Samsung EVO, Dell, AutoCad

LTVETTE2 · Apr 2, 2014

I am trying to clone my HDD to a Samsung EVO drive. I did this on an with another EVO last week successfully on another older Dell. This newer Inspiron 570, not so lucky. This system has Autocad on it, but I seem to doubt it is disallowing the transfer. As I get into the Data Migration process, it stops after a minute or so with this error message. "Failed to retrieve source disk info [201109-031195]". I have called Samsung, got a wise a** tech( I know he's smart, that's why I called)....And have tried 2 other cloning software's, got pretty much same response. Is it Dell, AutoCAD, me??? Plum out of ideas.

Spectre694 · Apr 2, 2014

It may be the drive run a disk check on it. If there is a bad sector that could be preventing a read.

If it still doesn't work try Clonezilla it does a block for block transfer. I have used it several times to clone drives with bad sectors missing data etc.
http://clonezilla.org/

LTVETTE2 · Apr 2, 2014

Thank you, I'm on it. Sure hope it works, Amazon is getting tired of my returns

photonboy · Apr 2, 2014

I had issues with several cloning programs, and Machrium Reflect Free worked for me.

It also has a VERIFY feature so it goes back and verifies the clone worked.

If you're having issues cloning from within Windows then clone from a boot disc. I forget if Machrium Reflect Free has this option (I did it from within Windows).

Assuming you use a bootable clone utility it goes something like THIS:

1) Have only the HDD and SSD attached (no other drives)
2) Boot to the Clone disc
3) Clone (verify if an option)
4) Shut down
5) Hook up only the SSD and test if it works

LTVETTE2 · Apr 2, 2014

photonboy :

LTVETTE2 · Apr 2, 2014

photonboy :

LTVETTE2 · Apr 2, 2014

That was the first program I tried after Samsung, actually the tech at Samsung suggested it also, unfortunately, no joy. thank you though

LTVETTE2 · Apr 2, 2014

Spectre694 :

LTVETTE2 · Apr 3, 2014

Did defrag, analyze, safe mode with prompt to do chkdsk/f, spent another 3 hours here. Tried clonezilla, now I have to get all that stuff that loaded in, off. SSD is out in back yard somewhere, hope I can find it in the daylight. Just spent about 6-7 hours total trying to make that PC faster, talk about irony!! And now AutoCAD is not working.....

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