Recent content by mraroid

Hello Dark.... Wow! This free software worked perfect! I have been screwing around for two full days trying to clone a drive to an older laptop. This software worked without a hitch. I installed it, watched the video you posted, and then started the cloning. After it said all was done, I...

Hi. Thank you for your post and information. The NADA 860 EVO SATA M.2 is a Samsung drive. I am still reading all the posts here so I can figure out what to do. Thank you for your help. mraroid

Hello folks... I am looking for recommendations for cloning between two M.2 hard drives under Windows 10. I will pass on the free software for now. I am two days behind getting this laptop out the door. So I want to buy something that will work out of the box with little to no headaches...

Hi... Thanks for that additional information. I went Samsung and they do have drivers for some of it's M.2 SS drives. But they only have drivers for NVMe M.2 drives, not SATA M.2 drives. And the drivers available are for Samsung drives starting with the 9 series. My drive is a 860 and it...

Hi.. When you say install the Samsung SATA drivers, I am not sure what you are talking about. You are not talking about the firmware for the Samsung SATA drive, right? I went to both my Windows computers and looked in Device Manager and I could not find any SATA drivers. Under Disk Drives...

Now if I could only get the Samsung software to see the 860 when it is in a SATA M.2 enclosure I would be on my way. I will buy another brand of enclosure and see if that helps any. Thanks for your help. mraroid

Hi USAFRet.... I tried to clone the Samsung 860 without updating the firmware. But the Samsung magician software only saw the M.2 external housing the 860 was in. It ID'ed the housing, but it did not see the Samsung 860 drive that was in the housing. And yes, the 860 had already been...

USAFRet... I have read many of your posts and you know more about computers than I could ever learn. Having said that, I have built maybe 4 or 5 desktops/laptops and used Samsung M.2 drives and the housing I used was a USB one. The firmware updates went with out a hitch as well as the...

Hello gentleman... Thanks for the great feedback. The M.2 enclosure I am using is this one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MNFH1PX?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details It talks about the many diffrent M.2 drives/enc losers. One group is called NVME and the other group is called SATA. The...

Hi folks... People here that use Samsung drives know that recently, Samsung combined its cloning software into its HD monitoring software called Samsung Magician. I am upgrading a very old HP laptop (HP EliteBook Revolve 810 G2). It has a 150 GB M.2 SS drive in it and it is full. I have a...

Thanks Sky for all your help. I do love the free software for the Samsung branded drives. so it is worth it to me to pay a bit more for them. Many thanks for your help! mraroid

Thanks so much Roland!

Hi SkyNetRising.... Oh! Like this one...

And yes, I will buy the 1 TB drive if the price is close - I agree with that. mraroid

Hi. Thank you. So is the Samsung M.2 500 GB SSD I linked to not a plug compatible drive? I really would prefer a Samsung drive for the reasons I posted. Did Samsung not make the type of drive I need? If not, can you recommend some cloning software to me? I appreciate you helping me.