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    New Samsung SSD Cloning Error

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sidvelu, Mar 13, 2013.

  1. sidvelu

    sidvelu Notebook Consultant

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    Hi I bought a Samsung SSD, and I installed the Data Migration Software. However when I went to clone it It gave me an error. And I RMA'd the ssd, and got a new one. And Im trying it on a completly differrent laptop. And it still gives me the same error. Am I doing something wrong?

    Should I take some extra steps before installing the SSD? Is that the reason its not cloning?

    Thank You!
     
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    sidvelu Notebook Consultant

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    Heres the screenshot of the error
    Capture.PNG
     
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    Can you post a screen shot of the settings?
     
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  4. sidvelu

    sidvelu Notebook Consultant

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    Yep!
    Capture2.PNG

    Also further information I have the white usb to SATA connector plugged in to the harddrive that samsung provides. The ssd is next to my laptop
     
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    Is the SSD aligned?
     
    Prostar Computer, Mar 14, 2013
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    No I have not heard of anything like that. I was just following the directions of the instruction manual. And yea I am pretty much a newbie to the ssd realm. This is my first ssd, so Im kinda going on guesses. So if theres a crucial step that may be trivial, I might have missed it
     
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    ellalan, Mar 15, 2013
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  8. Mize

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    I had this problem. Are you plugged into a USB3 slot?

    Did you use disk manager first? Or "diskpart clean"

    I had this error and overcame it...just trying to remember what I did LOL
     
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    Did the SSD look like that the first time (i.e. had a drive number and some blue filled in like that?
    If so that indicates that the drive already had a partition and data on it. Was the SSD new? Was the box unopened?

    I think you need to use either diskpart (command line) or disk manager to remove all partitions from the disk. Then use disk manager to create a single primary parition in NTFS format with a size of approximately 400 GB (you want to leave 20% for over provisioning) and quick format this NTFS partition. Create a second partition with the remaining space and format NTFS also.

    Now re-run the clone utility. In the over provisioning part use that second partition for over provisioning.
     
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    I would make sure it's aligned and then try another program. If you get a similar or identical error, then something is probably not configured correctly.
     
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  11. Mize

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    If the partition was created by Windows disk manager it will be aligned. So deleting all partitions then creating in disk manager will create an aligned partition. Also, it sure would be crazy if Samsung's ssd tool creates misaligned partitions :)
     
    Mize, Mar 15, 2013
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