Migrate Game SSD to larger SSD

[real world]

Hi guys, I need some help. I purchased a 250 GB Samsung EVO SSD to replace a 128 GB Kingston SSD I have my games on. My current set up is 2 SSD's on my gaming rig. One (C drive) has the OS, and some games. The 2nd (G drive), the one I want to clone/migrate to a larger SSD, has only games and stuff on it. I've DL'd the Samsung migration software, and when I start it up, it selects the OS loaded "C" drive to clone. There doesn't seem to be a way to change it to the "G" or Gaming drive that I want to move to the larger Samsung SSD. Is there a way to move this data over to the new SSD, without having to reinstall everything?

Thanks in advance.

Also, should I upgrade the firmware on the Evo drive before I load anything on it? Or is this a situation where I shouldn't upgrade unless the drive is slow, and calls for it?

Thanks in advance.

 

[geofelt]

I am surprised.

First, the EVO you bought probably has the latest firmware on it, so no update is required.
If you bought old stock, you might as well update the firmware before you commit anything important to it.

The data migration utility is not a true clone utility, it is designed to migrate a OS drive.
I am surprised that there is no option to select the source as the G drive.
Are you using the latest version of the utility?
Perhaps a call to Samsung support might provide a fix.

You could try a clone utility like macrium reflect or acronis.
Or... how about just copying all the files to the new ssd?

 

[real world]

I am surprised.

First, the EVO you bought probably has the latest firmware on it, so no update is required.
If you bought old stock, you might as well update the firmware before you commit anything important to it.

The data migration utility is not a true clone utility, it is designed to migrate a OS drive.
I am surprised that there is no option to select the source as the G drive.
Are you using the latest version of the utility?
Perhaps a call to Samsung support might provide a fix.

You could try a clone utility like macrium reflect or acronis.
Or... how about just copying all the files to the new ssd?

If I copy the files, and title the drive "G", would the games launch without issue? I'm worried that they wouldn't.

 

[real world]

So, I connected the new 250 GB SSD, formatted, and named it drive "O". I then copied and pasted the contents of the Gaming drive "G" over into "O". I powered down, removed drive "G", and rebooted. I then went into Disk Management (windows 7), and changed the drive name of the new drive "O" to "G", and rebooted. Much to my amazement, I launched 2 of my games (Origin based BF4, and Steam based War Thunder), and bam, both launched like normal. So far, so good.

 

[geofelt]

Good job.
I suspected it might work, and it could do no harm to try that procedure.