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    Clone a drive to a SSD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sleepy35758, May 24, 2013.

  1. sleepy35758

    sleepy35758 Notebook Consultant

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    I need to clone an existing hard drive to a SSD to so I can upgrade parents computer to a SSD. I bought them a Samsung 840 series SSD, but I forgot to buy a SATA-to-USB cable so I could clone their existing drive. I know there's a ton of cables online that I could just order them, but I go back to college Monday, and I need to buy this in one my local stores if I'm able to do this before I go. This is the only sort of thing that looks like it'll work that's in stock in my area. Would I be able to plug in my SSD into this and then run the included software with my Samsung SSD drive to clone the drive? Thanks.
     
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    trvelbug Notebook Prophet

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    dont use norton ghost (included in cd but not free), download the free samsung migration tool from their website
     
    trvelbug, May 24, 2013
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    Encrypted11 Notebook Evangelist

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    I second the user's comment.

    I have used both Norton ghost 15 and Samsung/Clonix Data migration.

    Ghost makes a lot of error codes on certain PCs, breaks the Master boot record etc. You have to make a repair disk to get the system starting.

    Clonix is painless, no additional steps are required after you connected the SSD to the laptop's SATA port

    Sent from my GT-I8190 using Tapatalk 2
     
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  4. sleepy35758

    sleepy35758 Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah, I didn't use Norton Ghost, I used the migration tool that came with the samsung SSD. It worked perfectly, and I have the SSD installed and running. Also, for anyone that is curious, the harddrive mounting dock that I linked to works really well, and is something that I'll use later if I ever have to recover a drive.

    Edit: Ha, and now of course it's $11 cheaper on amazon than what it was earlier today when I had Bestbuy price match it.
     
    sleepy35758, May 25, 2013
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