

Although SDM does a big favor in hard drive upgrading, there are some drawbacks reported on the Internet.

Samsung Data Migration not workingĪccording to the Internet search result, Samsung migration software for the EVO Series and PRO Series SSDs is the most wanted. If you find it cannot work in RAID, you may need to reinstall the operating system for your Windows 10/11. For user who is in RAID mode, just leave it alone.

The only thing you need to pay attention to is to switch IDE mode to AHCI mode in BIOS. When it’s finished, shut down your system, swap out the old HDD for the new SSD, and boot up (make sure to enable AHCI in BIOS if it’s not already set up). Then click Start to clone HDD to Samsung SSD in Windows 10/11. Install and open data migration tool for Samsung. It will automatically scan and choose the Windows sytem disk as source disk.Ģ. Select the Samsung SSD as the destination.ģ. Steps to migrate data to Samsung SSD with SDM:ġ.

While some users want to fresh install Windows 10/11 on a newly purchased Samsung drive, most users prefer to keep the OS and installed programs intact, and the easiest way to do this is cloning HDD to Samsung SSD using Samsung data migration software. Samsung Data Migration Software for Windows 10/11
