Want to transfer Windows from one Samsung SSD to another

[Bill the Butcher]

Windows 10. Has anyone used Samsung's Data mirgation tool to do this? Or is there another program you recommend?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes it works perfect it will do an "Entire Disk" Clone.
Samsung assumes you'd be cloning a WinOS Drive anyways so yes of course it works properly for that. It will include boot sector + all partitions.

When done, then Restart using the Advanced + Enter UEFI/BIOS option and then change the boot options so you are booted from the New Drive now.

[Electric Cupcake]

dd

Or Macrium Reflect

[ReBoot]

Another vote for DD. Last couple times I needed to migrate an OS, I've got myself a live Linux & used DD. It is a ♥♥♥♥♥ in terms of UX (you don't even get progress display by default), it gets the job done though.

[[N]ebsun]

dd as long as you have same or larger size drive

[Illusion of Progress]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Nebsun:

dd as long as you have same or larger size drive

You can do it when going from a larger drive to a smaller drive, but you'll have to partition the size down to fit the newer, smaller drive in that case (which would obviously mean ensuring you don't have too much stuff on it that prevents that).

I did that when I went from a 640 GB HDD to a 256 GB SSD back in 2012.

[Bill the Butcher]

Would it also work the same transferring to a M.2 ssd? I'm trying to decide if I should get a regular ssd or M.2.

[nullable]

I've used the Samsung data migration tool, it's simple and works great. Nice if you want something free and don't need really any features besides a straight 1:1 clone. It requires one of the drives to be a Samsung drive though.

I've also used Macrium Reflect for non-Samsung drives and it's good too, a lot more powerful.

I'm not sure what DD is though. If it's shortened version of the name, maybe someone could spell it out for the OP so the OP knows they're looking at what you're talking about.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Bill the Butcher:

Would it also work the same transferring to a M.2 ssd? I'm trying to decide if I should get a regular ssd or M.2.

No, it won't matter. Clone from SATA to M.2, the interface of the hardware doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is will the amount of data you're trying to clone going to fit on the target. Of course you can't clone 1TB of data onto a 500GB drive. Equal sized or larger drives are preferable.

If you need complex features to cherry pick bits to clone, then Macrium Reflect would be your answer. The Samsung tool is only going to do a straight forward 1:1 clone.

[[☥] - CJ -]

I used it like 2 or 3 months ago when i upgraded, it worked flawlessly

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes Samsung Data Migration Tool is perfectly fine; don't need any 3rd party tools.

However it will only allow you to clone to a Samsung (target) drive; it doesn't matter what the source drive is.

Clone from SATA or M2 shouldn't be a problem either.
Again though, after the clone is complete go to reboot and then enter bios and change the boot order so the new drive is now the only boot drive. Once inside OS on your new drive, go and download latest Chipset and NVME Drivers and install them.

[Electric Cupcake]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Bill the Butcher:

Would it also work the same transferring to a M.2 ssd? I'm trying to decide if I should get a regular ssd or M.2.

Either one is fine, but should have an M.2 enclosure or dock in any case, just in case.

[Electric Cupcake]

Ursprungligen skrivet av nullable:

I've used the Samsung data migration tool, it's simple and works great. Nice if you want something free and don't need really any features besides a straight 1:1 clone. It requires one of the drives to be a Samsung drive though.

I've also used Macrium Reflect for non-Samsung drives and it's good too, a lot more powerful.

I'm not sure what DD is though. If it's shortened version of the name, maybe someone could spell it out for the OP so the OP knows they're looking at what you're talking about.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Bill the Butcher:

Would it also work the same transferring to a M.2 ssd? I'm trying to decide if I should get a regular ssd or M.2.

No, it won't matter. Clone from SATA to M.2, the interface of the hardware doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is will the amount of data you're trying to clone going to fit on the target. Of course you can't clone 1TB of data onto a 500GB drive. Equal sized or larger drives are preferable.

If you need complex features to cherry pick bits to clone, then Macrium Reflect would be your answer. The Samsung tool is only going to do a straight forward 1:1 clone.

Some people say dd means "disk destroyer" because like most decades-old Linux tools, it's very powerful, but can mess things up if misused.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dd.1.html
https://www.computerhope.com/unix/dd.htm

All you needs is Live Disk.