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Awesome! 6.2.1 is working well for me too. ... View more

Absolutely. It could be a conflict somewhere else. Whatever the issue is the fix certainly isn't obvious. I do IT related work, so I feel like I've made a solid attempt at getting 6.2 to work. I have never received "cannot write to..." errors at all on my machine. That's why I believe these issues could be slightly different for some of us, but display similar behaviors. I would also like to see some sort of response from Samsung on this. My machine is running with zero issues on 6.1, so if they choose to ignore the issue, I can remain on that indefinitely. It would be a shame to have to resort to not updating because that's not always the most secure thing to do. ... View more

As a test, I even removed Avira and also left Defender completely disabled. Still no dice, so I enabled Defender, turned on Controlled Folder Access (it is disabled by default), and added an exception for Samsung Magician. Unfortunately, the problem persists. Magician 6.1 works flawlessly, so I'm not sure what's happening here. ... View more

This may definitely work for some folks having this problem, but unfortunately it didn't for me. If you have Defender enabled this could work. I disable Defender completely and use Avira. When Realtime Protection is turned off Controlled Folder Access is disabled by default. I think some may be experiencing slighty different issues with similar symptoms. No way it's blocking Magician in my case. Great catch though :) . ... View more

The link works. On the left side of the Techpowerup window under "Download" select "Show Older Versions". Select and download 6.1.0 from there. I downloaded 6.1 from there and everything works well. ... View more

This isn't a drive issue though. It's a software bug. My drive works just fine and the 6.1 version of Magician works great. Is it unacceptable to reports bugs on the forum? I thought that was the purpose of places like this. ... View more

For all of those that reinstalled 6.1, where did you find it? I tried a system restore to go back to 6.1 and it worked, but 6.1 was broken. None of the indicators would show up and there was text missing in  the dialog boxes. My system was completely fine before updating, so this update really messed something up. In order to do the system restore at all I needed to go to safe mode for it to complete successfully. I kept getting an error that there was a file in use and it would partially restore the system, only to cause corruption. I had to repair my Windows 10 install. Everything except Samsung Magician is working fine now, but I'd like to revert to 6.1 until this is fixed. ... View more

Here is the log file info. This appears repeatedly throughout the file.   16-09-2020 16:58:42 INFO SM6 App::OnStartup 63 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-09-2020 16:58:42 INFO SM6 App::OnStartup 64 Samsung Magician [6.2.0.250] 16-09-2020 16:58:42 INFO SM6 App::OnStartup 65 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16-09-2020 16:58:42 INFO BVM VersionManager::PrepareModuleStatus 110 Begin PrepareModuleStatus 16-09-2020 16:58:42 INFO BVM VersionManager::PrepareModuleStatus 122 End PrepareModuleStatus 16-09-2020 16:58:42 INFO BVM VersionManager::SetMagicianVersionLocal 1216 Begin collect file version 16-09-2020 16:58:42 INFO BVM VersionManager::SetMagicianVersionLocal 1219 End collect file version 16-09-2020 16:58:42 INFO BVM VersionManager::SendT1 405 Begin send 1st data to server 16-09-2020 16:58:43 INFO FMM FmmImp::ScanDevices 324 Device scan started 16-09-2020 16:58:43 ERROR SILAL WinSPT::PIO_DataIn 128 SPT Exception : DeviceIoControl failed 16-09-2020 16:58:43 ERROR SILCommands ATAIdentifyDeviceBuffer::_DoIdentifyDevice 79 PIO DataIn Failed, SIL error[3] 16-09-2020 16:58:43 ERROR SILCommands ATACommandBase::_DoReadOperationToClearAtaRegistry191 Failed to read operation to clear ATA registry 16-09-2020 16:58:43 ERROR SILAL AtaDevScanner::_SendPassThrough 221 SILCommands Exception [3] 16-09-2020 16:58:43 ERROR SCSIInquiryDevice SCSIInquiryDevice::Inquiry 99 Get scsi address failed ... View more

I'm having this issue as well. Windows 10 2004 and a Samsung 850 EVO. Complete reinstall did not rectify the issue. ... View more