Roger
October 17th, 2016, 15:55
I'm writing this as a guide how not to clone an ssd to a larger one. I was running out of room on my Samsung 840 EVO 750 Gb ssd and I had been looking for ways to either spread files to a storage hd or by cloning to a bigger drive. However I found a new sealed Samsung 850 EVO 2Tb on e-bay for a very good price so I decided to go that way.
The instructions for data migration came with the new drive and required that I attach the new drive via a SATA to USB adapter and then use the Samsung Data Migration software to clone the drive. Many attempts and failures later I decided to try alternative cloning software...and many more failures later I gave up for the night! I had Googled every option I could think of without success.
Musing on why it was failing (instead of going to sleep) I decided I would try installing the new drive directly into the pc, formatting and authenticating the drive before once again trying to clone.
Turned out to be good musing...it worked!:encouragement:
Now instead of 80 Gb left I have 1.2Tb free:engel016:
The instructions for data migration came with the new drive and required that I attach the new drive via a SATA to USB adapter and then use the Samsung Data Migration software to clone the drive. Many attempts and failures later I decided to try alternative cloning software...and many more failures later I gave up for the night! I had Googled every option I could think of without success.
Musing on why it was failing (instead of going to sleep) I decided I would try installing the new drive directly into the pc, formatting and authenticating the drive before once again trying to clone.
Turned out to be good musing...it worked!:encouragement:
Now instead of 80 Gb left I have 1.2Tb free:engel016: