@@memenecromancer4417 it makes a complete copy of EVERYTHING installed on the HDD so if you have steam installed, it copies it, if you have office installed it copies it.. It is a CLONE so it is a 1 to 1 copy...
@@GalaxyTechReview if that's the case can you just delete the unwanted files from the SSD and those deleted files can still be accessed due to them being on a HDD?
I've just purchased the 1Tb version for doing UE4 Projects on....is it true that If I have certain drives in like the original OS SSD, that I need to unplug it because the M.2 will be using two of those PCIE lanes?
If you are using two or more M2, remember that it might disable some SATA ports. So if you boot up from the new disk and start wondering where your other drives went, check the manual of your mainboard and search for SATA ports in combination with M2
I just purchased the 970 evo NVMe M.2 and I was a little worried about how I would transfer my old Drive into my new one. This was such a perfect video! Glad I clicked it, looking forward to transferring into my new SSD :D
Thanks man, I'm waiting on my 970 evo to get here and I'll be installing it to my laptop, I watched so many videos and you explained it the best without any complicated issues, I totally subscribe to you
“Not running it” Software is either running and using CPU or not running and not using CPU. If you are refering to some kind of windows service running on the background, then it’s running software, in the background. Which i doubt it would.
Good video, few questions though: - Does this software make any difference between GPT or MBR? (My C drive is GPT) - Does the target drive have to partitioned? I ask this because Windows on the source drive uses multiple smaller partitions. I leave the target drive non partitioned.
After researching quite a bit on m.2 replacements for the 1 TB Hybrid HDD (2.5") on my Alienware m17, I settled on the Samsung 970. I saw that it had great reviews with excellent read/write speeds. Even though I had space for the original 1TB Hybrid HDD and two (2) m.2 drives, I wanted only to have the m.2 drive in there for now. I wanted all the contents to transfer over to the m.2 including the OS so that it can boot from that drive. After watching a few migration/cloning tutorials, I decided on using the Macrium Relfect Free software as opposed to the Samsung Migration software. The Macrium was free, simple and reliable. I installed the Samsung m.2 in the m.2 slot and it was immediately recognized by the pc. (as an unallocated drive) At this point, there is no need to format the m.2 drive as Macrium will format it later during the cloning process. I used the Macrium Reflect software to clone the ENTIRE 1 TB Hybrid HDD's contents onto the Samsung m.2. FYI: drag over the C; drive last as it will autofit the available space to the new drive. (Took about 1.5 hours since this was a fairly new pc and I don't have much on there - maybe about 100 GB). After the clone was complete, I shut down the laptop and physically removed the 1 TB Hybrid HDD. I restarted the laptop and it recognized and booted up from the Samsung m.2 without me having to adjust/interfere with the BIOS settings. I was a little unsure about messing around the BIOS settings so I was glad that I didn't have to fiddle around the boot order/options. I restarted it a few times since without any issues. The m.2 is partitioned just as the prior Hybrid HDD was. I would highly recommend this m.2 drive. Speeds are super fast and install was easy. Just make sure your pc's motherboard is compatible. For example, the m.2 slot on my PC was marked "...M.2 2280 NVMe PCIE3x4 only".
I don't know how to thank you! As I was trying to run the cloned Windows on my new 970 Evo SSD, I got stuck at the Error Code 0xc0000225 during startup. I kept trying everything I found online and nothing worked, but and your solution was the fastest and simplest, and it WORKED! Thanks so much again!
Damn, didn't know it was this easy... thanks for the video tutorial!! I cannot wait to get my hands on the 970 Evo Plus (1TB), will migrate my initial OS drive (Kingston A2000) to the new Samsung SSD.
Thanks for the video! Most of the other migration videos only showed Samsung to Samsung data migration so I wasn't sure if it was possible when the original drive wasn't Samsung. Good to know that it does!
thank you for this simple and easy to understand tutorial.. i don't know why other UA-camrs make it sound so complicated when its not.. you did a great job explaining things.. awesome video.. you got a like and sub from me :)
Got a steal on a GL752VW-DH71 (Asus ROG laptop) and upgrading from an HDD to a Samsung 860 EVO m.2 (2280) and was completely unaware that it was so simple to just use Samsung's program for it. Thank you so much, I'll be referring back to this video when my new drive gets here.
Did you go to your BIOS/EUFI after the SSD insertion and clone? If so, do you have a tutorial video on booting a SSD on BIOS/EUFI? Note: I am not familiar with BIOS/EUFI Thanks a lot!
@@wainnerba This depends what your mainboard is. If you start up your computer, you will most likely see a logo popping up on screen and some captions below like "Press ... to enter setup" or something like that. Do that and you'll enter BIOS/UEFI. Next you'll need to check where to adjust the boot sequence. You'll probably have to search for some words like "HDD" or "boot priority". If you did, set the new disk to the top of the priority list. Remember to do that only AFTER you cloned Windows to the new drive.
Found this after searching for many ways to migrate/clone my HDD to Samsung SSD. Tried Macrium Reflect and Aomei and neither worked. This worked perfectly first attempt. Thank you for posting this video.
I came across this video after trying other software that claimed it worked, but didnt! I was upgrading a 256GB Samsung Evo 850 to a 1TB Samsung Evo 860 and the first time I tried it, I got an error message, something along the lines of fffff. I had the new drive conected by USB3 and wondered if that was the problem at first, so I gave up for the day. Next day I turned my PC on with the drive attached (still usb), and thought I'd give it another try and it worked flawlessly. It rook about 35 minutes copy 218GB of data with no errors. I turned off PC swapped drives and its perfect. The only thing I changed was I had the drive added when I started the PC, and I didn't close any programs down. No idea why that would make any difference, but I thought I add that as a tip for others. Thanks for making the video...I spent a good few hours trying other software that would't work. (Acronis and Minitool)
Thankful I found this video! Others took me to different (suspect) migration tools. I didn't realize Samsung had a free one. Going from 250Gb Samsung to 2TB Samsung 980Pro in my Dell Latitude 7490. Cloning now, Hopefully it's as easy as putting the new one in after.
Thank you this helped me out, just got a brand new 970 evo plus 1TB, and i just wanted to move everything to it and make it my main OS drive without having to install everything again, really cool solution!
Thanks for the tutorial. Samsung and your tutorial makes the transfer easy as can be. My next step will be allowing more space in my “boot” drive section of the hard drive. In the past I used Windows built-in Partition manager. However, I’ll also check if your channel has a tutorial on how to do that. As I recall expanding partitions in windows is pretty simple.
SUCCESS! It IS up an running! The "reserved" Win10 partion was created automatic by this Migrate - the "recovery" part is created by the user as it is usually. This IS a VERY good way to do this. My OS was on native 256GB M.2, and there was a 1 TB data M.2 in a PCIe slot. I had to take out the 1TB data M.2 from PCIe put in the 1T empty M.2 into the PCIe - do the Migrate - shut down - Remove the 256GB old OS native M.2 - put the cloned OS 1TB M.2 into the native slot - and reinsert the data 1TB back into the PCIe - Do the UEFI/BIOS boot config - DONE up an running! . This program worked for me, EASY! So before my OS disk was 97% full and into an error condition. Now my OS disk is almost 80% free disk. Where the OS was 7GB free now has 726GB free. Whoo Hoo! Thank you again!
I just did it and it worked. But it deactivated my hhd then I figured out how to activate it again and it's a complete copy of the SSD and hhd. Do you have a video on how to run SSD for OS and hhd to save files?
If you have 2 disks with both the same content, and you are sure you have booted from the M.2 one, you can just format the other one. Probably the D: drive. After that you can put on it whatever you like.
Hi richard. I've tried removing the hdd after cloning and laptop boots up from m.2. However, when I connected the hdd again, even if I set the M2 in bios on top priority, still it boots from hdd. Do I need to redo the cloning again? Or do I have to wipe clean the hdd? Thanks!
How do I make the ssd the main boot in the bios and how do I wipe the other drive? (Deleting everything including windows since it’s basically a duplicate)
I'm having a problem with this. I successfully cloned my C drive/OS onto my new Samsung SSD, though when I update the boot order or boot straight from the new disk, it asks me to select a proper boot drive. Anyone have any idea why this would happen?
How do you clone it if you only have one m.2 slot?Like in a Mini ATX board? Or a laptop? I’ve tried an external enclosure which doesn’t work as Samsung Data Migration won’t recognise it as a Samsung drive.
After I clone it my new SSD it is not bootable it shows up under BIOS but when I set it as the first option it just gives me a message saying select a bootable drive
I have a samsung PM961 MZVLW256HEHP-0000. I cloned with macrium reflect, none of the samsung software recognizes mine as their product. I either get that or it probably skips back to the HDD it was cloned from...
Have you solved this problem? I have the same issue. Cloned the HDD into a SSD m.2, trying to keep both in my laptop. It apparently boots from my ssd, but if I uncheck my HDD drive in the Bios, a warning appears with the same msg, telling no bootable device was found. And then the Bios reset to its original state, indicating only the HDD as the only possible boot option. Why this happens?
@@EngLhag If you're asking me then I just bought another SSD with SATA which is identical to the other i have 860 evo 500gb. The one I couldn't boot form probably requires correct drivers and I gave up on finding them and will just use it like a regular disk.
@@GalaxyTechReview Please do not share bad information. The M.2 to USB converter does not work with the samsung drive that you have in your video. The samsung 960 drive is pci-e and the amazon link only works on m.2 sata drives.
@@GalaxyTechReview I'm also in the same situation. Upgrading from a 128 gb ssd to a Samsug 970 500 gb ssd. Is the m.2 nvme adapter for sure going to work? I want to be sure before I'm buying it.
clone the drive, then go into the bios and have it set to boot from the new drive. Once that is done you can do whatever you want with the installed drive (format it for more storage or whatever)
@@GalaxyTechReview Hmm. It does boot but the drive isn't in the list of options to boot from. Not sure how it's working. This is a ASRock Z97 motherboard and an NVME m.2 drive.
@dailydR1ver I did get it to work. I disabled csm and then re-enabled it. I have no idea why or if that worked, but cloning three disc did make the 970 pro into my C drive, my old C drive into my G drive. So the 970 pro boots, but I can't specify it in the boot order. It just works.
@@Skippy2Ton This is a year old, but you just saved me a ton of headache. I used the Migration tool and for the life of me could not boot from my 970 despite doing numerous things to try and fix it. I turned off CMS and booted right in, no hassle (using MSI mobo and just set it to UEFI boot mode). I was able to re-enable CMS afterwards and it booted fine as well. Thank you!
A bit late to the dance, but spot on video. Ensure you install the Samsung M.2 driver, data migration and magician software first (in that order). One question I haven't seen answered is what to do with the old M.2 drive that was cloned. I had two drives before and after (even though the old drive is still on the motherboard). How do you make the drive active (e.g., E:\)?
You can go to Windows settings then Disk Management and you can format the old drive and make an new partition and make it a usable drive for storage...
I hope you got your answer by now. If not, it's pretty simple. Assuming you've cloned to the new drive and changed the boot order, leave the old drive installed and format it. That'll get you your secondary storage. You can always find another YT video on how to do this.
I installed my Samsung 860 Evo using Samsung's Magician Migration software and it worked perfect. Does everything for you even make necessary Bios changes. Highly recommend it. It's a free download from Samsung.com
It's a really great video. Can you please make another video about things have to do after the process of this video (like change the boot setup) since I want to replace my SSD with the Samsung 860 EVO and I'm not sure about what I should do. Thank you very much
Odd. I did the process. Source drive was just "C," but the target drive ended up with D and E. I didn't expect it to divide stuff like that. I'm going to see if it works anyway.
I installed a 970 pro Samsung SSD to my laptop and it seemed to work fine with their data migration software. BUT: the ssd does NOT show up when I restart the laptop. It shows only the original hard disk every time. I can open Disk Manager and it shows online there. I can open file explorer and it shows up there, I can even open files from it which shows up as disks E and G, the clones of C and D Recovery from my original. But I cannot figure out how to get my laptop to SEE IT on boot. I go into the the bios at boot to change the boot drive, but it does not show up there. Any ideas? Samsung is NO HELP. Cannot find any HELP anywhere!
My dude, watching your video.. I see you made the same mistake I did. you daisychained your GPU's power cable. If there is anything I learned, use separate power cables since cables have a max of 75 watts passthrough. 1x 75+150 from your pci-e slot = 225 watts, if you got a card with more than 225 watts, you're losing power. 2x 75 + 150 = 300watts, which will be enough. Thanks for the tutorial though, thought i'd share my knowledge too
run chkdsk before you start. When you have finished you have two identical disks. change the boot order in bios. then the newly cloned disk refuses to be online because its identical to an existing disk. So this only works if the disk you cloning to is then physically swapped into the PC and the pre-existing drive is physically removed. Better to use alternative cloning software... lots of better ones around.
Your video is really good help on how to clone OS drive FYI - there is a "plosive" at 6:17 when you said "POSSIBLE" that hit my subwoofer and rattled my whole house! ouch! You guys on youtube could use high pass filters if you are producing content without using subwoofers - holy cow man ;) Thanks for the content - I do have a question about the clone - do we need to clone the hidden partitions on the system disk the "reserved" or the "recovery"? But I will get that figured out. Thanks and Merry Christmas or happy Hanukkah or fill in your preferred...
lol sorry for the sub woofer blowing moment in the video! As for the partitions you should clone all the reserved and recovery partitions (they are small but needed for the system)
how do i connect the two drives? using the sata port in the target machine? If I clone the o.s from one machine to a second will that cause conflicts with Microsoft?
I could not get the Samsung migration software to install on my Windows 7 PC. Tried running as administrator, disabling Norton Internet Security, etc, etc to no avail! I installed it on another PC running Windows 10 and then copied the Program Files (x86)\Samsung\Samsung Data Migration folder to the computer I needed it on - it ran fine!! It cloned a 1 terabyte hard drive to the Samsung 500GB SSD.
Okay so I just got a Samsung SSD. The main purpose was to take out all the crammed storage I had in my only drive and move it to the ssd. Wouldn't it defeat the purpose if I made the ssd my main boot? Once I delete everything from my c drive it'll run better...right? So shouldn't I leave my bios alone? Also how would I delete my c drive and still use it as my main OS? Thank you.
So, for complete "system image" transfer - cloning - from a 640 GB hard disk to a Samsung 1TB SSD, the software will automatically modify and "recover" the unused partition area without any manual intervention to have the entire 1TB, (less formatting overhead), available to use??? Some SW needs you to recover unused partition by a manual operation.. Thanks for your advise and reply....
thanks didn't even know Samsung had this-question can you just clone it meaning the orinal source drive will still have all the os and data and not erased to save for use as a backup?
Do you have to install the Samsung_NVM_Express_Driver_3.1 to the source disk first before you do the migration onto the new NVMe? That way when you go to the bios and set it up for NVMe the bios can detect the NVME M.2 ?
Question, I have two Samsung 500g drives now, C&D. Installing two new Samsung 960 1T drives. The question is, how do I physically ID, know which is my OS drive other than trial and error. Thanks.
You can temporarily remove your other drives so you can do the OS clone then you are only dealing with the OS drive and the drive you are cloning to, easy fastest way.
@@GalaxyTechReview Thank you, I had thought of that but wasn't sure if i would get some sort of error " drive missing or something to that affect. You mention shutting all programs down, I assume you mean things like Eset virus software, malwarebytes, Dropbox, outlook, general programs etc...however system stuff not necessary?
I'm going from a 1tb 970 evo plus to a XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB... What software should I use to clone and migrate? My new 2tb has been laying around for months because I'm too lazy to reformat and reinstall everything
I followed these instructions for my X1 Extreme (which has 2 M.2 slots) for adding a 970 Pro and it worked well. I removed the intel drive from the boot order in BIOS (but will keep it in the laptop for storage), restarted, went back into BIOS and it had kept those settings. Is it safe to say I can delete everything from the intel drive? I want to be sure it actually booted from the Samsung. I'm an extreme novice. Thank you in advance for any help. Sub
What if the source drive is an HDD running from an external USB bridge and you want to clone it onto the NVMe M.2? Is the Samsung Migration bootable from USB or can it only be use within Windows? If that's the case, it seems a bit inefficient because you would need to rip every computer open and boot from the HDD with the Migration software installed and clone it to the M.2. That's pretty inconvenient.
Do I have to tell Windows to boot up from the new M.2 drive? I will be installing a Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB and cloning my 250 GB SATA SSD that is full. Thank you! And subscribed!
You may have to go into your BIOS afterwards and tell and select the new boot drive or once the clone is done just remove the old drive and it should automatically boot from the new drive.
Thanks for this video. I followed the instructions and it worked flawlessly. I just have one problem. The old system drive now has the letter (I:), and I want to format it. But formatting it or even deleting the volume prompts a message saying some of the files are in use. I've checked that my new drive is actually the system drive, the old one shouldn't be in use at all. Is it still okay to override the prompt, and format or delete it anyway?
I just started cloning from a Kingston sata ssd to a Samsung 970 EVO and for some reason it's not going any faster than 8mb/s... perhaps the old drive has some issues? Hopefully all is well at the end of it!
I read in the manual for the Samsung migration tool, that you have to install drivers on the NVMe drive or it might fail the cloning process. what is that about? did i misunderstand?
I bought an Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 because there is only one socket in my laptop I bought an external case too. But the Samsung migration software could not find my new SSD how do I tackle this problem?
I just cloned an 860EVO 1TB to a 980 1TB and the PC would not boot off either drive after that - I did a fresh reinstall using the Microsoft Windows 10 download and now I have no issues - MAKE SURE YOU have a FULL Backup before you try the cloning, or you might get really screwed - also make sur you have the reinstall software or another PC you can download it with - Note: the BIOS did see the drives as it should have, just blue screen of death on both drives after the clone -
Do you have a video about how to delete the original copy of OS and anything else that is needed. I cloned OS from HDD to NVME SSD but have not deleted the original OS installation off my hard drive. I am nervous to do it and don't want to mess it up lol. I also have 2 partitions. Disk 0 partition 2 & Disk 0 partition 5. Not really sure what to do with those. Any thoughts?
im new in all of these , so sorry for my ignorance but after i clone the new ssd i go into the the bios and then remove the old boot and add the new boot for the samsung EVO . (i have an acerl aptop with 2 m.2 nvme ports) dont know how to do this part and i dont want to make any mistake. thanks
Thank you for the video. Can I do this using a USB M.2 NVME Enclosure and will this clone the OS as well? I'm using Win7 and I'm hoping to bring that over along with all my apps.
Hi, thanks for making this video. My question is this: I'm building a completely new system and want to clone from my old HD to the new SSD. Since they are in two different towers, is there a way to do this? Thanks so much.
No there is now as windows will not like all the different hardware, like motherboard/GPU ect. your best bet if it is a brand new machine is do a fresh install of windows.
Thank you all for 430,000 views on this video!
Let's say I want to migrate two things like Steam and windows, would I do them both at once or one at a time?
@@memenecromancer4417 it makes a complete copy of EVERYTHING installed on the HDD so if you have steam installed, it copies it, if you have office installed it copies it.. It is a CLONE so it is a 1 to 1 copy...
@@GalaxyTechReview if that's the case can you just delete the unwanted files from the SSD and those deleted files can still be accessed due to them being on a HDD?
@@memenecromancer4417 yes
I've just purchased the 1Tb version for doing UE4 Projects on....is it true that If I have certain drives in like the original OS SSD, that I need to unplug it because the M.2 will be using two of those PCIE lanes?
If you are using two or more M2, remember that it might disable some SATA ports. So if you boot up from the new disk and start wondering where your other drives went, check the manual of your mainboard and search for SATA ports in combination with M2
This piece of information coul've saved me 2 hours of figuring out why my main drive wont boot up 😭😭
I’ve been having this issue for weeks, I don’t understand still what I’m so post to do
@@allcityink you are not supposed to "so post" to do anything.
I just purchased the 970 evo NVMe M.2 and I was a little worried about how I would transfer my old Drive into my new one. This was such a perfect video! Glad I clicked it, looking forward to transferring into my new SSD :D
Did it work easy for you? Are you booting from that new m.2? I’m trying to do the same thanks!
Did you do it? I just bought the same one.
How to make something simple even simpler. Awesome.
Literally the best video out here, spent 5+ hours trying to find a video
thanks for watching
Thanks man, I'm waiting on my 970 evo to get here and I'll be installing it to my laptop, I watched so many videos and you explained it the best without any complicated issues, I totally subscribe to you
thanks
After you have used Samsung Migration Software, uninstall it.The Software uses CPU even when not running it.
Thanks man!
Thanks!!!
“Not running it” Software is either running and using CPU or not running and not using CPU. If you are refering to some kind of windows service running on the background, then it’s running software, in the background. Which i doubt it would.
I get a lower score in Cinbench with the migration software installed. Tested several times.
i cant find it in programs and features
Just migrated from a Samsung 850 evo sata ssd 250gb to a new nvme 970 evo plus 500 gb.
Worked perfectly fine. Thanks man you saved me a lot of time.
Can this be done with an HDD to the nvme 970 evo plus?
Yes
my dyslexic self downloaded Samsung MAGICIAN and was wondering why it didn't work lol. great video! thank you!
I did the same thing lol
I was worried about complications migrating to a larger SSD. Good straight forward tutorial 👍🏻
Thanks.
Good video, few questions though:
- Does this software make any difference between GPT or MBR? (My C drive is GPT)
- Does the target drive have to partitioned? I ask this because Windows on the source drive uses multiple smaller partitions. I leave the target drive non partitioned.
After researching quite a bit on m.2 replacements for the 1 TB Hybrid HDD (2.5") on my Alienware m17, I settled on the Samsung 970. I saw that it had great reviews with excellent read/write speeds. Even though I had space for the original 1TB Hybrid HDD and two (2) m.2 drives, I wanted only to have the m.2 drive in there for now. I wanted all the contents to transfer over to the m.2 including the OS so that it can boot from that drive. After watching a few migration/cloning tutorials, I decided on using the Macrium Relfect Free software as opposed to the Samsung Migration software. The Macrium was free, simple and reliable. I installed the Samsung m.2 in the m.2 slot and it was immediately recognized by the pc. (as an unallocated drive) At this point, there is no need to format the m.2 drive as Macrium will format it later during the cloning process. I used the Macrium Reflect software to clone the ENTIRE 1 TB Hybrid HDD's contents onto the Samsung m.2. FYI: drag over the C; drive last as it will autofit the available space to the new drive. (Took about 1.5 hours since this was a fairly new pc and I don't have much on there - maybe about 100 GB). After the clone was complete, I shut down the laptop and physically removed the 1 TB Hybrid HDD. I restarted the laptop and it recognized and booted up from the Samsung m.2 without me having to adjust/interfere with the BIOS settings. I was a little unsure about messing around the BIOS settings so I was glad that I didn't have to fiddle around the boot order/options. I restarted it a few times since without any issues. The m.2 is partitioned just as the prior Hybrid HDD was. I would highly recommend this m.2 drive. Speeds are super fast and install was easy. Just make sure your pc's motherboard is compatible. For example, the m.2 slot on my PC was marked "...M.2 2280 NVMe PCIE3x4 only".
I don't know how to thank you! As I was trying to run the cloned Windows on my new 970 Evo SSD, I got stuck at the Error Code 0xc0000225 during startup. I kept trying everything I found online and nothing worked, but and your solution was the fastest and simplest, and it WORKED! Thanks so much again!
Thank God you exist. Took me hours trying to transfer without this software
Damn, didn't know it was this easy... thanks for the video tutorial!! I cannot wait to get my hands on the 970 Evo Plus (1TB), will migrate my initial OS drive (Kingston A2000) to the new Samsung SSD.
Thanks for the video! Most of the other migration videos only showed Samsung to Samsung data migration so I wasn't sure if it was possible when the original drive wasn't Samsung. Good to know that it does!
Welcome
Thank you SO MUCH! I’ve been trying with other software for a month but nothing was working, your video was the only one that actually did!!
thank you for this simple and easy to understand tutorial.. i don't know why other UA-camrs make it sound so complicated when its not.. you did a great job explaining things.. awesome video.. you got a like and sub from me :)
Thanks!
Got a steal on a GL752VW-DH71 (Asus ROG laptop) and upgrading from an HDD to a Samsung 860 EVO m.2 (2280) and was completely unaware that it was so simple to just use Samsung's program for it. Thank you so much, I'll be referring back to this video when my new drive gets here.
Welcome
Did you go to your BIOS/EUFI after the SSD insertion and clone?
If so, do you have a tutorial video on booting a SSD on BIOS/EUFI?
Note: I am not familiar with BIOS/EUFI
Thanks a lot!
Any luck?
@@wainnerba This depends what your mainboard is. If you start up your computer, you will most likely see a logo popping up on screen and some captions below like "Press ... to enter setup" or something like that. Do that and you'll enter BIOS/UEFI. Next you'll need to check where to adjust the boot sequence. You'll probably have to search for some words like "HDD" or "boot priority". If you did, set the new disk to the top of the priority list. Remember to do that only AFTER you cloned Windows to the new drive.
Found this after searching for many ways to migrate/clone my HDD to Samsung SSD. Tried Macrium Reflect and Aomei and neither worked. This worked perfectly first attempt. Thank you for posting this video.
Thanks so much, it was easier than I thought, just change boot priority on the end and I had to put my old ssd online again in windows disk management
welcome
@@GalaxyTechReview So after the cloning is finished I just shutdown, go to my bios, and change boot drive?
I came across this video after trying other software that claimed it worked, but didnt!
I was upgrading a 256GB Samsung Evo 850 to a 1TB Samsung Evo 860 and the first time I tried it, I got an error message, something along the lines of fffff. I had the new drive conected by USB3 and wondered if that was the problem at first, so I gave up for the day. Next day I turned my PC on with the drive attached (still usb), and thought I'd give it another try and it worked flawlessly.
It rook about 35 minutes copy 218GB of data with no errors. I turned off PC swapped drives and its perfect.
The only thing I changed was I had the drive added when I started the PC, and I didn't close any programs down.
No idea why that would make any difference, but I thought I add that as a tip for others.
Thanks for making the video...I spent a good few hours trying other software that would't work. (Acronis and Minitool)
welcome
Thank you so much I’m trying to install my 970 evo and this is the best and shortest video on it through the hundreds I just watched ty ty.
welcome
Thankful I found this video! Others took me to different (suspect) migration tools. I didn't realize Samsung had a free one. Going from 250Gb Samsung to 2TB Samsung 980Pro in my Dell Latitude 7490. Cloning now, Hopefully it's as easy as putting the new one in after.
Thanks for the competent tutorial you're a lifesaver
Thank you this helped me out, just got a brand new 970 evo plus 1TB, and i just wanted to move everything to it and make it my main OS drive without having to install everything again, really cool solution!
Glad I could help
You're using the same motherboard as me. Thank God you made this video :)
Welcome.
Good video. Watched it twice and gave it a go at migrating after and worked out well.
cool , thanks samsung for making it easier.
Thanks for the tutorial. Samsung and your tutorial makes the transfer easy as can be. My next step will be allowing more space in my “boot” drive section of the hard drive. In the past I used Windows built-in Partition manager. However, I’ll also check if your channel has a tutorial on how to do that. As I recall expanding partitions in windows is pretty simple.
It’s hard to believe that at one point 1gb was a lot. Now here I am installing 2TB😂
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SUCCESS! It IS up an running! The "reserved" Win10 partion was created automatic by this Migrate - the "recovery" part is created by the user as it is usually.
This IS a VERY good way to do this.
My OS was on native 256GB M.2, and there was a 1 TB data M.2 in a PCIe slot. I had to take out the 1TB data M.2 from PCIe put in the 1T empty M.2 into the PCIe - do the Migrate - shut down - Remove the 256GB old OS native M.2 - put the cloned OS 1TB M.2 into the native slot - and reinsert the data 1TB back into the PCIe - Do the UEFI/BIOS boot config - DONE up an running! .
This program worked for me, EASY!
So before my OS disk was 97% full and into an error condition. Now my OS disk is almost 80% free disk. Where the OS was 7GB free now has 726GB free. Whoo Hoo! Thank you again!
Glad this video helped you!
I just did it and it worked. But it deactivated my hhd then I figured out how to activate it again and it's a complete copy of the SSD and hhd. Do you have a video on how to run SSD for OS and hhd to save files?
I think you can check at the BIOS and see if your hdd has been unrecognised. You can manually recognise it through the BIOS
If you have 2 disks with both the same content, and you are sure you have booted from the M.2 one, you can just format the other one. Probably the D: drive. After that you can put on it whatever you like.
Hi richard. I've tried removing the hdd after cloning and laptop boots up from m.2. However, when I connected the hdd again, even if I set the M2 in bios on top priority, still it boots from hdd. Do I need to redo the cloning again? Or do I have to wipe clean the hdd? Thanks!
How do I make the ssd the main boot in the bios and how do I wipe the other drive? (Deleting everything including windows since it’s basically a duplicate)
Did you figure this out, if not comment or find me. thanks.
Hey there, I really liked the video. My question is can I clone my HDD (with windows) to a Samsung 970 EVO 500GB M.2 SSD using this method aswell?
Yup
@@GalaxyTechReview how?
Same way I do it in the video. Select the hdd as the source drive and the m.2 as the target.
@Vlad Raileanu does this also clone windows?
Yes of course.
I'm having a problem with this. I successfully cloned my C drive/OS onto my new Samsung SSD, though when I update the boot order or boot straight from the new disk, it asks me to select a proper boot drive. Anyone have any idea why this would happen?
How do you clone it if you only have one m.2 slot?Like in a Mini ATX board? Or a laptop? I’ve tried an external enclosure which doesn’t work as Samsung Data Migration won’t recognise it as a Samsung drive.
After I clone it my new SSD it is not bootable it shows up under BIOS but when I set it as the first option it just gives me a message saying select a bootable drive
I have a samsung PM961 MZVLW256HEHP-0000. I cloned with macrium reflect, none of the samsung software recognizes mine as their product. I either get that or it probably skips back to the HDD it was cloned from...
Have you solved this problem? I have the same issue. Cloned the HDD into a SSD m.2, trying to keep both in my laptop. It apparently boots from my ssd, but if I uncheck my HDD drive in the Bios, a warning appears with the same msg, telling no bootable device was found. And then the Bios reset to its original state, indicating only the HDD as the only possible boot option. Why this happens?
@@EngLhag If you're asking me then I just bought another SSD with SATA which is identical to the other i have 860 evo 500gb. The one I couldn't boot form probably requires correct drivers and I gave up on finding them and will just use it like a regular disk.
The ONLY thing that worked after getting so many error messages!! THANK YOU SO MUCH.
welcome
I only have one M.2 socket on my mother board and it has an ssd with my OS already in it. Is there another way to clone one M.2 to another?
yup you would need something like this amzn.to/2At8WH8 usb to nvme adapter
@@GalaxyTechReview I just unplugged my DVD player and used its connections temporarily.
@@caicaraskiki good idea
thank you very much for this video upgraded my normal ssd to an nvme 1tb drive and the cloning went fast and super simple.
Will I lose those drivers after I cloned and use the new ssd? Or It will just like my old drive?
it copies everything so you wont lose any drivers
That was the best concise instructional video on the subject. Subbed.
thanks
How do you clone it on a laptop? My laptop only has one m.2 nvme connection. Im planing to upgrade it from 128gb to 500gb nvme m.2.
you can get an external usb to m.2 caddy like this one amzn.to/2PAg2zH
@@GalaxyTechReview Please do not share bad information. The M.2 to USB converter does not work with the samsung drive that you have in your video. The samsung 960 drive is pci-e and the amazon link only works on m.2 sata drives.
Um go to the link and click "size" there is one for nvme as well. Lol.
@@GalaxyTechReview I'm also in the same situation. Upgrading from a 128 gb ssd to a Samsug 970 500 gb ssd. Is the m.2 nvme adapter for sure going to work? I want to be sure before I'm buying it.
Yup
This Information is still current.
I just did a migration as per the video and it worked.
Thank you.
No problem
If I want to keep using the old drive (not remove it) how do I accomplish this after cloning?
clone the drive, then go into the bios and have it set to boot from the new drive. Once that is done you can do whatever you want with the installed drive (format it for more storage or whatever)
@@GalaxyTechReview Hmm. It does boot but the drive isn't in the list of options to boot from. Not sure how it's working. This is a ASRock Z97 motherboard and an NVME m.2 drive.
@dailydR1ver I did get it to work. I disabled csm and then re-enabled it. I have no idea why or if that worked, but cloning three disc did make the 970 pro into my C drive, my old C drive into my G drive. So the 970 pro boots, but I can't specify it in the boot order. It just works.
@@Skippy2Ton This is a year old, but you just saved me a ton of headache. I used the Migration tool and for the life of me could not boot from my 970 despite doing numerous things to try and fix it. I turned off CMS and booted right in, no hassle (using MSI mobo and just set it to UEFI boot mode). I was able to re-enable CMS afterwards and it booted fine as well. Thank you!
Very through! Will help me clone my M.2 which contains OS and Prog Files, to have a back-up in case of failure. Thank you!
Welcome
which drive do you download the migration software to? The source drive or the target drive? Thanks in advance.
source
A bit late to the dance, but spot on video. Ensure you install the Samsung M.2 driver, data migration and magician software first (in that order). One question I haven't seen answered is what to do with the old M.2 drive that was cloned. I had two drives before and after (even though the old drive is still on the motherboard). How do you make the drive active (e.g., E:\)?
You can go to Windows settings then Disk Management and you can format the old drive and make an new partition and make it a usable drive for storage...
@@GalaxyTechReview Thanks you... that worked, all the best !
How can we boot from m2 and same time use this HDD as secondary ?
I hope you got your answer by now. If not, it's pretty simple. Assuming you've cloned to the new drive and changed the boot order, leave the old drive installed and format it. That'll get you your secondary storage. You can always find another YT video on how to do this.
Thank you so much for the video. Tried and worked, running my 970 evo clone.
Welcome
I don't know why, but your voice sounds eerily reminiscent to George Clooney. Anyway, thanks for the video Mr. Clooney!
You are welcome
So I followed these steps exactly and, about a couple seconds into the cloning, the process stops and reads an error message: "Cloning failed." -0001
Do you have any idea what could obstructing the cloning?
Miguel Delgadillo No idea, thats a new one on me... Search for the error on samsung's support site and see if anyone else has gotten the same??
I installed my Samsung 860 Evo using Samsung's Magician Migration software and it worked perfect. Does everything for you even make necessary Bios changes. Highly recommend it. It's a free download from Samsung.com
Do you have to activate windows again after completion..
I didn't have to.
You shouldn't it's a clone
And other paid softwares, are they activated too?
It's a clone it just copies everything exact as it is on your current drive. No I didn't need to reactivate anything windows or software
@@GalaxyTechReview Thank you!
It's a really great video. Can you please make another video about things have to do after the process of this video (like change the boot setup) since I want to replace my SSD with the Samsung 860 EVO and I'm not sure about what I should do.
Thank you very much
It is your Bios.
Odd. I did the process. Source drive was just "C," but the target drive ended up with D and E. I didn't expect it to divide stuff like that. I'm going to see if it works anyway.
is it a real difference bw m2 ssd vs m2 nvme ssd for booting and using your laptop. I am thinking which one to use.
m.2 nvme is about 3-4 times faster than m.2 ssd...
Hi, is it possible to first partition your target Samsung SSD into 2 drive letters (such as X: and Y: ), then clone your OS into one of them?
Do I first have to dedicate/assign space from the new Samsung SSD?
Currently installed, but not usable in Windows (yet?).
I installed a 970 pro Samsung SSD to my laptop and it seemed to work fine with their data migration software. BUT: the ssd does NOT show up when I restart the laptop. It shows only the original hard disk every time. I can open Disk Manager and it shows online there. I can open file explorer and it shows up there, I can even open files from it which shows up as disks E and G, the clones of C and D Recovery from my original. But I cannot figure out how to get my laptop to SEE IT on boot. I go into the the bios at boot to change the boot drive, but it does not show up there. Any ideas? Samsung is NO HELP. Cannot find any HELP anywhere!
Did you figure it out I'm having the same problem?
Great video. Question. The current SSD has the OS on it and I want to replace it with a larger SSD. How do I go about the migration then ?
Easy way.. back up files and then do a fresh install of windows. Other way is USB to m.2 adapter and clone using that.
Thank you so much for this! Am I ok to remove/repurpose my previous SSD now? Can I also remove it as Boot Option #2 safely? All seems to work well!
Yes and yes and you are welcome!
My dude, watching your video.. I see you made the same mistake I did. you daisychained your GPU's power cable. If there is anything I learned, use separate power cables since cables have a max of 75 watts passthrough. 1x 75+150 from your pci-e slot = 225 watts, if you got a card with more than 225 watts, you're losing power. 2x 75 + 150 = 300watts, which will be enough. Thanks for the tutorial though, thought i'd share my knowledge too
run chkdsk before you start. When you have finished you have two identical disks. change the boot order in bios. then the newly cloned disk refuses to be online because its identical to an existing disk.
So this only works if the disk you cloning to is then physically swapped into the PC and the pre-existing drive is physically removed.
Better to use alternative cloning software... lots of better ones around.
nah you can just format the old drive and all will be well.. it was easy..
Just did this a few minutes ago, thanks for the help brother
Thanks for watching and your support
You’re absolutely the man!! Much appreciated!
Sorry for error. It will works also from standard hard drive to SSD. For example Western Digital HDD to Samsung SSD ? Or just SSD to SSD ?
yes it will
Thank you, you are the best!
Thanks for watching!
Your video is really good help on how to clone OS drive
FYI - there is a "plosive" at 6:17 when you said "POSSIBLE" that hit my subwoofer and rattled my whole house! ouch! You guys on youtube could use high pass filters if you are producing content without using subwoofers - holy cow man ;)
Thanks for the content - I do have a question about the clone - do we need to clone the hidden partitions on the system disk the "reserved" or the "recovery"? But I will get that figured out.
Thanks and Merry Christmas or happy Hanukkah or fill in your preferred...
lol sorry for the sub woofer blowing moment in the video! As for the partitions you should clone all the reserved and recovery partitions (they are small but needed for the system)
@@GalaxyTechReview SUCCESS! It IS up an running!
how do i connect the two drives? using the sata port in the target machine? If I clone the o.s from one machine to a second will that cause conflicts with Microsoft?
Thank you, brother. Appreciate your help
Tried the software and did not work. Would not copy any files.
I could not get the Samsung migration software to install on my Windows 7 PC. Tried running as administrator, disabling Norton Internet Security, etc, etc to no avail!
I installed it on another PC running Windows 10 and then copied the Program Files (x86)\Samsung\Samsung Data Migration folder to the computer I needed it on - it ran fine!!
It cloned a 1 terabyte hard drive to the Samsung 500GB SSD.
Cool tutorial, exactly what i was locking for! Thanks a lot
Welcome
It doesn't matter whether it's a Samsung, Crucial or WD. They R all SSD/HDD & do the same thing 4 PC.
Okay so I just got a Samsung SSD. The main purpose was to take out all the crammed storage I had in my only drive and move it to the ssd. Wouldn't it defeat the purpose if I made the ssd my main boot? Once I delete everything from my c drive it'll run better...right? So shouldn't I leave my bios alone? Also how would I delete my c drive and still use it as my main OS? Thank you.
the cdrive in the first slot, once transfer is done can u plug new samsung to top m.2 slot
So, for complete "system image" transfer - cloning - from a 640 GB hard disk to a Samsung 1TB SSD, the software will automatically modify and "recover" the unused partition area without any manual intervention to have the entire 1TB, (less formatting overhead), available to use??? Some SW needs you to recover unused partition by a manual operation.. Thanks for your advise and reply....
Informative tutorial. Good stuff!!
Quick question! After the migration do I have to activate windows 10 again or the digital license will migrate to the new M.2 as well?
No, you don't need to do anything with the licence. Your licence is tied to your motherboard, not your boot drive. You'll be fine :)
thanks didn't even know Samsung had this-question can you just clone it meaning the orinal source drive will still have all the os and data and not erased to save for use as a backup?
yes it clones, it does not erase.
Do you have to install the Samsung_NVM_Express_Driver_3.1 to the source disk first before you do the migration onto the new NVMe? That way when you go to the bios and set it up for NVMe the bios can detect the NVME M.2 ?
Question, I have two Samsung 500g drives now, C&D. Installing two new Samsung 960 1T drives. The question is, how do I physically ID, know which is my OS drive other than trial and error. Thanks.
You can temporarily remove your other drives so you can do the OS clone then you are only dealing with the OS drive and the drive you are cloning to, easy fastest way.
@@GalaxyTechReview Thank you, I had thought of that but wasn't sure if i would get some sort of error " drive missing or something to that affect. You mention shutting all programs down, I assume you mean things like Eset virus software, malwarebytes, Dropbox, outlook, general programs etc...however system stuff not necessary?
I'm going from a 1tb 970 evo plus to a XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB... What software should I use to clone and migrate? My new 2tb has been laying around for months because I'm too lazy to reformat and reinstall everything
I followed these instructions for my X1 Extreme (which has 2 M.2 slots) for adding a 970 Pro and it worked well. I removed the intel drive from the boot order in BIOS (but will keep it in the laptop for storage), restarted, went back into BIOS and it had kept those settings. Is it safe to say I can delete everything from the intel drive? I want to be sure it actually booted from the Samsung. I'm an extreme novice. Thank you in advance for any help. Sub
yup you should be fine now.
@@GalaxyTechReview Fantastic! Thank you!
welcome
Good video even 3 years later 👍
What if the source drive is an HDD running from an external USB bridge and you want to clone it onto the NVMe M.2? Is the Samsung Migration bootable from USB or can it only be use within Windows? If that's the case, it seems a bit inefficient because you would need to rip every computer open and boot from the HDD with the Migration software installed and clone it to the M.2. That's pretty inconvenient.
What about the partitions and all that crap people do with cloning? Does this do it for you?
Do I have to tell Windows to boot up from the new M.2 drive? I will be installing a Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB and cloning my 250 GB SATA SSD that is full. Thank you! And subscribed!
You may have to go into your BIOS afterwards and tell and select the new boot drive or once the clone is done just remove the old drive and it should automatically boot from the new drive.
Thanks for this video. I followed the instructions and it worked flawlessly. I just have one problem. The old system drive now has the letter (I:), and I want to format it. But formatting it or even deleting the volume prompts a message saying some of the files are in use. I've checked that my new drive is actually the system drive, the old one shouldn't be in use at all. Is it still okay to override the prompt, and format or delete it anyway?
make sure your boot drive is in your new drive ... afer that i think it is no problem if you delete the old file from your old drive ...
I just started cloning from a Kingston sata ssd to a Samsung 970 EVO and for some reason it's not going any faster than 8mb/s... perhaps the old drive has some issues? Hopefully all is well at the end of it!
I read in the manual for the Samsung migration tool, that you have to install drivers on the NVMe drive or it might fail the cloning process. what is that about? did i misunderstand?
I bought an Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 because there is only one socket in my laptop I bought an external case too. But the Samsung migration software could not find my new SSD how do I tackle this problem?
I just cloned an 860EVO 1TB to a 980 1TB and the PC would not boot off either drive after that - I did a fresh reinstall using the Microsoft Windows 10 download and now I have no issues - MAKE SURE YOU have a FULL Backup before you try the cloning, or you might get really screwed - also make sur you have the reinstall software or another PC you can download it with - Note: the BIOS did see the drives as it should have, just blue screen of death on both drives after the clone -
When you say, "as long as your OS recognizes the drive." Do you mean after initializing? Or is initializing not a step? (Sorry new at computers haha)
Do you have a video about how to delete the original copy of OS and anything else that is needed. I cloned OS from HDD to NVME SSD but have not deleted the original OS installation off my hard drive. I am nervous to do it and don't want to mess it up lol. I also have 2 partitions. Disk 0 partition 2 & Disk 0 partition 5. Not really sure what to do with those. Any thoughts?
im new in all of these , so sorry for my ignorance but after i clone the new ssd i go into the the bios and then remove the old boot and add the new boot for the samsung EVO . (i have an acerl aptop with 2 m.2 nvme ports)
dont know how to do this part and i dont want to make any mistake.
thanks
Thank you for the video. Can I do this using a USB M.2 NVME Enclosure and will this clone the OS as well? I'm using Win7 and I'm hoping to bring that over along with all my apps.
Yes it should
Hi, thanks for making this video. My question is this: I'm building a completely new system and want to clone from my old HD to the new SSD. Since they are in two different towers, is there a way to do this? Thanks so much.
No there is now as windows will not like all the different hardware, like motherboard/GPU ect. your best bet if it is a brand new machine is do a fresh install of windows.