Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD Trouble!

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Here's the deal,
I bought a brand new samsung 860 evo 500gb ssd and installed it into my computer.
The computer recognised the hardware in the device manager so i went into the system manager to assign the ssd to a new drive path. All of that was pretty straightforward untill i wanted to migrate my OS (windows 10) onto my new ssd. I used a software called 'Macrium Reflect' to clone my original hdd and move it onto the new ssd because i didn't want to reinstall windows completely, but the software seemed to be stuck whilst it was transferring the files so i decided to hit the 'cancel' button and try again and from there the trouble began! After i cancelled it i went back to the system manager and i saw that the ssd was once again unassigned, so i once again reassigned it and then i got the error message stating 'The volume was made but not formatted. try formatting again through the task 'format''. After i closed that error message i immediately got a follow-up error message saying 'the volume was made but there is no drive path assigned to the volume. Try to assign a drive path through the task 'change drive letter and path'' so i did that and the ssd showed up again but there was no volume attached to it, and when i tried to open it i got the error message saying 'D:/ is not accissible. The device is not ready.' so my initial idea was that the software i used to migrate my files might have corrupted my ssd when i cancelled the migration by leaving small pieces of data onto the ssd that are incomplete, so i tried to format the ssd by right clicking on it and choosing the option 'format' but that gave me another error message saying 'could not complete format'. At this point i am frustrated and out of ideas on how to fix this tedious issue. Currently i payed 112 euros for a paper weight...

Here are some pictures of all the error messages i keep on getting (note that they are in dutch but i tried my best to translate them so it shouldn't make much of a problem to understand them)



1) The volume is created but not formatted. Try the formatting agin through the task 'Format'.
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2) The volume is created but there is no drivepath assigned to the volume. Try to assign the drivepath through the task 'Change stationletter and path'.
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3) Unable to complete format.
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4) Local drive (D:) has no name or volume assigned to it even tho it does show up after assigning a drivepath to it.
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5) Picture of the computer managment screen showing that the ssd is there with an assigned path to it.
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6) Picture of the Device manager screen showing that the ssd is being recognised.
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Solution
Did you install samsung magician and update to the latest firmware before any of this?

Use magician to secure erase the drive and start over.

Edit: also, how much of that 3tb drive is in use? Can’t clone a larger amount of data to a smaller ssd.
Did you install samsung magician and update to the latest firmware before any of this?

Use magician to secure erase the drive and start over.

Edit: also, how much of that 3tb drive is in use? Can’t clone a larger amount of data to a smaller ssd.
 
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wishsdark

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I didnt know about the samsung magician software. I will try it out immediately!
Currently there is 43gb in use.
 
Do not over complicate things.
Download and run the Samsung ssd migration tool.
https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/consumer/

This is a C drive mover app, not a clone app which is a bit for bit copy.
It will erase whatever is on the ssd and replace it with a functionally correct copy of your C drive.
When done, Just boot from the new C drive.

 

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i secure erased the ssd. Should i now just reassign the ssd to a drive path?
 


No, use the Samsung Migration Tool to clone your existing C drive to the SSD. Make sure your current C drive doesn't hold more data than the size of the SSD.
 

wishsdark

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Ok, let me do that real quick. i will post an update soon as to how things are going. Thanks for the help so far btw!
 

wishsdark

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Ok, so i did what you told me.
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what now?
 

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It worked! the ssd is once again recognised and is now my primary boot system!