Best Free SanDisk SSD Data Migration Software

When need the SanDisk SSD data migration software?

With SSD (Solid State Drive), SanDisk declares it brings “A BETTER COMPUTING EXPERIENCE” to its users. It is undeniable that solid state drives do bring better performance with its more advanced technology than traditional HDD. SanDisk SSD includes several series, like portable SSD SanDisk Extreme 900/510/500, 2.5” Internal SanDisk Ultra II /Extreme Pro/Plus/Ready Cache SSD, and SanDisk Ultra II mSATA SSD for mSATA form.

To clone HDD to mSATA SSD, you might need the last one. SanDisk SSD has strong compatibility with Windows OS, that’s why it has been used in PCs with an increasing number. Therefore, either migrate to or from SanDisk SSD, you need reliable SanDisk SSD data migration software.

What’s the best SanDisk data migration tool?

Many users might ask ”Does SanDisk SSD come with cloning software?”. Yes, the SanDisk SSD Notebook Upgrade Tool Kit comes with cloning software, helping users to replicate data, applications, and operating system. This kit includes step-by-step instructions and a fast USB 3.0 to SATA cable to connect your drive. With paying around $25, you can use this cloning software to migrate all data from one hard drive to your SanDisk SSD drive.

But, today we would like to recommend another free SanDisk Data Migration software: AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. This freeware has "Disk Clone” and “Partition Clone” features. So you can choose either one to migrate all data from one partition or entire disk to another SSD/HDD regardless of the hard drive brand. It also supports cloning disk with large size to smaller SanDisk SSD with the method “Clone Disk quickly” which only copies the used part of the disk to another one.

Easily migrate SanDisk SSD data with the free AOMEI Partition Assistant

Now you can free download the SanDisk SSD data migration software. And follow the steps in order to finish the data migration task in Windows 10/8.1/8/7, XP or Vista. All data on the SanDisk SSD (destination disk) will be erased during the migration, so please back up any required files beforehand.

1. After you installed your new drive appropriately, ensure it can be detected by Windows. Install and launch Partition Assistant Standard, select "Clone" > "Clone Disk" on the main interface.

2. Select "Clone Disk Quickly" to copy only used part. To clone BitLocker hard drive, or clone disk with bad sectors, you can choose the second method.

3. Select your source disk and another disk (such as SanDisk SSD) as destination path in this step.

4. This window allows you to edit partitions on the target disk.

5. Preview the result, and click "Apply" to execute the operation.

▶ Tips:
☞ If you are cloning system disk to the SanDisk SSD drive, in order to boot computer from the target SanDisk SSD successfully after cloning, you need either to remove the source disk or to change boot settings in BIOS.
☞ As for cloning boot disk, the free edition only supports cloning MBR to MBR disk. To clone the MBR system disk to GPT, GPT system disk to MBR, or GPT to GPT, please upgrade to Professional edition.

Summary

With its graphical user interface, you can easily migrate data to another drive with the free SanDisk SSD data migration software AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. On the contrary, you can also migrate data from Sandisk SSD to another disk with this software.

As you can see, except for copying disk and partition, it can also help convert NTFS to FAT32, and vice versa, make bootable media, create Windows to go on an external USB drive, resize/format/create/delete/merge partitions. With these features, you can shrink C drive, reformat partition or disk to FAT32, and so on.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional and AOMEI Partition Assistant Server are advanced versions of the free software. Both of them have the capability of allocating free space from one partition to another, converting system disk between MBR and GPT, managing dynamic disks and volumes etc. The former allows you to install software on 2 PCs with one license and the latter is specialized for Windows Server users.