Why need to clone Windows Server 2019?
Windows Server 2019 is the latest Server. When people change their HDD or SSD, they still want to keep the Windows Server 2019 system. There are 2 purposes making people want to clone Windows Server 2019 to HDD/SSD.
- Reduce loading time and improve performance. The performance of an old HDD/SSD would dramatically be decreased after years of use. A new hard disk can give you a better experiment.
- Clone Server to a new computer. You want to keep the old Server system you like when you got a new PC. And you don’t want to lose any OS data. It is necessary to find a way to clone the system disk.
- Back up system. Your PC may encounter some problems somehow, and you might lose some important data. Thus, you can clone Windows Server to another disk as a backup. Once your PC get corrupted, you still have the backup drive.
What is the best cloner for cloning Windows Server 2019 to HDD/SSD?
AOMEI Partition Assistant Server could be the best cloner to migrate Windows Server to another disk successfully. It is designed for Windows Server users. And there are some advantages of it making all the cloning operation safely and easily.
- It supports cloning larger disk to smaller disk. This feature is necessary if the destination disk is smaller than the source disk.
- It supports various Windows systems. It not only can clone Server 2019, Server 2018,Server 2016, Server 2012, Server 2008, and so on but also clone Windows 10/8/7, Windows XP.
- It allows you to clone system partition and the whole disk to another HDD/SSD. It means you can only clone the Windows Server OS if the destination disk has no enough space for the whole data.
- AOMEI Partition Assistant Server can help you to clone disks of different partition table. It can duplicate data from MBR to MBR, GPT disk to MBR, MBR to GPT disk, and GPT to GPT.
Now you can refer to the following content, it will show the steps to clone the Windows Server 2019 system partition and the steps to clone the whole disk.
Steps to only clone the Windows Server 2019 system partition to HDD/SSD?
Step 1. Insert a new HDD or SSD to your Server computer. And Install, and open AOMEI Partition Assistant.
Step 2. Click “All Tools” > “Migrate OS to SSD” and click “Next” in the pop-up note window.
Step 3. Choose an unallocated space on the destination disk.
Step 4. Here you can specify the size of the location partition being created.
Step 5. Read the boot note. If your PC encounter a boot issue, just disconnect the source disk, or exchange the connection socket of the source and the destination disk, and click “Finish”.
Step 6. Click “Apply” in the main interface, and view the pending operation, and click “Proceed”.
How to clone the entire Windows Server 2019 hard disk to SSD/HDD?
If you want to migrate all partition on the old disk to a SSD/HDD, follow the steps.
Step 1. Launch AOMEI Partition Assistant Server, and right-click the system disk, and choose “clone Disk”.
Step 2. Choose a clone way, here we recommend “Clone Disk Quickly” which only clone used space, and takes less time. And click “Next”.
Note: “Sector-by-Sector Clone” will clone all existing data and all sectors, including bad sectors.
Step 3. Choose the new disk as the destination disk, and tick “Optimize the performance of SSD”, and click “Next”.
Step 4. You can adjust partition size on the destination disk.
Step 5. Read the boot note about how to deal with boot problem, and click “Finish”.
Step 5. Also, click “Apply” and “Apply” to commit the operation.
How to boot from new SSD/HDD?
After migrating Windows Server to a new hard drive, you might need to set it as the boot drive if two hard drive is connecting to computer.
Step 1. Power on computer, press functional key (F2, F3, F5, ESC) when you see the first screen, and enter “BIOS Setup”.
Step 2. And choose “Change boot order” then set the cloned new hard drive as boot drive.
Note: Different computers have different BIOS key. You can google it or look up on the instruction book.
Step 3. Then follow the instruction on the right side of the window, save the change and restart your computer.
As you see, AOMEI Partition Assistant can help you to clone Windows Server 2019 to SSD/HDD easily and safely. Based on your need, you can choose cloning system partition or entire disk to another hard drive.
