Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB cloning

AgentUnknown

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I have an older SSD and just got a 500gb one. Whats the best way to clone it? Can I use the samsung cloning software? Do I need any special cables? Or would it be easier just to reinstall windows 7?
 
Feb 25, 2011
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If there's nothing wrong with the old SSD and it's smaller, you can quickly and easily do a direct disk-to-disk clone using something like dd (a linux utility, if you have a bootable liveCD) or clonezilla (a bootable thing).

Then just boot from the new SSD and use Disk Management to expand the partition afterwards.

(This is what I did when I upgraded from my old 90GB SSD to my current 250GB one.)
 
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larryccf

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i used to really dislike samsung's data migration software, until i used it to clone my OS drive to a 950 PRO - got to say i was impressed. Really simple GUI - if you try it be sure to hit the "+" button to add all the partitions to the clone task

fwiw
 

Shmee

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Ya, the included software is fine.