How to Use Samsung Data Migration on Windows 10 to Clone a Hard Drive
Overview of Samsung Data Migration software
Samsung Data Migration is a user-friendly software tool developed by Samsung Electronics. It is designed to facilitate the seamless transfer of data from an existing storage drive, such as a traditional hard disk drive (HDD), to a Samsung Solid State Drive (SSD). The primary purpose of the software is to simplify the migration process and enable users to upgrade their storage systems effortlessly.
With Samsung Data Migration, users can clone operating system, applications, and data from the source drive to the new Samsung SSD. This allows for a smooth transition to the faster and more reliable SSD, which typically results in improved system performance and reduced boot times.
The software is compatible with various Windows operating systems, including Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11. It supports a wide range of Samsung SSD models, particularly those from the Samsung 800 series and newer.
- ✍ Samsung Data Migration (SDM) can only clone a disk that contains the operating system. That's to say, it is only available for cloning system disk to Samsung SSD drive. Besides, it doesn't support migrating to other brands of drives and may fail when there is a connected USB device.
How do I clone a hard drive using Samsung Data Migration Windows 10? [Stepwise]
Samsung Data Migration clone will walk through the process of cloning an existing Windows system hard drive to a new Samsung SSD. It is not complicated, and you can follow the steps below to learn how to use Samsung Data Migration on Windows 10:
1. Connect your new Samsung SSD to your PC based on Windows 10 OS. Launch your Samsung Data Migration software (You may need to download the software from Samsung's website). Here, you need to click on Start in the bottom right-hand corner.
2. This software will display you the source and target drive. And here, you need to make sure the drive you want to clone from is selected as the source disk, and the new Samsung SSD is selected as the target disk. Then, click Start.
3. It will give you the warning to remind you that all data on the Target Disk will be deleted and cannot be recovered. Also, files on the Source Disk that are open cannot be cloned. So you need to close all running files before cloning and make sure you pick the right disk as the target disk, or you can backup disk in advance. Then, click Yes to continue, and the cloning process will now begin.
4. When the process is finished, it will display you "The data on the source disk has been cloned to your Samsung SSD". Quit the program, and you can shut down the system and install the new disk.
Samsung Data Migration Windows 10 Cloning Failed
However, a number of Samsung users reported that they didn't succeed in disk cloning with Samsung Data Migration Windows 10 sometimes. They seem to meet various Samsung Data Migration Windows 10 problems, such as "Samsung Data migration not enough space" in Windows 10, "Samsung Data Migration not working", error code 00001 [ffffffff] or 400180[061b34], and so on. It's always annoying and irritating especially for a computer novice.
Actually, the cloning failed issue in Samsung Data Migration software Windows 10 may be triggered by many factors. For example, there is no Windows installed on the source drive; the target SSD is not Samsung brand; there are some bad sectors on the disk; the target disk loses connection; the current Samsung SSD is not the newest version, etc.
If you are in the cloning failed trouble, it's available to check out them one by one, but it will take a lot of time. Therefore, we'd like to recommend you an easier workaround. Keeping reading to get the details.
Alternative to Samsung Data Migration in Windows 10 (hot)
A powerful disk migration tool named Qiling Disk Master Professional should be the best alternative to Samsung Data Migration software in Windows 11/10/8/7. With this software, you can easily clone both the system disk and data disk to another hard drive without data loss.
In addition, it is compatible with multiple HDD/SSD brands including Samsung, Kingston, SanDisk, Seagate, WD, Intel, etc. It can avoid the errors of Samsung Data Migration in cloning, allowing users to complete disk clones easily.
Most importantly, it provides you with three cloning methods to satisfy your different requirements:
☞ Disk Clone Wizard: Cloning the entire hard drive to another HDD/SSD with everything intact;
☞ Migrate OS to SSD: Cloning Windows operating system files and programs to another HDD/SSD without reinstalling OS.
☞ Partition Clone Wizard: Copying a single partition to another SSD or HDD effectively.
✍ Now, you can free download Qiling Disk Master Pro Demo to stimulate and preview operations.
Step 1. Connect your Samsung SSD to your Windows PC. Install and launch Qiling Disk Master. In the main interface, click Tools and utilities -> Disk Clone.
Step 2. Here the source disk will be choosed automatically, Qiling Disk Master allows you to clone both boot drive and data drive to another new SSD, so here you can choose any hard drive according to your needs. Then, click Next.
Step 3. Then, choose the Samsung SSD (or other brands’ SSD) as the destination disk, you need to check the option of “Optimize the performance of SSD” for optimizing SSD’s performance during the cloning process. Click Next.
Step 4. Qiling Disk Master allows you to edit partitions on the destination disk. Or you can choose to repartition hard drive after clone. Click Next.
Step 5. Finally, click Proceed to submit the whole operations.
Step 6. Here will give you a note about how to boot the computer after clone if you are cloning system disk. Click Yes.
When the process is finished, you can exit the program. Then, you are able to change the boot drive to boot computer from the cloned SSD.
Conclusion
Using Qiling Disk Master Professional to clone hard drive to SSD in Windows 10 is a good way if you are failed by using Samsung Data Migration Windows 10. It can help you fix errors that would cause Samsung Data Migration cloning failure. Besides, it is also a great hard disk partition manager that supports you to manage partition on hard drive better like conver MBR to GPT or move folders to a different drive. To clone Samsung SSD in Windows Server, you can try Qiling Disk Master Server.
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