How to migrate Windows drive to SSD with free Samsung Data Migration software - avoiding errors

Great advice, and I have a question, would Nvidia settings be a program you need to close before cloning? thanks.

I have used Samsung Magician several times transfer my operating systems to the latest and greatest. Only yesterday, I transferred my 2 Gb 980 to the new 2 Gb. 990. Piece of cake. My new system is a Strix Z790 with a 14900, 1-Samsung 990, three Samsung 980s. My C: drive was only about 1.25 Tb., as I have most of my software spread out across the other three 980's. The OS transfer only took about 1.5 hrs. After putting the 990 on a plug-in card which I put in an available MB slot...the process was quick. After transfer, pull the old and replace with the "new C: 990"...Zip...Zip...Zip. Done. I repeat...piece-of-cake! EXACT mirror of the old drive...cept faster...smiles.

will programs installed on the old C drive run on the new C drive after migration, OR will they need to be reinstalled or re-registered? I have old software that is no longer supported thus cannot be re-registered.

I want to clone an HDD that is a boot drive for an older PC onto a new NVMe drive, for installation into a new PC. The older PC doesn't have NVMe slots, so what I want to do is install the old HDD into an available SATA bay on the new computer (as a secondary data drive, not the boot drive) and then clone it over to a new Samsung NVMe installed in a second NVMe slot on the new computer motherboard. I am hoping the Samsung Magician tool will work for this scenario, to clone from a HDD source drive that is not the boot drive for the PC used for the cloning.

that software does NOT detect my samsung ssd to be able to migrate my software and files!!😢😢

Good video but not all systems have the faster usb 3 available

Bro, in this method, can I do this to my old ssd to New ssd? Thanks

nah didnt work after 4 or 5 goes. Keep getting an error at 99% turned firewall off, did dskchk fix - turned everything off. maybe my old hard drive is just messed up even dont have any issues just super slow booting up windows. Getting an Resize NTFS Error in the log. Dont know if i need to mess around with partitions - might as well just copy all my app data over to my other HDD and mount image and reinstall windows on SSD

Perfect instructions. Swapping to a SSD tomorrow when cable gets delivered. Thank you for making this instructional video.

My laptop shut down automatically and I went back into the application and it doesn’t say that it’s cloned

Thanks for mentioning the tips of shutting down "active" applications, including cloud backup. Also, putting the system in "airplane" mode to take it off the network is something I would not have thought of. Thanks for mentioning those tips!

Didn't work

Is this only for SAMSUNG drives????????

None of these tips helped me
I tought the airplane mode would but no luck

I didn't the same procedure but I got "default boot device missing or boot failed". Do you know what the problem or how I can solve it?

Thank you so much

What a thorough and very comprehensive! Thank you so much Flacbox!!

Followed this video. Everything worked perfectly with no issues. Thanks for making it easy.

Airplane mode is nice touch. I am working with computers 30+ years and this never come to my mind. Thanks. Great instructions. Keep up the good job.

hey what happens when the samsung disk migration does that open

the data migration function has been interrupted for unknown reason

This the error I received.

Thank you very much for the clarity. It was extremely helpful.

I get the stopcode 0xc000021a Blue Screen of Death when I boot from the SSD after the migration. Endless loop with not way out but the Bios. Any ideas?

Great instructions Neil. It took less than 30 minutes to clone my 500GB HDD on my Dell Laptop. After that, less than 10 minutes to disconnect the HDD and install my 500GB Samsung SSD. Thank You very much for taking the trouble and the time to make this helpful video.

Thank you. Just upgraded to larger Samsung 870 evo. You are clear with your instructions making easy to understand . Has to be best presentation on you tube.

Extremely clear and helpful video, which I hope will result in a clean and simple clone of my existing C drive ssd. One quick question; can I clone both of my existing ssd's (125gb & 250gb) to a new single ssd (1tb)?

Does it work with Win 11? And if clonning faild, the curent system remains ok?

Hello, I have a question, Could you please help me.

Can I use the Samsung data migration program, to clone the WD 530 SSD in the laptop (source drive) to the new Samsung SSD Nvme 980 PRO (target drive).

Or this program is only intended for Samsung drives

Thank you

I followed the video and after I switched the drives the computer started windows as normally but right after starting I got a notice " Windows needs to restart to apply there changes " so I pressed restart but after that the computer does not start windows I just get a black screen with a blinking underscore in the left top corner.

Makes everything run like crap

Worked perfectly, thank you sir!

I can't find the data migration software?

When I open samsung data migration and select target drive Samsung SSD, it's showing 0 as capacity and windows starts displaying malfunctioned. My SSD is initialized and also shows in windows explorer. Once I open this tool then only it stops recognizing till then it works fine. If I restart again it shows well once I open migration tool it creates problem.

Thanks Neil for these wonderful instructions. Very few people make such detailed video on this.

Thank you soo much! This helped a lot! ❤️

thanks for this, benefits to buying samsung NVMEs / SSDs - free migration software

Started process today but when I started going thru Migration software and then saw the warning that source disk will be erased apparently whether or not the target disk will boot I chickened out dang it !

Hello Flackbox, please can you tell me if can i plug a new SSD out of the box then start the laptop and using my original windows 7 CD disk to boot from, is to simply install a fresh win 7, I have no data to worry about, I have it all backed up on external disk.
and thank you in advance.

Thanks for this. It worked really well for me.

Thanks for this video, but how do i do the same process to upgrade my 128GB SSD currently running windows to 1TB Samsung Evo 980?
Thanks

can we use this software for cloning from Toshiba to Samsung SSD?

As a complete pc noob or beginner of great learnings i want to ask u a question, that is suppose i clone my original os and files on laptop with a new ssd or hdd and then put the ssd or hdd into a desktop/OTHER LAPTOP, will that work?can i use the same thing in both the system regardless motherboard and the whole bios changes?

Many Thanks ! It works very well ! The most important for me was the fact that you explain where find the good application ( Samsung data migration !) ...Just a precision : I clean and empty my computer BEFORE the migration, and it took 10 MINUTES (YES 10 MINUTES !!!) for the complete migration of my windows (around 50 Go of data on a 1TO SSD) !! everything works fine ! I am truly happy to find your video !! THANKS AGAIN !!!

Nothing but black screen. Very sad it didn't work for me.

I plan on buying new SSD drive and I have one question
Will the Windows also transfer? It's just pretty expensive where I live