Strong compatibility: Good clone software should be compatible with different versions of the Windows system, different sizes of drives, as well as diffent partition styles (MBR/GPT)Ĭustomized options: Besides the basic standards, a great clone software also provides users useful features to adjust and optimize cloning results, such as sector by sector clone, SSD alignment, resize partition, allocation of unused space, etc.īased on these criteria, I recommend you AOMEI Backupper Professional, which combines comprehensive and useful features in the simplest interface and process, allowing even non-tech-savvy users to complete cloning operations with a high success rate.įirst of all, its default intelligent mode will copy only used sectors. With these advantages, you can figure it out quickly even for the first time. Professional and safe: The cloning software is able to make disk bootable in Windows 11/10/8/7/XP/Vista after cloning, and won’t mix up your disk.Įasy to use: Clear interface and user-friendly design are important for cloning software. There is a large amount of clone software on the market, how to choose a reliable kind? You can refer to the following standards: To make a drive bootable in Windows 10, clone is the easiest way, it's able to copy all the necessary boot files required by Windows to run. However, since Windows itself does not have cloning capabilities, you can only use third-party disk cloning software.

How to make a bootable USB in Windows 10.

Why cloned HDD/SSD won't boot and how to solve it.

How to make a hard drive bootable easily.

◇ To make a bootable USB drive: Windows does provide some tools to make bootable USBs, which differ somewhat in functionality. But generally the purpose of a bootable USB is to start a computer for further repair or installation.

◇ To make a hard drive bootable: It is usually achieved by cloning OS & data to another hard drive. If you've tried cloning and the cloned drive won't boot, this may be due to wrong boot mode, wrong boot option, incompatible partition style, or corrupted boot files. You'd better use professional cloning software to minimize errors. Need help: How to make drive bootable in Windows 10Īccording to Google search results, there are mainly 2 contexts for the question: one is how to make another hard drive or SSD bootable (and how to deal with cloned drive won't boot issue) the other is how to make a bootable USB drive. They are 2 completely different questions, but both will be answered in this article.

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