【Easily】How to Clone a USB Drive on Windows 10

Case Study: How to Clone a Bootable USB Drive?

“I have a bootable Windows 10 USB drive. I want to copy its content to another USB drive. I was planning to just copy and paste the files, but my friends told me that it won't work and I need to create an image of the bootable USB and then restore it to another drive. How do I do that? Is there a quick and easy way to clone a USB drive?”

Why clone a USB drive instead of copying files?

When most people think about USB drive backup, they usually mean manually copying files from the USB drive to their computer or another USB flash drive. You can then copy them back to the USB drive whenever you want to restore them. This is an effective method if you just want to keep personal files and documents on your USB drive.

However, if you need to back up a bootable USB drive, this method won't work, as cutting and pasting or dragging and dropping won't copy the hidden boot sector and partition table. Additionally, if you're copying files from a single non-bootable USB drive to multiple identical drives, cloning the USB may be the fastest solution.

So how to clone a USB drive, or even clone USB to another USB? You should use a reliable disk cloning software like AOMEI Backupper Standard to copy its content, including the MBR (Master Boot Record), unallocated space, partitions, and any unused space.

How to Easily Clone a USB Drive with Tools

tools Disk Copy is a powerful disk cloning software that you can trust to clone USB drives or clone hard drive to USB flash drive. The program works on Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7 and is perfect for replicating bootable USB drives and other types of disks, including HDD and SSD.

Cloning a USB drive only takes a few simple clicks.

"Clone USB to USB in Simple Steps"

Note: To ensure a successful disk copy or clone, launch tools Disk Copy first.

Step 1. Download, install, and run the Disk Clone tool on your computer.

**Note:** If you want to clone or copy the source disk sector-by-sector, the target disk must be of the same size or larger.

Step 2. Select the location where you want to clone/copy your old disk, then click “Next”.

Step 3: Check and edit the disk layout as “Adapt to,” “Copy source as,” or “Edit disk layout.” It is recommended that you choose “Adapt to.”

The Copy as source option copies the partition layout from the source disk to the target disk. The Edit disk layout option lets you manually adjust or move the partition layout on the target disk.

If the target disk is an SSD, make sure to check the If target is SSD option.

Click “Next” to begin cloning the disk or copying the disk.

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In summary,

In a word, if you want to migrate Windows OS from one USB drive to another or to a hard drive, cloning USB drive is the best choice. With AOMEI Backupper Standard, you can easily and quickly clone USB drive to another USB drive with just a few clicks in Windows 11/10/8/7.

It has more advanced features, such as migrating Windows 10 to SSD with system migration, sector-by-sector clone hard drive, clone a hard drive with bad sectors, etc. If you have any problem with USB drive cloning, please contact our support team via support@todo-backup.com, and we will get back to you soon.

Common Issues with Cloning USB Drives

For more on how to clone a USB drive, see this brief guide.

1. How to clone a USB flash drive?

All of this can be done with a USB backup tool called tools Disk Copy.

1. Connect your USB flash drive to the computer. 2. Launch tools Disk Copy on your PC, click "Disk Mode" on the main interface, and then select USB as the source disk. 3. Choose another hard drive or USB as the target disk, and then click "Next." 4. Click "Start" to initiate the cloning process from USB to USB. Once completed, you can safely remove the USB flash drive. Upon restoration, all data on the source USB flash drive will appear on the target USB flash drive.

2. Can I clone a bootable USB device to another?

You cannot simply copy a bootable flash drive to another. You cannot copy the Master Boot Record or the partition table. Instead, you can achieve this easily by cloning. You can clone a bootable USB drive to another with the best disk cloning software like Todo Backup.

3. How do I transfer from USB to USB?

The fastest way to transfer a large number of photos from one USB drive to another is to clone the USB drive. Here's how to do that with cloning software:

1. Insert both USB flash drives into your computer and launch the tools Partition Master tool. 2. Set USB drive 1 as the source disk, then click "Next". Designate USB drive 2 (which should be the same size or larger than drive 1) as the target disk, then click "Next". 3. Review the disk layout and click "Start" to begin cloning the USB and transfer photos from one USB to another.