Samsung 840 Pro not detected by Samsung Magician

[chikhar]

Hi Guys,

I recently installed the above SSD, I have a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I also set AHCI mode in the bios and samsung magician still doesn't recognize my SSD. Have tried versions 4.2.1 as well as 4.3 to no avail. Any ideas?

Using Gigabye Z87X-UD3H
Intel core i7 4770k @ 4.5 GHz

 

[DeauteratedDog]

If the SSD is connected to one of the Marvell controller ports, try one of the Intel ports.

That's about all I've got...

 

[chikhar]

I made sure its connected to an intel port.

 

[Palorim12]

Hi Guys,

I recently installed the above SSD, I have a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I also set AHCI mode in the bios and samsung magician still doesn't recognize my SSD. Have tried versions 4.2.1 as well as 4.3 to no avail. Any ideas?

Using Gigabye Z87X-UD3H
Intel core i7 4770k @ 4.5 GHz

check in disk management under disk drives, is the SSD listed as a SCSI device?

 

[chikhar]

Where exactly do I look?

Ive gone Control Panel>Administrative tools>Computer management > Disk management ...

Where do I look after that?

Thanks for the reply

 

[Palorim12]

Where exactly do I look?

Ive gone Control Panel>Administrative tools>Computer management > Disk management ...

Where do I look after that?

Thanks for the reply

I'm sorry, i meant Device Manager

 

[mad-max79]

Sometimes using Microsoft instead of Intel AHCI driver could be an option.

 

[chikhar]

I've literally tried everything, I've given up. From what I've read most people point towards Magician being buggy. Also, the performance gains are not that substantial.

 

[Y0GI]

Try the solution in this post: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2005558/samsung-840-evo-120gb-freezes-starting-samsung-magician.html

Yogi

 

[brianlmerritt]

I went around these problems a lot of times, trying different cables, boxes and bios configurations, and different versions of Samsung software.

In the end, I found that http://www.easeus.com/backup-software/tb-free.html fixed the problem - just ignore the Samsung software until it works for you.

I did a sector by sector copy (may not have been necessary, but I wanted to make sure it worked).

For Windows 10, I found that in addition to this I had to make sure my BIOS was set to force AHCI mode - just making it optional didn't work.

So far this has worked on Samsung Chronus and Sony Vaio laptops (mine and my wife's).

ps - I have absolutely nothing to do with this company, I just got fed up with waiting for a version of Magician or Data Migration that worked all of the time (and the above software works free, although I suspect the paid version might be quicker)