Hard drive failure is a serious problem because you can permanently lose your data, and this is why many choose to mirror a hard drive in Windows 10 as a way to back up their data.
Mirroring a hard drive isn’t as complicated as you think, and in today’s guide, we’re going to show you a couple of ways you can do that on your PC.
Benefits of hard drive mirroring
- All your data is written to the backup drive in real time, and the mirroring process doesn’t require scheduling, unlike the cloning process.
- In case of sudden disk failure, you can continue using the backup drive without any disruption.
- Drastically reduces the downtime of any system which can be important if you maintain a local server.
- Disk mirroring is scalable, and you can seamlessly add more drives for additional recovery partitions.
How do I clone a hard drive on Windows 10?
1. Use Disk Management
- Press the Windows key + X and choose Disk Management.
- Select the primary drive that you want to use as the source, right-click it, and choose Add Mirror.
- Select the drive letter of the secondary drive that you want to use for mirroring and choose Add Mirror.
- You’ll be asked to convert the basic disk to a dynamic disk. Click Yes to proceed.
- Wait for a few moments for the process to finish.
2. Use Storage Spaces
- Press the Windows key + S and type storage spaces. Select Manage Storage Spaces.
- Navigate to Create a new pool and storage space.
- Select the drives you want to use.
- Next, configure the size of the mirror drive and set the Resiliency type to a Two-way mirror.
- Click on Create Storage Space and wait for the process to finish.
3. Use diskpart
- Press the Windows key + X and choose PowerShell (Admin).
- Once it starts, enter diskpart and press Enter.
- Enter the list disk to show all drives on your PC.
- Locate the drive that you want to use as the source disk. We used disk 1 in this example:
select disk 1
- Next, run the following command:
convert dynamic
- Now repeat the previous two steps for a disk that you want to use as the destination disk.
- Run the following command to create a mirror volume:
create volume mirror disk=1
- Finally, you need to add the other disk with this command:
add disk=0
Troubleshooting common issues with mirroring a hard drive on Windows 10
1. Use chkdsk to fix drive cloning errors and corrupt files
- Press the Windows key + X and choose PowerShell (Admin).
- Run the following command
chkdsk c: /r
- If the drive is damaged, the damaged sectors can cause issues with cloning.
2. Use Disk Management to fix unallocated space after cloning
- Open Disk Management.
- 找到具有未分配空间的磁盘，右键单击它，然后选择扩展。
- 配置要添加到驱动器的空间量，然后单击下一步。按照屏幕上的说明完成该过程。
在 Windows 10 上优化镜像驱动器的其他提示
- 为了使镜像正常工作，辅助磁盘的大小必须与源驱动器相同或更大。
- 如果您需要更高的可靠性，请考虑使用三个驱动器而不是两个驱动器进行镜像并创建两个副本。
- 使用来自可靠制造商的高质量驱动器来延长驱动器的使用寿命。
- 如果可能，请使用硬件 RAID，因为它提供更好的性能，并且与软件选项不同，它不依赖于您的操作系统。
镜像是防止突发硬件故障的好方法，并且由于它是内置的 Windows 功能，因此不需要克隆软件.
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