Samsung 840 EVO ssd not booting after data migration

[xGh0stSn1p3r]

So I bought a Samsung 840 EVO 250gb ssd today, and I used Samsung Data Migration v2.6 on it to clone the data from my main hdd to the ssd. So it successfully copied all the data, and verified it. When it finished, it asked me to shut down my computer and 'install the ssd'. So after I shut it down and restarted it, it booted up to the ssd, but then I checked the computer to see the hard drives, but the old hard drive was set as C and still had the windows files on it, and then SSD was set as I or something but it was the boot drive. When I shut down my pc, unplugged the hard drives and left the SSD there, it booted, but when it booted it went to the Windows 8 lock screen, no picture there or anything. When you try click something on the keyboard, nothing happens ctrl+alt+del doesn't do anything. All you can see is the clock and it doesn't work. Does anyone know what's wrong?

 

[qwertyDS]

That's because when you buy an ssd the best option is to go with fresh OS install and then you have no problems also there's no garbage that can slow down the ssd, so if you want to use full potential of your ssd install clean OS and just copy most important data from hdd.

 

[Edcybworks]

I used migration and it seemed to work. Then it booted but after logon, went into a blue screen of semi consciousness with windows preparing or something similar, and finally to A screen where mouse works but nothing else does and it's a black screen.
Operating system is Windows 8.1. I had made a full backup using a acronis before I started. Next I did a restore with Acronis back up software. It booted up just fine. I had tried the migration software because it came from the vendor. My install was a Samsung EVO840 1TB SSD.
For my Toshiba P 50 a the Samsung data migration software was not useful and just wasted my time. Acronis true image booted from a usb drive hit a homerun immediately. To get to the boot point i was still able to boot to Windows 8.1 from the old drive in a portable USB drive older. From there I got to read the USB drive as a drive using the UEFI BOOT screen. (Do restart while holding the shift key down, then read and find uefi usb devivce selection. (Maybe without the migration first I would not have been able to boot the portable USB drive with the old drive in it.?)

 

[Lucaypmd]

That's because when you buy an ssd the best option is to go with fresh OS install and then you have no problems also there's no garbage that can slow down the ssd, so if you want to use full potential of your ssd install clean OS and just copy most important data from hdd.

This is NOT a solution for me. Before purchasing my ssd I made sure it came with a data migration utility because I had a preinstalled Win7 with no full OS backup disc. Also one of the reasons of buying was to ensure that I could avoid reinstalling and repating the setup of all my carefully tuned applications. Samsung 840 EVO seemed to promise all that. And now I have an main drive crashing every day, often more than once a day.

I guess I should ask for a replacement under guarantee.

 

[DMuller1]

I spent my entire weekend trying to get the new SDD to work - to no avail. I finally found this free download - minitool partition manager - and it solved everything. It's free and very easy and solved the problem. A pity I found it sunday afternoon instead of saturday morning...

So my solution would be - uninstall the samsung migration software, install minitool partition manager. Push the button, sit back and relax and voila, your SDD is now your boot drive.

I usually don't post on forums, but after a weekend of frustrations, I'm just very happy to have found this tool...

 

[Lucaypmd]

Solved: I finally went for a fresh install and everything is now working fine (for almost 3 months now).

I am happy about this but I am not very happy about the month I have lost on this installation: Samsung claimed that their Data Migration software would allow me to mirror my current system without problems, which was NOT the case at all!

I insisted trying to stabilize my migration for a long time because, even if I had my ASUS recovery DVDs, I did not trust they would work properly after my installing the new 1TB SSD. I ended up downloading the Win 7 installation file from MS. Automatic updating took a few days, but finally everything is working now.

Another worry was that the only installation file available online for Win 7 Home edition is the English version. Thankfully MS recognized my licence despite the fact that my original Windows 7 version was Italian.

My PC has SATA2 only, but thanks to Magician RAPID feature I am enjoying a great improvement om my X52F PC, especially with complex translation tools and textual search tools. Even MS Word is behaving much better now, and I never have to wait for my PC to finish "thinking" while I am trying to finish a translation project with a close deadline!

My only residual problem now is that I should buy a large external HD to backup my system. I thought I could do it on my 2 separate 500Gb HDs (one of which is the original PC internal HD), but it does not seem to be feasible, and I am thinking about buying a 1.5 or 2TB external HD to be safe.

 

[The Original Ralph]

for a better migration tool, try EaseUS ToDo Backup (i know the name is hokey) - there's a free version at their web, i've been using it since about 2008 after Acronis failed me twice when the backup copy was bad.

Nice part about EaseUS is that if you do a "sector by sector" clone (not a backup but a clone image) if / when you have to use it, you don't need to re-activate programs - ie Adobe photoshop, Quickbooks, UPS World ship, which is time consuming. 2nd nice part, the clone image is or appears exactly as the directory tree originally in your system, so if you need to add a file manually to the cloned image you can, or grab a file from a cloned image

i use the cloned image when virus / malware took over my computer - that's also the reason i don't do auto backups, to prevent that malware from any chance of entering the cloned SSD. It takes me 22 minutes or less to do a complete clone of 176 GB on my OS drive, much less time than i'd spend hunting down the malware and hoping to completely eliminate it

hope that helps