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I'm trying to clone from one small NVME drive to a larger one for a laptop I own. I remove the drive from the laptop, plug it along with the larger drive into this PCIE dual NVME adapter on my desktop which has two NVME slots. I boot into Windows installed on a separate SATA SSD drive and find both NVME drives visible and operational. I launch Samsung Magician and click the Data Migration button and find unfortunately that there appears to be a running OS restriction for drive cloning.

Samsung Magician reads:

Only the Source Drive on which the operating system is installed can be replicated.

What is the reason for such a restriction? Is there a way around it?

The laptop I'm trying to upgrade only has one NVME slot so I'd have to purchase an adapter or get the SATA 2nd drive bay on the unit with the necessary hardware to get two drives operational at the same time on that laptop.

samsung magician source drive restriction

jxramos
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Looks like I may have chosen the wrong software according to this article:

Samsung Magician is a free optimization tool provided by Samsung to monitor drive health and manage SSD data. It features drive details, performance benchmarks, diagnostic scans, etc., and doesn't have a hard drive clone feature.

If you need to clone a hard drive to Samsung SSD, you can use Samsung Data Migration (SDM) or...

https://www.easeus.com/questions/backup/how-to-clone-hard-drive-to-ssd-using-samsung-magician.html

However it appears that the article is false since looking into their recommended software for the Samsung Data Migration Tool I see the following limitations stated directly in its user manual:

Limitations

This software can only clone a Source Drive on which an operating system has been installed. It cannot clone a drive without an operating system installed on it https://download.semiconductor.samsung.com/resources/user-manual/Samsung_SSD_Data_Migration_User_Manual_English_US_revision_v11.pdf

jxramos
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Samsung's decision to make there lives easy, may have transferred headache's to the customer. Some of us techs, kinda depend on the way things used to work. When we buy a hard drive from a company that has cloning software and then they change that software to only clone the os, that new limitation may be very costly to the customer. I have a friend that waited a bit to long to back up her stuff and waited until her os was unstable to tell me. A good clone would really be helpful. I pull the drive and put it into a known good system along with a new Samsung ssd as I have done before to get the message: "Only the Source Drive on which the Operating system is installed can be replicated". I trusted you Samsung, paid a bit extra and waited for what I thought was a superior product. Now I risk losing more data as I attempt to find software to do the job.

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