Question Setting up my new Samsung 870 Evo 2.5 drive?

[travistee]

I have a new Samsung 870 EVO 2.5 SSD. I also have the same drive as my current boot drive. I have the Samsung Magician software .

The new drive is in an external enclosure. I plan to use this drive to replace the older Samsung SSD primary drive.

When I rebooted the system the light on the new drive enclosure started blinking. It didn't give me any choices.

When it finishes I don't expect anything to be on the new formatted drive.

I expect I will have to use Magician to copy the boot directories and data to the new drive.

Any comments?

 

[USAFRet]

Please give us a better description of what you're wanting to do.

Replace the existing 870 with the new 870?
Use the new one for something else?

What?

 

[JayGau]

I agree with USAfret. I don't understand what you want to do, or what you expected would happen when you plugged in the enclosure. What kind of "choices" you thought you would get?

If you want to use the new drive as your OS drive then yes, you gonna have to clone your current C drive to the new one with Samsung Magician or any other cloning software, then swap the drives. But why do you want to do that if the drives are the same? Is the old one failing?

 

[travistee]

I want to clone my existing Evo 870 to other new one as a backup. That's all.
After I clone it I want to replace the old one with the new one and use the old one as a backup.

I expected to start the computer with the new one in the enclosure and then use Magician.
The light on the enclosure is still flashing, not 24 hours yet.

So I don't know what it is doing. I'm assuming it's formatting the 1 TB drive.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I expected to start the computer with the new one in the enclosure and then use Magician.

You start the computer first.
Connect external drive after you have loaded into windows.

Note - you will not be able to start your computer from external drive.

Is your computer a laptop?
Why are you using external drive enclosures instead of connecting drive directly with sata cables?

 

[USAFRet]

I want to clone my existing Evo 870 to other new one as a backup. That's all.
After I clone it I want to replace the old one with the new one and use the old one as a backup.

I expected to start the computer with the new one in the enclosure and then use Magician.
The light on the enclosure is still flashing, not 24 hours yet.

So I don't know what it is doing. I'm assuming it's formatting the 1 TB drive.

1. The Data Migration part of Magician will often NOT clone into an external drive.

2. A clone is a poor method of 'backup'. What you want is an Image, done with something like Macrium Reflect.

3. If these are both 870 EVO, why the swap?

 

[travistee]

It's not failing. I just want to have a backup.
When I plugged in the enclosure it didn't do anything. When I restarted the computer the enclosure started to blink.
I assume it's formatting the drive.

I expected it to do nothing until I could choose how to , for example, partition the drive and choose when to format it.

It's a laptop so there is no other way to connect the drive.
I cloned the original SSD from the old IDE drive this same way.

I guess it will stop eventually but the blinking light means its formatting. I'll let you know if it stops.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I guess it will stop eventually but the blinking light means its formatting. I'll let you know if it stops.

Formatting has to be started manually. It will not happen automatically.

Blinking light - probably means drive being detected, then detection failing and detection being restarted again.

 

[travistee]

this is the screenshot

I know I was able to to this before but maybe I didn't use magician?

This is what I see in magician

 

[JayGau]

External (portable) drives come pre-formatted, internal drives don't. If you are wating that your computer format the new drive automatically then you gonna wait forever because it's not going to happen. New internal drives have to be formatted manually (even when connected with a usb enclosure). But you don't need to format a drive to make a clone (the cloning software will format it anyway).

However, cloning a drive is not the best way to make a backup. As someone else suggested, you should make an image. Even Windows has a built-in image backup tool that can run periodically so your image is always up to date (mine is done once a week to an external drive).

 

[travistee]

I don't like image backup. I may just want to get some files that were somehow lost. So I don't have to restore the whole drive.

The drive doesn't know its going to be an internal drive. It's just in an external case for now.

Anyway Samsung replaced it already. Getting my new one in a few days.

 

[travistee]

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