The software can clone the contents from one physical storage device (e.g. SSD, HDD or NVMe) to another drive."Clone Almost Finishes but Then Fails at the End | Crucial.Com." Crucial, https://www.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-ssd/clone-almost-finishes-fails-at-end. Accessed 22 Nov. 2021. The drive does not need to be formatted before data can be cloned to it and may be smaller in size than the source disk but the amount of space on the disk must be at least the size of the amount of data being cloned.Holzman, Carey. "How To Upgrade A Hard Disk Drive." CRN, 23 May 2005, https://www.crn.com/features/channel-programs/163105249/how-to-upgrade-a-hard-disk-drive.htm. Cloning aims to preserve the disk metadata. For example, disk cloning is useful for installing a larger disk in a computer or replacing a hard disk drive with a solid state drive. Crucial recommends using a preinstallation media of Acronis to perform the clone to avoid possible cloning failures due to partitions being inaccessible.
