[Easy Guide] What Is the Best Way to Clone Micro SD Card?

User case: Is there any easy way to clone Micro SD card?

Micro SD cards are primarily used in smaller devices like smartphones, tablets, cameras, drones, and other portable electronics that require a compact storage solution. Whether you need to clone the Micro SD card because the old one is full, make a complete backup or for other reasons like the help seeker from Reddit, it's good to find a simple way to achieve your goal.

How to clone SD card in an easy way?

If you need to transfer all the data from your SD card safely and effectively, it is imperative to use a professional SD card copier like AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. This powerful tool allows you to copy Micro SD cards, SDHC cards, SDXC cards, and memory cards from all brands. You can clone a small SD card to a larger one or vice versa. Moreover, you can even use it to clone SSDs, HDDs (also supports clone SSD to HDD), or other external hard drives for upgrading or backup purposes.

To get started, simply connect the SD card to any working Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 PC and follow the instructions provided below. In just a few minutes, you can quickly clone all files from your SD card.

Now, make preparations and learn to clone SD card with AOMEI Partition Assistant.

Before you do:

Please back up important data beforehand. Cloning will wipe out any data saved on it.

Make sure the destination location has enough space to store all the data from the source SD card you're cloning.

Get an SD card reader ready. You'll need to plug your SD card into it and connect the reader to your Windows PC.

The AOMEI free standard version only lets you clone MBR SD cards to MBR disks. If you want to clone from MBR SD to GPT, or GPT to MBR/GPT, you'll need to upgrade to the AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional version.

Step 1. Start the SD card copier. On its main screen, click "Clone Disk" from the top menu as the picture shows.

Step 2. In the window that appears, select the appropriate copying method based on your needs. Choose the first option and then click "Next".

Step 3. Choose the source SD card you want to clone, and then click "Next".

Step 4. Now, select the target disk where you want to store all the data from the source SD card. Click "Next".

Step 5. In this window, you can adjust the partitions on the destination disk if needed. Or you can skip this step by clicking "Next" to proceed.

Step 6. Back on the main screen, click "Apply" to start the cloning process.

Once the process is complete, your SD card will be cloned to another storage device. What's more, AOMEI Partition Assistant can completely wipe the SD card to prevent any private files from being leaked.

Further reading: Recover lost SD card data with AOMEI Partition Assistant

SD cards often hold cherished memories and happy moments for people. However, sometimes data loss can occur. AOMEI Partition Assistant comes to the rescue in such situations as well. Whether it's due to formatting, viruses, corrupted file systems, or other issues, this software can help.

It supports various file systems like NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, ReFS, and more. With an excellent recovery rate, it can retrieve lost data from HDDs, SSDs, USB drives, SD cards, and other storage devices on Windows. It can recover over 200 types of data including text files, photos, videos, music, emails, and compressed files. The free version allows recovery of up to 30MB of data, while the professional version has no limits on data size.

Step 1. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant. Find the "Recover" option in the taskbar and select "Recover Data" to begin the recovery process.

Step 2. Once you click on "Recover Data," the interface for the Recover Windows Data tool will appear. Identify the specific partition where the lost images were stored initially. Then, click on "Start Scan" to begin scanning for lost files.

Step 3. After the scanning process is complete, you'll see a detailed display of results. This includes deleted files, items in the recycle bin, and other misplaced files. Choose the files you want to recover and click on "Recover."

Step 4. Now, select a suitable location to save your recovered files.

Step 5. Once the file restoration is successful, click "OK" to close the window.

Conclusion

If you are looking for the best way to clone Micro SD card, give AOMEI Partition Assistant a try. Once you unfortunately suffer data loss on SD card, this software can help you easily restore them.

In many cases where your C drive is full while the D drive is empty, this tool allows you to move installed programs to the D drive, allocate space from D drive to C, and so on. Besides, you can use it to create bootable media and rebuild the MBR when encountering any boot issues. For Windows Server users, this software offers the Server Edition.