Optimal Ways to Clone Windows 8 to SSD for Lightning-Fast Performance

I. Benefits of cloning/migrating a Windows 8 system to a solid-state drive (SSD)

The Windows 8 system is an older system, and its official support service period has ended in 2016 (click here to view the service life cycle information table of each system version), if you still want to continue to use the Windows 8 system and want the system to run faster, then cloning or migrating the system to a solid-state drive is a good choice.

Compared with mechanical hard drives, solid-state drives (SSD) have the characteristics of fast read and write speed, good stability, high performance, small size, and quietness. Of course, solid state drives are also less prone to damage, because many mechanical hard drive failures are caused by mechanical failures. When a mechanical hard drive is operating at high speed, once it encounters high-intensity vibration, the high-speed running head will damage the disc and cause irreparable damage. Solid state drives have no small moving parts that are easy to damage. The flash memory chips used for storage are directly soldered on the circuit board, and the probability of hard drive failure is reduced.

In addition, if the original mechanical hard disk of the system is not faulty, after the system is migrated to the solid-state hard disk, the mechanical hard disk can be formatted and used as a data storage hard disk in the computer.click here You can view the specific steps of formatting the hard disk in the Windows system.

II. How to clone/migrate Windows 8 system to SSD?

After you decide to clone/migrate Windows 8 system to SSD, you can do the following preparations:

1. Windows 8 computer running normally.

2. Select a solid-state hard drive suitable for the interface of the computer motherboard. Because solid-state drives have two interface types, SATA interface and M.2 interface, you need to choose a suitable solid-state drive according to the interface on the computer motherboard. Generally speaking, the SATA interface is a SSD interface with high compatibility. Most computers have SATA interfaces, and M.2 interfaces generally appear on new motherboards. Older motherboards may not be equipped with M.2 interfaces. Click here for a more complete SSD introduction and selection recommendations. And the capacity of the solid-state drive needs to be larger than the used capacity of the Windows 8 system disk (you can check it in Disk Management, click here to view the specific steps).

3. The SSD is connected to an external hard disk box or a SATA-to-USB adapter cable, which is used to connect the SSD to the computer.

4. SSD installation tools such as screwdriver and anti-static gloves. The SSD can be installed in the computer after cloning/migrating the Windows 8 system to the SSD. Different interfaces can be viewedTutorial for SSD installation on desktop computers and notebooks .

5. A professional and easy-to-use system cloning software. For example, Renee Becca not only has the hard disk/system/file backup and restore function, but also supports cloning hard disk/partition/system, which can meet the different needs of users.

1. Use Renee Becca to migrate Windows 8 system to SSD

Migrating only the Windows 8 system to the solid-state drive can save a lot of time, and there is no need to clone other useless data to the new hard drive to save space on the new hard drive. The following is the function introduction of Renee Becca and the specific system migration steps.

Renee Becca It is a tool specially used for system/hard disk data backup and restoration. It can help you back up and restore important data in your computer, such as programs, system configuration, emails, photos, videos, documents, bookmarks, etc. In addition, you can also use it to clone disk and system data. The software provides three cloning methods, including hard disk cloning/cloning system hard disk; partition cloning and system migration. You can choose the most suitable cloning method according to your different needs.

With the help of Renee Becca, it is very convenient to migrate the Windows 8 system to the solid-state hard disk and turn it into a system disk. The specific operation steps are as follows:

Step 1: Connect the new solid-state drive to the computer through an external hard drive box, download and install Renee Becca on the computer and run it, and select the (System Migration) option in the main interface (Clone) column.

Step 2: Next, in the pop-up “System Migration” window, select the new SSD in (Target location), and (Source) generally select the system partition by default. After the selection is complete, click the (Migration) button to execute the system migration command. You just need to wait patiently until the system migration progress bar shows 100%, which means the system migration is successful. After the system migration is successful, you can remove the old hard disk, install the new SSD into the computer, and then click the shortcut key continuously when turning on the computerEnter BIOS Set the new SSD as the first boot device.

2. Use Renee Becca to clone all system disk data to SSD

If the old hard disk contains very important personal files in addition to the Windows 8 system, you can choose to clone the entire hard disk where the system is located to the SSD. The specific steps are as follows:

Step 1: Download, install and run Renee Becca, select the option (Hard Disk Clone/Clone System Hard Disk) in the main interface (Clone) column.

Step 2: Next, in the (source) and (destination location) of the pop-up “hard disk clone” pop-up window, select the system hard disk to be cloned and the pre-replaced solid-state hard disk respectively. You can also use the mouse to move the boundary line of the partition to adjust the size and position of the partition, click virtual view The “Available Space” in the “Available Space” can create a new partition, so that after cloning, there is no need to create a new partition in the disk management after entering the system, saving time and trouble. In addition, you can also click the (Option) button in the lower left corner to confirm whether to check ( ignore bad sectors ) (Generally, it is checked by default. After this option is checked, the software will use intelligent algorithms to read readable data in bad sectors as much as possible. When the data in bad sectors cannot be read, it will be ignored).

Step 3: Finally click the (Clone) button to execute the command to clone the hard disk. Cloning the hard disk will overwrite the data on the target hard disk, please make a file backup in advance. After the cloning is complete, if you need to start the Windows 8 system from the new solid-state hard drive, please install or connect the SSD to the computer, and enter the BIOS through shortcut keys (such as F2/F10/Del/Esc, etc.) when starting up, and change the SSD as the first boot item. The shortcut key to enter the BIOS usually appears in a black screen when the computer is turned on, and the time is very short. You can try to take a photo or record a video when the computer is turned on to view the shortcut key. After cloning/migrating the system to the SSD and successfully starting it, you can also check the optimization method of the SSD hard disk to maximize its performance.