How to Clone a Hard Drive to WD External Hard Drive?

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Can I clone to a WD external drive?

Western Digital (WD) external hard drive is one of the most commonly used storage device. It's widely used around the world to store data as a backup or make it easy to seamlessly transfer large files between your computers.

Of course, you can choose WD external hard drive as destination to cloning a hard disk to. If you clone your OS and files to a WD external hard drive, you can access your work and data on another machine anywhere else by carrying an external hard drive in your backpack. Here we will show you the instructions to clone a hard disk to a WD external hard drive.

What do I need to prepare before cloning to a WD drive?

To clone to WD external hard drive, you need to prepare the following things in advance:

A blank Wd external hard drive：it should be big enough to save all the data on the source disk to clone. And there should be no important data on the WD drive because it will be erased after cloning.
A cable: A USB cable is used to connect the Wd external disk to the computer.
Install a disk copy software: it requires a disk cloning software that can clone the system and all data to another disk and make it bootable. I recommend Donemax Disk Clone to achieve disk cloning. It has never let me down in the past use.

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How to clone an internal disk to a WD external hard drive?

Please just do as following steps to clone your entire hard drive to WD disk.

Step 1. Connect the WD external hard drive to your machine with a USB cable.

Step 2. Launch Donemax Disk Clone.

Step 3. Choose Disk Clone. Normally, it is selected by default when launching.

Step 4. Select the source disk to clone, and select the WD external hard drive as destination disk to clone to. and click Next.

Step 5. Preview and resize the disk layout on the WD external hard drive.

Step 6. Click the Clone button to start to clone the disk to WD drive.

If you are cloning OS and data to a WD external SSD, check the box before check the option if the destination is SSD to optimize the SSD usage.

Conclusion

As you can see, it's very simple to clone the drive to a WD external SSD or hdd with the help of Donemax Disk Clone. The system, installed applications and all the data on your drive can be cloned to the destination disk safely without problems.

Donemax Disk Clone is highly compatible and supports a wide range of devices. You can use it to clone HDD to SSD and vice versa, clone USB flash drive, clone memory card, and so on in Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista. For Mac uses, Donemax Disk Clone for Mac is recommended.