Don’t know how to clone Windows Server to HDD/SSD?
UseMiniTool ShadowMakerandMiniTool Partition Wizard, the best disk cloning software, to easily clone Windows Server 2022/2019/2016.
Both clone and image are important.
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Some users want to know the differences between them.
This post introduces details about clone vs image.
In practice, you might clone Windows Server to HDD/SSD to achieve the following requirements:
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It brings faster disaster recovery than the usual system image.
Improve performance
Solid-state drive provides outstanding merits such as fast read-write speed, low consumption, etc.
Therefore, upgrading the previous hard drive to SSD will improve the PCs performance.

Some Windows users want to clone a hard drive via Command Prompt.
How to do that?
This post provides 2 ways for you to do that.

How to clone Windows Server 2022/2019/2016?
The following provides 2 tools for you MiniTool ShadowMaker and MiniTool Partition Wizard for you.
It has aClone Diskfeature that allows you tomove Windows to anotherand performsector by sector cloning.

you’re free to download the free MiniTool ShadowMaker Trial Edition for 30 days on Windows Server 2022/2019/2016/2012.
Install and run MiniTool ShadowMaker and clickKeep Trialto continue.
Step 2: Go to theToolstab and then clickClone Disk.

Step 3: Next, you oughta choose the source disk and target disk.
Before the selection, it’s possible for you to make some options for the cloning by clickingOptions.
Disk ID mode:By default,New disk IDis selected.

Disk clone mode:MiniTool ShadowMaker only copies the used sectors of the file system by default.
you gotta notice that the target SSD/HDD also needs to have enough space to hold all the data.
Step 4: After that, click theStartbutton to begin the cloing process.
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It is an all-in-onepartition managerable to clone Windows Server 2022/2019/2016 to HDD/SSD.
Download and install MiniTool Partition Wizard and try itsMigrate OS to SSD/HDfeature to clone Windows Server.
MiniTool Partition Wizard DemoClick to Download100%Clean & Safe
Step 1: Launch MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Step 2: ClickMigrate OS to SSD/HDWizardfrom theWizardmenu.
Then, you better choose a cloning option and clickNext.
Here like choose the SSD/HDD you have connected to your PC.
Step 4: Choose a copy option based on your needs.
Step 5: Execute all the operations you have made by clicking theApplybutton at last.
How to clone SSD to larger SSD for better performance on Windows 11?
This post offers 2 tools and tells you how to do that with them in one-by-one steps.
Bottom Line
In this post, we have shown you information on clone Windows Server to HDD/SSD.
Now, it is your turn to get our MiniTool software to give a try!