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Samsung Magician cloning 840 msata to 970 evo not cloning as OS , just storage

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oliverdog
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Samsung Magician(Data migration) cloning 840 msata to 970 evo not cloning as OS , just storage

cloning windows 10 os from my  samsung 840 msata  1tb to 970 evo pcie 1tb using a m2 nvme to usb case.

The cloning process works but the target drive only has files but not the operating system.  You see there is 3 different drive letters on my source disc. 

Any ideas?

thanks Gregg

 

 

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ddaniel51
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I think you have 2 strikes against you.

One,  Magician does not play well across a USB connection for nvme drives.

Two, I don't think Magician is smart enough to convert an MBR/BIOS based drive to a booting GPT/UEFI  NVME SSD.

So, what you are getting is Magicians best attempt by ignoring the OS  booting partition and transferring the data partition it recognizes as non booting MBR.

 

Personally I use Acronis True Image for my cloning and backup software and am very happy with it.

Not sure if it will do what you are attempting though they do  have a free trial available.

 

 

 

 

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ddaniel51
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I think you have 2 strikes against you.

One,  Magician does not play well across a USB connection for nvme drives.

Two, I don't think Magician is smart enough to convert an MBR/BIOS based drive to a booting GPT/UEFI  NVME SSD.

So, what you are getting is Magicians best attempt by ignoring the OS  booting partition and transferring the data partition it recognizes as non booting MBR.

 

Personally I use Acronis True Image for my cloning and backup software and am very happy with it.

Not sure if it will do what you are attempting though they do  have a free trial available.

 

 

 

 
oliverdog
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Hi

Thanks for the answer , I am now going to clone the msata to a sata ssd mounted in the computer then reverse that to clone to the nvme ssd

 

 
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