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Unable to clone HD
I posted this in Tutorials last week, with no responses....maybe I'll have better luck here?
Can't Clone A Samsung Laptop....
Newbie here, and lost in space.
I've tried cloning my Samsung laptop at least 9 times using different programs, without success.
I have Windows home premium, an Intel i7 2675QM @ 2.20GHz processor. 4 GB Ram, 64bit, and a 1T HD.
I thought my HDD was starting to fail, as it would run slow, or appear to freeze up, occasionally.
I bought a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. I installed the Samsung Data Migration Software,
and tried to clone my HD, as Admin. It appeared to be working for about 2.5 Hours, 57%, then everything froze. The elapsed timers stopped. The HD light on my computer stayed solid, as did the light on the external device I had the SDD plugged into.
I waited for hours for it to move...it did not. I had to do a hard power shutdown to start up my laptop again.
I tried the procedure several more times. Samsung support was no help, as there was no error code, or any other information.
My 1T HD has 1 MBR Disk, with 3 partitions, and an iSSD. (I did shrink the partitions when I used Macrium)
I searched the forums, and FAQ's. I tried MSCONFIG to start only Microsoft related stuff. Nothing was running in the background.
I ran chkdisk a couple times, with no issues. I ran virus scans, and malware scans....all ok.
I tried a few more times...sometimes it would freeze at 56%, sometimes 57%....all different elapsed times around 2.5 hours. I tried letting it run over night after it froze....Nope!
I downloaded Macrium Reflect. That also froze up after cloning the 1st partition, (System) sucessfully.
The message was "Clone failed-Read failed- 22 - Invalid argument - 32 m_pSegmentToRestore->m_FileSystem.ReadFile failed
WriteFilemSystemData failed pDataRun == NULL RemapMFTRecord failed" Every time it showed 0% done.
I tried Macrium several times, and tried Samsung Data Migration several more times too.
To test myself, and the SSD I tried the whole process on an old Sony desktop running XP....it worked 100%, cloning just like it should.
I did try a couple other free programs, that I can't remember now, and I'm not real sure I was using them right.
I'm just an old guy so please be gentle, as I'm not very computer savvy....I know about enough to get myself into trouble.
Thanks for any help, or suggestions you can give me.