The Best Free OS Migration Software for Windows 10/8/7

March 23, 2018

AOMEI Backupper, the best OS migration freeware, can migrate Windows 10/8/7 OS from one HDD or PC to another HDD/SSD or PC without reinstalling system and applications.

Why need to migrate OS?

Migrate OS isn't strange to computer users. People usually migrate OS from one PC to another computer to save a lot of time of installing system. It has a great advantage for companies that they can install a system for one computer and migrate the OS to the rest computers instead of installing system.

Many people will purchase a new computer when their original computer became old. But they may still like their old operating system and applications so that they want to use the same operating system and the old data. Thus, migrate the OS from the old computer to the new one could solve a big trouble if the two computer has the same mainboard. You don’t have to waste time to install a new computer and new applications.

People also like to migrate OS from HDD to SSD. Users may all know that the SSD has better properties than HDD. For example, SSD has a larger volume and runs a faster speed that the HDD cannot reach on. Because of this, users want to change their HDD to SSD to get a better performance.

How to migrate OS?

No matter what reason makes you want to migrate OS, or wherever you want to migrate the OS, you need to make an exactly copy of your operating system. To migrate OS, here we highly recommend you AOMEI Backupper, a freeware that can help you migrate OS from one place to another place. For example, if you want to migrate Windows 7 system to a new hard drive, Windows 7 system clone would be helpful.

Migrate OS with AOMEI Backupper, you need to prepare something first: you need to prepare A hard drive disk(HDD) or a solid state drive(SSD). It depends on where you want to migrate the OS to.

To migrate OS with AOMEI Backupper, you need to prepare something first:

  • You need to prepare A hard drive disk (HDD) or a solid state drive(SSD). It depends on where you want to migrate the OS to. Plug it to your computer and make sure that the HDD or SSD you prepared can be detected.
  • Download AOMEI Backupper Standard, install and launch it. Use it to create a system image, remember where you had stored the system image on.

After all the things done, you need to restore the OS to the HDD/SSD where you want to migrate the OS on.

Step1. Launch AOMEI Backupper, clickRestore.

Step2. Select the system image in the list, or click Path to find the system image which you want to restore. Click Next.

System Restore

Step3. Then, you should select a backup time point to restore.

Select Backup Point to Restore

Step4. Then, it will pop out a window to remind you that the program detects the selected backup is system image, and asks would you like to do a system restore. Here, click Yes.

System Restore Confirmation

Step5. Finally, you will get into the final page where you can click Start Restore to execute the task. When the progress reaches 100%, you can click Finish to exit. So far, you have already migrate OS to the hard drive successfully and you can boot from the new hard drive directly.


  • You can set up more for your restore, like edit partition size on the destination disk, or restore system to dissimilar hardware,but those two operations need to upgrade to AOMEI Backupper Professional, so that you can use without limitation.
  • If you are restoring to an SSD, you can check the box of "Align partition to optimize for SSD", which is designed for clone/migrate OS to SSD. It will optimize for SSD so that it will get a better performance after cloning.

AOMEI Backupper Standard is a powerful free software for you to migrate OS for Windows 10/8.8/8/7/Vista/XP. Besides, it provides wide functions more than it. Such as backup & restore system/partition/disk/files/folders, create bootable media, etc. migrate OS to SSD only with easier and simpler steps. It is worth to hold one.