Just bought a Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD intending to only copy over the operating system and related files from my 640gb used HDD. When I began the cloning process it concerned me as Unless I misunderstood it advises that any files you select to be ignored from the cloning process will be deleted from the source disk! Why on earth would it do this? Have I misunderstood? or is there a way to leave them alone so they become the data files on the secondary disk?
Does Samsung data migration software delete non cloned files from your HDD?
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Chicano
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That's because the source disk will be formatted, cleaned or wiped before installing the Windows image. So files you don't backup or include in the cloned image, and leave in the drive, will be lost.. so, either include them in the cloned image or back them up on another drive.
Ok, I understand that files not backed up will be lost if source disk is formatted, I just fail to see why it is necessary to format the Source disk? Why does it not just clone what you require to the Target disk and leave the Source disk untouched?
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When you run Data Migration, if there is more space used on the source drive than the target drive, it will asked you to select files to bring the used space size down. It then gives you the option to either move the selected files to another partition or to delete them. Anything not selected will be cloned over and will also stay on the source drive. Migration does not reformat the source disk.
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I should have mentioned the source drive is probably formatted to remove the OS, otherwise it can't be called a migration but a duplication and that can be considered a form of piracy.. at least that's how the software seems to handle it... particularly if it doesn't include options to leave the source drive intact... but you don't necessarily have to use that specific migration tool.. Other cloning tools are much more flexible.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-free-and-reliable-cloning-tools/
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-cloning-software.htm
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Samsung's software clones the image as selected. Unless you format the drive in future (to use as storage only, removing the OS for example) you'll be fine.
Always preferred to backup just incase, but from my experience, the migration software doesn't remove anything from the source HDD.
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Well, I don't pretend to know that particular software so I just replied to what the OP said... wonder where he got that idea from.
EDIT: I've installed the software and read the software PDF Manual:
I guess this is where the OP got the idea from: Step 5 in Page 10... and Step 13, Page 13 is where deleting excluded files is mentioned as only an option. And it's suggested to remove them by deleting or saving them to another storage device before cloning so they will not be included in the image, and only as optional measure probably to control the image size.
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/downloads/software/Samsung_SSD_Data_Migration_User_Manual_ENG_v27.pdf
The only mention of formatting is in Page 3 under Precautions... and it's the target drive not the source drive.
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