Question Migrating from one SSD to another ?

[camplo]

I have an SSD that's about full, full enough to stop installations I might want... So I bought a larger SSD thinking it would be pretty simple to migrate from the smaller to the larger one. So far I have not figured it out. I also had an idea that I could merge the two drives into one functioning drive. No luck there either.

I am asking of the community for advice. Thank you in advance.

 

[USAFRet]

I have a SSD that's about full, full enough to stop installations I might want... So I about a larger SSD thinking it would be pretty simple to migrate from the smaller to the larger HD. So far I have not figured it out. I also had an idea that I could merge the drives into one functioning. No luck there either.

I am asking of the community for advice. Thank you in advance.

Details, please.

What drive(s), what OS, what motherboard?

A screencap of your Disk Management window will help.

 

[camplo]

Samsung 960 is the almost full Drive
Samsung 970 is the new Drive
Windows 10
MSI X570

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[zlot2v2]

for ssd you had better left some space, for samsung 960 or 970, 5% is at lesat, or you will meet a problem that you writer 1M data logically, infact more（maybe 100，even100000，depended on space you leave) M will happened physically.
to move a nearlly 2T data to a nother same size ssd is not a good idea, you should get a 4T ssd to do it, some disk tool can help you to migrate your data, try Diskgenius, AOMEI...

 

[USAFRet]

Samsung 960 is the almost full Drive
Samsung 970 is the new Drive
Windows 10
MSI X570

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Your Disk 2 is the "full" 960?

And you wish to migrate it to which one?

 

[camplo]

The 970 sir.

 

[camplo]

to move a nearlly 2T data to a nother same size ssd is not a good idea

I'm trying to move 293GB to an empty 2tb drive.

 

[USAFRet]

The 970 sir.

And in your DM pic, which drive is that?

We can't give a good way forward, until we have a good idea of what is what.

 

[zlot2v2]

I'm trying to move 293GB to an empty 2tb drive.

dont worry and just do it，

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Just use Samsung's Data Migration software to clone the 960 to the 970 - https://semiconductor.samsung.com/us/consumer-storage/support/tools/

 

[SkyNetRising]

I'm trying to move 293GB to an empty 2tb drive.

There is no empty 2TB drive.
Disk 1 (F: ) has 36GB data on it.
Move all your data away from it and then clean the drive.
It should be all unallocated - no partitions, no data.

Then perform cloning. Use either Samsung data migration or Macrium Reflect free.
First boot from cloned drive has to be done with old windows drive physically disconnected.
If you fail to do this, you'll have to redo cloning.

Note - bootloader is located on other 2TB disk (together drive D: ).
That disk must be present for boot.
Or you could create bootloader on new drive manually.