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.
- 找到具有未分配空間的磁碟，右鍵單擊它，然後選擇擴充。
- 設定要新增至磁碟機的空間量，然後按一下下一步。按照螢幕上的指示完成該過程。
在 Windows 10 上最佳化鏡像磁碟機的其他提示
- 為了使鏡像正常工作，輔助磁碟的大小必須與來源磁碟機相同或更大。
- 如果您需要更高的可靠性，請考慮使用三個驅動器而不是兩個驅動器進行鏡像並建立兩個副本。
- 使用來自可靠製造商的高品質驅動器來延長驅動器的使用壽命。
- 如果可能，請使用硬體 RAID，因為它提供更好的效能，並且與軟體選項不同，它不依賴您的作業系統。
鏡像是防止突發硬體故障的好方法，並且由於它是內建的 Windows 功能，因此不需要克隆軟體.
您曾經在 PC 上使用過磁碟鏡像嗎？如果是這樣，請在下面的評論中與我們分享您的經驗。
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