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Need to clone Samsung SSD 860

Among various SSDs, Samsung 860 EVO is the best, as it has the best combination of price, endurance, capacity and performance of any drive you can buy. Compared with Samsung 850 EVO, it is faster and more durable. Thus, Samsung SSD 860 EVO replaces the Samsung 850 EVO, which was the top SSD choice for nearly three years.

Usually, users copy hard drive to Samsung 860 EVO for a good performance. Since hard drives are easy to break or crash, people have to backup hard drive to avoid data loss. In fact, cloning hard drive to another drive can also be a good way to protect your data. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't offer you any built-in tool to clone your drive. To copy your data from hard drive to Samsung 860 EVO, you may need a Samsung SSD 860 clone software.

The case: Samsung Data Migration cloning failed

Like many manufacturers, Samsung has its own data migration software – Samsung Data Migration (SDM). Although its simple steps are praised by lots of people, the following problem often occurs during the operating process.

'I recently purchased and installed a 1TB Samsung 860 EVO in my computer. My current drive is a 1TB WD black drive. When I load up the Samsung Data Migration software, both of my drives show up in the appropriate sections.

The SSD to trust. The newest edition to the world’s best-selling. SATA SSD series, the Samsung 860 EVO. Specially designed for mainstream PCs and laptops, with the latest V-NAND and a robust algorithm-based controller, this fast and reliable SSD comes in a wide range of compatible form factors and capacities.

When I start the process, it gets to 77% and then I receive the error message: 'cloning failed. An error occurred while reading the disk. 301001[0497c9]' I have tried the troubleshooting solutions recommended by the software and ran the cloning again but I get the same error message at 77% each time. If you have any solutions on how I can get the cloning process to complete, please let me know.'

What to do when Samsung Data Migration fails?

Luckily, you can follow the steps below to slove this issue.

Step 1. Power off your PC.

Step 2. Disconnect all storage devices except for the C: drive.

Step 3. Connect the solid state disk to the secondary internal drive connection.

Step 4. Power on the PC.

Step 5. Allow the operating system to install drivers for your SSD.

Step 6. Open SDM and re-attempt the disk cloning.

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Although the method mentioned above is effective, you need to spend too much time on repair process. Also notice that only a few Samsung SSDs are supported by SDM. Worse still, you might be disappointed to find that you can't let Samsung Data Migration change source disk, as it can only clone the system disk.

Is there a reliable alternative? AOMEI Backupper Standard, the professional and the best SSD cloning software for Samsung SSDs, can be your ideal choice. Any brand or capacity of SSD can be supported by this freeware. By using it, you can change the source disk as you like. Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP are supported.

With this utility, you can even clone larger drive to smaller drive, as it just copies used sectors on the source drive by default. More pleasing, the working performance of your SSD can also be improved. Let's see how this Samsung SSD copy software works.

Detailed steps of using the best Samsung SSD 860 clone software

Tips: If you use Samsung SSD 860 as your destination disk, it will be overwritten after cloning. Therefore, if you have some important data on this drive, you'd better backup them in advance.

First of all, free download the software on your computer and launch it.

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Step 1. Select Clone from the left list. Then click Disk Clone.

Note: This version only supports cloning disk with the same partition tyle, such as, cloning GPT disk to GPT disk. If you want to clone GPT/MBR system disk to MBR/GPT, you could consider upgrading to AOMEI Backupper Professional.

Step 2. Select your old HDD (Disk 0) as the Source Disk. Then click Next.

Step 3. Select your Samsung SSD 860 (Disk 1) as the Destination Disk. Then click Next.

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Step 4. In this interface, you can have an Operation Summary. Click SSD Alignment to accelerate the writing and reading speed of your SSD. Then click Start Clone.

Tips:

  • Make sure to change the boot order or replace old hard drive to boot from the cloned drive.

  • Edit Partitions: works well to resize partitions on the target drive. Copy without resizing partitions, Add unused space to all partitions and Manually adjust partition size are available. The last two options are available in AOMEI Backupper Professional. When you upgrade to professional version, you can edit the partition size as you wish.

  • Sector by sector clone: means all sectors will be cloned. Confirm that the destination disk is equal to or larger than the source disk.

  • After cloning HDD to SSD Samsung, you can reformat the HDD and take it as your secondary storage device.

  • If you just want to migrate OS to Samsung SSD, System Clone is helpful.

  • This freeware serves you well as Samsung SSD 850 clone software.

Summary

You can transfer your data from HDD to SSD easily with this free Samsung SSD 860 clone software - AOMEI Backupper Standard. In addition to this, other useful features like cloning Samsung SSD to another SSD and copying Samsung SSD to HDD are also available in this freeware. You can use them by your needs. But if you're a Windows Server user, you can turn to AOMEI Backupper Server.

The Samsung range of SSD drives boast about their hardware level encryption – but what surprises me is that there is so little detail about this feature.

In fact, the more I looked into it I noticed that it’s not even enabled by default and there’s no clear instruction on how to enable it.

Here I hope to clear up some of that mystery and show how to enable the hardware level encryption.

What is the hardware level encryption?

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Encryption is the processing of taking data from its standard state and processing it so it is no longer readable without a ‘key’ to unlock it.

Hardware level encryption is where the hardware manages the encryption/decryption process of all data on the drive – this has a significant performance advantages and reduces read/write cycles that ultimately shorten the life of the drive. Without hardware level encryption you can still encrypt the data but performance is typically reduced.

What’s important to note here is that the drive alone does not encrypt the data – it needs to be done along with a software level encryption tool like BitLocker or TrueCrypt.

How can I tell if hardware level encryption is enabled?

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  1. Download and install the Samsung Magician software on the computer with the SSD drive.
  2. Open Samsung Magician and select ‘Data Security’ from the left hand menu
  3. Make sure the correct drive is selected under ‘Target Drive’
  4. Under ‘Encrypted Drive’ you will see ‘Disabled’ if it is not already enabled.

How to enable hardware level encryption?

Note: this process requires you to erase all existing content on the SSD drive – backup and be prepared to reinstall everything.

To enable hardware level encryption on your Samsung drive you will need to

  1. use the Samsung Magician software to enable it,
  2. create a bootable usb drive
  3. boot the drive with the SSD connected and follow the on screen prompts
  4. re-install Windows
  5. enable BitLocker (required the Professional edition of Windows) or TrueCrypt (or similar third party paid software)

Step 1: Enable encrypted drive

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  1. Download and install the Samsung Magician software on the computer with the SSD drive.
  2. Open Samsung Magician and select ‘Data Security’ from the left hand menu
  3. Make sure the correct drive is selected under ‘Target Drive’
  4. Under ‘Encrypted Drive’ click ‘How to enable’
  5. In the pop-up click ‘Ready to enable’
  6. The state will change from ‘Disabled’ to ‘Ready to enable’

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Step 2: Create bootable media

  1. Now in the left hand menu select ‘Secure Erase’ – you will now need to create a bootable drive, you can do this using a CD/DVD or USB (note that this will erase all existing content from the USB drive).
  2. Using the USB option, insert the USB drive into the computer.
  3. Click ‘Browse’ and select the drive from the list
  4. Click ‘Start’ to start the process
  5. When finished it will prompt you to restart the computer.
  6. Restart the computer and boot from the USB drive.

Step 3: SSD Secure Erase

When booted from the USB drive you’ll see the following screen

  1. Click ‘Y’ on the keyboard to continue
  2. The software will list the compatible SSD drive connected to the computer
  3. Click ‘Y’ on the keyboard to continue
  4. If you see a message which says “the selected drive is in a Frozen state” – you will need to follow the on instructions provided on screen (I’ve had this happen on desktop and laptop computers – it is much more awkward for laptop computers and should be done with extreme caution … you are after all prodding your hands inside a powered computer!)
  5. Once completed you will see “Secure Erase is Successful” – the software will exit to DOS – you can now turn off the computer and begin the Windows re-install process.

Step 4: Re-install Windows and enable BitLocker

I won’t detail how to re-install Windows, but once this is done this guide will help explain how to enable BitLocker on Windows 10 – Windows 10 – How to encrypt a drive using BitLocker

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