Samsung 850 EVO "This Drive is Not Supported" with Magician 5?

[treflip]

I have same problem on 1 tb 860. I just bought off newegg on ebay. It says invalid serial. I tried turning off firewall and no luck. Is this a garbage drive? I can't clone my laptop drive to it either because it fails to write to a sector...

[Memory Product Expert -1]

Hi treflip,
Yes, if the new drive shows a bad sector during cloning that's a bad drive and needs to be returned to the point of purchase as soon as possible. But before you do, make sure the bad sectors are on the new drive, not the old one.

[SAM_SAP]

This solved my problem with 860 EVO 1TB Using USB Cloning.

Magician says invalid Serial..but this software grabbed this wihtout any issue.

Now cloning is going on..i will update once done or any isssue.

[usernZju8D2VLq]

Mine also says that my 850 Pro 128G is not supported. I've updated to the latest version, restarted the app, and made sure it was not blocked by the firewall.

[usersFwg7rx5du]

Generally speaking, there are many factors that may lead to Samsung Magician failed on SSD. In a nutshell, the following reasons could be one of the elements.

▸Samsung Magician is not the latest version released.

▸Your Samsung SSD such as 850 EVO does not have the newest firmware.

▸Your computer runs Windows 10 with a GPT formatted partition table. The Secure Erase feature does not support GPT disk.

▸Your SSD TCG Opal/Encrypted Drive feature is enabled.

If you have taken the corresponding measures and the problem is still there, you can try an alternative to Samsung Magician: the AOMEI Partition Assistant software.