Clone Help

My failing laptop.

The laptop boots.
The laptop passes ChkDsk. Ran C: /r

Macrium Reflect Free 6 has no problem making an Image.

I got a Samsung SSD as a replacement.
Using the Samsung Clone SW it fails the clone.
Samsung CD came with the SSD.
Pretty stupid Samsung software as they are getting a bad corporate
image for using such poor software.
There also seems to be no way to set up partitons on the SSD.

Suggestion on how to get the SSD ready please.
I am in no mood to just experiment so your help will be much
appreciated.



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OldGuy wrote:
My failing laptop.

The laptop boots.
The laptop passes ChkDsk. Ran C: /r

Macrium Reflect Free 6 has no problem making an Image.

I got a Samsung SSD as a replacement.
Using the Samsung Clone SW it fails the clone.
Samsung CD came with the SSD.
Pretty stupid Samsung software as they are getting a bad corporate image
for using such poor software.
There also seems to be no way to set up partitons on the SSD.

Suggestion on how to get the SSD ready please.
I am in no mood to just experiment so your help will be much appreciated.

Partition layout of source drive ? (A screenshot of Disk Management will do)

Size of SSD ?

If you're in no mood to experiment, getting
the details right is important.

*******

Don't forget that Macrium Reflect also has a "Clone" button.
It even has the ability to shrink excess space from a
source partition. But I cannot tell you what improvements
version 6 of Reflect has brought, as all my machines
still have some version of 5 here. You can just use
Reflect Free and maybe your needs will be satisfied in
one go at it.

Paul

Partition layout of source drive ? (A screenshot of Disk Management will do)

Size of SSD ?

If you're in no mood to experiment, getting
the details right is important.

*******

Don't forget that Macrium Reflect also has a "Clone" button.
It even has the ability to shrink excess space from a
source partition. But I cannot tell you what improvements
version 6 of Reflect has brought, as all my machines
still have some version of 5 here. You can just use
Reflect Free and maybe your needs will be satisfied in
one go at it.

Paul

C: 100G (80G Used) D: 20G (5G used)
SSD 256G



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OldGuy wrote:
Partition layout of source drive ? (A screenshot of Disk Management
will do)

Size of SSD ?

If you're in no mood to experiment, getting
the details right is important.

*******

Don't forget that Macrium Reflect also has a "Clone" button.
It even has the ability to shrink excess space from a
source partition. But I cannot tell you what improvements
version 6 of Reflect has brought, as all my machines
still have some version of 5 here. You can just use
Reflect Free and maybe your needs will be satisfied in
one go at it.

Paul

C: 100G (80G Used) D: 20G (5G used)
SSD 256G

Just about any cloning utility should handle
that, since the source partition set is smaller
than the new device. Try your Macrium Reflect
software, and select clone from there.

Macrium Reflect uses VSS, so it can clone even
a "hot" C: partition. I've done that here
already, copying an 500GB drive and C:, to
a 3TB drive (2TB max used, as it's not being
set up for GPT). No problem getting it to work.

Just remember to boot the clone drive, without
the original drive connected, for the first boot
cycle of the clone only. Later boot cycles, you
can reconnect the original drive if you want.

Paul

On 07/09/2015 02:12, OldGuy wrote:
My failing laptop.

The laptop boots.
The laptop passes ChkDsk. Ran C: /r

Macrium Reflect Free 6 has no problem making an Image.

I got a Samsung SSD as a replacement.
Using the Samsung Clone SW it fails the clone.
Samsung CD came with the SSD.
Pretty stupid Samsung software as they are getting a bad corporate image
for using such poor software.
There also seems to be no way to set up partitons on the SSD.

Suggestion on how to get the SSD ready please.
I am in no mood to just experiment so your help will be much appreciated.



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This is what I did last week and have done the same a few times before.
When you plug the ssd in, load samsung data migration onto the spinning
drive and run the software. Tell it to clone or copy or whatever from
the spinning disk to the ssd.

Doing this has never failed when I've changed to ssd.

On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 18:12:02 -0700, OldGuy
wrote:

My failing laptop.

The laptop boots.
The laptop passes ChkDsk. Ran C: /r

Macrium Reflect Free 6 has no problem making an Image.

I got a Samsung SSD as a replacement.
Using the Samsung Clone SW it fails the clone.
Samsung CD came with the SSD.
Pretty stupid Samsung software as they are getting a bad corporate
image for using such poor software.
There also seems to be no way to set up partitons on the SSD.

Suggestion on how to get the SSD ready please.
I am in no mood to just experiment so your help will be much
appreciated.



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Had a similar situation when I recently replaced a 500Gb hard drive
(C with a 256Gb Samsung SSD (the hdd had only about 160Gb used).
The Samsung supplied software appeared to run to almost the end then
failed.
Fortunately I'd made an image (not clone) of the hdd before I started,
using Macrium Reflect Free 6, and had created a Macrium boot/rescue
disc.
Removed the old C: hdd, plugged the SSD in it's place, booted from the
recovery discc, restored the image (which I'd saved on my D: hdd),
took about 20 minutes.
Removed the recovery disc, rebooted, and the PC got to the login
screen in about 15 seconds! Password entered, desktop up and running
in about 6 seconds.
Have read quite a few reports of the Samsung software failing.

I tried the Samsung Clone disk and it failed.
Said there were problems with C:
Nothing else agreed and all other app said C: was good.
Not sure what the problem is with Samsung Clone App and C:

I use EaseUS Partition Free to shrink the C: because in the new setup I
will put data on the new D: C: already handles all the apps I need
and I will have 40G of room to add to the C: if I get the urge.

The C: partition shrink took some time but worked.

Then I tried MRF to clone and it kept failing.

I booted and that seemed to resolve MRF problems.
It is now in the process of doing the clone. About 30% so far.

I failed to mention that this is a laptop and the Samsung SSD is
connected via a USB to SSD adapter. The adapter handles all types of
drives. I used it a year ago to do a clone.

So I am now making a little progress.

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