but there are times when we need to clone the drive for various reasons. While there is no direct feature to clone a hard drive in the Disk Management tool, another method can still be used.

Today, there is a lot of cloning from a hard drive to a solid state drive (SSD) because the hard drive is many years old or it is time to upgrade storage capacity. SSDs are the modern technology.

One way to do that is to thoroughly wipe (not simply erase) your old hard drive — for details on how to do that, see our article on fully wiping your computer's hard drive. You can go further ...

then insert the SSD in the hard drive enclosure and connect the case to the PC. It’s likely some errors may have occurred during the cloning process but you don’t know. To rule out this ...