to begin the reset process.

Restore HP computer to factory settings using AOMEI Backupper

The best free backup and restore software – AOMEI Backupper Standard can also do you a favor when HP Recovery Manager comes into errors, and it can do much more.

• It can not only help you backup files on your HP computer but also backup different system states or a specified disk or partition.
• It allows you to schedule backups to run automatically so that new changes won’t be missed.
• When performing system restore, you are allowed to restore system image to either the original location or a new location.
• It enables you to create a recovery environment or bootable media to boot your computer in case Windows fails to start.

Wanna have a try? Click the button below to download HP Recovery Manager alternative right now.

Please note that AOMEI Backupper can only restore from the image files created by itself. As a result, to restore HP computer to factory settings via AOMEI Backupper, you need to backup the computer system once you get the computer.

★ Create a system image for your HP computer

Run AOMEI Backupper. Click Backup and select System Backup. Follow the wizard to complete the process. You are suggested to backup Windows 10 to an external hard drive or a network location.

 Restore HP computer to factory settings

1. Launch AOMEI Backupper. Under the Home tab, you’ll see all the tasks you’ve created with AOMEI Backupper. Find the system backup task and click Restore from the expanded menu.

2. Select Restore this system backup to restore all partitions that have been backed up, including C drive, system reserved partition/EFI system partition, etc. Then click Next.

3. Confirm operations on the “Operation Summary” page and click on the Start Restore button.

4. You will receive a prompt reminding you to restart your computer. Click Yes to continue. The operations will be completed under the Restart Mode.

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WSB can only backup partitions that is NTFS formatted. If you open Disk Management, you will see a 2GB FAT32 partition labelled as OS. The OS partition is probably from Dell initial setup.

If you want to create a backup including system image, this OS partition will be included because its status is Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition). Therefore, you will receive the error backup volume have unsupported file system.

Skip the partition

The simple solution is to skip this partition by creating a custom server backup. If you want to create a system backup, you can just select system state, system reserved partition and C: drive on MBR disk. If you system is on a GPT disk, you need to select system state, EFI system partition and C: drive.

Delete the partition

You can delete the 2GB system partition in Disk Management or DiskPart.exe. It is recommended to deactivate the partition before deleting it because there are chances that you may not be able to reboot the machine. When it fails to boot, you can ran a system repair to surely fix it.

Switch backup software

To fix this problem, you can also use third party backup software that supports FAT32 partition backup besides NTFS. If you need easy server backup software that to protect your server, AOMEI Backupper Server should be a good choice.

AOMEI Backupper supports many file systems including NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, EXT2, and EXT3. It provides system backup, disk backup, partition backup and file backup to meet your common backup needs. The backup with AOMEI Backupper is safer and more secure because it uses block by block backup.

Main features:

Universal restore: restore system to another machine with dissimilar hardware.

Schedule backup: automatically backup your server at a specific time or on a certain event.

Incremental and differential backup: backup only changed and new added files.

Explore image: browse the items in the backup with Windows File Explorer.

Create bootable media: make a bootable disk or CD to restore unbootable machine.

Email notification: notify you when a backup is performed.

Disk/system clone: copy hard drive or system without imaging.

If you use this backup software to create backups, you will not receive the volume OS have an unsupported file system error at the firsthand. Now you can free download the 30-day trial version to get started.

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Staying at the forefront of innovation and the computing experience, Dell laptops, desktops and tablets are favored by a number of users. In spite of the superb performance brought by the original hard drives, some users encounter following situations:

Case 1: “Hi I just got a new laptop and I would like to upgrade it to a SSD 1TB but how do I transfer my data and OS to the new SSD when I get it.”
Case 2: “Diagnostics is telling me that my hard drive is failing. I intend buying a new SATA drive but larger capacity. I am on Windows 10. What is the simplest way to copy/clone the whole drive, OS and all, onto the new drive and then slip the new drive back into the laptop as if nothing has changed!”

As you see, it is necessary to clone Dell laptop hard drive when you want to replace laptop HDD with SSD or another drive with larger capacity. And you may prepare a cloned drive for instant replacement in case that the current hard drive refuses to work some day. Then, how to clone Dell hard drive safely and efficiently? Please read on.

How to clone Dell laptop hard drive in Windows 10/8/7?

Here I’m going to show you top two ways to clone Dell laptop hard drive in Windows 10/8/7. If you plan to upgrade your Dell hard drive to a Samsung SSD, you can follow method 1; if you prepare to clone to other SSD brands, method 2 is applicable.

Method 1: Clone Dell hard drive to SSD using specific cloning software

Although Dell doesn’t provide users with Dell hard drive cloning software, some SSD manufacturers offer disk cloning software to help users upgrade HDD to SSD, such as VisionTek USB 3.0 Universal SSD Installation Kit, Samsung Data Migration and so on. Let’s take Samsung Data Migration for example. Learn how to clone Dell laptop hard drive to a Samsung SSD below:

1. Connect the Samsung SSD to your computer and ensure it is recognized. Download and run Samsung Data Migration.

2. The drive with OS installed will automatically be selected as the Source Drive. Select the Samsung SSD you just connected as the Target Drive. If you don’t see your SSD, click the Refresh button at the right bottom and try again.

3. Select additional volumes that you wish to clone besides the C: volume. You can select at most two more volumes.

4. Click on Start to begin the migration process. Once the cloning process is complete, the computer will shut down automatically within 20 seconds. Replace the old hard drive with the new Samsung SSD and you will get the system and all your data back instantly.

Simple as it looks like, errors occur sometimes—users are confronted with Samsung Data Migration cloning failed, Samsung Data Migration access violation and the like. Additionally, these utilities only support SSDs of the corresponding manufacturer. Is there such cloning software that fits all? The answer is YES.

Method 2: Clone Dell hard drive to SSD via an all-around freeware

AOMEI Backupper Standard, the best backup software for free, comes to help. With the Disk Clone feature, you can copy old hard drives to SSDs of all common brands, including Samsung, Crucial, PNY, WD, etc. You can also copy a specific partition using Partition Clone. 

What’s more pleasant is that it offers an option called SSD Alignment which will help to improve the reading and writing speed of the destination SSD. All Windows PC operating systems like Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP are supported. Before you start, please do the following preparations:

Step 1. Connect the target SSD to your computer and make sure it is detected. Launch AOMEI Backupper, click “Clone” on the left pane and select “Disk Clone”.

Step 2. Select the current hard drive as the source disk and click “Next”.

Step 3. Select the destination SSD you have connected to your computer and click “Next”.

Step 4. Tick “SSD Alignment” to optimize the performance of the destination SSD. Confirm the operation and click “Start Clone”.

Step 5. Shut down your computer and replace the current hard drive with the cloned SSD. You may use a Phillips #0 screwdriver to remove the original hard drive.

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Intel data migration software not cloning, how to fix?

Hi, I’m trying to clone my hard drive (HDD) to the Intel SSD wiht the Intel Data Migration Software, but it won’t let me. It said ‘the size of one or more of the partitions is too small, please specify the size manually’, when i try to continue with the process, it just say Operation failed, what should i do, please help, Thanks.

Intel Data Migration Software is designed for Windows users to move data from a hard disk drive (HDD) to an Intel Solid State Drive (SSD), like Intel SSD 750 series, Intel 730 series SSD, etc, and you should know that the Intel Data Migration Software cannot work with other brands of SSDs.

Note: Intel Data Migration Software has been discontiuned since December 31, 2020.

Intel Data Migration Software Errors

Meanwhile, you might get the following Intel Data Migration Software not working error messages or signs while cloning with Intel Data Migration Software:

• The operation failed. Remove all administrative profiles set up on your system.
• Intel Data Migration Software not detecting SSD drive. Check the connection between montherboard and the Intel SSD, make sure the SATA to USB cable connect well.
• Full disk encryption. Make sure disable full disk encryption before cloning to avoid this error.

The above errors could be caused by improper file system, because the Intel SSD (target drive) should be initialized as GUID Partition Table (GPT) and formatted as New Technology File System (NTFS).

How to fix Intel Data Migration Software not cloning?

Follow the steps to fix improper file system in Windows 7/8/10 to check errors for all partitions on the Intel SSD:

• Right click Computer -> Properties;
• Choose Disk Management, click the Intel SSD drive letter and select Properties -> Tools;
• At the Error-checking option, please press Check Now button.

Then try the Intel Data Migration Software again to see if the problem solved.

What if Intel Data Migration Software not working problem still bother you? Is there any better Intel Data Migration Software replacement to migrate data from HDD to Intel SSD or other brands SSD?

Best Intel migration software – AOMEI Backuper

The answer is definite. The Intel SSD migration tool – AOMEI Backupper Professional is a powerful SSD cloning software to migrate data from HDD to SSD without losing data in Windows 7/8/10, which is reliable and flexible than Intel Data Migration Software, not only for Intel, but also for Lenovo, Samsung, Dell, Acer and other brands of computer.

It’s highly recommended by millions of users due to its excellent performance and comprehensive functions.

The Intel SSD clone tool – AOMEI Backupper Professional benefits you from the following aspects:

• Migrate OS from HDD to Intel SSD if the Intel SSD is smaller than source HDD.
• Enables you clone large HDD to smaller Intel SSD using intelligent clone mode, which is the default settings.
• Clone entire hard drive to Intel SSD with everything transferred.
• Accellerate the reading and writing speed for Intel SSD with SSD Alignment.

Please download the Intel Data Migration Software replacement – AOMEI Backupper Professional 30-day free trial to have a try: (The Clone features in free trial can be demonstrated only, please upgrade to unlock)

Steps to migrate OS to Intel SSD with Intel SSD clone tool

How to migrate OS to Intel SSD safely in Windows 10/8/7? Just follow the instructions to perform Intel SSD migration easily:

1. Connect the Intel SSD drive with your computer motherboard via SATA to USB cable. Select “Clone” > “System Clone” in turn.

2. Select the Intel SSD as the destination disk to save the Windows system image. Then press “Next“.

3. Preview the settings of the Intel SSD clone operation, Tick “SSD Alignment” option, and press “Start Clone” to migrate OS to Intel SSD in Windows 10/8/7.

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If you are planning to replace old hard drive or SSD with SK Hynix SSD, you may be concerned about how to handle the operating system and previous data. In fact, with proper SK Hynix clone software, you can migrate them from the old disk directly without reinstalling.

Overview for SK hynix SSD migration tool

SK hynix partners with Macrium to provide a data migration tool – SK hynix System Migration Utility. It can quickly transfer Windows OS and user data to SK hynix Solid State Disks (SSD) while auto resizing partitions to fill the cloned disk and aligning them for optimum SSD performance.

You can install the SK hynix SSD to your computer and download this tool from the official page. Then, follow a simple wizard to select the source disk and target disk, confirm the operation and start cloning. Learn detailed steps with screenshots in this user guide.

SK hynix System Migration Utility failed

In general, this SK hynix SSD migration tool is easy to use and has basic data migration functions. But there are still some complaints mainly about 3 types of issues: SK hynix device cannot be found; system won’t boot from the cloned drive; transfer speed too slow. I’ve excerpted a few representative comments here:“I tried several times to clone my current boot drive but I could not get my system to boot. I kept getting a blue screen saying the application or operating system couldn’t be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors.”
“1TB HDD with 4 partitions but with only about total of 150GB used content took over 16 hours to transfer them over to the new 500GB SSD.”
“Had to download somebody else’s data migration software because the “free” SK hynix software kept saying it couldn’t find a SK hynix device, even after initializing/formatting the SSD.”

In addition to above issues, a SK hynix disk is required for this SK hynix gold cloning software to function. So if you want to migrate data between other HDDs or SSDs someday, you will need to find another migration tool.

In response to these situations, I would like to introduce another disk clone software with broader application scope and more powerful data migration capabilities as alternative.

Best SK hynix clone software for system or data migration

As technology evolves, people tend to get better performance by replacing hard drives, like from HDD to SSD, SATA SSD to NVMe SSD, etc. In this process, a disk clone software is necessary if you don’t want to lost previous data and reinstall Windows from scratch.

For example, the freeware AOMEI Backupper Standard is a good choice with its complete cloning features. It works for all Windows OS and all hard drive brands. You can use Disk Clone to migrate an entire HDD/SSD including the OS and all the data, or use Partition Clone to copy an individual partition to target disk.

With the intelligent cloning mode, you can copy only used sectors and therefore clone larger HDD to smaller SSD. If the target disk is larger, you can also perform Sector by Sector Clone to create an intact copy of the source disk.

Also, you have the SSD Alignment option to accelerate the reading and writing speed of the cloned SK hynix SSD.

If you want to migrate only OS to target SSD and keep all the files on the old hard drive, you can upgrade to Professional edition to use the System Clone feature.

Also, the Standard edition supports cloning system disk from MBR to MBR, if you want to clone GPT to GPT, GPT to MBR or MBR to GPT, please use the Pro edition. 

How to migrate hard drive to SK hynix SSD | step by step

Preparations:

Delete unwanted files and apps on the old hard drive.

Connect the SK hynix SSD to the PC properly. If there’s only one slot, you can connect it via a SATA to USB adapter.

Download and install the disk clone software.

Steps to migrate OS and all the data to SK hynix SSD:

1. Navigate to Clone tab and select Disk Clone. If you only want to transfer OS to another hard drive, use System Clone (supported by advanced edition) instead.

2. Select the source disk and the target SK hynix SSD respectively, click Next to continue.

3. Check the option SSD Alignment to accelerate the writing & reading speed of target SSD, click Start Clone.

How to boot from the cloned SK hynix SSD?

If you won’t use the old hard drive any more, you can directly replace it with the SK hynix SSD, thus the system shall start from it automatically.

If you want to keep the old hard drive as a secondary storage drive, then you can restart the computer, press a specific key (depending on the manufacturer) to enter BIOS, select the SK hynix SSD as the first boot option, then press F10 to save the setting and exit.

Note if you cloned a SATA drive to SK hynix Gold P31 M.2 NVMe SSD, you may need to change legacy boot mode to UEFI, because a NVMe SSD will only boot in UEFI mode. You could refer to clone SATA to NVMe.

After booting from the cloned SK hynix drive, you could use the Disk Wipe feature of AOMEI Backupper to erase the Windows system partition, or the entire old hard drive.

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