How to Image Windows 7 to New Hard Drive Perfectly?

Posted by @AOMEI

December 25, 2014

The way to image Windows 7 to new hard drive can help to complete the hard disk upgrade perfectly. An excellent tool, AOMEI Backupper can realize the operations easily and securely with its powerful functions.

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An easy-to-use and versatile tool offers data backup, files sync, disaster recovery, and disk clone solutions.

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Key Features

  • Create System Image

    Backup all contents in system drive to an image, including Windows and apps.

  • Create Disk Image

    Backup entire disk to an image. Support HDD/SSD, MBR/GPT, removable drives.

  • Backup Files

    Backup specified files to local disks, external drives or NAS/network share.

  • Clone Hard Disk

    Clone a hard disk to another or an SSD with larger or smaller capacity.

  • Automatic Backup

    Set & forget. Create a schedule to backup data automatically.

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Image Windows 7 to New Hard Drive

As known to many people, Windows 7 disk image refers to back up Windows 7 hard disk to an image file, and it is usually made by creating a complete copy of the source medium. This operation has several main usages. For example, if the previous Windows 7 works unstably, can not start, or meets some hard disk failures, the image file backed up in advance can be used to restore Windows system drive to avoid reinstallation. Compared to reinstalling Windows 7, restoring disk image is much quicker and efficient.

In addition, if you want to upgrade hard disk, image Windows 7 to new hard drive has been regarded as the easiest and most frequently employed way. In this case, a powerful and full featured tool can do great help in complete this task. Then, a free disk imaging software for Windows 7 will be introduced.

Image Windows 7 with Powerful Freeware

As a free imaging software, AOMEI Data Backup can back up Windows 7 easily and securely. Moreover, it supports Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, XP, Vista, Windows 7 as well as Windows 8. It can perfectly image Windows 7 to new hard drive with reinstalling OS.

  • First, you can use it to backup Windows 7 system to an image file.
  • Then you can restore the image file to a new hard drive or original hard drive.

Let's have a look at the user-friendly main interface of this excellent tool.


This tool can not only back up and restore the hard disk, and it also has many other features, such as, disk/partition clone, create bootable CD and so on. The function of clone also can help to upgrade hard disk without reinstalling Windows. During the backup and restore process, AOMEI backup software can encrypt and compress the image file, which can help to ensure data security and save storage space.

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