Samsung EVO 850 migration stuck at 0%

tordan58

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Hi,

I am trying to clone a 1GB HDD to a 1GB Samsung 850 EVO SATA III 2,5" SSD on a desktop system running Windows 10 and the progress gets stuck at 0%

What I did:
1. Mounted the SDD in empty slot and connected the SSD to the motherboard using SATA cable.
2. After computer power on I checked that the SSD is listed as a drive by the BIOS. In Windows performance monitor the HDD appears as "Disk 0" and the SDD as "Disk 1". So far, so good I guess.
3. Downloaded and installed the Samsung Data Migration Tool Version 3
4. Started the Data Migration Tool, closed all applications except performance monitor.
5. In the "Disk Analysis" phase are displayed two boxes. One is representing the source disk (HDD) and one is representing the target disk, both with what looks like correct information e.g. storage capacity and how much storage space used (931GB / 431 GB in my case).
6. Click "Start"
7. In the "Start Cloning" phase a progress bar is displayed, showing elasped time and percentage. However no progress to speak of, time is ticking however progress is stuck at 0%. I let the system run over night and still no progress.
8. What I observed is that after a relatively short while after "Start", the only process that is executing is PID 4 / NT Kernel, consuming 50% CPU (on a dual core system which indicates the process looping endlessly). Furthermore, no disk activity takes place.

No error messages are displayed. I repeated the procedure several times, and get the same behavior every time.

Am I missing something? Or is this a joke?

Any help from this community would be greatly appreciated.



 
As strange as it may sound this annoying issue has "self-healed". I was planning to return the SSD to vendor and ask for replacement, before doing so I gave it a 4:th and last try, identical setup as previous failed attempts. This time the migration software cloned the disk...

Hard to believe, but true.